MY DAUGHTER MY WIFE
Episode 24
CHUKS POV
After I noticed how close Sola and I had become, and how freely we could chat, I began to nurse the idea of asking her to be my girlfriend, but I was concerned about my friend Andy.
He had told me about their first kiss, and how he planned to woo her until she accepted him, but had to give up after she schooled him.
The reason she didn’t give him a chance was because of his marriage to Madonna, so after Madonna left, I became worried when I imagined he was going to make a move, but he didn’t.
So I asked him about his feelings for her, hoping to hear he wasn’t interested in a romantic relationship with her again, and yes, he wasn’t!
My joy knew no bounds as I drove home that night. I was whistling happily, chirping like a bird and dancing like a newly born goat kid inside my car while I drove.
I had to get a fresh shave and look my best as I prepared for work the next day, calculating my moves and lyrics for the showdown.
Andy my friend seemed very busy that day, so even during lunch break, we couldn’t hang out as always because he told me to go ahead.
I felt he was truly busy until I saw him drive off after we closed from work without even as much as saying a word to me or to Sola.
“What is going on with Andy? Could he be angry that I told him about how I feel for Sola?” I wondered as I sat in my car with Sola.
Sola and I were talking about general stuffs and she was laughing heartedly when we saw Andy. I was hoping he’d stop by as usual, but he drove away.
“Is he okay? Why does he seem so uptight since morning? It’s almost as if he is troubled. Could he still be grieving for his wife that left him?” Sola asked me, looking very sad.
“I don’t think so. Andy has gone past that, I’m just hoping whatever it is that’s weighing him down isn’t connected to you and I” I told her.
“How can that be? Oh I get it now. Oh my God! Andy is such a clown. He must be apprehensive about how I’ll react to what he said you’ll tell me today” she giggled.
My eyes widened in astonishment to hear that Andy had given sola a hint that I’ll speak with her.
If Andy told her about my intention to ask her to be my girlfriend without telling her to run from me, that means even him Andy, has truly gotten over the feelings he had for her.
And if Sola was looking this happy as she anticipated what I was going to say, that was certainly an indication that I was going to get a ‘yes’, or so I thought.
“Now would you quit smiling and tell me word for word, what I’ve been waiting to hear for some time now?” Sola asked me sounding as excited as someone that had just won a jackpot.
I excitedly brought out the flower I had bought and handed over to her, before I began to give my love speech, telling her how I have always hoped she’d be mine.
“Would you quit playing around and tell me what Andy asked you to tell me? It’s okay to play everyday Chuks, but not on the day I have prepared to get kissed by the man I love” she told me, looking angrily at me.
“Sola, I just told you how I feel about you, and you called it a joke? I poured my heart out to you, and you think I’m playing?” I asked her, feeling very hurt.
We both stared at each other for quite a while, imagining what was going on.
I was in high spirits earlier and she too, looked very pleased about the conversation we were going to have in my car.
In my heart, I had already visualized how I’d kiss her briefly in the car before driving to a nice place where we’d have dinner and then kiss like I see in the movies.
My heart nearly exploded in pains when Sola told me she was only that happy because she thought Andy couldn’t tell her about his feelings for her, and had asked me to do it on his behalf
That was why she said he was a còward earlier, and that was the reason she had been so happy since she got to the office that day.
“So you told Andy you were going to ask me to be your girlfriend and he gave you the go ahead?
“Was he planning for all three of us to go into polyandry? Because I don’t get it!” she asked me, looking totally exasperated and I had to tell her what Andy said, with tyh hopes that when she knew that he was no longer interested in her, she’d want to give me a chance, but it made her begin to cry like a baby.
“I love Andy so much Chuks. I’m sorry that you feel so much for me, but I only see you as a friend, and my friendship with you is purely because of Andy.
“How can he not be interested in me, when every day I keep seeing the look he had in his eyes before he kissed me in Chicago?
“How can he not give us a chance because of a girl that left on her own accord? A girl that loves nothing about him but his sxxual prowess and financial powers?” she asked me, crying like a baby.
I was so hurt by her confessions for Andy that I felt like crying. “How could she love him so? If she was feeling so deeply for another person, I could wait and pray that something bad happens to that person and give me a chance to be with her.
But this was Andy my friend. “What sort of situation is this? If only I hadn’t told Andy about this! If only I sensed that she could be this màdly in love with Andy, then I wouldn’t have tried to woo her and continued to love her from a distance
“How am I supposed to look at the two of them tomorrow? Sola is very màd with Andy for allowing me to woo her, and Andy himself isn’t looking any better himself.
“What kind of catastrophe is this?” I thought painfully. Then I stepped out of the car, and told her I’ll go get something so we could go after Andy.
When I returned, she was leaning on my bonnet and sobbing her heart out. It was a pitiful sight to behold.
“Dãmn! What clay was this Andy molded from anyways? How can the beauty we singles have been jostling for, be weeping for his love this way? How can someone who has been married twice be having so much edge over the single and eligible bachelors?” I thought as I walked closer to her.
I had seen Andy get into his office, and even while I stood outside thinking of what to do, his office lights remained on, meaning he planned to stay for some time.
“If you want to see Andy, he is in his office. I’ve got somewhere to go now” I told her, trying to suppress my pain.
Sola didn’t even allow me finish what I was saying before she ran towards his office, then I had to stand by my car to suppress the pain
I stood for a long while, hoping Andy would still maintain his stance of not wanting to get involved with her again.
The imagination of her crying as she ran out of his office, and getting into my arms to be consoled filled my head.
I thought of how I’d hold her so close in the hug, and find a way to kiss her. Maybe if she sees how well I can kiss her, she could change her mind!
Over thirty minutes later, she hadn’t come out, neither had Andy, so I decided to take a look and see what was going on.
And that was a wrong move! I peeked through Andy’s window and found them locked in each other’s arms, kissing like their life depended on it.
How I was able to walk to my car that day was a miracle, but how I was able to drive home that night, will forever remain a mystery.
It became certain to me, I was not only going to hunt for someone to love me elsewhere, I was also going to hunt for a job too, because there’s no way like hêll, I was going to keep working in the same office with those two.
“Such is life” I cried as I stood under running water that night. I thought of all that had happened that day, and how it ended as against how I hoped it would end, and fresh tears continued to pour.
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