Fulfilling Wishes - Episode 20

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Reeva sniffed and wiped her face with her blanket, her tab was in her hand as she spoke with her two friends, Skybae and Pristin.

“That was heartbreaking, really, how would he say all these things to you.” Pristin said.

“He was telling her the truth so now we know that she doesn’t have a problem, he does.” Skybae replied, “I am so sorry Reeva.”

“How could he have said all those things?” Reeva continued, “He doesn’t trust me, he thinks we need to live together before he can trust me because of something that he has been brainwashed with since childhood.”

Skybae sighed, “did you get to tell him your side?”

“I was angry, I left that place immediately, everything that was coming out of his mouth were like daggers, I wish I had known this, I wouldn’t have gotten engaged to him in the first place.”

“Since you two didn’t break up, there is a chance that this can be solved,” Pristin said and  continued, “you need to let him know how much he broke your heart by not trusting you all these years, you let him know that you trust him completely and that what he did was cruel, you need to let him realize how much he hurt you by those words, then you tell him your stand.”

Reeva nodded and sniffed some more, “I don’t even know if I am willing to see him again.”

“You are going to see him.” Skybae stated, “you both are going to come to a decision. Now, it’s either going to be a good one or a bad one, but you need to be wise and be sure that whatever it is, is what you both want, well, you are my friend so you must be certain that it is what you want

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. Now, I will call you later my boss calls.” Skybae said and ended the call.

“I am so sorry , I wish I am there with you right now.” Pristin said.

“Don’t worry, I will be fine, besides, I will call KEMI soon, so you see, I am in good hands.”

 Reeva smiled and ended the call and immediately, her phone rang again.

It was her mother.

“Hi mom.” She said hoarsely.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes mum.”

“Okay, just to remind you about talking to Andy, the appointment with the planner is tomorrow, hope you remember?”

“Yes mum.”

“Have you spoken to Andy?”

“No mum, I will do that this evening.”

“Alright. Are you sure you are okay? You sound terrible.”

“I think I may be coming down with cold or something, I will treat it.

“Ok dear, I love you.”

“Love you too mum.”

Then the call ended.

She sighed and navigated to her messenger, “let’s talk, come over.” She sent this to Andy. She has heard his own side, now he would need  to hear hers and they would have to make a decision, there was only one way this is going to end.

***

Andy got her place shortly after, but still that evening. he stepped out of the car and walked to the door, it was opened before he knocked. She said nothing, only opened the door and then went back inside to have a seat. He stepped in and shut the door after him. Then he went to sit right opposite her.

For a while, neither of them spoke. Reeva kept thinking of how best to start the conversation without sounding angry while Andy kept thinking if she had probably had a rethink of the whole thing and was willing to go ahead with it.

“So, I realized that you made your point and you are yet to hear of my side....”

“Reeva...” Andy started but was stopped when she waved her hand,

“Please, listen to me, I listened to you, so you owe me this.” She stated and he nodded.

“Very well, go on.”

She sighed and started. “My mum had always wanted to have a wedding party but my father, deceived her, asked her to move in and then few months later, they had me and shortly after, he died in an accident. Since then, she’s had to raise me alone. I grew up with so much fairy tales in my head and I promised that where my mum had failed I would succeed, I promised her that I would have that dream wedding so that she could be fulfilled through me.

I met Tony while I was at college and I thought he was the one that would make my dream come true, when I realized that I might probably lose him, I manipulated him into meeting my mum and that eventually ended up in scaring him off until I realized that he had been cheating on me with Maggie.

Now, here we are, and now, you are saying you can’t hold a wedding until after I have moved in because of something that your father is afraid of?”

“I chose that decision because I believe him.”

“You believe what exactly? That you can trust no woman until you have spent some time living with them together in the same house?”

“Well, if that is how you put it yes. I don’t mean to upset you but this is me and that is how I was brought up.”

“This is nonsense!” Reeva exclaimed but then stopped to caution herself.

“There is no big deal about a wedding party or moving in together, why are you making it so difficult?”

Reeva raised a brow, “really, there is no big deal? Well there is no big deal about forgetting whatever thing your father has filled your head with...”

Andy stood up abruptly, “do not talk to my father like that! He had been through a lot and I wouldn’t allow whatever childish dream you have, to ruin the respect I have for you.”

“Do not talk about my mother anyhow too! She has been through a lot.”

“Maggie was even showing me an apartment which I thought you would love and....”

