***LOVE AND FLICK***
BY COUNSELOR LAWSON IKE
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EPISODE 13
Patience insisted I must marry her whether good or bad. I tried to convince her that our genotype doesn’t match but she said it was immaterial. I told my parents about it and they bluntly refused that we cannot marry. My friends also insisted that I should not dare go into marriage with Patience their points was not only that our genotype doesn’t match but that how can I marry some one looking older than me and some one who is not educated and not my class.
It gave me much concern, truly I and Patience no longer fall in the same class, I am a master degree holder and working as a manager in automobile industry my wife is supposed to be responsible and well educated, moreover I was eyeing the daughter of my director who was just 25years old so that the company will become mine when I get married to her since the director had no male child. Most of my family member also kicked against the marriage. It gave me serious headache. I called Patience again and pleaded with her for us to break the covenant but she kept to her say that the marriage must hold. I did everything I could to convince her about it but she stood her grounds that the marriage must hold. I began to hate her I regrated ever making a blood covenant with her. I was afraid to tell anyone about it, so I secretly went to different herbalist to see if they could help me break the covenant but all of them I went to could not do anything about it. I was told the marriage must go on since it involved blood that there is no man born of a woman that can break it except by mutual consent of the two parties involved and that moreover the spirits that bore witness at the day of the covenant had made a seal on it and only blood can wipe away blood. I was not ready to die so I decided the marriage should go through. I called Patience and told her I have consider going on with the marriage and she was very happy.
Despite the keen refusal from my parents, I stood my ground that the marriage would hold. If at all they knew what was involved, a matter of life and death they would not have even refused us to get married. We began to make preparations for the marriage though I was not happy but I had no choice. We planed of starting with traditional marriage then followed by church wedding. While still on the preparation for the marriage, one day Patience went to her shop. She had finished learning tailoring skills and have been established. She had much clothes to sew including out marriage attires that day she over labored herself and worked overtime in other to meet up and was very tired. While she was going back home from her shop at around 9:30pm some bad boys blocked her and took her to the bush, they raped her and left her stranded. When Patience got home she narrated everything that happened to her parents how she was attacked and raped, the next day Patience became sick and on the third day she died. That night my phone rang and behold it was her father that called he told me Patience was dead, he explained how she was attacked by some bad boys and was raped. Immediately I heard the news I shouted and immediately my spirit left me. I was rushed to the hospital and it was on the third day I regained consciousness. I wept bitterly, I could not eat anything my heart became heavy. Patience broke the oath although not intentionally but there was nothing she could do to stay alive, the penalty is death.
Oh! After all the battle , after the many years of struggle and waiting, after scaling through the ragging sea, the torment , the mockery, the shame, the pains, after how she did everything even at the expense of her happiness it all ended in disdain, it ended in pains, it ended in tears, it ended in death. I started mourning Patience in my heart, oh! Patience was a courageous woman, she knew the true definition of love, but we got it all wrong. Love shouldn’t be conditional, love shouldn’t be subjected to a figure that brings and make no room for liberty, it shouldn’t be mistaken for emotions. Love cannot be understood by the weak minded. True love Is dignity, true love is respect, true love is happiness, true love is joy, true love is liberty and Patience was true love.
After a week, Patience began to appear in my dreams, each time I close my eyes to sleep she will appear. I told my parents but they said it was emotion and that I should try my best to get her off my mind. I tried my best to get her off my memories but Patience kept appearing to me. One afternoon I was sleeping she appeared to me wearing a wedding gown and in the dream I was wearing a wedding suit. Millions of people were gathered, they don’t seem to be humans they were spirits because their legs were not touching the ground. And a priest was also present, we matched a distance, with birds and all kinds of animals present, demons and also angels were present then we matched to a big hall containing millions of people the hall was like a stadium and the people were seated, singers were singing and then the priest came forward and wedded us and after that we went home for reception and in the night we had sex and began to leave as husband and wife then I woke up. I was greatly afraid so I called my parents and narrated my dreams to them. That was when they believe it wasn’t emotion. They asked me if we had any promise together until death. It was then I opened up about the blood covenant and the oath we took together while in secondary school and every bit of everything i went through in the university to keep the oath. My mum burst into tears she wept and cried bitterly. The next day my mum went to one native doctor around to come and see if there is anything he could do to save my life. When the native doctor came, I was already down with serious fever, I could no longer talk and smell began to come out of me as one already dead. My mum narrated exactly what I told them about the blood covenant and the oath and also the dream I had the previous day. The native doctor shock his head and said there is nothing he can do to save me, that there were too many and different categories of witnesses present at the day of the covenant and that they is no sacrifices that can appease them all except the fulfilment of the oath and that I AM AND MUST SURELY DIE………..
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***LOVE AND FLICK***
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