 
Mr Awesome's Diary – Wendy & I

Sacred Romance

The Painful Love Story of Wendy & I

Victor Kingsley

Mr Awesome

Copyright © 2020 Mr Awesome

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12 among the characters portrayed in this book are real people, while the events are fictitious. Any similarity to a real event, or person outside these 12, alive or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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Photo Credit: Adrian McDonald (@Lexonart Photography)

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Published by Victor Kingsley, to be printed on Demand in the United States of America and everywhere in the world it is Demanded.

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# Dedication

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I Dedicate this book to God the Creator of the Universe and Maker of mankind, to my Dad, Mr Kingsley Kamalu, My Mum, Peace Kingsley, to my three siblings, Prince, Precious (My Only Sister) and Prosper, and to the Love of my Life, and finally to Every Woman Alive who believes in Love.

Love is Real, Love is Genuine, Love is Spiritual, Love is like the air you breathe, you suffocate when you lose it and you soar when you have it in full. You don't know true beauty until you fall in Love. Everything they do seem perfect to you.

Mr Awesome

(Victor Kingsley)

# ChapterOne

So this very alarmingly beautiful girl from my mom's village came to visit me at the village home today as I requested and we sat in the living room all alone having a gist. My cousins, aunts and uncles were already out to catch a sight around the village as they always did, so I had the whole house all to myself. Her name was Chinwendu, but "Wendy for short" as she said throwing her fingers in the air and ending it with "durrrhh" as girls would always say in a bid to do shakara for the guys when I first asked for her name.

I wouldn't have forgiven myself if I never got a chance alone with her for a heart to heart friendly conversation, that was why I requested that she paid me a visit at my abode after I met her at the village water source trying to lift a bucket of water to her head with few other girls who were probably her friends or relatives.

Alone in that cool village evening; we could see the golden rays of the sun piercing through the window like a laser light as we sat directly opposite each other, talking and listening to the whistling of birds and the bushy sound of crickets in between our conversation. Wendy was a beauty to behold and I was lost in the awe and magnificence of her beauty. I noticed she had an oval face with a pair of almond shaped brown smoky eyes and wonderfully curved lips. I didn't plan to talk about the rest of her body below her neck in this story, so I rather looked at her face in a triangular motion while she talked. "Eye, eye, lips and eye".

We talked about so many things from fashion, movies, child hood, and life in the village, bushes and forests, festivals and culture, compliments, admiration, and compliments again. I'm sure you're guessing the last three topics where my handiwork. You guessed right buddy! Fortunately she was already polished as I learnt she also came back from one of the big cities in the country just like I did, so our conversation wasn't difficult to blend. She had this very astonishing kind of laughter that just made me stare helplessly whenever she laughed. She noticed my fixed gaze at her and so she became a little bit shy and nervous. As a psychologist that I was by discipline, I took cognizance of her mood and calmed her down with the Phrase;

"So Perfect" you are beautiful",

Shaking my head a bit and blinking my eyes as if I had seen an angel. She smiled and "thanks", we moved on with our conversation. I told her how life in my University looked like and how this and that had happened, but that was after I served her the apple juice I had saved in the fridge for that special occasion.

We further discussed how life had been with her over the years, which no one would believe considering how beautiful she was. Like the saying goes, "the most beautiful ones are not always the luckiest". and in Wendy's situation, that was exactly the case.

I was touched by her story, and couldn't imagine her growing up without a father and less or no care from her mother. "That was terrible", I thought to myself. We had spent so much time talking already and surely I had a lot more to tell her but then, it was time to talk about more professional things, you know what I mean. I was still thinking of the right words to come in with, while staring straight into her face, pretending to be enchanted by a magical spell cast from her beautiful eyes. I was counting my heart beat poom-poom, poom-poom, just waiting for the final one to hit before I pour out my heart with the most carefully selected pronouns, verbs and adjectives.

Taking the last breath and slowly but steadily parting my lips to let the words out, "chim, chim chim" the sound of footsteps came de-serening the serenity of the atmosphere. It was granny's flip-flops. She swung the door open and walked in looking like a parcel with wrapper tying around her old waist and a black scarf round her grey hair. I never knew Wendy was that homely until she courted to greet my granny, her courtesy and humility shut me out of words the more. I had never seen a girl who lived in the city and wasn't from the western part of Nigeria who could go on her knees to greet anyone as a sign of respect. For me, that was a "wife material" attribute. So I checked it.√

Granny started with the traditional "how are your parents" and all those other talks that followed. Patiently did I wait and when they were done greeting, she made her way to her room, very close to the sitting room where I and Wendy had been sitting. I knew it wasn't perfect to continue my planned conversation, so we resolved to lighter talks which I pioneered and all thanks to my social intelligence. About some minutes later, it was obvious we had already exhausted discussion topics, so we decided she made her way home of which I was gentle man enough to give her a walk.

I came home later only to hear what I had least expected to hear from granny. Her words hurt me like a hot needle pierced into my heart. I struggled to find my breath under the heat of such a draining conversation.

Hey! Take it easy. I can feel your eyes popping out to read what it was that she said. Well, read on. You'll definitely find out.

# Chapter Two

The morning was freezing with cold; it was the first week of January, just a week and few days after Christmas. In Nigeria, the season is called harmattarn, characterized with the drying off of surfaces, strong wind, dust, dryness and breakage of lips, whitening of faces, sounds of trees waving against the wind direction, dustiness and whitening of feet, great sales for the Vaseline vendors and as you already know, and dropped temperature. You'll normally find people putting on sweaters, head warmers and long stockings in such weather; you would think it was winter if not for the dusts that fall in the place of snow.

I had been in bed all alone in my carefully painted room of white background and purple flowers, pondering over what granny had told me earlier which wasn't clear to me yet. I wondered if she talked from drowsy eyes due to old age or perhaps she was sure of what she said. That would be a topic for research soon. "Just very soon" I said out softly as I turned to the other side of the bed for the 105th time looking at the clock over and over again.

I laid there till mid noon and waited for Wendy to come visiting again or call as she had promised, yet there was no sign of her. I tried playing and gossiping with my cousins especially Ana whom I so much enjoyed her company as she wouldn't stop talking about her friends at school and her naughty lecturers who wouldn't respect their old age and quit asking them to bed for marks. I tried laughing at her jokes and forced myself to contribute with some stories too, but I was totally blank. It was unlike me as I used to be the liveliest person at home due to my great sense of humour and wit.

I could unapologetically make anyone laugh at any moment, so my new mood was alien to everyone, but Ana pretended she didn't notice and continued with her long gist, pulling some strands off my beards from time to time like she always did and I'll protest. Ever since I started having beards, I always travelled back with scanty beard whenever she was around for Christmas. Ana was an annoyingly naughty cousin but I loved her so much as if she was my biological sister.

We did bad things at home together, like stealing pieces of meat from the pot, cutting some good sizes of cake from the fridge and pouring wine from the alcoholic wine bottles and then we covered up for each other. Some Christmas ago, Ana had lied that she was going on a Christmas excursion with her university team for a research in a faraway town. Aunt Adanma, her mom came home to the village and broke the news with pride to all the cousins including me. Everyone digested it but there was only one person who knew the truth and that was me. So I picked up my cell phone, walked into my room and "ring ring, ring ring".

"Hello coz, how are you buddy"

she asked excitedly on the phone.

"How many girls and how many guys are on that vacation and is there any of the girls who is single, where exactly are you guys and can I get a reservation in your tent?"

I asked so sure of my instincts.

"Jesus Christ! I hate you for knowing me so well"

Ana said as she laughed out loud

"Well, she continued "we are at Ogbudu cattle ranch at Calabar for a vacation and we are four girls and two guys. Apart from me, my best friend is here and she's light skinned, curvy, not very tall but pretty and she is single too"

My eyes popped out in excitement at the fun that was waiting. Ana carefully gave a description of my spec, and she knew I would be in the next available bus once I heard that. So I readily packed my travelling bag and joined them the next day. That was how bad we covered up for each other.

About Wendy; at a point, I just decided to get off it, though I wouldn't deny missing her company, especially the way she laughed and smiled. In the evening of that same day, tic-tac, tic-tac the clock moved, I made plans with mom and kid bro on how to travel back to the city and then to Imo state University where I studied. We scheduled our take off to be the next morning. Few moments into the time, we were done planning so I headed off to take a walk down the small town which was always worth it due to the cool breeze and serene environment filled with big trees and beautiful birds that whistled all the beautiful songs they knew into my aching to hear ear.

Just taking few steps away from home, my heart sank like it does when someone is about breaking a bad news. I knew I would be leaving the next day and there was no argument about that, but something was missing; it was Wendy, but there was nothing I could do as her phone had been switched off, I concluded I wouldn't see her again and so I moved on feeling so sad. I plugged my headset to my ear and started listening to a romantic hip pop song that was making waves all over the country. It was "Mad over you by one of Nigeria's finest artists "Runtown". I was finally beginning to cool off before I noticed someone trailing me from behind and somehow running to catch up with me. I didn't want to look back so I kept moving; knowing that whoever it was would finally catch up with me if he or she meant business. Then I heard a tiny feminine voice shout out my name,

"Kelechi!"

This was my native name.

"This must be someone really close to me"

I thought. At first I had assumed it was Ana, but then the voice sounded again and really familiar this time. So I had to slow down my pace and looked back. Who I saw threw smiles on my face. I had wanted but never expected to see her at that point or along that lonely path. So I just spread out my arms for a hug and we exchanged pleasantries. Guess who it was. I'm just as certain as heaven that you guessed wrong. It was Rachael, an Old friend; her native name was Obiageri so I called her Oby for short. Oby was a child hood friend there in the village, as kids back in the days, we played together whenever we came home for holiday, so one wouldn't be wrong to say we grew up together.

She was now a big beautiful looking girl. I talked with her as we walked down the lonely path and we enjoyed the walk together. At a point, she opted to take a turn to the left as she was on an errand for her Grandpa, we bed goodbye and she parted while I moved on alone.

As the day grew darker, I stopped seeing people walking along the path and the incessant sounds of wild birds filled the air. I became a bit frightened and startled by every sound and crack I heard in nearby bushes, so I decided to hurry back home. On my way home, I drew close to the particular water source where I had met and invited Wendy to the house; her thought just filled my head with pictures of the previous days with her running through my memory lane. I started missing her greatly beyond what words could say.

When I got to the said water source which began this love story, I caught a glance of a young lady struggling to get a bucket of water up her head; it was almost dark already so I didn't see her face clearly or bother looking either. I wanted to forge ahead but on a second thought, I figured she might not be able help herself carry the water filled bucket, so I decided to be a gentle man once more. I Walked down to her quietly without her noticing me at all. She tried to lift the bucket once more to her head with all her strength. I could see the vibrations around her whole body, so I gave her a hand as fast as I could and from her actions, I could tell she was startled and turned a look at me with a shocking speed. Our eyes met, and Oh God, she was beautiful. She had little hairs all over her cheek, her eye brows were long enough that they almost met at the centre of her face, and her natural lashes almost brushed off on my face as she blinked. You can imagine such a gorgeous being I had met. I smiled as she whispered,

"Kelechi! It's you, and what are you doing here?"

My heart sank really deep like it always does when you get an eye contact from your gorgeous crush. I never expected to meet her again on that very day. She was Wendy.

The happiness in my eyes couldn't be hidden as I literarily smiled out loud.

"Where have you been?"

I asked, with smiles running from cheek to cheek across my face. It felt like time stopped ticking and the whole world came revolving around her face.

"I've been around, but really busy with chores"

she replied. I could tell how exceedingly true that was from her stress filled looks. I would have helped her carry her bucket, but she didn't want me to, so we walked down home together in the company of each other. I felt like a little child around her as we talked and laughed a lot, but it just wasn't enough for a last moment before travelling, so she promised she was going to come over that same evening to spend quality time with me at home.

I was very happy and so I went home, freshened up, wore a nice perfume on my vintage shirt and sat outside at the house corridor with my leg crossed like a knight in shining armour waiting for his lady to come.

I waited with high hopes and my planned out romantic lines and moves till it was 9pm and yet there was no sign of Wendy but I still held my patience on. I was bordered and just sat out there in the cold night going through some stories on my blog (Mr Awesome's Blog) and refusing to listen to the voice in my head telling me it was too late for a trained maiden who was under her parents to leave her house to visit a man for just a long conversation.

Even though I knew it was true and that was how every man saw it in Africa, unless they had special intentions for the girl, so they might not really consider it a thing since they were the ones involved. Nevertheless, something in their subconscious would surely keep referring to it. My cousin Ana joined me afterwards, snatched my phone from me, shut down my internet and started playing video game without uttering a word to me.

"Oh Ana I'm not in the mood for that" I yelled.

"Talk to my fingers"

She snapped, waving her fingers in the air as she walked into the house. She was always like that so I didn't bother arguing with her. I allowed her to have fun while I rested my head on the pillar next to me hoping to see Wendy walk through the dark to come meet me. Five minutes later, I saw Wendy coming, she wore a very pretty red short flay gown which stopped just before her knee, I never knew she also had such an awesome shape which had always hidden behind the bigger skirts she always wore.

she walked up to me with smiles on her face, everywhere was lit up like it wasn't night anymore, my heart beat raced as I stood up like a romance movie star in a romantic scene or rather, a knight in a truly blazing amour to welcome her with a face that looked shocked at her beauty, I gazed straight into her face, reached out to her and held her left hand. I spun her around to get a full glance of her shape and gown; the 360 degree spin returned her into my arms, facing me very close to my face.

We were staring at each other's eyes without words, she was shy and so she shut her eyes. I lowered my lips closer to hers, while the cool breeze of the evening blew her hair by the side as if it was planned. Just before I could do what I believed was a kiss, my little brother came tapping me from my left shoulder,

"Kaycee, come inside, mom said it's late and cold out here". Kaycee or kc is the short version of my name kelechi which was what folks who didn't know me as Mr Awesome preferred to call me. I shook my eyes open and damn! I was alone in the Dark night. The whole Wendy and gown thing had been just a dream. Wendy never came back that evening as she promised and I actually fell asleep five minutes after Ana left with my phone.

The time was 10:59pm already, as disappointed and sad as I felt, I sluggishly went to bed just waiting to wake up in the morning and leave without seeing Wendy anymore to tell her what I had in mind before Granny's interruption on that Day;

"Only if I had at least kissed her in my dream"

I wished.

# Chapter Three

It was the break of another dawn and we got prepared to travel back to the city. I forgot about Wendy and all her disappointments. We got into the car and drove off. It was going to be a final goodbye to seeing Wendy because there was no way to contact her again. Driving off just a few steps from the house, I became sad and then decided to just take a look at the side mirror to see my face. As I looked, I saw a girl running towards the Car, waving and screaming my name. I looked closer; Lo and behold it was Wendy, but the car was on speed already, so she stood there feeling broken apart. Mom didn't notice and so she drove off real speedily and I dared not ask her to stop or slow down. I manned up, and resolved to forget about her. Just before we could drive a bit further, I felt a tap on my leg, "kaycee! Kaycee! wake up its morning".

"Oh my God", this was just another dream. We've not left and I was still in bed. And guess who interrupted my sleep, it was Ana this time. I got off the bed and gave her a chase into the leaving room where mom instructed little brother and I to get prepared for our departure that morning.

Apart from Wendy, I was going to miss my cousin Ana and I knew she was already missing me too. She had been observing me lately and been noticing my new mood for the past two days and so met me in my room again to find out what it was that bordered me.

"There's this girl I just fell in Love with"

I started,

"I've been trying to get her off my head since she didn't fulfil her promise of coming over to see me before I leave, but it seems the harder I try, the more I ached to see her again. I just don't know what to do."

"Have you told her how you feel about her?" Ana asked.

"No, and that's exactly the point"

"The main point you mean" Ana interrupted.

"Yes, that's correct too" I replied.

"Well let's just fix this" she said

"I'm thinking about it but I'm blank of ideas or a plan".