“My mum has already booked us an appointment with a wedding planner tomorrow and here I thought...”

They both stopped and gasped as they realized what they had just said at the same time.

“You and Maggie?” Reeva asked, the disappointment was visible on her face.

“You and your mum were going behind me to book an appointment?”

“No, don’t try to change the subject...”

“No, don’t try to change the subject. You and your mum could as well go get married together!”

“Show some respect okay? I will not allow you speak to my mum like that! She clearly never knew that you had been brainwashed since birth!”

Andy sighed and was beginning to calm down. “Look Reeva, I love you but that is how I want to do my thing. We have come a long way than to be here and start disagreeing over little things. It is just a wedding party, we will still have it, trust me!”

“Trust you? So you want me to trust you when you cannot trust me? I can’t believe that you have not trusted me all these years! You have sealed up your heart, thinking once you chain her to a ring and she is so desperate, she will say yes and then move in together. That has been your plan all this while?”

“Look, think about it, wedding is almost the same thing, we just had an elaborate engagement party, why should the wedding party matter?”

“Because it matters to me!” She shouted, then said calmly, “it matters to me.”

“But this matters to me too, it matters to my father...”

They both stopped at the same time to understand what was really happening.

“I should go.” Andy said, picking his leave while Reeva watched as he left and then few seconds later, his car was leaving the front of her yard.

She broke down and began to cry. This was becoming too much, it was like he stood against everything she had always wanted, nothing seemed to make sense anymore, How could they have come this far only to disagree and fight over something as huge as this? She had thought that perhaps, something could be done and he could compromise but, this has clearly shown that they were two different people. She needed to talk to her mother. Standing up, she picked her phone from the table t o dial her mother’s number, it was picked on the first ring.

“Hi dear.”

“Hello mum, listen, I don’t think there is going to be a wedding soon.”

She waited for her reaction but her mother was calm. “Go on.”

“I think I might cancel the whole thing.”

“Reeva do not make any insane decision, you need to realize what you are saying. What exactly happened?”

Reeva sniffed as she could feel tears gathering. “He doesn’t trust me and he is following his father’s order.”

“What orders?”

“To  move in and hold the wedding the following year.”

“What! That is nonsense!”

“So, there is no need to keep pushing this, I am not going to settle down with a man who is bent o obeying his father on everything without having a mind of his own.”

“Calm down Reeva, don’t do anything before you see me.”
“Mum, I’m sorry but I have to, I will call you later, I love you.” She ended the call before her mother could say anything anymore, after this, she cried.


**

“Calm down Son, what are you talking about?”

“I don’t think that she wants to move in with me.” Andy replied. He was had just gotten home and was just opening the door to his apartment.

“Did you explain everything to her?”

He threw his car key on the table.“That is the reason why I am angry, she thinks I was brainwashed and she was almost disregarding my father. What nonsense was that> I haven’t even started living with her and she is already showing her claws, I am so disappointed Ruthie.”

“”Calm down.

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. So what else happened?”

“She explained some things about wedding party, said it has always been her dream, I even decided that, we will still hold it but not now. You should have seen the way she spoke to me, it was so rude and so selfish!”  He said, kicking the couch.

“So, she is not ready to make any compromise?”

“No she is not.”

“And you too are still bent on your fathers’ warnings?”

“Yes, I am. He is my father.”

“So what is going to happen now?”

Andy was quiet for a while until he realized, “the engagement will have to be cancelled.”

Ruthie gasped, “ Son, please do not try that nonsense, you both have come this far.”

“Yes Ruthie, if we had known that we both want a different future, all this would not have happened. It has completely been a waste of my time.”

“But you do love her, don’t you remember that?”

“Yes I do and it hurts okay?”

“That is a shame Andy! What you are about to do, please, I didn’t bring you up this way, please do not do this, please.”

“I am sorry Ruthie, but I have to, say me well to my father. “ With this he hung up just as he spotted Reeva’s car drove in. He frowned. He knew what was about to happen so he stood up to open the door.

