©️Opeyemi Akintunde
” Why the clandestine meeting?” I asked her when I saw her at the Blue Carnival
” I thought you would be more comfortable with this arrangement. My husband doesn’t know where I am. I just told him I needed to take a stroll , I am not sure he heard me, he was buried in his computer” she said chukling
” What work does your husband do?” I had to ask
She turned and looked me in the eye…
” I think I made a mistake marrying him, not that he is a bad guy , but I guess I was too much in a hurry. I thought he was the one the Bishop said”
” Bishop? I am lost” I asked
” On the 1st of this month, I was travelling to Portharcourt to see a friend out of boredom but, as I bought my ticket at the airport, I saw Bishop Tolu Texas rushing to the counter. I was in awe seeing him Live, My mother loves him to pieces, so I stood not too far away waiting to take a selfie with him. As I stood waiting for him, I noticed the lady at the counter kept pointing at me. Bishop Tolu Texas walked up to me, I almost passed out but I kept my foot grounded…
” Hello Sister, please I need to catch an emergency flight to Portharcourt and I heard you bought the last seat, please if it will not be too much to ask , can I buy the ticket. The Lady at the counter said if I could convince you,, she could help me.”
I was just travelling for fun so I agreed to wait for 2 hours for the next flight. He was so excited he held my hands to pray for me. After he finished praying he said to me..
” You have been asking God, when?” Bishop Tolu had said
” I Had been asking God When will I get married, so Bishop Tolu caught me, so when I nodded he said to me..
“You will meet your husband this month, just stay connected to him and be very sensitive”
” So you met your husband this month and got married to him this month?” I asked not hiding my shock at her recklessness
” You like to rush to the conclusion” She said
” I reason fast…” I replied
There was an awkward silence between us.
” Are you thinking what I think you are thinking?” I asked
” That you are the man Bishop Tolu meant not him…”
I gently moved away from her, what she said was nothing far away from the truth. The way my heart longed for her was not ordinary, this was undoubtedly real…
” So …?” I said not knowing why she was telling me this
” I am sure you think I am a loose woman, no… I just found myself misbehaving in the last 24 hours since I met you. The truth is back in the days till 3 years ago, I was a carefree girl, but since 3 years ago, I have been living a cool life. It’s been over three years since I flirted, but seeing you that day in our hotel room,my entire body longed for yours, it was a very strong pull towards you. You remember me asking you if we had met before.”
“The truth is I have always heard about Love at first sight, I never thought it was a real thing not until I saw you at the reception. I now understand the word “Breathtaking”. You took my breath away.” I confessed
We went quiet again, but our hands found each other’s hands. My soul found rest when she placed her hand in mine, it felt like a missing part of me had just returned…
” How did you meet him and how did you fall in love with him? I found myself asking
” I met him on the plane I later took. We sat together and he kept going on and on about how beautiful I was. He told me…
” I would love to marry you if you are available ” I had laughed. We exchanged numbers and two days after I called him asking him straight…
” Were you serious about what you said on the plane?”
” Sure… I have played around enough, It’s time to settle down and as it is, I am ready… I have a house, cars and a growing business”
I stopped the story telling at that point, she had not answered me about the nature of her husband’s job…
” You are yet to tell me what he does for a living.. I hope he is not an assassin?” I said with a little smile…
” He is not that kind of guy, he is into cryptocurrency. He makes millions from doing it, that’s why he’s always so buried in his computer”
” Oh!” I reasoned
” You can go on with your story” I said
” Since you reason fast, you should be able to complete the story ” She said
” You told him you loved the idea of getting married fast since to you, he was the husband Bishop Tolu said” I supplied
” And Now…I think I made a big mistake… Are you in a relationship ?” She asked straight up.
” No!”
” My God, Why did you show up after I got married…And the thing is I would have still met you anyways. The reason I choose your hotel for the honeymoon was because my friend and I had planned to come spend this weekend here, so when the marriage thing came up, I just felt we should use our reservation at the hotel” She said sadly
” I am actually lost for words, if someone had told me a week ago that I would be into a married woman, I won’t believe it… If only you had just waited a few weeks, we would have met like you said”
” I can divorce him.” She said out of the blues
” What?” My eyes wide open
” I don’t love him and it’s obvious he is not my soul mate. I have only watched this in movies, when a person meets their soul mate after they are married to someone else”
” I am not much of a movie lover, but from the movies you have seen, how do they resolve it?” I asked
” In some movies, they abscond” she said
” I can’t abscond, I have a family… my sister and her child” I replied
” In other movies, the boyfriend kills the husband and the boyfriend and wife runs off with the husband’s money!” She said innocently but I looked into her eyes to read what she was really saying…
I reasoned fast, and I quickly asked myself…
” Is she asking me to kill her husband and abscond with her?”
To be continued