"I'm going to step out with your phone; I'll switch mine off and put yours on airplane mode so that no one is able to reach your line. Just tell Aunt you don't know where I had gone and just pretend to be angry. I'll come home some hours later, and hopefully, the journey should be cancelled by then" Ana suggested.

That was a mind blowing plan; I was so excited and very optimistic about the success of our plan. I gave her a high five and off she went with my cell phone. I, mom and my little brother got ready to leave and them baaam! I started looking for my android phone. Mom asked me to hurry up but then she knew there was no way on earth I could travel without my phone.

"Where did you leave your phone" she asked

"I don't know, I think I kept it close to the TV but I just can't find it". Everyone joined in the search and then my little brother saved the day.

"I think I saw Ana step out with your phone" he said.

"What?"

I flared up in anger as though I was going to strangle Ana when I set my eyes on her. After some hours of unfruitful search, mom decided to postpone the journey till the next Day. Oh what a dream come true. I was so excited about it that the joy in my heart could be felt from my actions. Ana came back home later and I started shouting at her, we exchanged words as though we were having a real fight. She walked off angrily to her room while I followed suit. When we got to her room I hugged her and still kept shouting. I picked her up from the ground and spun her around.

"You're the best cousin ever" I said,

With beams of smile all over my face.

"You owe me one" she replied as she hands my phone to me.

The plan worked, But I still wasn't certain if I was going to be with my crush or not. I decided to just relax alone in the living room as everyone stepped out and let Wendy's conscience play on her. Lucky as I could get, someone knocked on the door, I got up to answer and it was Wendy.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't make it last night and it breaks my heart that I don't keep my promises to you".

Those were her exact words when she noticed the "romantic anger" on my face.

"That's a nice shirt you've got there, I interrupted

"the colour combination just matches with your eyes, how did you get such a great sense of fashion despite how busy you are" I added, letting a smile escape from my left cheek a bit, as if I didn't hear her apologize. She would wonder if anything went wrong at all. That is how much Jesus loves this sinful world. He never gets hot with anger and burn on us despite our unfaithfulness, so who was I to hold such a charming damsel in unforgiveness.

I turned back into the room holding the curtain open for her to step in; she walked in with her eyes wide open in shock and a bit of uncertainty which could be seen from her facial expression. She was probably amazed at my rather calming reaction. Well I guess she didn't know what a guy had to do to win her over. We continued our discussion with her thanking me for the compliment and apologizing again for disappointing me. I accepted her apologies, not like I had a choice though, what I had was a target; (her heart).

Few hours later, We were done discussing without any interruptions, we laughed out a lot, and admired each other openly. She stood to take her leave and I made a move towards her. We got closer to each other without words, my liver was failing me a bit, but I tried hard to get courage. She looked into my eyes, smiling, and for then she said to me,

"Mr Awesome, you are such a tall guy and I love your hair,"

of course that was almost the 1000th time I was getting a compliment on my non-African hair texture. I blushed and smiled, I believed she was beginning to like me already, maybe a lucky guess anyway! I didn't say a word to her; but I drew closer, held her by her waist and pulled her close to me. Her height was just a bit above my chest and I loved it. I bit my lips slowly as I stared into her eyes, my guts daring me to plant a kiss on those honey gushing lips and then she shut her eyes while I lowered my lips to hers in a bid to actually kiss her, and then out of the blues, she just laid her head on my chest, relaxing her chin, she took a deep breath and sighed as if to relieve herself from the rush of emotions inside her;

"Your heart is beating poom-poom, poom-poom, I can hear you say....."

She didn't even finish whatever it was that she wanted to say, and then we both busted in to laughter and the kissing session was suspended again. We laughed at the awkward silence and our attempted first kiss. But she was smart, really smart. She asked me to come have dinner with her at her house and I obliged. Who was I to say no anyway! She was pretty and I was going crazy for her. We walked down to her place together, and I sat on the couch waiting for her to offer me a drink with my face on my phone pretending to be reading a text message from a close pal. She introduced me to her elder sister and immediately; I lifted my head to look at her big sis, guess who it was, It was Rachael, you can also call her Oby.

People from this part of the world, we are good at having plenty names but I'll refer her as Rachael for the rest of the story so I don't get you confused. She was the same girl I walked down the lonely path with. Immediately I saw her, I was a bit surprised, and then I let out a warm smile; I was surprised to learn that they were sisters. "What a coincidence" I said. I grew up with Rachael, how come I never knew about her younger sister Wendy all this while, (my thoughts). I looked at Rachael and she could tell how surprised I was.

"Hey, you are here" she said in an attempt to break the awkward silence.

"How did you guys meet"?

I narrated the short story and then we sat down at dinner and had another round of gist together. Rachael kept a steady contact with keen attention on my eyes as I talked and made them laugh all through, and I didn't mind that it was getting late. They were both fun to be with and I surely had a good time with them. It was time to go; Rachael opted to see me off while Wendy stayed back at home since she had already stepped out to see me earlier in the day, I wasn't comfortable with it, but she agreed with a smile and Rachael walked me.

On our way, I asked Rachael for her phone number so that I could keep in touch with them even after I left. She called them out while I typed the numerals into my phone.

Before I turned to leave from the point where we bed goodbye, Rachael clung on to me and gave me a hug which she held on for almost 15 seconds. She was probably going to miss me too I thought. I went back home a happy guy. I sat out all night with Ana telling her how the day went with Wendy and how her elder sister did and said all she did and said. Ana was a smart girl and picked cues from everything, present or not.

"I can smell a sort of attraction from Rachael to you" she said.

"How do you mean?"

"Well, never mind, it's a girls thing, if it's true, it would come out pretty soon" she added.

I wasn't interested, so I paid less attention to it. I felt relaxed after spending the day with Wendy, but still wasn't happy that I never got to tell her what I had in mind, kissed her or confirmed what she thought about what my Granny told me which I was still unhappy about.

That night was awesome for me as I was smiling all through my sleep. So many beautiful imaginations filled my head and I slept like a baby with a sweet dream about,... (You know who it was about, don't you?).

"kukurukuuuu" a certain cock crowed very early in the morning, flapping his wings as usual. I wondered why whoever had that chicken didn't eat it during Christmas. It was morning already; the sun ray sneaked its way into my room from the side of the curtains as it always did and woke me up. I stretched up from my bed shielding my eyes from the sun rays with my palm over my face as I walked straight to the bathroom to freshen up and get ready for the journey back to the city.

We all got ready for the journey that morning before going to join granny in her room for her advice and blessings as usual. And again, she repeated what she said the first day Wendy came to visit me. I got sad but pretended everything was right. I couldn't wait for her to close that chapter of her advice as they hurt me very deep. When we were done with her, we headed straight to the car to leave, mom and kid bro got in while I put in my laptop bag and my new portable play station which would keep me company during the journey. Every other person including Ana stood aside, waiting to bid us goodbye. I gave Ana a hug and I teased her about not making bad grades at school or making friends with the bad boys. She laughed and pulled a strand of my beard, for the last time. I screamed and rushed towards the car. Just before I could get in, I heard my name from a distance; the voice was very tiny and feminine. It resounded again and again, I looked back and saw Wendy running towards me. I pinched my skin real hard just to make sure it wasn't another dream. As she ran closer to me, I noticed her sad countenance and walked up to meet her half way.

"So you are leaving she whispered under her breath as she clung firmly to my shoulder, rubbing her chin against the beating part of my heart.

I just nodded and she looked at me without uttering a thing that sounded like a word. I could sense the sadness in those almond shaped brown eyes of hers, but then I had to leave and there was nothing I could do about it. "I'll miss you a lot", she continued as tears flooded her eyes and she shut them in pain, sobbing and trying not to cry.

I laid her head firmly on my chest as I warmly embraced her. Tears slowly rolled out of my eyes too and made a salty path down my cheeks. "She shouldn't see me cry" I thought, so I wiped my eyes as I stroked her hair gently and didn't wanna let go "I'll miss you more, and I wish I could stay back" I whispered in her ear.

The car came honking again and we had to slowly loose our embrace. I had two identical neck laces which were made with a black slim lace and a golden heart shaped pendant which hung effortlessly on it. It was beautiful and greatly admired; I had one on my neck already, so I took out the spare from my pocket and had it hung on her neck. She smiled and hugged me once more, squeezing something into my hand. She loosed the embrace and I slowly got into the car and we drove off.

"Thank God it wasn't a dream" I said to myself.

She stood close to Ana and waved till we went out of sight.

I was a little bit shy to say any word to mom or kid brother who was already flashing a grin at me, so I just sat there smiling at myself. Mum turned to look at me while I threw my look out through the window as though nothing had happened. As we rode farther, I brought out the little paper she had squeezed into my hands, I couldn't believe what she wrote in there. I was stunned and short of words, my mood eventually swung. I stared at those words she wrote like they were going to read themselves out loud. I didn't expect it, but not to worry dearest, I'll tell you what she wrote in there in the next Chapter. Just flip the page.

# Chapter Four

Do not throw this piece away, you will have to translate it in time to come, it speaks my silence and holds a secret, we might never see or speak again for a very long time or forever" Those were the last words and the only I could comprehend in the piece of paper Wendy gave me. The main content of the paper were written in Arabic alphabets and words which took over seven lines of the paper, I felt frustrated because I couldn't read meaning out of it. I kept thinking about what she wrote but there was nothing I could do at that instance to understand and digest it. I had never read Arabic before, neither was I a Muslim. I kept wandering in my ignorance of the mystery before me. I tried to figure out why she said we might never See or speak again but all my effort was to no avail. My heart was boiling at that time.

"I thought she promised to keep in touch when she travelled back" I said to myself. Millions of thoughts filled my head; I was helpless so I just safe guarded that piece of paper in my Diary with a pin.

At Home in the city where we lived, somewhere in eastern Nigeria, predominantly occupied by the Ibo ethnic group of Nigeria in west Africa somewhere in the world below the heavens which were rolled out by the right hand of God, I stared at her pictures before I went to bed, I couldn't tell if I was trying to fathom the facet of her beautiful making, or the words in Arabic. I was totally confused. The Night passed with a half-moon sitting up in the sky surrounded by humble stars and hiding its dark side from earth out of fear and shame of being called ugly. The cool breeze of the night brushed against my skin as I shut my eyes to allow nature carry me to the land called morning. I travelled back to the Campus a couple of days later.

There in my room, I tried calling her line a couple of time but it didn't go through, and that was when I began to crave Wendy's presence a lot. I couldn't skip a heartbeat without her name forming rhymes with the poom-poom in my heart. I slept restless that night. My mind was so occupied that I forgot I collected Rachael's number the day I went to their house.

The following day was Monday and my first day on campus in the New Year, so as Mr Awesome of Imo State University and other citadels in the West African region, I Sharply Ironed my starched pink shirt and black plain trousers, and then got my shoe sparkling polished with a black kiwi polish. I was alone in the room that morning at about 7:30am, I got dressed in front of the mirror and stood there for over five minutes staring and smiling at myself. I had always admired my hair; I loved it when my mates and friends argued on whether my hair texture was truly natural or if I applied some kind of special treatments. Being the subject of their discussion made me feel really special. I brushed up my hair, wore my perfume, and made sure I was looking cool. In my head, I could see Wendy helping me button up the topmost button of my shirt while I grabbed her close and dropped a kiss on her forehead. I came out of that fantasy when I heard a horn hooting. The sound brought me back to the present, I checked my time and it was 8:30am already, I couldn't believe I was lost in my head for over 45 minutes. I got out and made my way to lectures, still having Wendy stuck in my head. I was 40minues late for lecture and I dared not enter into that class when it was Dr Ann giving a lecture. I spent the remaining time in a nearby eatery slowly sipping a cup of coffee.

The lecture was over in a couple of minutes and everyone was leaving the hall and meeting up with pals they had not seen for a long time. I went to join my mates and friends, we exchanged hugs, had a normal welcome back gist, and all that. I had this friend in school who I believed knew Arabic as well as he claimed; his name was Paul. I found Paul, we exchanged pleasantries, and then I tabled my mystery to him, gave him the piece of paper and begged him to interpret to me. Paul stared at the writings for about two minutes, and then he smiled and said "Mr Awesome, well what you have in here is" he stopped and gave me a confusing look which made me a little bit more nervous,

"Paul say something please" I pleaded.

"It actually is something I don't understand"

he added and started laughing.

"I actually don't understand or write Arabic, you guys just got the wrong impression about me. I'm sorry" he ended, handing the paper back to me.

"Oh my God, you must be kidding me", I exclaimed.

I was so disappointed and couldn't smile for the rest of my stay at school that day. I just couldn't wait to know what Wendy had written in there. Curiosity sat on each and every strand of my silky curly black hair and weighed me down a whole lot. I finally got over it for a while and decided to put a call through to her. That evening I called Rachael her big sister and requested to speak with Wendy. I heard Rachael shout out her name but I never got a response from Wendy, she called and called yet I didn't hear Wendy's voice on the background, Rachael ended the call and called me back few minutes afterwards. She apologised and said,

"I think she's not in the right frame of mind right now, she had refused to speak to you on the phone".

Those words sank deep into my heart as I wondered why on earth my Wendy shouldn't be rushing to speak with me on the phone after the good little time we spent together. I felt disappointed once more but I just had to accept it the way it was and remain calm. Within the moments of my calmness, I reflected on what granny told me, the moments I had spent with Wendy, the dreams I had about her, her smile and the facet of her making. I was in high spirit again so I tried calling her number once more but it still wasn't connecting. I sadly threw my phone aside. I just couldn't imagine letting her go just like that. I was prepared already to accept her even as a casual friend because she was worth having around. Few minutes later, a text message beeped into my phone and it read

"Hey, forget about Wendy, she's not worth your stress, there are many other girls out there who are crushing on you, why kill yourself to speak with one girl".

I kept reading the message over and over again and wondering why who ever sent it would do that. The number didn't have a name on my list, so even though I was curious, I didn't bother calling back to know who it was. I was just too moody to think anything out of my head. The next thing I did was bring out her pictures and stare at them, after that, I brought out the spare of the neck wear with a heart pendant that I gave her, and I could just feel her presence from it.

That night left me with several thoughts but nothing was coming through, I decided to sleep over it and that was how I had another dream. In my dream was Wendy, we played together, went to the fun places alone and I almost thought it was real, I tried to lock lips with her in that dream, when she said "Mr Awesome, make me a love poem, I want to be admired with your creativity", I smiled and replied, "as you wish, your majesty", bowing a little then I started, I said

"In this dream where I dine with Wendy

Will I build a love that will be strong and trendy?

When I was weak and melting,

You found me and my bones you strengthen.

I can't wait to lock lips with you,

And I know you wish that too

Wendy, If possible, I'll eat you like candy

Cos I know you are smooth and nothing like sandy.

Unlike westlife, I will not send you away like Mandy,

I will make you a princess and make sure you stay in my arms, Oh Wendy.

Your beauty is real and classy;

My duty is to be drowned in your fantasy

If only my words could make your skin young forever,

I'll speak with passion from now to forever.....

# Chapter Five

I didn't get to have a good night rest before my neighbor's alarm came ringing from his room as usual, waking me and a few occupants of the building up. Most times I had wondered if he was hard of hearing or suffered any of the ear related defections which made him set an alarm of such a high volume with what seemed like a loud speaker that did not only wake him up, but disrupted many people's wonderful early morning dreams. Just like mine.

I rested for a while before I got out of bed and quietly started getting ready for lectures. An SMS came into my phone from Rachael and what she wrote in there put me in a state of distress and sadness. She texted to inform me that Wendy was going to be on her way back to Lagos that morning. That was going to mean my further inability to talk to her for a very very long time as my calls hadn't been able to get through to her line. I was dumb founded, even in my thoughts.

So I called Rachael immediately and requested that she compels Wendy to speak with me; at least that way I would feel better. She accepted, called for Wendy and handed her the phone.

"So you were going to leave without letting me know or even making efforts to call me" I asked her. She smiled and tried to explain; Just then I cut her short and asked why she didn't speak with me the last time I called. She paused for a while and asked,

"when was this last time you claim you called and who did you call?"