**

I GUESS WE BOTH KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN. BUT THE THING IS, THERE ARE SO MANY RELATIONSHIPS WHERE BOTH ARE NOT READY TO MAKE ANY COMPROMISE. THE GUY WILL THINK IF SHE LOVES ME SHE SHOULD DO THIS FOR ME, THE GIRL WILL THINK IF HE LOVES ME, HE SHOUL DO THIS FOR ME, THE TRUTH IS, WELL AT LEAST , LEMME SAY I THINK THE TRUTH IS THAT, TRUE LOVE HAS A LOT TO DO WITH SACRIFICING YOUR OWN HAPPINESS OR COMFORT FOR THAT OF THE ONE YOU LOVE. I MAY BE WRONG THOUGH, BUT THAT IS WHAT I THINK COS I HAVE BEEN IN SEVERAL BAD RELATIONSHIPS MYSELF AND EVEN AT A TIME, I REALISED I WAS THE ONE DOING EVERYTHING TO MAKE HIM HAPPY, TO PROVE MY LOVE, BUT ALL HE DID WAS SAY THANK YOU UNTIL I VEXED AND TOLD HIM TO PACK WELL. SERIOUSLY, LOVE IS SACRIFICE AND THE LENGTH AT WHICH YOU ARE WILLING TO GO TO PROVE IT...OR WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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  • Holuwatobih picture
    Holuwatobih
    I agree with you Tobi and the worst thing is we ladies are always the one making those sacrifices just to make them stay,buy in this context I think Reeva shkd plz calm down a bit. Kudos Aunty Tobi
  • Tobi Loba picture
    Tobi Loba
    Thanks namesake
  • Ruth Onyemauwa picture
    Ruth Onyemauwa
    Engagement party is nt marriage,she he really love her he needs to marry her legally,,it dignifies her...
  • Pamela cube picture
    Pamela cube
    Suspense is kicking in already,thought I was reading slow so I wouldn't catch up with you,but then I couldn't put my phone down....lol!!
  • Wadikom picture
    Wadikom
    nice one Tobi
  • Cutedreamer picture
    Cutedreamer
    I blame Andy.. why didn't he talk to Reeva abt this matter before getting engaged?? How was she to know abt his phobia for weddings?? Was he expecting her to magically figure things out when he didn't trust her enough to talk abt the issue with his mum?? Didn't he know a wedding ceremony is very important to ladies??
  • Cutedreamer picture
    Cutedreamer
    Two people may be in love but when trust and effective communication is absent, the relationship will be a failure
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    Cutedreamer
    Thanks sis Tobi... The story is so educating and lessons filled
  • Esther Mutunga picture
    Esther Mutunga
    Both are sailing in the same boat, holding on to what their parents would have done instead of doing what would work for them.......and the two "liars" r stuboooooorn !
  • Tobi Loba picture
    Tobi Loba
    @Ruth true sis
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    Tobi Loba
    Hahahah@Pamela
  • Tobi Loba picture
    Tobi Loba
    Thanks Wadikom
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    Tobi Loba
    @Cutedreamer... Sincerely.. You just hit the nail on the head
  • Tobi Loba picture
    Tobi Loba
    HAhah@Esther... Indeed they are.
  • Adeoti Akindele picture
    Adeoti Akindele
    Well both parties are mummy abd daddy's puppet, Reeva wants to make her mother happy, Andy wants to make his father happy not considering what each of them want, it seems they dont av a mind of their own with this d relationship is tend to crash sooner or later but they need to calm down. Tobi bravo, weldone and thanks for making d story soo real
  • Tobi Loba picture
    Tobi Loba
    Hmm.. Thanks sis... They are both so bent on fulfilling their parents wishes...now you know why we gave it that title
  • Ebireri Marthyda picture
    Ebireri Marthyda
    If love is all about scacrifce. Who among them is willing to sacrifice
  • Tobi Loba picture
    Tobi Loba
    And that is the question@Ebireri
  • Ucheoma Rufus picture
    Ucheoma Rufus
    But in everything a woman should be properly married ,her bride price should be paid before she park in to her husband's house. Wedding is just a formality. So if he is serious let him pay the bride price and do the wedding after 50years. Laughs! !
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  • Peesam picture
    Peesam
    I feel for both of them honestly. Don't even know what to say. They ought to have discussed all ds before the engagement party
  • Tobi Loba picture
    Tobi Loba
    Yea, they didnt, They are bent on manipulating each other
  • Imy Jackson picture
    Imy Jackson
    I think both of them should disregard whatever thing they want to do to please their parents and focus on what they want themselves
  • Tobi Loba picture
    Tobi Loba
    yea, thats if they are ready to grow up
  • Uwem Udoh picture
    Uwem Udoh
    I'm totally agree with you Tobi...most times the ladies make more sacrifices in a relationship... i wont move in with a man who is not legally my husband...there is no dignity in it...nice story dear.
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