It was time for my conveyance. The drummers have been eulogizing my family since especially my dead father. That annoying Iya eleko too was spraying money, please ma who sent you?.

It was Omolayo that came to wake me up in the bathtub. God saved me that it's not my mum. I would have been in deep shit.

Dressed up in a peach Aso-Oke and I was dolled up. I breathed in and out to avoid panicking. My bestie held my hand and she caressed them gently. Assuring me that she's with me on this journey together.

I knelt down in front of my mum before we proceeded to the palace. She prayed for me in front of everyone and i actually cried. I'm going to be someone's mother soon and somebody's future will depend solely on me. My mum won't be shouting at me if she sees me watching kdrama by 2am in the morning.

I'm going to miss Omolayo more, nobody to bring gists as e dey hot, nobody to shout at when I'm angry, nobody to piss me off when I'm watching movie, nobody to hide my movies because she wants to watch cartoon.

I stood up to resume dancing. My feet hurts from dancing but I had to dance from our house to the palace and the place is a bit far.

YORUBA
Ademide gba yawo.
Ilere lankolo.
O gbayawo.
Ilere lankolo.
Komama yanku o.
Ilere lankolo.
Kobako abiro
Ilere lankolo
Kobabo abiye
Ilere lankolo
Ori Ade gbayawo
Ilere lankolo
O gbayawo
Ilere lankolo

English
Ademide has taken a wife
We're moving to your palace
He's taken a wife
We're moving to your palace
She shouldn't die untimely
We're moving to your palace
She should bear strong males
We're moving to your house
She should bare pretty females
We're moving to your palace
The crown has taken a bride
We're moving to the palace
He's taken a bride
We're moving to your palace.

When we got to the palace, the whole place was bustling with activities. It didn't look like it was night at all.

When we got to the main entrance, all the drumming and singing stopped. I knelt down in front of the king's mother.

She started praying for me, she blessed me and someone brought her a Calabash filled with warm water, she washed my legs with it and I broke the empty Calabash with my feet.

I walked over camwood water and I was led into a room for my virginity to be broken and my dignity should be displayed to the whole village.

At the entrance, the elderly women from the royal family advised me to back out now if I'm not a virgin so as not to incur the wrath of the gods over me. Can you all please shut your trap?

I was taken inside and I was undressed till I was threadbare. A white wrapper served as my only cover.

They asked me if I was comfortable with the light on and I shook my head. They switched off the lights. I lay still anticipating my fate.

I felt a presence in the room and my heartbeat quickens. The only source of light in the room was the illuminations from the moon rays.

I could make out from the movement that it was the new king, my soon to be husband. He was claded in a white wrapper only.

He climbed into bed with me and I knew what was going to happen next. My virginity was going to be broken.

He surprised me and he pulled me closer to his body. He touched my face with his hands and he stared deep into my eyes.

"Yosi mi, all the days I spent away from you was pure torture. I couldn't imagine spending the rest of my life with someone else. Please let me love you Yosi and you should love me too"

My heart yearns to tell him the same thing but my ego is as large as mountain Everest. Does he think I will allow him again into my life? After all the humiliation he put me through?

We were both silent for sometimes while he looks at my face occasionally as if expecting some reactions. I kept on staring like a dummy and he didn't release me.

The drumming and singing reminded us of the ceremony and he discarded the only clothing on him while he loosed my wrapper.

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Ademide left the room with my wrapper stained with my virgin blood. I covered myself with the Ankara wrapper left on the bedside table.

He went out with the wrapper and he raised it to the crowd and everyone screamed with Joy.

A bunch of Messengers were sent to my mother with expensive gifts. Congratulating her on her successfully trained daughter.

The women yodels in joy and another celebration has started. The king's mother and her fellow women came to congratulate me on my coronation as the new queen of Kuji.

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