A LOVE STORY

Girl meets Boy, she is afraid to fall in love because she has been broken hearted many times. 

She feels most of them she meets want her because she is strikingly beautiful so she wants to stay alone for some time. 

Boy convinces her that he is not like any of the others. It takes a while but girl finally succumbs to his persistence and charms.

They start to date, and the relationship kicks off hard and fast. 

Before they know it, 3 years have passed, they are both in their twenties and they feel it is time to tie the knot.

Girl introduces Boy to her parents and the union is approved but when Boy introduces Girl to his family and questions are asked, Boy’s parents refuses. 

The whole relationship is thrown into Chaos.

Months later Girl marries another man out of persuasion and Boy is distraught.

He tries to take his own life and fails but he is left blinded in one eye. Boy tries to go on with his life and soon marries.

The marriage is nothing but a convenience so it does nothing for him. 

Years later, Boy and Girl meet again. They attend a function together and run into each other. 

Boy is alone but Girl is with her husband. Introductions go round and the night goes on to an end.

When it is time to leave, Boy stalks Girl and husband to their house. 

Days later, he pretends to bump into Girl close to her house and invites her for a drink. Girl declines at first but she never could turn down Boy’s wit and charm. One thing leads to another, as is popularly said, and intimacy is involved. 

It goes on to be a wild affair with lots of secrets and hidden meets.

It is quite the adventure and they lose themselves in the moment, lost in their fantasy and forgetting the lives and family that they have with others.

Reality hits when Boy’s pregnant wife discovers. She confronts him and he doesn’t deny, he acknowledges it and files for divorce, throwing caution to the wind. 

He had waited for that moment since the first day he said I do.

Boy’s wife, determined to fight for her home, involves boy’s family.

Boy informs Girl of what he has done and she is taken aback. She refuses to see him any more. Says it is time to end the relationship, it wasn’t supposed to get this far.

Boy pleads and cries like a baby but girl is adamant. 

She is fearful that her husband will find out and all hell will break lose. She had come to know in the years that she has been married to him, as a man who does not like to be ridiculed and this was definitely the epitome of it.

Boy’s parents contacts Girl’s parents and has them tell their daughter off their son. A meeting is held and old wounds are ripped open. 

Girl’s parents are appalled and decides to take some action. Girl’s mother is especially distraught as she discovers whose boy’s parents are. They are powerful people who could destroy their lives if they wanted and then some.

Girl’s mother has a serious long talk with her daughter. Girl finally confesses to her mother that it has been going on for a long time and she suspects she might be pregnant. Girl’s mother is devastated and insists that girl cannot have the baby, she has to have an abortion.

She kneels before her daughter and pleads but Girl refuses and storms out.

Girl’s mother falls to the floor as sobs shakes her body.

She has a lot to say to her daughter but she doesn't know how. She wishes she could tell her daughter that she is the illegitimate child of Boy’s father’s infidelities with their once housemaid who had later found her footing in the world in the arms of Girl's father, a lonely widower who accepted Girl as his child.

She is now pregnant with her half brother’s child.

 ***

Boy paces up and down, Girl has been avoiding him like the plague since he had told her about his divorce plans and it is driving him insane. He is out of his mind with rage. How could she? He asks himself. After all they had gone through together. Did she not love him anymore?

He pauses and looks at his closet, he has to do something about it, he thinks to himself, he has to make her love him again. 

He goes to his closet and opens the doors.

***

Girl returns home and meets boy in her house waiting for her. He is standing beside her husband who is seated in a chair. It takes a while for her to see the gun in his hand.

It was pointed to her husband’s temple.

I cannot lose you again, he says, promise me we will be together.

Think about what you are doing, Girl says, you will go to prison

She tries harder to convince him not to do anything irrational but it only stirs up more rage, she is scared out of her wits because she has never seen him like this before.

If I cannot have you, no one can, he screams at her, the hand holding the gun trembles as he presses it to Girl’s husband’s temple

No wait, I am pregnant! Girl blurts out quickly, she could not think of anything else to say.

Boy pauses, his hand wavers and Girl’s husband who has been silent the whole time, takes the opportunity.

He knocks the gun out of Boy’s hand

Boy recovers but it is too late, the gun goes out of his reach, he takes a swing at Girl’s husband as the gun skids across the floor. Girl’s husband retaliates and a struggle ensues.

Girl screams as fists fly and grunts are heard.

A loud crashing sound as something breaks, the fight becomes bloody.

More screams from girl. 

Fear consumes her as the men bring up bloody fists, she looks around frantically, thinking of what to do and she sees the gun lying not far from where she is standing.

Stop it! She screams at both of them, the gun in her hand trembling violently.

Both men fall to the floor with loud thud. 

Only one moves.

Boy gets to his feet with blood stained face and wild eyes. 

He approaches girl.

Girl backs away. 

Stay where you are, she says in fear laced voice. 

He looks nothing like the boy she knows. She looks over at her husband’s crumpled form, he doesn’t move.

Boy continues to approach her

Stay away. She says. But he doesn’t stop

You’re not going to shoot me, he begins to say but the gun goes off.

The blast rips him in the chest and he falls to the floor with a look of shock on his face.

The kickback knocks the gun backward in girl’s hands and it drops from her hands to the floor.

A grunt attracts her attention and she sees her husband struggle to his feet, his bloodied face, a mask of hatred so pure, it could have set her on fire. 

He tells her he has known about the affair since the first day it started but he didn’t talk because he was never around and he loved her enough to let her have a little fun if that was what would make her happy.

What he would not allow is for her to keep the pregnancy she is carrying because it is not his and he wanted no part of it.

Good bye, he says to her and leaves.

Girl looks around speechless and on the verge of her sanity. She has become a murderer and a single mother all in one split second.

She has lost it all.

Her eyes focuses on the gun beside her feet, she picks it up and strokes it.

It would be so easy, she thinks to herself.

She has no life anymore, if she did, it would be spent in prison and she would never see her baby.

She put the nozzle to her chest.

Why is love so complicated?

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 Stories posted on this blog are fiction and a product of the writer's imagination. They do not refer to any person or persons. Similarities to real life characters are purely coincidental.