It was a
beautiful garden, serene to the core, Sunkanmi got there before Toke, and he
waited for almost half an hour until Toke joined him.
“Hey” She
mentioned as she stood beside where he sat“Hey”
Sunkanmi responded, he stood up and hugged her “I’m so glad you could make it,
you look stunning by the way” he complimented her“Thank you,
and you don’t look bad yourself” She said to him and sat down close to him“Would you
like to take anything, I bought drinks I thought you’d like, Melody do tell me
you love fruit juice so I got you one”“Yeah I love
fruit juice, nice” she said as she grabs the juice from him“I got small
chops as well”“Hmmm nice,
I got this really planned out”“Well I had
to right”“I like that”
She opened the package and started consuming the content “Hmmm, tastes really
good”“I’m glad
you like it”“So speaking
about Melody, how is she, she’s still at your mom’s house”“Yes, she is,
my mom would not let her go and I guess Melody doesn’t want to leave either so
maybe when she realizes she misses you she will want to leave there and come to
yours”“Yeah right,
so I’ve been meaning to ask, about her Mother, where is she?”“I knew
sooner or later you’d ask this question, anyway Melody’s mom is dead”“Aww, I’m
so sorry to hear that, I was actually thinking her mom was somewhere living her
life, that she left because of her condition”“That wasn’t
the case, she died while given birth to her, she was my girlfriend when we were
in school, we just got to the university when we started dating, we were really
in love then, well you how it is when two young people are in love, so we would
have sex almost every day” Toke gave him an awkward look “Yeah yeah I know that
look, that’s just how it was then, so we dated for three years until Lola, her
name was Lola, she eventually got pregnant, it was quite difficult for us to
decide on what we wanted to do because Lola wanted to get rid of it but I
wanted it, I loved her so much that I wouldn’t mind having a child with her at
that time” Toke interrupted him by saying“I guess her
parents wouldn’t have taken it likely”“Yeah, she
had strict parents, but then I spoke to my mom about it and we tried to
convince her to keep the baby, she agreed eventually, we were going to have the
baby without her parents knowing, at least till after the baby was born, my mom
was so supportive during the pregnancy stages but as fate could have it, she
had complications when she was about 7 months gone, she had to undergo cs,
unfortunately, she had the baby and didn’t make it out” He became so sober has
he spoke
“Wow, that
must have been a really painful event”“Trust me
Toke, it was, it was very difficult to accept that she was gone”“How did her
parents take it?”“It was
crazy, so crazy, they actually got me arrested, I was in jail for close to 5
months, it was hard for me to cope, but at the
end of the day, they let me go and told to me to be responsible for the new
born, well I didn’t mind, I wasn’t going to let them take my baby away anyway,
so my mom helped in taking care of her and she is still helping out though” He
chuckled“I’m so
sorry you went through all that, so how did you take it knowing that she was
couldn’t talk”“Oh, that,
well she was born that way, we found that out when she was a baby, we noticed
she wasn’t making any sound, we went from one hospital to another and they made
us know that the complications that happened during her birth affected her
vocal cords, they said nothing can be done, that we would have to live with it,
and we’ve done that ever since”“Nice, I
really admire your courage, I can’t imagine how horrible it must have been and
your mom and she must be such a wonderful woman”“Yeah she
is, I don’t know what I would have done without her”“I know
right… wow you’ve been through a lot”“You can say
that again but anyway, I’m fine now, my girl is doing great and I love her just
the way she is”“You just
have to, she is such a beautiful girl” They laughed a little and paused.
“So enough
about me, what’s up with you, Yeah how’s your boyfriend or should I say
your bodyguard?”“Really, my
bodyguard”“Well he
acted that way the other day”“Very funny,
just so you know he is no longer my boyfriend, we broke up”“What! Why?
Was it because of the other day, I thought you guys must have reconciled after
that day”“We did
actually, but something happened during the week and it lead to our break up, he
actually broke up with me”“I’m so
sorry, do you mind talking about it?”“Maybe another day”“That’s
fine, just know that it’s his loss, okay”“Yeah yeah I
guess” Toke stared at him, she liked the way he smiled and found it really
cute, Sunkanmi stared at her also, to him, she was the most beautiful lady he
has ever seen. The day was still long and they still had a lot to share.