I was surprised to hear that and just then did I realise that her sister was just fooling me the other day by shouting her name in the background and claiming she had refused to take the phone. Hmmm, she was surely up to something. Well! I didn't want to let her into details about what happened when I called, so I just ended the argument with the traditional "Never mind". It then crossed my mind to ask her about the Words in Arabic, but before I could do that, she stormed me with several other wellbeing questions which I tried to reply calmly and then I started feeling Wendy close to my heart again. I could feel her smile and quiet laugh. The emotions started awakening in me again, we were still saying sweet things to ourselves when Rachael forcefully snatched the phone from Wendy in some kind of joking manner, and was like,

"hey Love birds, you guys wouldn't be doing that on ma phone for a long time, I've got no battery",

And then she hung up the call. Oh my God!, I was so sad, I didn't get a chance to ask Wendy what she wrote in Arabic, Then I tried calling back several times but the line was busy, Rachael was probably behind that, so I just ignored and got ready for school.

All through that day I tried to call Wendy's line to know if she had gotten to her destination, but her number was still not connecting. Some hours later, Rachael called me and this was the conversation

Rachael: Hi dear

Me: Hi, how are you?

Rachael: I'm fine, just missing you

Me: ha-ha, seriously?

Rachael: Yea, My sister has gotten to Lagos

Me: wow, that's cool

Rachael: Her boyfriend called to inform me

Me: (shocked) oh, Ok, (with a shaky voice)

Rachael: Has she called you?

Me: No she hasn't

Rachael: Ha-ha I know she wouldn't anyway!, well I might be coming to spend the weekend over at your lodge

ME :Uhmmm, why? I mean, what for?

Rachael: actually I want to make some inquiries from your University and I don't have a place to stay when I come over,

ME: uhmm, Ok, no problem you are free, just call me on phone when you get here,

Rachael: wow! Thanks a lot; I'll be on my way this evening or tomorrow morning.

ME: you are welcome, bye

Rachael: Bye handsome!.

I ended the call, and was shocked at what I heard about Wendy having a boyfriend. "She's not my girlfriend anyway! We are just friends and it's none of my business if she has boyfriend" I said, in a bid to console myself. However, that atom of jealousy that was always in peoples heart refused to leave me. That was the way every guy feel whenever they hear such about their prospective lady love.

"Rachael would be on her way soon to spend the weekend over at my place, what I'm I going to expect?" I thought quietly in my heart as I walked to lecture.

In the morning hours of this Saturday, I received yet another text message in my phone, I opened and it read, "Hi dear, I'm on my way now". It was Rachael; so I quickly arranged my room to standard, made sure it smelled good, and put every other thing that was supposed to be put in place in their place. I wasn't having any intentions of impressing her, it was normal for me to keep my room sparkling smart whenever I was expecting a visitor, so as to make them feel at home. After all no one should risk a bad first impression.

I waited patiently for her to arrive, and in about what seemed like two hours later, she called me, and said she was already at my area, so I gave her directions on how to get to my place to the point of my room which she did perfectly after insisting that I come pick her up, which I gave excuses to. I didn't want to risk the campus environment identifying me with a girl who I was not romantically involved with or seeing any prospects of that. Some minutes later, I heard a knock at the door, I opened, but it was Sammy, the annoying guy who lives in the next apartment, he came to take my spare PS3 game pad to have fun with.

As he turned to live he bumped into a girl, I heard them apologising to each other and exchanging pleasantries, then I heard the girl ask gently

"Please Can you take me to room number 27" Occupied by Kaycee"?.. "Oh you mean Mr Awesome"? Sammy asked, she said yes, smiling, "are you his girl?" He continued but I didn't hear any other word from her in response to that "busy bodied" question of his. the next thing I heard was a knock at my door, I asked them In, and it was Ashley, a course mate of mine who I promised to help write and submit her test, She came with the materials with which I'll do that. I had almost thought it was Rachael but it wasn't.

Ashley

Ashley was one of the most beautiful girls in my department, she was tall, beautiful and the kind I would call classy, she had pretty eyes, a double jaw and the cutest smile I had ever seen in my Life. She was worth my fantasy; time to confess; I actually had a crush on her, which she was very much aware of, most times I felt she secretly did admire me as well but she never seemed to open up, except for the times we had exchanged eye contacts and long hugs in the crowd.

The attraction was powerful and she had enough of the front side too, so giving her a hug was like a fulfilment of wishes. Give it the name you like that's your business not mine, ha-ha. Ashley walked into the room and bumped into a hug from me as usual, I was excited to see her, so I quickly offered her wine from the bar and we sat and had a chat before she actually gave reasons why she came.

I was attracted to her that I almost locked lips with her each time we were alone together. That had been my fantasy anyway! Her lips were so tempting but actually not like that of Wendy. But trust me; Ashley could make you go nuts at the mere thought of her. Yes, she is that beautiful.

In a couple of minutes, we were done talking and so I had to see her off. We walked down the stairs with my hands holding hers and it was down there that I saw Rachael walk in immediately after Ashley drove off in her red sports car. I was surprised; she had such a nice Google location tracker in her head. Just like Wendy, Rachael was absolutely beautiful. As the saying goes, a snake never gives birth to what does not look tall, so if there was ever going to be a sibling, they would surely look tall too. Rachael was slightly taller than Wendy, a glowing chocolate skin, oval face, shiny brown eyes and a well traced curve behind her. We exchanged a hug and then I helped her carry her hand bag up the stairs leading to my apartment.

She was excited as we walked straight up to my room and she jumped right on my 35 inches high bed, she loved the room, and showed it through her compliments too. I was just happy to see the excitement on her face. "Knock knock", "knock knock" someone came knocking again.

"Who is it?" I asked. "It's me Sammy; can I get some butter from you? I want to spray it over a piece of bread". "oh damn it!, that is exactly what butters are meant for you monkey. And you smear butter not spray."

I cursed quietly in a low tone as I reached out for the butter container in my fridge and handed it to Sammy. Trying to close my door, "One more thing please" he said sticking his finger in the air. I stopped with a stare at him and then smiling he said

"Can I get about 5 slices of bread from you? I have a visitor and I don't have enough bread in my fridge to share".

I swung the door open for him and then he walked in and went to the fridge himself, turning to look at Rachael over and over again. Sammy actually took about 10 slices of bread, poured from my groundnut bottle and took a bottle of water. I was so sure that he had no bread in his room as he claimed. I was red hot in my head seeing what he had just done but then I couldn't protest in front of Rachael my visitor. Sammy knew and that was why he took that advantage. Ha ha, guys have a lot to deal with. As he was leaving, he greeted Rachael and gave me thumbs up, nodding his head as if to say "you're such a bad guy, have a good time man".

I locked the door and came back to Rachael. We sat and discussed how her journey had been, and I applauded her for locating the building all by herself. We talked more and laughed even more. I offered to get her something to eat which she practically waved off over and over again. She just wanted to look me in the face and chat with me. We talked and talked and then she asked to take her bath and change into something better for the night.

It was 8:30 pm already. I showed her to the wardrobe area where she would change into a White towel before heading to the bathroom. She got undressed and came out to take those, little little things girls usually take along to the bathroom which was best known to them alone and that's still their business anyway!. I didn't mind her I just sat on the bed and watched my favourite show on telemundo. Not until she asked me what the title of the TV show was, and while I turned to give her a reply, what I saw froze me up.

The towel stopped half way to her knee, Rachael had a very beautiful unavoidable skin, I could see the top side of her cleavage and upper region of her young breast in its vibrancy. I stared at her from the white towel tied on her head like an Indian man to the one between her chest and her entire body, and I was stunned. In those split seconds, guitar sounds played in my head. She noticed and immediately made her way to the bathroom, but as she almost got to the bathroom door in my self-contained room, her towel got loose from her chest and slowly fell off her body. Suddenly, I heard her scream and at that same instance, the light went off, Power was seized and It was all an awesome co-incidence. We were then both in the dark and speechless. "ghen-ghen!". I tried getting close, trying to locate her to find out why she screamed and if she was ok. But before I could do that, the light came back again, but she had already made her way into the bathroom.

Several minutes later, she was done bathing and I was seated on the bed browsing through the internet on my laptop. The first thing she said was ;

"Did you see anything?"

I was lost, so I tried to connect to her question, giving her a deceitfully confused look. She then concluded in her head that I probably was not aware that her towel set her nude before me and then she then narrated it to me. We just laughed over it and then she came up with another shocking question, she said,

"What would you do, if you had seen me naked?"

"Ha-ha",

I stared at her for few extra seconds seductively without saying a word, then I replied

"I would probably switch off the lights too and"..

"and then what?" She snapped,

"and wait until you sneak into the bathroom before putting it on gain" I said and then she laughed again.

Later on, I went into the kitchen to prepare what we would eat. She waited on the bed and watched a movie on the TV while I hurried up to bring the food to her. She was kind of surprised, she didn't think a guy like me could cook that well. We ate together and she acted a little shy while we ate. She didn't stop throwing a stare at me from time to time. I didn't know why and didn't bother asking either. I'll just raise my brows at her and she would let out a smile, sticking her spoon in her mouth and licking up her lower lips with her tongue.

I was really enjoying her company while bedtime slowly drew closer. It was about 11pm then, and she looked dizzy already, probably tired from the days stress and our long conversation. She adjusted to one side of the bed, dragging a pillow along with her while I went into the bathroom to take my bath. She was already asleep before I got out, but then something stood as a temptation to me. The night wear she was putting on had buttons, but were not properly buttoned and was equally transparent.

I could see her nipples and some part of her breast which was actually a good sight to behold for a young man in a night like that. She laid there so innocently while I guided my straying eyes down her body and my oh my, her night gown just met its end some inches before her knee, her laps looked so smooth and glittering; I was losing my mind over her, but then; I remembered I had a reputation to protect and an Image to keep intact.

A person who is conscious of who he is wouldn't allow himself to be swept away by mere hormones. That is why it is proper to identify your temptation and then flee. Just as the Holy Book commands us to.

So I quietly switched off the light, grabbed a pillow from the bed, and made myself comfortable on the floor.

Many thoughts ran through my mind, 80% of which was about Wendy. "When am I ever going to see her again?", I wished she was the one lying on my 35 inches bed, heaven knows how happy I would have been, but then, I had to deal with myself until Rachael left. About an hour later, Rachael woke up from her sleep. I noticed she felt lonely and made her way to switch the light on. I wasn't putting on any top, I just slept bare bodied. She was amazed looking at my body. The night was cold and I believed she needed a warmth company. She sat very close to me on the floor, stared at my lips, and caressed my chest with her soft palm. I felt her gentle touch and flapped my eyes open.

I couldn't stand the sight I beheld; I saw beauty flashing from her eyes and all of a Jack Robinson, I pulled her closer and casted a look on her pink lips. She shut her eyes and within a space of one minute, I already had my hand at the back of her head, towards her neck region and pulling her in for a kiss. As I leaned my way in - to lock lips with her, my neighbours alarm came ringing again the 1000th annoying time and woke me up only to find out it was just a dream, that it was 6:30am already and also, that Rachael was still comfortably enjoying her sleep on the bed.

"Oh My God, what a dream", I said to myself, the alarm served as a reminder that I had to work out that morning as I always did on weekends, but I wouldn't forgive Sammy for having an alarm so loud that is disrupted every of my sweet dream and making people's midnight wishes for me not come to pass. I quickly put on my training kit and made coffee for Rachael while she was asleep, I put it a heat retaining cup and left a note for her, to help her find stuffs she needed when she woke up and then I set off to the gym.

For a wise Person, the dream I had earlier was simply a pointer that even though I thought I didn't feel anything for Rachael as I did for her sister, having her in my room and having closer connections with her was seriously going to spark something up, and even though I avoided my naughty thoughts, my subconscious self still desired something raunchy with her. To be on a safe side, it would have been best if I invited another female over or better still avoided her coming over. For romance's sake, this is a good looking girl that we are talking about here.

You can't really rely on your strength in moments like this so it is best you flee before you compromise. So the big question is, Did I, Mr Awesome compromise? *smiles*. Read on, you'll find out soon.....Just Pretty Soon.

# Chapter Six

Neat German Adidas running shoes clenching on the Nigerian asphalt and my hands swinging back and forth, the cold morning breeze brushed through my hair, colliding with my skin and softly finding its way into my body as I jogged my way to the gym. Many thoughts ran through my head as usual. The dream about Rachael, Rachael's body temptation, Wendy and etc. I just kept running and thinking. Many other morning joggers ran passed me and we exchanged greetings by putting up a victory sign with our two fingers making a V shape in the air as usual.

I ran through samek avenue towards Imo state University front gate axis, and then had my pretty running partner Jane, join me. She always waited for me in front of her estate on her ash uniformed Nike jogging leggings, top and her blue shoes ever since I saved her life one Saturday morning from being hit by a car as she had her headset on a high volume while running. I gave her a hand and she joined me as we took a turn to Okigwe road, running towards bank road.

We did so many displays, from clapping our hands above our head to lifting a knee higher than the other and then spreading out our hands. When we got to weldral junction opposite rock view hotel, we took the left turn and headed towards Ikenegbu via weldral road. Jane was an interesting running mate and we enjoyed running together. Few hours later, I got so weak and couldn't continue anymore. I gave Jane a hug and made my way back home. When I got home, I perceived a very different kind of aroma and Rachael was no were in sight within the room, I thought the aroma came from the other neighbours as usual, but when I drew closer to the kitchen, I could hear Rachael sing in a low volume and the aroma became thicker.

I walked into the kitchen and wow!, she was preparing a very nice scenting meal. She had sliced carrots, cabbages, green peas and many vegetables. At first, I stood at the door staring at her without her notice, then slowly walked up to her, and said, "Good morning"

She had been alone in the room and probably didn't expect me back that soon and so she was shocked and spawn around with a full hug onto my body, I widened my eyes in surprise. I didn't know she had missed me that much. Then she said

"Oh my God!, where have u been?, I searched for you everywhere and your line was equally not connecting. Thanks for the coffee by my bed side anyway! That was quite thoughtful of you and I bet you'll make a good husband." She added winking at me with a light smile.

I smiled too and gave compliments to the aroma of the meal she was making and headed straight to the bathroom to freshen up. In about five minutes, I was done, and food was ready too. We had breakfast together, and while we ate, I was busy staring at Rachael, but I was sure no feelings were attached. I was really in Love with her sister Wendy, though I never let her know how I felt. Rachael noticed I was staring at her and so she returned the look, we were stuck in each other's eyes for about 10 seconds, then I let a smile escape from one side of my cheek. She smiled too and then I said,

"I never knew you were such a wonderful cook",

she blushed and we continued eating. I was putting on an unbuttoned vintage shirt; she then fixed a steady look at my chest and leaned in to have a closer look. I was motionless, with my eye brows lowered in confusion, wondering what she had seen inside my unbuttoned shirt.

"That pendant on your neck looks gorgeous and very familiar," she said,

I smiled and reached up with my hand to hold it. She stared at me looking so lost in thoughts, then she brought out her Smartphone, did a few things and after a few seconds, she exclaimed,

"Ahah!, I said it, I've seen that on someone's neck",

Then she showed me a picture she took with Wendy a day before she travelled. Wendy had the necklace I gave her on her neck and I felt very happy to see that she liked it. Rachael closely observed the way I was staring at the picture with keen attention and so she was forced to ask me "are you really in love with my sister? I was short of words when I heard that, I actually had a lot to say about how I felt for Wendy but the rush of words in my heart just shut me out of the exact words to use.

"I gave her that neckwear with the pendant. It's a twin pendant" I dismissed.

But she kept staring at me in a certain way, so I thought it was an opportunity to ask her a few things.

I started with, "Rachael, how am I going to get to Wendy, I've not heard from her for God knows how long". "I don't know, you'll wait till she decides to look for a way to speak to you too, maybe when she fixes her phone or gets a new one," she replied coldly.

