Mosun We didn’t raise you like this! You never even looked at a woman before she came along.

Leah That is definitely not true.

Mosun You turned her head!

Leah If you think that, then you really don’t know her.

Mosun Don’t you think life is hard enough?

Tara What are you talking about?

Mosun As a woman. As a black woman. We don’t need anything else on top.

Tara It’s not ‘on top’.

Mosun You know /what I mean.

Tara /It’s underneath. Enmeshed.

Segun We just don’t want you to struggle.

Tara I won’t.

Leah Or, you know, she will! But I’ll be there.

Segun OK. Look Omotara, you’ve made your point. We’ve heard you. If this is what you want, then we can’t stop you. But marriage! It’s . . . it’s too far.

Tara Leah’s everything to me.

Segun Omo please.

Tara What?

Segun You’re upsetting your mother.

Tara By telling her how happy I am?

Leah I’m sorry.

Tara Why are you apologising?

Leah This must be a lot to handle. They’ve barely met me and then we tell them we’re getting married!

Segun Thank you!

Leah I wish it could have been different. But what we’re trying to say is that we’re getting married in three months and we’d really like for you to be there.

Pause.

Mosun No. We can’t.

Tara (beat) Dad?

Mosun The Lord says, The Bible says –

Tara I don’t care what the Bible/ says, Mum.

Mosun / It is an abomination!

Tara Dad? Can you fucking say something for once?

Mosun You will not use that language under my roof –

Tara Oh, but calling my relationship an ‘abomination’ is fair game?

Mosun It is an abomination.

Leah Come on, we’re going.

Tara Fuck this.

Mosun Get out!

Leah We’re going!

They leave.

Mosun My God. I knew something was up. As soon as Omotara said she was bringing her. Insisted! This is serious Segun.

Segun I know.

Mosun Serious, serious, serious.

Beat.

She doesn’t even look like a man.

Segun What?

Mosun At least if she was one of those lesbians we could get away with it. With the wedding pictures. God! My mother is going to faint. She’s going to have a fit. Omotara has killed her grandmother! We should call Omo, we should tell her that.

Segun I don’t think it’ll help.

Mosun Ah! I thought it was over. She hadn’t mentioned it for so long. I thought it had ended. Now this?

Segun Wishful thinking!

Mosun Well, no more thinking. That’s not enough. Time for prayer. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. I will disrupt this wedding with the mighty name of Jesus. How are we going to have grandbabies? Segun. My only child. How could she do this to me?