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Rachel’s love for Deji waxed stronger
each day. But she continued to keep her feelings to herself.
She was however unaware that Deji had
confided in another colleague that he loved Rachel. He also was too shy and
timid to tell her how he felt about her.
The colleague offered to assist him,
speak to Rachel, but Deji said no. He said the time was not ripe.
As fate would have it, both of them
travelled to the eastern part of the country for a research.
They were together for three months. As
each day slide by, they worked side by side, but still continued to shield
their feelings for each other.
Then it was time for Deji to go back to
America. While leaving, he asked Rachael to see him off to the airport. Rachel
was happy, feeling that Deji would say something to her.
They got to the airport and they hugged
tightly like they wanted their hearts to communicate the unspoken words.
Rachel was disappointed when Deji whispered:
“You’ve been a wonderful lady! I look forward to a lifetime partnership with
you.”
He turned away, fighting tears. Rachael
said she never knew the meaning of the tears.
Days ran into months and months into
years. Deji kept calling, to check up on Rachael.
But he later stopped calling. Rachael
continued with her life here in Nigeria and held on to the good times she spent
with Deji.
Rachael found another man and got
married to him. She told me she never loved her husband, but just opted for him
when she couldn’t withstand the pressure from the home front.
And now, exactly two months after her
marriage, Deji called to propose to her!
“Deji was the one who called earlier.”
She started crying again.
I
felt wetness on my cheeks. When I touched my cheeks, I discovered I was crying.
“Why
didn’t you profess your love to Deji?” I asked her.
She replied: “Tee, it is not African.”
I
felt like slapping her.
“How could you allow pride to whisk away
your happiness?”
“Tee, I thought it was wrong for me to
make the first move.”
When she said this, I shook my head.
I thought of what to tell her but came
up empty. After a long pause, I said: “Rachael, accept your fate and learn to
love your husband.”
I
tried to chat with up but she wouldn’t just cooperate.
When we got back to the office after our
official assignment, Deji was already waiting for Rachael there. He said he
came to see things for himself and to put an end to the expensive joke of the
year.
But alas! It was no joke. It was for
real. When they had the opportunity to talk, Deji told her she was the only
lady he had ever been attracted to and she would remain his only love.
After spending some days, Deji
eventually went back and I later learnt he cried all through after speaking
with Rachael.
I learnt he even tried convincing
Rachael to divorce her husband but she refused.
Now, Rachael is an unhappy lady in her
marriage because she doesn’t love the man she got married to. Deji is seriously
angry because Rachael is the only lady he had been attracted to after suffering
from heartbreak during his undergraduate days.
Fate brought them together but like Jimmy
Cliff’s song ‘The harder they come,’ both of them allowed the love they had for
each other go.
Now the big question: Is it wrong for a woman
to walk up to a man and profess her love for him?
Concluded...
Contributor, Miss. Adetola Ademosun
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