I wasn't satisfied with her reply, but I was just so helpless, I suddenly lost appetite for the food from getting worried about a lot. Wendy's thought filled my mind and despite the fact that I tried being a man around Rachael, I almost had tears in my eyes. I remembered the few time we spent together, the song she said was her favourite, (What is Love - Veronica Bozeman, empire cast), I thought about her smile, the sound of her voice and every single word she ever told me. My eyes were becoming really wet already, I immediately left the table and the food and walked slowly to the door in a sad mood. I had never loved anyone the way I loved Wendy. Rachael got confused and walked after me, she stretched her hand and held me by my shirt, she looked me in the eye and asked,

"Mr Awesome, what is wrong with you?, why are you acting weird and childish?, don't you like my presence with you?"

At first I was speechless, but slowly I cut into her speech as she continued to talk.

"Do you know what it means to miss someone? I asked, not expecting an answer, "Not knowing when next you'll see each other again? or worst still, knowing that- that person doesn't care about you either? I just want to be left alone please, I'm sorry I have to act this way but Rachael, I'm madly in Love with Wendy, I love that girl! Don't you get it? Almost in tears. "Nothing makes sense to me anymore without her",

I was still talking when Rachael reached for my face, held my head close and shut me up with a kiss in the middle of my hurting words. I was stunned with my eyes wide open. I wondered why she had to do that and tried hard to understand what just happened. It felt like a dream because I didn't expect it. Ana wasn't wrong with her prediction in Chapter three anyway!

"I'm sorry she said, and tried walking out on me, but I held her back, looked right into her eyes with great anger, and soundless words boiling up in my heart,

"Rachael, no one has ever made me fall in Love the way Wendy has done, Do not do this again"

I was still talking and Rachael for the second time stood on her toe and planted a kiss on my lips. I was taller and stunned. I became powerless and guess what I did; I threw my arms around her waist and returned the kiss. I don't know how it happened but I was sure I lost my mind at that point. I could swear there was an ensnaring charm on her lips which weakened every soldier of resistance in me and all I wanted was to swim in her kisses somehow.

May be what they said was true. That "Persistence is stronger than resistance." Fleeing and avoidance has always been the best escape route for unplanned scandals or escapades like the one that is about to happen. I was very close to the door so I pushed and shut the door still kissing her, and then I swung her over and rested her back on it. We were high in emotions and started getting aggressive with the kiss.

I picked Rachael up from the floor in the speed of light, swung her around and headed straight to my dining table. I made her sit on it while we were still kissing and caressing each other's body, I could feel muscles awakening in all part of my body and the greatest of them was rising in between my legs, hard like the statue of liberty.

I started breathing faster and she too, my eyes were not getting dizzy yet because she never knew the mystery behind stroking my hair and so I was a little bit on the safe side. I got her weak point and that made her to lose focus and forgot there was something called tomorrow. We kissed for about ten minutes while I whispered slow dirty words into her ear. I lost my cool already and right there on the table, I parted her legs a bit and found a comfortable place in between them, held her by her hips and pulled her closer. Then swiftly, she started unbuttoning my shirt while I also started taking hers off too, she got my shirt off completely and I was on a bare body. She caressed my chest, while I fed my eyes with what I saw when I unbuttoned her shirt. It was the beautiful designs on her bra that tripped me the more.

I and Rachael were already on hyper rush of emotions because I failed to caution myself from the onset and face the possibilities of something like that happening if we stayed together a little longer, that was a common mistake young people make and then fall in to regrets later. Especially those of us who love God and want to please him with everything we do.

The only image I could see in my head was my 35 inches bed and so without wasting any more time, I carried her unto my body and made my way to the bed as she gripped my neck with her whole arm. Immediately I got to the bed, I sat while she had her legs crossed around my waist and we continued kissing. Then slowly she got her fingers into my hair and gently stroked. It was my weakness and turn on spot. I took a long deep breath as she caressed my hair like she knew anything about it. I was now beginning to feel dizzy and losing conscious control of the activity, my breath rose greatly, and my eyes were completely dizzy now. That was a great sign of being turned on sexually.

She didn't notice the chemistry that went on within me, but continued caressing my hair slowly or touchy feelingly. I couldn't remember telling her anything about my awesome hair. I traced my hand to her back and slowly unlocked her beautiful Red bra, the rock between my legs got harder and taller and there was no other remedy than to do what was the utmost expectation of all the bad boys and bad girls reading this Chapter. I slowly turned around and made her lie on her back, and at this time, she lost hold of my black curly, shiny silk hair, I stared into her eyes with lots of emotions running within me, and placed the most passionate kiss ever on her soft pink lips, I could feel her nipples getting harder and more sensitive, my chest muscles vibrated like I just came out from the gym. Rachael reached her hands to my belt and slowly unlocked it, while I tried getting her bra completely off, I could see her cleavage but couldn't wait to behold those round soft fresh balls I have always admired secretly.

She was done unlocking my belt and slowly pulled down my zip, splitting the top end of my trousers apart. Right now, she was completely at my mercy, she held me by my waist and pulled me in-between her legs. I stopped trying to take off her bra, and I groaningly whispered into her ear,

"Rachael, I've completely lost my mind, you are like a goddess and you've enchanted my spirit, soul and body", she smiled and replied into my ear, "Mr Awesome, You are such a romantic man, I love your body and I want you now".

My heart beat raced faster, and my eyes slowly recovering from its dizziness, she made her way with her hands to my trousers, pulled it down and deepened her fingers into my shorts; I gently fondled her breasts and nibbled on her nipple. Her hands went deeper and suddenly Somehow, her hands slid out of my hair and didn't return for a while. I regained consciousness, stopped touching her and pulled her hands slowly out of my short. I immediately got up from her, staring at her like a lost child, and shamefully headed straight to the kitchen, while she looked at me in a very confused manner, not knowing the reason for my sudden behaviour.

There in the kitchen, I leaned on the wall regretting what just happened and was relieved about the fact that I didn't penetrate her sexually but then I felt a rush of guilt all over me. A soft tap landed on my shoulder and in a soft voice she said

"you don't always have to act like a kid you know, Come on!, we've waited for this moment and now it's...

"Stop!, I never wanted this" I snapped

"you seduced me into this act knowing very well that I was in Love with Wendy. Why? Rachael" I asked feeling angry at myself.

"She has a boyfriend, don't you get it?" she yelled back at me.

On hearing that, I angrily looked into my wallet where I had kept the piece of paper containing the words in Arabic; I threw it to Rachael and said,

"Now read meaning to those words for me". Rachael picked up the piece of paper, stared at the words in the book for a while and then she asked "who gave this to you?"

"Wendy did", I replied. Anger filled her eyes and then she flung the piece of paper on the table and made her way towards the wardrobe to pack her things and leave. Rachael had barely spent twenty four hours with me and we already had such an issue at hand. I was curious, so I followed her up. I begged her to explain what was written there to me. Then she asked

"Has your granny ever told you anything about us, about my Family, about Wendy, my sister?"

I nodded in painful agreement, remembering what my granny told me the very first day Wendy visited me at home before I left the village, "Yes she has" I replied nonchalantly as a deceit for her not to dwell on it. She turned and stared at me and then tears rolled down her cheeks.

"I know you love Wendy, but, But.. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry"

she broke into tears and immediately started picking up her belongings. I got more confused. I tried to stop her, but she had her mind made up and so she refused to be stopped. In the heat of our argument, someone came knocking at the door. I reached for the door determined to shut out whoever it was and luckily it was my annoying neighbour "Sammy". Immediately I opened the door, there he was standing akimbo with his black face as usual. "What?" I asked in anger. 'I dey hear you and your babe shout, she no gree make you touch?

What a stupid question to ask in my present mood I thought in my mind. "Sammy what do you want?" I asked again looking straight at his face. I knew he came to borrow something. "abeg you get small banana or bottle water for your fridge? If I comot I go replace am abeg" (Do you have some bottles of water or bunch of banana in your fridge? I promise to replace them when I step out)" He asked sticking his hand up in the air as usual. I was so pissed off at him that I didn't have anything to say to him. What relationship in the world does banana have with bottled water for it to be a substitute? He practically turned my room to his water and food supply spot for his undisciplined appetite. Crazy guy.

Sammy had collected expensive bottles of water from my fridge with promises to replace them for the past three weeks and today? I was not just in the mood to be a Good Samaritan and so I slammed the door right at his face damn face and returned to Rachael. I persuaded her to stay for a while and explain what the Arabic words meant but she really wanted to leave to the extent that she threatened to shout if I tried to stop her again. And trust me; I didn't want to be a victim of a false rape accusation so I had no option than to let her go. Rachael got dressed and left my room without saying any more word to me.

At that point I became more devastated, the height of my confusion was without measure, and I completely lost touch with peace of mind. I sat at the foot of my bed, in deep thought and confused about the whole thing. I didn't know where to start from or where to end. I wasn't worried about Rachael, I had wanted her to leave quickly but not in that state of mind and with every other unplanned thing that happened between us in a jiffy.

A couple of hours later, I got over the issue with Rachael after catching some nap and was in a lighter mood. I got a text message from my very close buddy at school. His name was Ebuka but he was also known as "Ability" and it read;

"Mr. Awesome, Start coming to Cubana in the next 30minutes. There's a birthday party and get-together tagged "Few Days To Valentine". The girls here wanna see you, especially Ashley she wants to be with you at the party. The dress code is a Blue shirt and black trousers with a touch of red. You could catch a Val here, dress cute man.''

"Mhnnn, Ashley".... that name resounded in my head, I wouldn't resist anything when that name is mentioned. She was my big time crush. I quickly got up from the bed, walked to the bathroom and freshened up. I got dressed up in my nice blue shirt, and nice fitting black chinos trousers, guarded with a suspender. I thought of how to touch red, and then an idea came to me. I inserted a red "pocket square" into my shirt's pocket. I was good to go with my nice scented perfume. I quickly called a tricycle driver who came and picked me up from my lodge to the almighty Cubana in 35minutes.

## @ Few days to "St Valentine's Day" Party

I walked boldly into the place the event was going on; It was an open roof event just around the swimming pool. Everyone present were in pairs, and then I spotted Ebuka with His girlfriend Chammy and Ashley with few other girls on a round table. The party was almost getting done with already and the birthday celebrant was called up to speak. She gave her speech and requested a spoken word poetry performance from any guy who had a good sense of poetry. Everyone was in pair and quiet, so I decided to step up on stage and do something while they all clapped, since I was single and not busy with anything or anyone.

As I drew closer, she became prettier and looked more familiar. and finally when I got to the stage her face glowed the more but She wasn't anyone I knew, probably I've grown so used to beautiful women that they all looked familiar to me. Her name was Somadina and she was beauty Pronounced, merely looking at her gave me the lyrics to the poem I would say to her. 30seconds after I got the microphone, I didn't say anything because I was shut out of words by her beauty, she should be in her early 20's.

I started with "To a gorgeous princess, I present a poem that is priceless, costless, and so flawless. Your beauty glows like the moon and the twinkles in your eyes, like the stars are countless...And so on.

Five minutes later, I was done and dusted, she was happy and gave me a big hug, then whispered into my ear, "3 days from today is Valentine's Day, would you be my Val? "With all pleasure", I replied without giving it a second thought, and we smiled while I walked back to my seat.

Music came up in the party and I danced slowly with Ashley while I stared at Somadina who danced with her Dad over Ashley's shoulder. We exchanged countless eye contacts and smiles. Finally the party was over and it was time to go, Somadina ran down to me and told me about a valentine event that would hold somewhere in Lagos and she wanted me to be there with her. I gave it a thought for a while and finally agreed, since the bill was on her millionaire father. We were to live two days from that evening, so I had to set a perfect schedule that would run till I resumed school activities.

# Chapter Seven

It was 13thof February and Valentines eve. So I and Somadina made our way to Lagos state. She had issues with flying, as a reason, we embarked on an 8hours long journey by road with one of Nigeria's finest transport companies by 9am and before 5pm we were already at Victoria Island Lagos and got lodged in a hotel. We shared the same room and it was all cool. That same evening I and Somadina got to know ourselves better as we talked about so many things. She was a poem freak as I was and she loved nature too. We were able to blend well with conversations, and I really enjoyed her company.

Hours later, we got served our dinner and we slept off real quick. We were tired from the journey and needed a good rest to look smart at the party. We slept close to each other and I cuddled her to help keep her warmth as she requested. I slept like a baby that night without any awkward thoughts or feelings, I was just free with her and I knew I've found a perfect Bff. Best friends are rare you know!.

At exactly 8 O'clock the next morning, Somadina woke up while I was still sleeping; she got out of bed and placed an order for our breakfast. Then she came to wake me up with a bird feather tickling my ear. I got the sweet tingling sensation and then I woke up with a soft smile on my face as the morning sun focused it ray on my face. "wake up! Lazy kid" she said shaking me up. I smiled and tried shutting my eyes again. The next thing I felt was Somadina jump on me with a pillow and started hitting me all over with the soft pillow. Oh My God! Somadina was something else. She should be the first person you mention when you talk about fun. I covered my face and she hit me the more, so I quickly grabbed one pillow and retaliated, we pillow-fought around the room and I fell on the ground while she got on top of me to beat me up with her pillow until "ding dong! Hello! Room service, breakfast is ready".

It was the hotel room attendant at the door. Somadina asked him in, and he walked in dressed in a black and white cooperate uniform, an apron tied to his waist and a chef cap on his head. He served us breakfast, and said

"I can see you two are having a great time, you remind me so much of when I first fell in Love and with this; I must say that Love never loses its flavour".

He wished us a happy love season and then made his way out. He probably had thought we were a couple due to the way we were playing with each other. Somadina turned to look at me as though she was giving what he said a thought. I just pushed her off me in a rude way even though I was joking and dumped the pillows on her as if I never noticed her expression. She just lay on the ground and laughed at me. Then I remembered it was my mom's birthday, So I Quickly sent her a text message and wrote her a poem on Facebook before coming back to join Somadina at the table for breakfast.

While eating, we played a whole lot more, she left her meal and started taking from mine. I tried taking from hers too but she refused and it turned into a play again. I wondered why every girl had to do that anyway!. Somadina gave me the kind of fun I've not had in quite a long time and the most amazing part was that I could clearly tell there were no strings attached. There was not even a guitar so I wonder where the string would come from anyway. We played until we were exhausted and then she rushed into the bathroom to take her bath while I took mine after her.

I was wondering what manner of a girl Somadina was, she was so free and fun to be with even though we've known each other for barely 74hours. She seemed so perfect and I liked that. We got bored at a point and so I suggested that we played truth or dare while we waited for time to pass. I started first with a "T" we continued until this her turn came when I picked a "D" and she opened her little mouth and dared me, looking in my eyes to twerk for 3 minutes in front of her. OMG; imagine me twerking. I literally busted into laughter uncontrollably. I begged her to have a rethink, but she insisted. I couldn't imagine placing my hands on my laps, squatting a bit and lifting my butt up and down hoping it would bounce. "No Way!" I shouted but she still insisted. She was a very stubborn girl. "Fine! I'll twerk" I said. She turned on the music to "Diana" By Tekno, and I was determined to wow her, I started the dance with twisting and whining my waist which I learnt from Prestige my younger sister. I saw how amazed she was, then I moved down to the twerking which I know you know my cousin Ana thought me, I twerked my waist out, even though I knew the thing was probably not bouncing at all. Wait! The word should be definitely, not probably because this waist and this bum ain't bouncing baby!

She started clapping and laughing, she laughed so hard that I joined her in the happy mood. We got so excited that anyone would think it was more than the two of us in the hotel room. Then the music changed to "thinking out loud by" Ed Sheeran (one of my favourites) and she said these words to me staring into my eyes with all sincerity;

"Mr Awesome, this is the best valentine I've ever had so far, and it's all because of you, I hereby declare you, The most Romantic Val of the century and I dedicate this song to you.",

I got touched by her words and kissed her forehead."Same here, so what do you think", I replied in a whisper. She brushed her eyes lashes on me in a flirty manner and said slowly and cunningly, "uhmmm, I think we should, enhmm, take off our clothes and ehmm.....", after a long drag, she then added "get ready for the Val party" and she walked out."Oh what a tease" I thought to myself watching her walk off. I liked it though! I just smiled.

