Episode 6
**I was in tears as i left the hall. I did not see Mary coming and we bumped into each
other.
Mary: holding me Honey! What’s wrong? What happened? she asked as she saw the tears in my eyes
I was choked with emotions so i could not utter a word.
I disentangled my self from her hold and headed for the main gate. Mary followed me still trying to find out what was amiss.
Mr. Kevin: Come back here, girl!
her father who had been watching our little drama shouted
Mary quickly stopped in her tracks and i headed towards the gate.
As i went trhough the gate of their house, I
turned to look at her and what met my eyes made me freeze.
She was shaking so much from her crying that i
thought she might faint. Then, her father took her back inside the house.
I was completely shattered. My heart ached and i felt pains all over my body as if i had received
a severe beating.
I could not sleep.
I thought about what my mother had said to me earlier in the evening and what Mr. Kevin had said.
I had been in love with Mary for the past two years and although we knew nothing about sex, we enjoyed our relationship very well.
She was caring anytime i fell sick and her nursing was so efficient that I one day suggested she took a nursing course after school,
Now a wedge was being driven between me and
my lover by both my parents and Mary’s.
As I lay thinking about the happiness i had gone through during those past years, sleep stole me from the pains of disappointment, and i drifted into dreamland.
I dreamed about Mary.
She was standing on the banks of a large river and crying for me to help her cross. I happened to be at the opposite side and there was no canoe to cross the river to the other side.
In desperation, i threw myself into the violent torrents and swam towards her.
The currents of the river were very strong but i
fought with determination and in no time i was at the other side.
For a strange reason, when i reached the other bank, i did not find Mary at the place she had been standing!!
How come? What happened?
I stood there wondering..
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