THE WEDDING ( Episode 2)
Chief Adams was an international business tycoon that spoilt his family but after his demise things became a bit difficult for Mrs Adams his wife but she managed to gather the pieces that was left to pull through. And in turn her kids including Nike will give anything for her happiness even if it meant giving up what they wanted. Mum picked the course they studied in the university. she hated and treated the people from the Eastern part with disdain and she tried to raise her children with the same believe, it got worse when her husband's business partner Chief Obineme swindled him in a business they did and he ran into debts, the shock never left him especially when he had to sell off one of his most priced properties in order to relief the debt, this left him in a state of constant depression and his blood pressure constantly high until one day Mum came in and found him on the floor of their bedroom he had a heart attack, when he was rushed to the hospital before the Doctors could do anything he passed on; he must have had the attack long before mum came in, the arteries supplying blood to the heart must have clogged the Doctor explained. Mum insisted that he died as a result of his association with Chief Obineme and this increased her dislike for people the Easterners and made her more protective of her children.
Nike could still remember vividly the kind of chaos mum created when she discovered that Kemi her younger sister was dating Emeka a solicitor in the firm where she did her Youth service, all hell was let loose, after she had succeeded in breaking her phone she called the elders of the family to help her beg Kemi not to kill her before her time, finally Kemi agreed and stopped seeing him, she was heartbroken but mum insisted that it was for her good and that with time she would appreciate her for what she had saved her from, Kemi did not get over the heart break and have not dated anyone since then.
Her phone's ringtone brought her back to reality; it was Henry calling, they have been friends for almost four years now they met at the airport when she was going on vacation that year, they both sat at the lounge and got talking, he was quite impressed with her intelligence and her charisma she was not just any girl and he wanted to be her friend over the years he had come to like her more although she had never hesitated to make it clear that she would never date talk less of marrying someone from the East, all these made him value the friendship they shared; although he had witnessed her go through heartbreaks he admired her cause of her ability to manage them and never let it interfere with her work life, for what she had been through it was okay for her to hate men, but somehow she managed to dust it off, pull herself together and be hopeful again looking forward to true love, he has never ceased to tell her how much he admired her strength but she thought he said it to make her feel better.
“Hello” Nike said answering the call
How are you my dear friend? He asked
I don’t know. This is your Nigeria number, does it mean you are back
Yes dear
Yeeeeesss, Nike shouted excitedly so when are we seeing?
Am at the car park.
Really! Are you for real? Nike asked hurriedly packing her things into her bag.
At thirty seven Henry was not thinking about settling down and his parents could not stop blaming themselves for sending him abroad to study, their opinion did not really matter to him and there was nothing they could do about it, Nike wished that she was like that with her mum. Apart from intelligent he had a great personality, he was a petrochemical engineer and worked as an expatriate with a foreign company he was always travelling if he was not in Qatar, he would be in the US or Nigeria, there were times he would be away for almost a year but his company certainly gave Nike joy and made her forget about her heartbreaks and loneliness with him there was always something new;
You can come back for your car tomorrow he said as they drove out.
So where are we going to? She asked
Anywhere you decide am at your service.
Finally they decided to have dinner first then see a movie.
Nike was waiting for Henry in the restaurant, he was on the phone when they got there so she excused him; as she sat down there she looked across from her table seated there was a handsome man, he looked very fine in his casual shirt, his beards neatly shaved she was staring at him and he looked up and saw her, Nike was slightly embarrassed, to make matters worse he waved at her, there was no way she could pretend not seeing him so she waved back; to distract herself she called the waiter to get her a drink, after looking at the menu she handed it back to the waiter only to discover that the guy who sat across was right in front of her.
“Hello beautiful”, he said
Hi she responded.
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