## The Valentines Party - (14th February)

At 5pm, we guessed the event should have kicked off so we got dressed and ready to go party. But before we left I saw Somadina putting an inhaler into her handbag, I gave a confused stare until she noticed my expression and said, "I have asthma, so it's my life guard"

Oh God!, I felt so sorry for her. Nobody is ever complete anyway! I said to myself, I was only happy and confident because I knew certainly that someday Jesus was going to heal her completely and I hated myself for not having fasted and prayed enough to have just enough faith to say to her mountain "move" and it would go, just as Jesus did say we should do by faith. We ordered a ride and got to the event venue somewhere in Lekki, Lagos state and it has kicked off already. Lekki was one of the most beautiful and most expensive places in Lagos State.

Filled with expensive houses, celebrity Mansions and billionaire's cribs. One would mistake Lekki for the capital of Nigeria if not for the popularity of Abuja. We got ushered into a round table with a couple seated there already, so we joined them and completed the arrangement for a table of four. We exchanged complements and pleasantries and then focused on the M.C. as the event was fun all along.

The girls that served as ushers and waitresses were all adorable and stunning, they could be models and video vixens I thought as I fed my eyes observing things around and those I had never seen before. I saw a particular big screen TV that displayed whoever the camera focused on inside the event hall which was mainly dignitaries, actors, artistes, best dressed and government executives. So I just enjoyed watching that, thank God Somadina had her focus on the mc's jokes and she was laughing excitedly while I sipped my drink little by little. While I stared at the Tv screen, the camera turned to a guest who was giving orders or instructions as I perceived, to one of the beautiful ushers, it focused on them for a quite a while and I noticed the girl had a cowboy hat on her head, and a shirt stocked into a jean trousers. I kept looking but didn't know why.

When she tried to leave, the camera went directly on her chest and zoomed on it to reveal her beautiful necklace. I saw the exact replica of the kind of neck wear I was putting on, a golden heart shaped pendant hung on a fine black lace, it was the type I gave to Wendy too and it was custom made, so I wondered why it would be with someone else. My heart began to race faster with expectations and clear uncertainty. I watched the girl closely for her to lift her face, but the hat made it impossible, so I got restless and was determined to trace her. I spotted her and watched her walk away from the guest to the walk way. So I got up without Somadina's Notice, gulped in my drink and walked behind her closely like I was trailing her.

She was about to make a turn into an entrance which was probably the item7 room So I walked a little faster and caught up with her with great speed. I held her by her arm and she halted in shock. She turned around to me facing the ground, I held up the pendant on her neck and stared at it, and it was the exact one I had given to Wendy. Then I slowly removed her hat and asked her to lift her face, she did and My O my, she was as beautiful as who I had expected her to be and who I'm so sure you're guessing she was. But she wasn't WENDY, too bad. Your guess was wrong. "I'm sorry, where did you get this from?" I questioned in curiosity. She slowly freed her arms from my grip, and asked who I was. "A guest" I replied. She exhaled in relief and continued.

"Well this is not mine, it belongs to a friend, she's one of us but she was not allowed to come yet".

"What is her name? Where's she, what does she look like?" I asked all this in a one breath.

She noticed how anxious I was, and said

"hey, calm down, I can't disclose her details to you, I don't even know you, but we all work for the Hotel that is hosting this event".

"Ok, good!" I said, nodding my head slightly, expecting more information from her "what is the name of the hotel?" "It is called "Maison Fahrenheit Located at Victoria Island." She replied, and pleaded with me to let her go now as she had an order to fufil. I did, but that was after she got my phone number. I went back to Somadina who was already worried about me.

"Where have you been? I've been looking all over for you she said", "Oh, I'm sorry dear, I saw an old friend so we had a drink at the bar"\- I lied.

I gave her a peck on the cheek and she smiled and then we joined the party. From that moment onward I wasn't being myself anymore. All I thought of was Wendy and "Maison Fahrenheit Hotel". Some minutes later, my phone vibrated, I checked and it was a text message from the girl and it said;

"The CEO of the Hotel will come up on stage to receive an award in the next 5minutes, he just drove in with the other girls and my friend has taken her neck lace back".

About ten minutes later, the Chief Executive Officer of Maison Fahrenheit hotels and suites was called up on stage to receive an award. Everyone was up on their feet and clapping as a nice music played on the background. He was young , camera lights came flashing here and there as he stepped up with this gorgeous looking girl, she was on a red beautiful dinner gown and had this charming smile that made me change focus from the CEO to face her. I could feel myself falling in Love at first sight at the sight of this pretty lady.

I turned to the big TV as the camera zoomed on their faces. It was WENDY. Unbelievable, my jaw fell open in shock. She was stunning and smiled happily as she waved at people like one of these super models while the CEO gave his speech.

When he was done making his speech, He got the Valentine's day award which Wendy held for him and they both took pictures in company of other important people and top executives. I was almost thinking Wendy was his Lady until I saw her pick up the pendant on her neck and kissed it while tears rolled down her cheek. It was St Valentine's Day and she probably wished she had spent it with me just like I did feel for her. I felt Loved. I Immediately got up from my seat, walked slowly towards the stage, Somadina tried to hold me back but I refused, I was determined to go up on that stage and give Wendy a kiss, I walked slowly and steady with smiles on my face.

I could hear panics behind me and people looking backwards like something was going on behind, I kept walking and feeling like Prince Charming that was dressed like a knight in shining armour. then one guy on suit walked up to me and said, "excuse me bro, your girlfriend just collapsed and she is gasping for air" my eyes widened in fear because I knew It was Somadina and then I remembered her telling me she had asthma earlier at the hotel room. So I rushed back to her, opened her hand bag and got her inhaler out for her.

She inhaled it a couple of time and got revived. She opened her eyes, gave me a hug and requested that I took her home. "Sorry I left you alone" I replied and then I looked back on stage, sadly Wendy and the CEO had stepped down. I grabbed Somadina in sadness and walked her side by side out of the hall. Outside the hall, I saw Wendy with the other girls getting into a car back to their hotel. Happily I asked Somadina to excuse me and then I rushed out to Wendy. I approached the car with so much relief, spread out my arms for a hug but before I could get to her, their car zoomed off speedily. Saddening! Isn't it?, I've not got this chance to let Wendy know what I felt for her and it really hurt me a great deal. If there was any wish I needed to make on St Valentine's Day, it was a chance to pour out my heart to Wendy before someone else did. Well that was my fate and tears rolled down my cheeks for the first time in a long time.

Somadina gently walked towards me and stood by me as we watched the car zoom out of sight.

"You really do feel something nice for her, don't you?"

"That is an understatement" I replied in a sad tune.

"Let's go home" she said, "Perhaps, we can talk things over, remember you can always share your worries with me". Somadina reassured.

Her words brought ease to my heart; I had never gotten a chance to explain to anyone how much I was in Love with this Wendy of a girl and this was a jackpot moment for me. Men generally love confessing their Love. I was still moody when we got to our hotel room that night, and Somadina was just staring at me not knowing where to start and then after a while we broke the silence and started talking about Wendy and I.

"something fell out of your diary last night, a piece of paper with Arabic words on it and the English part said you shouldn't throw it away that it holds a secret and speaks the writers silence and that you might never see or speak again for a long time or forever, was that from Wendy?" Somadina asked.

I nodded in agreement and said "Actually, I've been looking for someone who'd help me read that out, I'm so lost in there". "Well, I have a good background in Arabic maybe I should help you read them out" she replied and that again was one of my trophy moments on that trip. She took the piece of paper out and read through it again, then she started translating in another sheet of paper. She was done in five minutes and almost a whole sheet was filled up. I nervously took it and fixed my eyes on it to read. As I read through it, my eyes became soaked and pouring out with tears. My heart became heavy and I wished I could tear up the whole world and find Wendy to tell her I didn't care about anything and that the only thing I cared about was to be with her.

I know you want to know what the words in Arabic meant.

Well, this is it

"Mr Awesome, I've seen the affection in your eyes, I feel same way for you too, I couldn't stop myself from falling for your charms. you are the only company I've ever had back at home, simply because of the same thing your grandma told you, sorry to let you know my dear, I forgot something at your place that day and made my way back to take it, on my arrival I overheard your discussion with your granny about me, so I eavesdropped. I heard everything and I walked back in tears. Your granny was right, that is who I am, it is my fate, I wish I could say I love you, but if I care, I wouldn't'. Bye forever, Keep my memory if you can and I hope you find someone who would stay".

Reading that gave me the shock of my life. "But why Wendy?" I screamed out, "is beauty a curse on her? Why why why"

I had many mysterious "why" questions in my mind. My heart was bitter and all I wanted was to see her and tell her that I did not care about all those things. Somadina became so emotional too and was forced to ask

"Mr Awesome, I know you to be funny, a writer, a poet and all that, I would never believe you'd love a girl this way, if you don't mind, Can you tell me what it is your grandma told you?".

That was a big question and I had preferred to keep it secret. I looked at her with the tears in my eyes and shivering all over, I was just shut out of the right words to say. The thought of it alone kept hunting my emotions so I knew saying it would be a whole lot of trauma so I just ignored Somadina's question and went to bed. She stared at me for a while and just wished I could give her a chance to proffer a solution to whatever I was struggling with. "OH! This is not the guy I came all the way to Victoria Island with. God help us" she whispered.

After a while, she joined me in bed, held me from behind in a cuddling position and whispered into my ear, "I will always be here for you, sweet dreams honey". I nodded and off I slept.

# Chapter Eight

Nights were made exclusively for good rest or productivity for those who really know when best to invest time resources in business, learning or effective prayers for a remarkable result, but the night after the valentine party wasn't pleasant at all and seemed longer than usual, probably because I didn't sleep well. I had woken up severally at midnight and turned back and forth with serious thoughts going through my head. I finally sailed on the sleep boat few hours before dawn because my eyes were already aching and had to surrender to nature. Somadina yawned up few minutes after 9 o'clock with her arms wrapped around me, she found me sleeping and then in her usual manner woke me up.

"Good morning" I greeted,

"Good morning handsome how was your night?"

"Far from wonderful" I replied nonchalantly, turning to the window. She wasn't satisfied with my reply and then she tried cheering me out of my sad state in a very funny way and then we began our usual pillow fight.

She succeeded in getting me back to the right mood and she was glad I came around. Later on she requested that I follow her down the street to a clinic so that she could get a new inhaler. On our way out of the hotel premises, joking and laughing, we noticed few girls standing afar off in front, quarrelling heavily and shouting at each other. All of a sudden, the quarrel resulted in a fight as one of the girls slapped the other one severally and dragged her roughly on the ground while others tried separating them. Noticing how dirty the fight was getting, I rushed out immediately to help them out in settling the fight, but before I could get there, a team of some security personnel guarding the hotel came to the scene and dragged them out while the other girls followed behind. I tried catching up but they left already into an inner chamber I guessed.

At the spot of the fight, I noticed something lying abandonedly on the ground and then I took a closer look at the floor and behold the same neck wear I had given to Wendy, the lace was loosened apart already. I picked it up and stared closely, it was Wendy's. I stood there while Somadina ran to me panting. I was speechless and before I could explain anything to her, one of the girls came and forcefully snatched the necklace from my hand and tried walking out; I speedily held her back to prevent her from walking out of my reach.

"Hey hold it right there, that's not yours, I know the owner" I yelled. She turned to me and was like "you again? 'Pardon!" I said, tilting my head sideways a bit.

"You stopped me at the party last night to ask me who owns this same necklace". Don't you remember? She asked.

I looked closely at her and discovered she was the same girl who told me they worked in same hotel as Wendy. So I asked her what was going on and she explained that the girl who was being slapped and humiliated was the owner of the necklace and obviously Wendy, "WHY?" I asked with my eyes shining in anger, muscles clenching and heart racing faster..

"Do you know her? Why do you act so concerned in her issues?" she asked. I didn't say a word in response, but vibrated with anger.

And then she continued explaining.

"The other lady who slapped her is our head model, she was the first to be here, and was angry and jealous that the new girl (Wendy) had to follow the CEO up the stage to receive the award because of her beauty, so she transferred aggression and hate on her. It was in the process that this fell off her neck".

"Where the heck were they taking to" I inquired taking off my wrist watch and neck chain ready to avenge Wendy's pains. Somadina ran to my front and tried to stop me, she pleaded that I should not get involved in that way, but I was way too angry and anxious to see her.

"Where is she?" I yelled again.

The girl got uneasy and began to stutter.

"In the security office, follow me" she said. She led the way while I walked like a soldier behind her. When we got closer, I could see Wendy leaning on a counter and crying bitterly while the other girl rained curses and insults on her.

I could hear Wendy trying to retaliate in her tiny voice while the other model dumped another hot slap on her face, she attempted landing the second one but I caught her hand and hit her hard on the face with the back of my hand which threw her dazzling away. She charged towards me, but when she looked at my face, my gloomy sternness advised her to pin her foot on the floor and hands in the air. I was moved by compassion and then I quickly rushed to Wendy to get her up from the floor where she was trying to gather the remaining pieces of herself. She lifted her face slowly and saw the pendant hanging out from my neck, she stared at it without a word and I said to her, Wendy it's me. Then quickly she rolled her eyes to my face and her countenance beamed with happiness, she screamed out my native name "Kaycee!", got up to her feet and hugged me tightly as tears dropping from her eyes made their way down her cheek with salty droplets on her cute lips.

She sobbed heavily and we held ourselves tight while I tried to console her to stop crying. "I missed you" she said, while I held her warmly and stroked her hair. Then all of a sudden, some security guards returned to the scene, they rushed to us and dragged us apart. Two of them dragged Wendy away while others dragged me into a Hilux van. Wendy cried out at the top of her voice but there was nothing I could do. Somadina tried talking to the security officers but they wouldn't listen to her.

So they drove me straight to state CID at kpanti-yaba in Lagos State for hitting a lady. I was furious, I tried to explain something very important but they wouldn't listen or even allow me talk. Actually I wasn't trying to plead with them; I was trying to tell them something very important so that they would not waste their gas driving me to the station. The fact was that I didn't want Daddy to know that I came all the way from school to Lagos with a girl for a Valentine event. They finally took me to the station and made me sit at the counter, asking me a few questions that would be used to make a case file or statement. Wahever!

I freely gave them the information they required. While we were still there, I noticed all of them immediately throwing salutes to someone walking in. I looked up and called out, "Dad!". He was my Dad, Dad is a force man and a senior Officer on intelligent report at State CID kpanti Yaba Lagos, He was surprised to see me and that was the reason I didn't want them to waste their energy bringing me there. He ordered me to follow him into his office which I did. He was still surprised because I was supposed to be at Imo State University but here I am, arrested in Lagos without any prior information. I lied that my department was on an emergency Conference and I was one of the delegated representatives, giving him reasons why I should return to the hotel because he already called out to a police officer to drive me home in the police Hilux and that would mean kissing my chances of getting back to Wendy and Somadina goodbye and I couldn't take that.

I was successful in convincing him and so he drove me to somewhere we had lunch and gave me some money to hold on too. At exactly 02:00 pm, he drove me back to the station where he ordered the same squad that arrested me to take me back to the hotel. When we arrived at the hotel, everyone who witnessed what happened earlier was surprised at the turn out of events. I walked out of the security van with my shoulders straight and head held up high as I made my way to my hotel room with some goodies Dad had bought for me from the Fast-food. When I got to the room, I met Somadina alone; she was crying and looking very confused.

When she saw me, the joy in her heart couldn't be hidden as she jumped to me and wrapped her arms around me. I kissed her head and apologised for living her side again. She didn't say a word, she just held me and I knew something was wrong. I explained the turnout of events to her and she still didn't say much. At that point, I had to ask what was happening. She raised her eyes that was covered with tears already and then she said "Kaycee I missed you", that was the first time she ever called me that; she continued

"I thought you were in a big trouble and I was going crazy about it all". I stared into her eyes and I could read something there.

