Chapter 16
'Life has truly been unfair to me and my family" Christabel Mum said as the tears she tried so much to hold finally welled down her cheeks.
She tried to use her hand to wipe them off before Desse noticed and offered her a handkerchief.
'It's okay, have this" Desse said while handing the handkerchief over to her.
She collected it from Desse and cleaned her tears as she continued.
'Six years ago I met a very nice and hardworking young man," she said as she managed to chuckle a little.
'He was not wealthy but at least he was able to provide for his poor mother and his little sister. Hmmm I don't really remember how we first met but destiny brought us together. He was the first person to show me how it felt to be loved genuinely." She continued.
'I was from a poor family. I heard my parents died three days after my delivery so I grew up as an orphan who was always called a cursed child. I had no friends and my aunt and cousins who were supposed to be my family never loved me. They would always tell me to my face that I was cursed and that is why my parents died after my delivery. Hmmm life was so bitter for me, there were times I thought of ending my life but any time I remember that I am the only living lineage of my family I would redraw that thought and focus on my future" in an understanding and soft tone like she was going to cry again.
Desse, who had not even heard half of the story, was already crying. Her husband tried to stop her but he couldn't because the more he begged her the deeper she cried.
'Darling, can you please stop crying? You know if you continue like this you would make her feel bad and that would not be comforting at all" Riel explained to Desse in a very low tone that would not distract her from talking and would not also get his wife offended.
'Okay darling, I know but it just that I can't even imagine the pain she must have gone through" Desse replied as she tried controlling herself while holding her husband hand so tightly.
Christabel Mum cleared her throat and continued again
'When I finally met the young man he gave me reasons to be happy and dream for a better future. I thought my life was destined to be his for life, I was completely in love with him and so was he. We would always meet at hidden places until a very faithful day we finally came to a conclusion we would make it open and official by going to see each other's families. Hmmm we decided to go meet his family first, when we got there I was so shocked at what came at me. His family did not even hear me speak. They threw me out immediately as they heard I was an orphan. But I think that was a little better. When it was my turn I brought him over to my aunt's place since she was the only family I had even if we were not really close after she and her daughter threw me out of their house. She was so happy that day. Little did I know that she was already imagining her daughter for the man I love. After the meeting with our both families I noticed he was no longer putting interest in me anymore, he would always look for an excuse when I asked him to meet me at our usual spot" at this point she could not hold it anymore as tears welled down her cheeks.
It's was an uncontrollable tears as the both ladies cried out. Desse cried like it was her story while the woman cried when she remembered how pained she was during that period.
'I am sorry if my story makes you feel so sad or makes you cry. I think I will just go straight to the point" she said as she wipe off her tears and brazened up a little.
'No no no! I sorry for that but I truly want to hear everything" Desse said while wiping her tears.
Riel was the only man in their mist he made sure that he controlled himself and did not cry.
'I was too scared to go to his house because of his family would possibly do to me and there was no friend to advise me on what to do. I would wait for him from morning till night and I would not see him. On one faithful day I summoned courage and went to his house, as I was about entering his compound I heard the voice of my aunt and my cousin sister. I wondered what they were looking for on the house of my lover,then a thought came to my mind that maybe they went to beg him on my behave. So I knocked and went in, when I got there I saw my cousin sitting on his lap in the press of my aunt and his parents I felt so sad I would not say it was depression because I still had a little hope in our love. I could feel his heart racing for me the moment he saw me but I did not even care about that at that point I only felt grief and more hatred towards my aunt and her daughter. I could not bear it anymore so I think I had fainted because after that I only met myself outside the house on the floor with my body soaked with dirty water which smelled like fish.
I immediately ran back to my nest called house. I couldn't believe what my eye had just seen. I could not cry anymore. I think the water in the eye was no more since I had cried all my life. I kept on wondering what I could have possibly done wrong to offend him that made him go for my cousin. I made sure I found an opportunity to ask him a question. He explained the whole thing to me, how his parents framed him up and made him pick her cousin as a bride and not her. After a long conversation and quarrel they sealed their love with a long kiss as they made love. That was her first time having any thing to do with a man but she was happy she got to share the best part of her life with the man whom she love regardless the situations of things" she continued this time no one cried instead they were all eager to hear what she got to say next.
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