With Patience the Fetters Are Broken #1
Exploring my talent, putting it into use in the literary world for the benefit of humanity and promotion of communication
She did not know that things would be this difficult with her when she wants to choose her
Spouse, for she and her siblings have been growing in a lovely atmosphere with loving and
Caring parents. Now that she knows that she has come of age and she is thinking about
Settling down with her lover that was when the tide of things changed in the family,
Because her mother has insisted that she cannot just marry anyone because of the pact she has
Signed with some ladies when she was young. The said pact that her mother is talking about,
Neither she nor her siblings have ever heard of the story before. All that their mother has
Been telling them was how she was lucky to have found their father when all hopes seem lost
For her and all her age-mates have been married to men of their choice. Fifteen years have
Passed when the last lady except her among her peers in the island has tied the knot with
Her heartthrob before she met with their father in a friend’s birthday party in the community.
Theirs’ cannot be called love at first site because that day she was not really happy gracing
The occasion but because she has been assigned by the lady that she should bake the
Birthday cake, she cannot but be in the gathering. On getting to the venue of the birthday,
After she has placed the baked cake on a table set aside for it, she moves to a place to sit
Down and has been subsumed in her mind of the thought of getting a man whom she can
Call hers, the dream of her own. She was in this position when she was called to be a
Moderator to how the cake would be cut. After performing what she has been called upon to
Do, she returned to her place, still looking at the situation of things. In this sullen position
The young man whom she later got married to notices her mien and had walked up to where
She is, talking with her, but she was not in the mood for any discussion at the moment, and
Would not reply their father as ladies used to reply and talk to males at gathering like that.
Their father who has come alone to the party would not let her be, until he forces her that
They go and dance. As they were dancing together they started talking and she would not
Know what pushed her to say that she is tired of life. When her husband heard this, she
Pulled her apart and started talking with her, you are depressed he has told her, and you do
Not have to continue in this depressed and repressive mood if you want things changed with
You. Because of the mind-boggling issue in her heart, she told him what was disturbing
Him and their father told her that she needs not to worry about those who have married
Before her, for all his friends too have married and infact according to him, the last colleague
Of his got married 25 years ago, and here is he, he also is yet to get attached to any lady
Let alone thinking about marriage. When she heard what he said, she looked up, looking
Straight into his eyeball, this means what happened to ladies also happen to guys too, she
Said. All of us are humans, we have blood running through our venous and arterial
Systems therefore what you are also passing through we also passed through similar things he
Said to her. She says within herself, it means we are suffering similar thing here. From there
They continued their acquaintance. And would get married to each other few months
After. This is the common story that their mother used to tell them about how she has met
With their father, her lover, she has never talked about some groups being anywhere and that
She signed a pact with anyone before she got married. When she who is her first daughter
Wants to marry that was when she told her that she cannot marry the person she has loved
Because she has signed a pact with some group of ladies when she was seeking for a man to
Be married to that if they can help her to secure a decent man, her first daughter would Marry the son of the leader of the group.
© 2020 OLUSEGUN