She was already falling in Love with me, Oh My God! I though in my heart, I smiled back at her and gently kissed the side of her lips, she slid her hand behind my neck and brought her lips closer. We stared at each other's eyes and tilted our head forward in a bid to lock lips and then suddenly a knock came on the door. We paused and exhaled with a soft smile, while I walked off to get the door. Out there she was, standing with tears all over her eyes. I embraced her and she softly whispered,

"Wendy has just been Sacked and asked to leave the premises". Damn it!. That was Wendy's friend and co-worker.

Hearing about Wendy's dismissal threw me into a fresh sadness and I was totally speechless. "Where would she be now" I asked, but no more words came from Wendy's friend. I was going to leave Lagos in two days and not finding Wendy would be like a failed mission. But Lagos was too big and I didn't even know where exactly to start looking. I couldn't believe I had lodged in the same hotel where she worked and still didn't run in to her and now when I finally knew she worked here, she just got sacked. What a world. Could that be fate asking us to remain apart?

Somadina tried convincing me to forget about Wendy, that there were many other beautiful girls I could easily find and date. Her words sounded more like a fairy tale to me because I was sure she didn't understand what I meant when I said I was Mad Over Wendy and how much it hurts to know that I've not even told her about my feelings officially. Hours after the girl left, Night came and again I was alone with Somadina. I couldn't sleep, neither could she, the room light was blue, much deemed blue light and she was dressed in a big shirt and a bum short while I wore a long snow-white hairy bed robe. We sat opposite each other on the bed, with our legs crossed like Chinese monks saying the Tai chi chuan prayers, we stared at each other in the blue darkness, emotions started running deep in our veins and arteries. I could feel my heart beating faster and her breath becoming heavier. That was a sign of some chemistry going on within her.

I stretched forth my hands and reached for hers, held her and she pulled closer. She put her hands on my neck and massaged me softly, it felt good and I was tempted to respond but I still held back and then she slowly unbuttoned her shirt, one button at a time. She wasn't putting on a bra. She completely unbuttoned her shirt and I was left without a reason to reject her. Somadina was no doubt a slaying beauty who could turn a grown man to a toddler. She was hotter than any video vixen I had seen. Oh Poor boy, what could I do? I was stuck because my second head between my legs started doing the thinking for me.

"Getting stuck is what happens when a man allows his emotions to rule his decisions. It takes discipline to not get stuck in Life." – Victor Kingsley.

Not thinking my actions through, I pulled Somadina closer and I could see the nice twins inside her shirt pointing at me like they knew me. She had a really nice Set of breasts and I couldn't get my eyes off them. Like I said, I was stuck. She saw the lust in my eyes already and knew I was helpless, so she completely took off her shirt and charged up to me with a kiss on my neck as her long hair dangled at her back. I embraced her tightly and whispered into her ear to pause and let me teach her a few lessons. It sounded dirty and flirty and so she smiled and brushed her lashes on me while I smiled from one side of my cheek. I returned the kiss to her neck and asked her to turn around. She did and I slowly loosened and removed my long bed robe.

I massaged her shoulder from behind and I could feel that she shut her eyes and moaned gently. I dropped another Kiss on her neck and gently exhaled; allowing the hot air to brush through the back of her neck, which sent shivers down her spine. I nibbled on her ear lobe softly with my lips and whispered softly to her saying "Nothing, absolutely nothing can make me stop loving Wendy. We can't do this sweet heart" I dropped a kiss on her cheek, covered her body with my robe and fell off to the other side of the bed.

She sat there for a while, speechless, without motion and just wondering "what manner of a guy is this?". She laughed softly and said in a flirty slow tune,

"Mr Awesome, you are the kind of man I desire; you are strong with emotions, powerful with words and seductive as a demigod"

I listened in silence and then she continued.

"Your kisses melted the woman in me and I wonder what would happen if you came close to my lips".

At that point, I felt seduced, but I think I knew the game she was playing on me, so I had to give a brilliant reply. I said. "Best friends to sex gods last for years, but Bed friends last for just one Night".

She paused, smiled and turned to me with a tight hug and said

"I'd rather be with you untouched forever than sacrifice eternity for just one night. My Best Friend Forever". She added as she kissed my neck and we slept off as usual.

I know you are probably wondering what the game I said Somadina tried playing on me was, well this is it; when she complimented on my bedroom prowess she was trying to awaken pride in me and make me want to show more of myself and sadly that is how many good people fall in to the bad things that the creator hates. And secondly, just as you saw, Women respect disciplined men. They will admire you forever if you show character strength in between your weakest points. The more she proves you to be a real man, the more she admires you.

We slept for several hours and the night seemed longer than usual. Finally my alarm woke me up around 6am, I got out of bed before her and did a couple of push ups and sit ups to keep my abs and biceps toned and be in shape. She woke up an hour later and sat on the bed staring at me,

"Good morning Soma" I said, she didn't say a word, she kept staring and finally she said "I'm sorry about last night, I couldn't hold myself back". I looked at her and smiled. "me too" I replied. She deemed her eyes a little and fired back "you too?", "Yes me too, because you were almost irresistible and I resisted a goddess, damn! What was I thinking? I said as I jabbed in the air. She smiled and joined me in the sit up exercise. We talked and laughed over the attempted sex last night. Somadina was a cool girl and we were both grateful we didn't let sex have us the previous night.

We finished the exercise facing each other directly, Somadina was just staring at my face without words and I stared back into her eyes too and this time I was feeling the radiance of her beauty more profoundly. She had very cute round eyes. I prepared my mind and was determined to kiss her that morning. I was never going to resist her anymore so I started with flirty talks.

"I never knew you had such pretty eyes and soft lips", "soft lips? I bet you have no Idea" she snapped. Then I said in a calm tone "ask me anything and I would gladly give in now". "Deal?" she asked, "yes deal" I replied with fixed gaze on her eyes.

And so she started;

"well, Mr Awesome, you know we've been together since the valentine eve until today, we've had lots of fun and shared some good and bad times together."

I nodded in agreement, expecting the very big Sexual request. She smiled and continued;

"I admire you so much, your charisma, your sense of humour, your maturity and every other thing and so it has been hard for me to resist asking this from you, considering the fact that you have a lady you're in love with and desperate to find."

I nodded again with an already erect joystick, praying the long talk would quickly lead to her request. Then she released the bomb in her heart. She said;

"Mr Awesome, I want you to do something sweet and memorable to me, I want you to make me feel like a loved lady".

My eyes turned open in a faked surprise then I asked ironically "How would I do that?" and then slowly, one word at a time she said "in two simple ways.

"I just want You to get up from there, erase the dirty things in your mind and get me breakfast. After that I'll tell you the second thing".

Oh my world, I mumbled. She really got me there, I was short of words, and she laughed me to stupor. I took it serious and was willing to melt her in minutes. So I asked what she would love to have for breakfast, she made her request, So I swung into action, I went down stairs and got everything she requested, canned and bottled as the meal wouldn't have to be cooked and I prepared a delicious breakfast of fruit salad with creamy condensed milk and yogurt drink..

I looked her in the eyes while serving her and she felt shy and looked away. I smiled as I watched her eat. I was really getting on her weak point now and I could feel it. I served her like a princess and she was stunned by my gentle man attitude towards her. As she was eating, a piece of chopped banana from the salad dropped on her chest area and a little bit by the side of her mouth. I took a serviette and wiped it off her chest, and then gently I cleaned the stain on the side of her lips still staring deep into her eyes with my face very close to hers. She shut her eyes and breathed heavily, and then I asked in a very sarcastic way

"Do you feel sleepy?"

On hearing that, She shook her eyes open. May be she expected I would kiss her; I just smiled and walked away. I was happy I had my revenge in the cutest way. She became dumb founded and just looked at me from where she sat. I then asked her,

"What is your second request ma'am?"

"What did your granny tell you about Wendy"? She asked.

"Oh not again" I pleaded as I tried badly to avoid that conversation. But then I had to tell her anyway! I was willing to speak with her considering the fact that she had shown so much interest and couldn't just continue holding it back from her, that wouldn't be fair.

"What my granny said about Wendy is something that hurts me a whole lot, I just wish it weren't true, But I'll have to live with it" I said.

Somadina looked at me with lots of expectation and pity in her eyes, so she asked "what exactly was it?", I continued, she said, "Wendy is..." I was talking when Somadina's phone came ringing and interrupted the conversation. She excused herself and picked up her call. She talked for about 30minutes and immediately the call dropped, she excused herself with a rush out of the room heading down the stairs while I waited patiently. She came back about 10minutes later with lots of gifts and goodies with her.

She explained that an old time friend, who chatted her up on Facebook and got info about where she was currently, just gave her a surprise shopping paid for delivery at her door step. I could see the happiness in her eyes and I could tell that one of the things she loved was surprises.

Unfortunately we didn't get to continue talking about what my granny had told me about Wendy. The discussion skipped our mind as we talked about several other things. In the middle of our discussion, an SMS came to my phone from Rachael after a long time, I wouldn't believe she would ever care to call or text me again. In the text message she said

"Wendy called, she said you ran into her somewhere in Lagos and that she has lost contact with you again. Where exactly are you?"

Wow, that sounded like the beginning of a great re-union with my biggest crush of the century.

I quickly called Rachael back to get some more information as to how I could get across to Wendy. But on calling her, her number became unavailable. It was so devastating and saddening at the same time but there was nothing I could do. So I just tried not to allow it get into my emotions and kept my cool for the time being. I just believed that what would be mine would certainly be mine.

# Chapter Nine

I lay on the bed watching the clock tick away in the morning hours of a bright day and enjoying the serenity of the hotel environment as I waited for Somadina to get dressed. We had already exhausted our stay in Lagos and we were ready to set our course to the east as Navy officers would militarily say. "How do I look" she asked standing in front of the human sized mirror and turning herself around for me to examine.

"You look like the first Lady of Aso Rock" I said beaming a smile at her

"Thank you Mr President" she replied bowing her head like a French gentleman and we both laughed as we lifted our luggage. We left the hotel to the park and boarded a bus that headed to Owerri that morning.

Somadina and I sat on the same row waiting for the final passengers that would sit in front to get on board before we took off. At about ten minutes later, the Imo Travels and Tour luxurious bus was set to drive off. I was busy with my phone so didn't notice when the passengers came on board, But I could see that the person sitting directly in front of me was a young lady, probably my age or a little younger and the glow on her skin told how pretty she was, even though I never saw her face. 30minutes into the journey, the bus staff came with the passenger's manifest and asked all passengers onboard to fill in their information and destinations, they forgot to take the manifest at the Park, so they would have to send it to the company online.

Passengers passed the book and pen from person to person until it got to the turn of the girl sitting in front of me. She wrote hers and passed it down to me. I saw only her hand and I admired the bracelet she was wearing. It was very beautiful and I would have complemented her but I didn't want to give Somadina a wrong impression about me. So I just took the book from her without any comment. I looked at the name she had written and it was very familiar. Her name was Wendy.

The journey was a long one but we all had to sit back and relax while I and Somadina seized the opportunity and chatted a lot during the journey. 5 hours into the journey, we had already ran through several cities and states. From Ogun to Ondo, Ore, Benin and where we currently were. The girl in front of me wrote something on a piece of paper and passed it to me over her head. She said, "Where are we?" I didn't have a pen with me so I typed it in my phone and told her we were in Delta state already and then seized the opportunity to complement on her bracelet. She typed "thanks" and returned my phone.

Somadina seemed perplexed about what transpired, so she lifted her eye brows with a wide eye in a plea to be led to light, but I just smiled and shook my head to calm her curiosity. 2 hours later, the girl indicated she was going to alight at the next bus stop. We got there and the automatic door slid open as she stood up. She was close to the door, so she just made her way out. I looked from the window to bid her goodbye, but her face cap didn't allow me see her face properly. I prayed quietly in my heart for her to lift her face or take off the cap before the bus would zoom off. The bus engine was raised and the vehicle slowly hit the road again. I still had my eyes stock in the air tight glass, wishing I could just say Hi, but as we began zooming off, she lifted her face and I was able to see one side of her face as her hair slightly covered her face. I think she was really beautiful. She didn't look my direction but I could see her and she looked exactly like Wendy, I was so bewildered, "same name and a look alike? "How come?" I asked myself. But the bus already zoomed off. We rode few more minutes before we got to Owerri and then we alighted.

It was late and I couldn't let Somadina go back to her house alone, so we both went straight to where I lived. Immediately we got into the room, Rachael called and we discussed again. During our long talk, she mentioned that Wendy had called her earlier and sounded Sad because she lost the necklace I gave her in a bus that was headed to owerri, So she pleaded with me to help go or send someone to their office to retrieve it since I was already in town already. It was late and I was with Somadina who just got here for the first time and was admiring my room already. I couldn't just leave her all by herself. That wouldn't be fair but I assured Rachael that since I was already back from Lagos at that point, that I would go in the morning to pick it up by myself and She was relieved.

I asked Rachael for the Bus's number, colour, and Sit Number. She called them out and I was shocked, but disappointed. So the girl who sat in front of me for close to 8 hours had been Wendy without my knowledge. I became so unhappy and felt like an idiot. It was hard to believe that I even gave my phone to her and yet did not notice she was the one. I begged Rachael to send me Wendy's Number but she pretended she didn't hear me and ended the call on me. She was certainly using my head but I didn't want to think about it at all.

Just 2 minutes after the call, Somadina Screamed! "Oh Noooo" she had forgotten a bag in the bus too and it contained some important stuffs. I calmed her down and promised to take her along with me to the bus company's office the following morning. I was both restless and sad that night. I imagined what would have happened if I had openly complemented her bracelet when She gave me the manifesto in the bus.

"Probably she would have turned around to say thank you"

I whispered. Somadina tried knowing why my mood was dull but I insisted that everything was fine.

"I think the journey was stressful on me" I dismissed.

I didn't want to get her involved with my worries every now and then. In the morning we got ready to go to the Transport Company's office to retrieve our belongings; we took a cab to the premises and then walked straight to the customer care desk. There were three staffs in a row that attended to customers at their respective desks. Somadina talked to one while I talked to the other. He asked me the description of what I came for and nearest possible seat it should be picked.

So I started the description thus;

Me: "It should be found on sit number 3 and It's a necklace, not chain, but it's made with a rope like a shoe lace though finer and smoother than a shoe lace" I said.

Then the staff cut in and asked if that was all?. As I was talking someone walked up to the third staff to explain her ordeal too. I didn't mind them. But as I tried to continue the description, there was a coincidence, I continued with "the neck lace has something hung on it". "Which is..." the staff asked as he inquired. "A heart Shaped Golden Pendant of about 10 Karat" I and the other girl at the third counter said this together in unison, as if we were timed to recite it. What an awesome Coincidence, I turned to her, wowed at what just happened, Lo and Behold It was Wendy, I wiped my hands over my face to be sure I was not hallucinating again, and truly I wasn't. I called out to her "Wendy!" She turned to me and let out a loud shout of my name. We rushed into each other's arms. I carried her off the ground and spawn her around. I kept her on her feet and stared at her eyes deeply. And then I tried kissing her but I hear d someone call me from behind and shaking my leg. So I... Mmhnn, Hope this is not another dream, an Imagination or fake reality. I was so sure I was operating in the present reality, and I know you don't wish me such dreams anymore but, I speedily turned around and up I woke. It was all another D R E A M. So bad. I was talking to myself and smiling so Somadina had to wake me up to make sure I wasn't going nuts.

I wished it was never a dream; Such moment was all I yearned for. It was just 03:00am and romantic, I probably have been thinking too much about Wendy. I stayed awake throughout the night and caught a little sleep around 7:00am in the morning; I slept for just 30minutes before Somadina woke me up again. She reminded that we needed to retrieve the bag she forgot in the bus and pleaded with me to freshen up and get dressed lets go get it before she thinks of cooking anything. Not like I expected her to anyway!. So we'll probably have breakfast somewhere around town. That morning I got dressed and we left my hostel to the Transport Company at Egbu road somewhere in Owerri, Imo state. Just a stone throw or maybe a gun shot from the fire service station at weldral junction.

