Previously on THE BETRAYAL: Episode 30 Trouble Looms the Air
....Days later Darlinton saw me as I was returning from school, caught up with me at the staircase and held my right hand softly.
I stopped and stared at him coldly while he returned my look with a calm smile.
''I'm very sorry” he apologized. I tried to snatch my hand from his grasp but he strongly held me.
I stared at him speechlessly, tried again to snatch my hand but he still held it strongly. “just let me be Darlinton” I replied with a raised tone. He stared around, before facing me once again, “Cyndii what I feel for you is no ordinary love, I swear I can pull down any building just to make you mine” he added quietly. I unhappily shook my head as I tried to calm myself down.
A new plan instantly rushed into my mind,
“okay let's go to my room” I muttered coldly. He quietly sat on my bed, I sat beside him in a well composed manner and faced him with a fake smile, “I really do appreciate the gift, but I cannot accept it” I calmly said to him, while he silently stared at me, “I know you truly do love me Dar” I added and held his right hand which totally surprised him.
“A great love, even if it be unfortunate, should ennoble a man, not make him desperate and heartless, please let's just be friends, I do believe with time I may learn to love you” I murmured gently. “but can't you offer something much more than ordinary friendship?” he asked instantly.
His anguish very real, not feigned in any way. “Darlington, friendship is all I can offer for now”, “here you are offering me love, and my hand does not tremble, my heart equally does not; you words give me no pleasure, only pain;
How else can I explain that I feel no love for u.” I poured out to him. “but with time, could you learn to love me?” he eagerly asked, “yes I'm very sure I will, please don't think I speak out of pride or to pain you” I lied sweetly.
All I wanted that moment was my freedom which I prayed our little discussion would grant me. I saw a sudden shadow of despair come into his eyes. I swallowed hard and muttered quick silent prayers to my creator. “you have unmanned me, but I think you are right, I can't force out love from you, lets be friends like you said” he muttered while his cheeks flushed with embarrassment.
I heaved a sigh of relief, my eyes instantly lit up with joy. I felt like hugging him in appreciation, but I held myself, “thanks alot for that” I murmured with delight.
He stood for some moments in silence; a dim perception of his own unworthiness came over him, with a smile, he tapped my left shoulder and left my room quietly.
“is this the end?” I asked myself happily,
Only time will tell....
Darlington never disturb me again which I very much loved, even though it really was very surprising to Ben who couldn't believe that “Dar easily swallowed his pride and gave me up_
ONE_YEAR_LATER
Time flies. I was soon in the second semester of my 3rd year while Ben in his final semester as a student. Our relationship blossomed and matured into something so solid and sweet.
It just looked as if I was created for him. His family accepted and treated me as if I was their daughter. They really couldn't wait for us to finish school and get married.
I transformed Ben from a quiet, cool headed introvert into an artistic, charming, noble young man whose greatest hobby was to love me.
He so totally spoilt me, that I hardly ever touched the monthly allowance my parents did give me. My ego and pride were so high. I was envied by many. “oh what else could I have asked my creator for?”
LOVE_SURELY_WORKS_WONDERS
But sometimes no matter how hard we struggle to shape our future, challenges do come to test our courage and zeal, always appearing when least expected and only a little misdeed that moment could rewrite everything.
Some folks do say that whatever will be, will surely be no matter how hard we plan it, some holy books do say "our destiny already has been written by our creator before birth"
Whatever the case, life is so full of mysteries. The future I so much struggled to build with Ben was completely jeopardized weeks into my 300level second semester.
I never knew my fate could take such a dramatic twist nor my past showing up to haunt me. Not only did it return to haunt me, it equally came to steal my soul, pride, heart and all I laboured for. without even a mask to hide its face.
My past came pertinaciously for me when I least expected, and I truly can't explain how lost or petrified I was when it came knocking on my door.
The shock, pain and anger I felt when I answered my door and saw Mike {my ex-boyfriend} smiling nervously with hands clasped behind him, was so immense that I couldn't breathe for a while.
The look of relief in his eyes when they rested on me really was undeniable. For some seconds I stared at him speechlessly, lost in thought and clueless on what to do.
He truly wasn't looking bad, though a bit darker than when I last saw him. His features perfectly constructed and matured?..
How fast I noticed?
STORY CONTINUES!!..
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Story Adaobi Iwuchukwu
Edited by Engr. Stanley Orji
Published on Eastanmusic Ent.
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