We got there, made our complaints and Somadina got her bag after about 10 minutes delay. Unlike the dream, there were more than 5 staffs at the customer care desks but the formalities weren't there at all. It was just one random guy that took the complaints and responded after seriously arguing with Somadina for being careless. I just smiled within me because I knew it was never in Nigeria. In Nigeria we don't do much of formalities. We love simple lifestyle, everywhere was home and any one older than you is your uncle and can scold the chicken out of you. Ha-ha

Before we left I told them about the Necklace that had loosened off Wendy's Neck in the Bus so they granted me access to look for it in the bus myself. The door was opened; I stepped in with a great uncertainty. I looked on the seat where she sat and there it was, sparkling and pretty as Wendy. I picked it up and the aura around me changed to Wendy's presence, tears rolled down my cheek as I stood alone in the Bus and cried out real tears. I could feel her presence as I held the necklace close to my chest. I held it in my hands and walked a bit further into the bus, looked through the window of the bus at the exact position she sat. Just to feel Wendy's presence in my spirit. Then I leaned on one of the seats with the necklace hanging down from my hands and my eyes closed as I meditated.

After a while, I heard footsteps of someone walking behind me into the bus. I didn't mind it at all and then I heard a gentle feminine Voice, she said

"That necklace is mine, can I have it?".

My heart beat raced as I froze. Many things ran through my mind, I wasn't sure what I was really feeling but it was mysterious.

"Its beautiful, how did you get it"

I asked out of my bewilderedness with my face pointed downwards.

"Someone I love from the bottom of my heart and might never see again gave it to me. So sad I never got a chance to let him know how much I loved him. I miss him a lot and can't wait to see him again. That is if I will ever see him again. That necklace reminds me so much of him". So can I have it Sir?"

After hearing that, I felt extremely excited. I smiled with a sigh of relief. It was same story I have with Wendy. I loved her and never got a chance to tell her how much I felt for her, so I knew it was her and thus replied, "I Love you too honey".

She was shocked and so, widened her eyes. "Pardon!".Then I turned around, to my greatest astonishment, it wasn't another dream or a stranger, this time It was my long lost WENDY!

She screamed out my name and rushed to me, we embraced each other, and I held her tight in my muscular arms, tears rolled down our eyes. I felt like the most successful guy ever. The happiness I felt at that point couldn't be compared to anything.. She screamed out my name again, hitting her foot on the floor of the bus, Somadina got scared and rushed into the bus with few staffs of the company, but they were calmed and smiled out when they came in and saw how we were locked into each other's arms, so they excused us.

We were locked inside the Bus for full privacy with the air conditioner turned on and a song by Ed Sheeran titled "Photograph" was played. We held each other and I sang the lyrics of the song to her. For 20minutes, different love songs played and we just cried. I whispered soft words into her ear to really pour out my heart at that once in a lifetime opportunity we got.

"Wendy; my heart, soul, spirit and body have missed you a whole lot. This is a dream come true. I could never pray for anything better than this moment. I felt alone in the world when I thought I would never see you again or hug you this way, and so I promise you this day, I would never let you go, cos my heart you slay and baby, I want you to stay, I love everything that you are, stay with me and be the Miss Awesome I've always desired, I'm never gonna let go ever".

She smiled and held me tighter. Few minutes later, we slowly lost grip of our hug and stared at each other's eyes. I couldn't believe I was finally going to kiss her ruby red lips and oh yes I had to because that was at least how happy stories end in Hollywood. She looked me in the eye and said

"You are my hero, Mr Awesome, my prince charming, I missed you so much, every single day seemed like a year, my days were nightmare and my night was like a movie of endless scary tales, scary and lonely".

Tears fell from our eyes the more. we stayed for about 20 minutes saying romantic words to ourselves. As we slowly brought our lips closer, she shut her eyes for our first glorious kiss, that kiss that I have always longed for, that Kiss I even dreamt of, that same kiss that got me searching for my heart beat. I spent extra 10 seconds admiring her face and finally leaned closer to Kiss her with the burning passion I had in me, I could literally sense the sky above us vibrating and the sun going up to set that morning as an ovation for this dream come true. 2inches away from her lips, something happened.

I heard something,

.

.

(Well it's not another suspense)

I heard a knock on the Bus door and we opened our eyes.

Gush! "Who's ruining this great moment again" I said under my breath.

It was the transport company's staffs playing a time up prank on us. We looked at each other and smiled, so I hung the necklace back on her neck, and we walked out of the Bus.

On getting down the bus stairs, Somadina already arranged a photographer who took several unexpected shots at us. We smiled as we locked our fingers in each other's hands and walked down like Prince Harry and Megan his beautiful wife. Somadina handed the access information to a reservation she made at one the state's most beautiful hotel online via airbnb.com, just for us to spend some private time together. I collected the booking details and Somadina wrapped a hug around me. She whispered something into my ear to treat Wendy well and gist her later, that she's worth my struggle. I smiled and we left.

# Chapter Ten

This moment for Wendy and I was a dream come true in it's entirety. It felt like the reunion of a knight to his mistress after a long war. We couldn't wait to verbally unleash the unspoken pains we have both gone through in the absence of each other and sacredness of the mystery surrounding our profound romance. And I, I couldn't wait to kiss out the redness of her lips as we stared at ourselves with the happy ever after kind of smile glittering all over our young emotionally overfed faces. We took steps closer to lock lips in response to the hormones screaming out their lungs in us. Parting lips, tilting heads, and there came a knock at the door; I answered and the voice said, "Room service, what do I serve u Sir?".

I took a deep breath; bit my lips in preparation for an award winning Oscar class savage, and then I replied;

"Serve me a very warmth plate of your absence, some chilled silence from you and a little touch of my privacy, buddy!" He chuckled and walked away and Wendy couldn't help herself from smiling at my wittiness. Immediately I turned, she hopped on me and clung to my body like a little puppy.

I could tell she needed to be hugged more than my lustful mind wanted to kiss her. Clearly, love was beyond raunchy moments for her and I had no option than to let my desires fade into moments and so I held her closely too.

Tears from her eyes began to soak up my shirt as she sobbed gently and deeply. I couldn't understand why she was in tears but I had to let her be a lady and let her emotions flow. She has clearly been through a lot in the past few weeks and needed to let out her baggage. And then suddenly, she said something that sank my heart really deep."Remember what your granny told you". Immediately she said it, I lost my peace, the emotional tension that was building up and I felt helpless. We slowly loosened our grip and she walked to the bedside to sit on the bed in the exotic suite. She didn't say a word and neither did I throughout the first five minutes.

Series of thoughts ran through my mind, but I didn't have the right words to convey them.

"I love you so much Wendy that nothing can come between you and I. my undying love for you could make me go through fire to make you mine, and walk through the storms to make you happy forever. I long for when we'll dance in the rain together and when I'll walk you down the aisle. Life without you would be so miserable. Not that I can't live without you, it's just that I don't even wanna try",

On hearing these words from me and seeing the tears that accompanied them, tears filled Wendy's eyes too and we got lost in each other's embrace, literally feeling our heart beats and wishing that moment would never end. I held her face in my hand and carefully placed a kiss on her forehead, sniffing in the beautiful scent of her skin and stroking her hair. "I love you Wendy" I said again. She then lifted her beautiful eyes, soaked in tears to look me in the face and then I nodded in affirmation and she whispered thanks to me.

After a while, we both had lunch and found the nerve to discuss what it was that granny had said about Wendy. Granny had told me that there were so many mysteries behind the birth of Wendy and it was the more reason she had no male friends or suitors back there in the Village.

The story had it that Years back, her mom went to get water from the village river and unfortunately she got drowned and floated around the seven neighbouring villages. It was believed that her mom conceived her as a result of a gift/mandate from the goddess of the river crossing seven several villages, Her beauty was extra ordinary so they assumed due to fetish and spiritual confirmations, that she was a daughter of the goddess who should never be admired or mingled with and was expected to die at her present age, on her birthday.

It was also said that several other young girls from that village who had such stories behind their birth had died in that order in the past and any man who got involved with them died too or got an incurable health issue.

Mmhnnn, It sounded like fairy tales to me, but my dear Wendy was too beautiful to be left to just die like that or even to be ignored. I saw a goddess-like beauty the first day I set my eyes on her, but in my opinion, she deserved a chance to rule her world and enjoy life like every normal girl would.

Wendy was gracefully in her 20's, fully ripened to woman hood, beaming with Grace and gorgeousness, but had few weeks to live as believed. Her birthday was just two weeks ahead and that was the more reason she tried having as much fun as she could.

Rare was such kind of tales. Tears dropped uncontrollably from my eyes as the whole story narrated by Wendy started resonating with me. She went to Lagos and all the cities she had been in the past few weeks, took all the kind of jobs she could, met all the people she could reach, all because she desired to know how and what they felt like before her time was up and she takes her last breath. "I didn't want to die naive" She said, smiling painfully. And I couldn't even imagine watching her die all for the sake of what she didn't make for herself.

I tried convincing her that all those could be a simple belief system which held no sense of sound judgement. But she pointed out instances of several other girls who had died recently at 23 and who had similar birth pattern with hers. Her mind was made up already. I looked into her eyes and I could see pains. I saw a little girl crying "I don't wanna die! Save me!". Tears kept streaming down in salty lines across my cheek the more and she began to sob too.

We were totally moody and helpless. Why Wendy? I asked myself again.

Let me tell you about Wendy;

Her hair was very long, she had pretty little hairs on her cheek, and very beautiful almond shaped eyes that were as bright as diamond, long eye lashes, and cute brows that met at the centre of her face. Wendy didn't need a make up to glow. She was gifted with Beauty unfathomable.

"Could that be the reason she must die? Is beauty a Crime? Can someone not just be complete without fear of one infirmity of the other?. These and more were the thoughts running through my mind.

She broke the silence and said "Do not cry for me, its my fate and I have to accept it, I must die if you must live."

"Then I rather Die that you may live" I replied.

I hugged her, and we cried a whole lot more. So Wendy was going to die unmarried, a virgin and she'll never know what it feels like to be human or a woman. I felt like taking my own life away. Such beauty was going to waste and there was nothing anybody could do about it.

I was born with a gift, but how on earth can being a writer affect a dying gorgeous girl. I began to think about every possible psychic power I could have that would be helpful to Wendy's dilemma. These were my thoughts in my heart, and then Wendy interrupted and said, "Life is not Hollywood". I was surprised. How did she know what I was thinking?, and she continued, "your gifts are cute, and your wishes are amazing, but cannot save me". My mouth turned open in shock.

I tried asking, "are you really, a marine goddess" It was still a preconceived thought in my subconscious, but she replied again and said, "I'm not super human, Just like you, I'm gifted, but unlike you I just have to die with my gifts. I was touched by her words but there was nothing I could do.

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# Chapter Eleven

Seven Days elapsed and Wendy was left with just seven days to Live. She travelled back home to prepare for her transition to the marine world through mortality. She was just like a sick patient whom the doctor has declared her death day. I cried day and Night, but nothing came to my head, I could only wish I had enough powers to save her or even replace her life with mine. Either way, I wanted to be with her, dead or alive. I resolved travelling back to granny. Since she was aged, she should know ways out of the fetish thing, I thought.

I was getting my luggage ready on a Saturday morning in preparation for my trip, when my phone rang. It was Ana, my cousin. She was crying and I enquired why. She held her self together and then explained that she called to break a sad news to me that granny just kicked the bucket. I was shocked, my own granny! Dead! I dropped the phone and crawled at the foot of my bed.

Oh My God. Why now?, she promised to stay a little longer, why did she have to go now? I was in deep pain and couldn't fathom why everything had to happen that quickly. I wished Ana was close to me so that I could console her. She was my favourite cousin and she could go moody all week for my grandma's departure.

I was there on the ground when Somadina came knocking at the door. She came around to check up on me, but my mood got her curious, and her curiosity made me open up about everything to her. Somadina has showed commitment to our short time friendship and I couldn't afford treating her like a stranger any further.

She had never heard anything like that before; she also cried for Wendy, "How such a beautiful Girl would be allowed to die just like that, she muttered"

She looked into my eyes and said,

"Mr Awesome, Wendy's Life lies in your hands, something tells me you can save her, Just think out of the box, think of the times you've been with her, she probably have made a statement that would be a clue, just think, think, Mr Awesome, think! She said."

She sounded so sure, compulsive and convincing and then she left me alone and sat into the bed, while I thought severely. I began to recall moments with Wendy, nothing came at first but later, I got a glimpse of what she once said while we were together.

Wendy said "Make me a complete woman and Save me from this". Those to me just meant "make love to me and take me out of this virginity or sexual ignorance stage". I was just completely blank.

Granny just died and Wendy was going to die in 7days, I'm a dead man already. oh God, why me, why Wendy, why now,?

Why and why questions kept repeating in my head.

Somadina, then gave me a suggestion, She said, "well since she has just seven days to live, Why not bring her here and spend five or six days of her remaining life time with her, at least she'd die happily".

Uncontrollable tears filled our eyes which got heavy and let them down our cheeks as she said those words. I cried like I've never done before. I didn't want to accept that Wendy was going to slip out of my loving hands to the cruel hands of death. Worst still, I didn't even want to keep hearing it. It sounded more painful hearing it than it was in reality. The distance From Wendy's home to where I lived was just a two hours journey at most. So I called Wendy and invited her over. She was reluctant at first, but I persuaded until she finally accepted to come over. I also called my cousin Ana, explained everything to her and asked her to come over as well.

I wanted her to be around the people that meant so much to me just like she did. I and Somadina waited for them in my room. And then a couple of hours later, Wendy arrived. Somadina gave her a very passionate hug and assured her everything was going to be fine. I hugged her too and the three of us held our selves together, saying beautiful words to Wendy. Few moments afterwards, Ana arrived and livened up the entire room. I was surprised she had gotten over Granny's death so quick. The first place she rushed to was my fridge, flung it open and took out a chilled wine, brought out glasses and shared to everyone for a toast. "To true love, to happiness, to a Sacred Romance" she declared, trying not to let the tears in her eyes roll down her face. We cracked he glasses together and drank up. She turned on the music and we danced. The mood I the room came alive again and she made sure she forced Wendy to dance. Cousins like Ana were so rare to find and I was lucky I had her.

While we danced, Somadina in her usual way ordered a cab discretely and when the cab driver arrived, she turned down the music player and announced she was taking Wendy for shopping. "Wooooh! That's my kind of gurl" Ana screamed. We didn't even change into anything else, or bothered putting the room in order, We hurried down the stairs and straight into the cab. On getting to the Super market, we picked Chocolates, Ice creams, bottles of soft wine, and all kind of food stuffs and beverages; we got shawarma on our way back and several other things that would make her happy. Ana didn't forget to pick up her bottle of whiskey though.

We stopped by Studio24, a top rated photo studio at the mall, and we took many beautiful pictures. While walking out of the picture studio, Ana spotted a Block buster movie trailer on Genesis cinema that was displayed at the Walk way and the movie was going to start in 10minutes. She insisted that we paid for the remaining seats and stayed back for the 2hours long movie which we all agreed to, and from that day, we saw different thrilling block buster movies each day at Genesis Cinema, We went swimming at different pools and visited the gym too. It was the best time of our lives and we were thankful to have each other around. Ana and Somadina stayed at my place throughout this time and proved to be the best companies I could ever ask for. They became friends and took turns to visit each other's rooms during this time as well.

Now I and Wendy had already spent the best time together, She was unexplainably happy and seemed less bothered about death anymore. On the 6th Night, around 7:45pm, I went in to the kitchen to make dinner for Wendy and I. Somadina and Ana had stepped out shortly and we were left alone. When I was done cooking and stepping out of the kitchen with the food and glasses of wine in a tray, ready to sway Wendy with good treats. She sat on the bed seeing a movie and I was walking in slowly and unnoticed. And then right before my very eyes, Wendy froze, gasped for air and passed out on my bed. Nothing happened to her, she didn't struggle, she just took in a heavy breathe and lost consciousness and then she got stretched up like a wood, with her eyes wide open facing the ceiling and began turning white.

My heart sank, I screamed out her name and the food tray fell off my hands, shattering on the fine marble tiled floor. I clearly wasn't ready to lose the love of my life. I ran towards her in a lea., I called her name severally and shook her gently, but she didn't shake a bit. I shook her more violently yet she didn't make a move. I was expecting her to die the next day and not on the sixth day: I cried a whole lot like a baby, I closed her eyes with my hands, and laid her on my laps. My own tears soaked me up and I lost touch with my sanity at that moment. After watching her beautiful face for a while, I bent down to give her my last Kiss. I planted a long Kiss on her lips for about 30 seconds and then I called Ana and Somadina to break the news to them.

# Chapter Twelve

Still in my room: So Wendy is gone, I said to myself, looking out through my window and waiting for Ana and Somadina's Arrival.

Few minutes later, they stormed my room with a doctor to confirm her dead, or declare her alive, maybe. The Doctor held her hand and then touched the side of her neck to check her pulse, before putting the stethoscope on her chest. I prayed silently as I clenched my fingers in between both hands. Ana hugged me while Somadina sat by Wendy praying silently too. It was an emotional moment for us and we needed a miracle by all means."Everything's going to be fine", Ana said in a whisper. She wasn't much of a believer or a God Fan but she always protested being called an atheist, but she hated mentioning God in anything. She needed something to assure me with, but she just couldn't say God. "Everything's going to fine", she said again stroking by back.

After looking at her for a while, the Doctor got up looking more confused than he was earlier on.

"Should we bring her to the hospital?" I asked the doctor. He looked at me and didn't know what to say.

"Don't tell me she is gone, please don't say it"

I pleaded, burying my face in my hands out of fear.

"Relax young man" he said. "I think we should take her to the hospital".

I could sense he was trying not to break a sad news to me considering my State of being. As we lifted her to take her to the car, all of a sudden, Wendy sneezed up and regained consciousness. We were marveled and filled with joy. We held each other together as happiness and positive energy filled the whole room again. My happiness couldn't be explained."I thought I lost you already" I said to her, she smiled a little and tears rolled down her cheeks. The doctor recommended that she got enough rest, but she refused, and said

"I wasn't dead or weak, I fell into a trance. I saw my new home; they said I have just 16hrs more, which would be 12pm tomorrow. I need to go back home".

The Doctor was confused and spoke out of his ignorance, he said,

"I think she needs to see a psychologist or a psychiatrist, this is a high psychological Issue",

I, Ana and Soma understood what Wendy meant, so we didn't say any word to the doctor, he felt stupid and excused himself from the room.

"I'll miss you guys" Wendy said and we hugged each other again.

It was true she'd die the next day, but I was happy she came back to life after minutes of unconsciousness. At least she'd sleep beside me for the very last Night. So sad! We held ourselves together in silence for up to 30minutes, until I farted and tried to hold back the gas, we all busted into laughter. Ana fell off as though she was blown away by the wave of my fart and we laughed so hard, the sound of the fart was horrible because I had eaten so many things earlier, and my tummy was bad already, we laughed and made jokes out of it and our mood came lighter.

It was 9pm already, So Somadina and Ana went in to my room to sleep while Wendy and I stayed in the living room. They were scared of living the both of us together as they didn't know what would happen next. I turned on the blue light and played cool music on the home theatre. I didn't wait for anyone to tell me what to do, I grabbed Wendy, Kissed her forehead while bidding her to dance with me. She smiled and we fell into each other's embrace and danced the night away.

Tango was our best shot for the night as my living room became the most classic ball room ever. I brought to life all the Tango moves I've acquired through practice and seeing a lot of romantic Hollywood classics. I gently positioned by hands at the curves leading down her waist, while she firmly fixed hers on my shoulder blade staring intensely into my clear brown eyes. I locked my other fingers into hers and we danced slowly, steadily and lovingly. I was taller and so she had to stand on her toe most of the time to whisper something to me and I loved it. I naturally liked shorter women.

"When your legs don't work like they used to before, and I can't sweep you off of your feet, will your mouth still remember the taste of my love, will your eyes still smile from your cheeks"

that was "Thinking out loud" by Ed sheeran, playing on the sound system and the beautiful sound of the guitar strings filled the whole room. Our emotions started getting more intense, and then suddenly, I picked Wendy from the floor and spun her around in the air. We tangoed the more while listening to the music and few minutes later the music changed to "Wanna grow old with you" by westlife. The chorus goes like this.

"Times we spent apart would make our love grow stronger, but it hurts so much I can't take it any longer, I wanna grow old with you, I wanna die lying in your arms, I wanna grow old with you..."

Those lyrics clearly meant so much to Wendy. Tears rolled out from her eyes like a water fall, I could sense her spirit sing those lines to me as she looked into my eyes with all the affection she felt and my heart melted.

Oh! Wendy wasn't just beautiful; she was a spell that had no chants, a poison without an antidote and an Angel without wing, she soared in the aura of her magnificence.

As I watched the tears roll down her eyes, I reached into my back pocket, brought out a box of ring, went down on one knee, looking straight in her eyes and stretching out my hand with the box open and the golden ring glittering with a diamond stone sitting effortlessly on it, I said

"Wendy, knowing you has been the best gift God gave to me and loving you is the best choice I ever made. I want to continue this in the world beyond. Please Wendy, Marry me".

She covered her mouth with her hands in surprise, not knowing what to say. She was going to die in few hours and there was I, trying to engage her. I couldn't wait to hear her say yes and so I fixed my eyes in hers in anticipation. After about one minute of silence, she whispered. "Yes, yes I'll marry you. Yes". I got up and hugged her and we slept off few minutes after with her head on my chest.

I was careful not to sin against God through any form of my lustful thoughts and that was why I had immensely avoided making love to her. In a dream I had the previous day which I shared with Ana, I had been instructed by a handsome looking man whom I believed was an Angel from God, to propose to her but not to let the devil ensnare me into the danger of falling from Spiritual uprightness, integrity and authority by having sex with her out of too much excitement. He said God had seen how pure my heart was towards Wendy and was ready to send me help from heaven. He said God knew my weaknesses and wanted to turn them in to strength to prove to me once more that he himself found love and had loved the world before we were born. I shared this with Ana, but she laughed over it and blamed it on hallucinating dreams, but I took it seriously.

# Chapter Thirteen

Days and moments spent with Wendy had been the best for me since I was born, and having her head on my chest through the night felt like having her listen to all my good thoughts about her. I couldn't wait to have everything settled and then write about them in a book or in my diary, "Mr Awesome's Diary" with Sacred Romance as the Title and Wendy & I as the caption or vice versa. I woke up very early around 4am on the black day, the seventh day which Wendy would finally leave earth. I sat beside her and stared at the beauty that was going to die without help. I felt so useless. I cried deeply and quietly, I picked up the pendant on her neck and kissed it. She stretched out and yawned up,

"Oh you are awake already" she said, I smiled, and replied "just finding joy staring at your pretty face" and then she smiled.

It was 5:am already and she would be dead by 12noon, so we had just 7hrs to spend, I thought of anything we could do together, but nothing came to my mind. I needed to talk to the Holy Spirit, but I was feeling less confident. I didn't know of the best reasons to talk to him. I had traces of guilt and filth ravaging my mind even though I didn't make love to Wendy. It was probably guilt from my previous sins, but I tried to clear my head while muttering heartfelt sorry words to God under my breath, I felt a rush of peace in my mind and I suddenly became so relaxed and at peace with myself.

Probably God has seen the guilt and sorry state of my heart and have decided to pull me back to himself in forgiveness and to reassure me that my sins were no match for his Love for me. So I just picked up my bible and we read out powerful words. We read from Romans. Corinthians, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, ecclesiasts and etc. We confessed power into our lives, denounced sin, received God's mercy and then we read a scripture that said we were the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, and another that said he was made sin for our sake, and that even though we walked through the VALLEY of shadow of death that we shall fear no evil; then I understood that it was actually the shadow of death that was oppressing Wendy & I, and not death itself. I related it to her situation and it dawned on me that what she was to face was actually a shadow and shadows are powerless, they just appear as if they exist.

We read another scripture that was more prophetic and the whole thing started becoming fun. We held our hands and confessed God's positive words and prayed to our father in heaven. We cried and we prayed quietly.

The more we prayed, the more revelations were opened to me. I got angry when I realized that we've been paying attention to a lie because when you believe in a lie, you empower the liar and the devil himself has been declared the father of all lies. Wendy got surprised when she heard me speak in unknown tongues and mysteries started getting unveiled to me when I pleaded the blood of Jesus. Amidst the prayer, I felt God's tangible presence through the Holy Spirit. It was so loving, confidence restoring and fatherly. I was about feeling guilty of sin again but his presence made a mess of all of that. I heard him speak to me gently and tears gushed down my face. I fell at his feet in awe of his awesomeness and worshipped the father. Wendy couldn't stand on her legs anymore, she vibrated violently and let out a loud shout, but I wasn't startled, I knew what was happening. The Holy Spirit kept us out of the present world for several minutes.

Few Minutes later, we were done and it was 7:22am already, we've been in prayers for close to 2hrs. Wendy embraced me with a tight hug and we stayed like that. She whispered into my ear, "I love you so much", same here, I replied. When we opened our eyes, we saw Ana and Somadina in shock. Ana had her face in her hands as she cried. The Holy Spirit had convicted Ana and was dealing with her heart. Ana was an atheist and it was surprising to see her cry and tremble the way she did. Somadina just lifted her hands in worship with us and tears rolled down from her eyes. The power of God through the Holy Spirit was present and we could all feel the serenity of the atmosphere. When Ana was back to normal, we asked her what was going on with her, but she couldn't say a word. Her eyes were red and all her body trembled. She sat on the couch and threw her head backwards still crying and not saying anything.

Few minutes later, Wendy's phone rang. It was her mom calling, she asked her to come home immediately, so she could just die in peace in their presence. She didn't say a word but "ok" throughout the conversation. The call dropped, and she hugged me again.

I gave her words of confidence, and then we took our bath separately, got dressed and made our way to her home. Somadina had her beautiful pink sports car parked outside and then she asked me to drive as she didn't know the way.

We got home about One hour later and it was around 9am. The villagers already gathered to console Wendy's mom while Wendy dies peacefully. She got inside and got dressed up in a beautiful white gown and was led to the river after my failed intervention and objection.

I and every other person followed suit. Ana leaned on me while Somadina walked by Wendy. The road to the river was so long that we got there few minutes past 11am. Wendy's mom cried as she consoled her, assuring her that everything would fine even after she's gone. I also drew closer to give her a hug and reassure that no spirit was going to take her away from me. I was delighted when I saw the pendant still hanging on her neck and glittering at the rays of the morning sun, while my engagement ring on her hand kept beaming with Love.

She stood in front of the river and then suddenly, the river started rumbling as storms of wind rushed into the atmosphere. To my astonishment, Wendy's hair stood up straight, she looked lost, got weak and collapsed slowly out of my hands into the river with her back. It was a phenomenon, she floated and the pendant floated with her, I watched my heart beat being slowly carried away by the Water, I wept from my deepest heart (crying) So Wendy is gone I said to myself. Suddenly, more hot breeze filled the atmosphere and everyone trembled. Then there came thunder and lightning directed towards the center of the river, Wendy still floated unconsciously and before I could say "jack Robinson" She submerged into the water and was engulfed.

We lost sight of her on the surface, then the roaring wind kept calm and water stood still, obviously she's been drowned, we all thought to ourselves. Somadina held me as I cried like a baby, and every other person made their way out of the River side leaving just Ana, Somadina and I in tears.

"Stop crying", Ana said. "I have a strong feeling she'll be fine. God wouldn't let her go just like that after showing up with his presence in the room. I know he is too big to play pranks."

I and Somadina looked at Ana in shock. We all knew she was an atheist and never gives credit to God for anything. We were surprised she was confiding in God to save Wendy or bring her back.

"I know you're surprised, well me too. I'm not saying God is real, it's just that.. eh.... Eh.... Eh... it took me too long to realize he was realer than I am. I heard him speak in your room" (she began crying) "He said he loves me" Ana cried the more and really from her heart. "He sounded like a loving father, (sobbing) and I never got to enjoy knowing him all these years".

I was so touched seeing Ana this emotional about God. She literarily fell in Love with Jesus and kept talking about his calming voice and his peaceful aura. About 10 minutes later, the river came rumbling and the waves in it became fierce, thunder storms and lightening came again, but this time in a more ferocious manner.

The violence of the roaring thunder and water wave made us to move away from the river side, and there came a loud feminine shout from within the water, and something splashed up from the center of it, causing splattering of water all over the place, accompanied with thick white smoke and I felt an electric shock on my chest area.

We could barely see, due to its magnitude, and then something hit the ground which we didn't see it until the fog disappeared. So we drew closer. Lo and Behold it was Wendy; I rushed out to her, sat on the ground and lifted her head to my laps. She looked brighter than ever, prettier and her lips shone ruby red the more, but she wasn't breathing, I called her name thrice and she didn't respond or even blink.

So I bent downwards and kissed her lips slow and steady as a mouth to mouth strategy of getting water out of her. Just like sleeping beauty and Prince charming, Wendy blinked her eyes open and coughed out some water, and then kissed me back. Somadina and Ana ran towards us and held Wendy up. We hugged ourselves for about 5minutes, just the way we did the other time.

We were like that until we heard cheers from a crowd behind, and we turned around, only to see that the whole village had gathered again due to the strange sound they heard from that angle. They clapped in cheers, and then Wendy rushed out to her widowed mom and hugged her tightly. There and then she was asked what happened and she explained thus;

(these were her exact words)

"I remember I lost my strength and fell into something which I didn't know, I fell asleep for a few seconds, and then woke up somewhere beautiful, beside a throne filled with other maidens. I was welcomed with the godmother as her child, and was about to be crowned, and married to another strange man there. The crown was put on my head successfully, but when the ring was about to be fixed by him on my finger, he saw my engagement ring, and his - shone a bright fire-like red light and they all shouted. They cursed, said angry words and rejected me, saying I was no longer single, that I've lost my heart to a mortal man. I was considered an abomination and the Queen mother ordered my execution to die finally. I was condemned to eternal death, a spell of death was cast on me, but while I was tortured by the spirit of Death, I started hearing the exact words from the prayer I said with Mr Awesome in his room, I heard each word of the prayers we made to God together, I heard him speak in strange tongues, and I muttered some bible verses we read together the same morning after the night I got engaged to him and in a flash I saw two tall muscular men clothed in golden warring armor with long sharp edged swords, they destroyed the demons that held my spirit captive, and the crown got burnt, then a thick cloud covered us while they took me out of the marine world and that was what you probably saw as a smoke, I was to be taken up to the clouds or heaven to live as immortal since my body was dead already, but a force resisted and hindered my transition into the other realm, that force emanated from the golden pendant on my necklace and Mr Awesome's necklace. it created a light like laser and got my spirit down into my body to be with him.

That force was True Love, and was attached to one physical object we had in common and that was when he felt an electric shock on his chest, I felt it too, and I fell to the ground, still half dead, Then in my dream, He breathed life into me, that was when he physically kissed me, and I came back to Life"

When Wendy was done narrating, the first question her mom asked opening her eyes in shock was, "So you are already engaged to man?"

She replied and said, I exchanged my singlehood for my Life. She turned to me and gave me a warm hug, while everyone clapped and cheered us up. I couldn't contain my Love anymore, so lifted Wendy to my body and we engaged in a very passionate kiss. I had waited for that kiss for so long and it came just at the right time. Somadina and Ana cried tears of joy, and then Rachael Wendy's big sister came from nowhere with tears in her eyes and ran down to us. She apologized to Wendy for trying to steal me from her, and Somadina also confessed that she was crushing on me too and we all laughed over it.

# The End!!!

# I Love You All Thank You For Reading

# About the Author

Victor Kelechi Kingsley, Pen named "Mr Awesome" is a Naturally Gifted Writer and Lover of Romance. He lives and works in Nigeria, West Africa. Born on the 29th of November 1996 in Bende LGA, Abia State Nigeria, but a native of Emii, Owerri north LGA, Imo State, Nigeria. He Graduated from Imo State University Nigeria in 2019 and has since been harnessing his gifting to serve the best Romantic literature and Relationship advise to singles.

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