Must Read: Taking Chances

7 years ago

Must Read: Taking Chances

‘I told you! They look so like Jay and Bee’ Amaka’s friend whispered excitedly. She had seen the light tone of Daisy’s skin and the dark hue of Jide’s, then offcourse with the almost levelled height, the slim dark girl needed no other signs to confirm her insinuation.
‘na made in heaven things indeed!’ Amaka whispered, then eyed her friend.
The two ladies giggled briefly at their secret gossip and star- comparism before they diverted their attention to the waiting passengers.
Out in the runway, as Jide, Daisy and other passengers trudged towards the airplane in a file, Daisy’s thoughts slowly drifted to another time, another situation and another companion.
It was the day she arrived Nigeria for the wedding.
Slowly, all the forgotten and suppressed memories started springing up, so much so was the intensity of the deja vu feeling that Daisy had to shake herself just so she could ascertain that she wasn’t anywhere close to that time of her life.

The smile that had crowned her face all morning suddenly fizzled out and in its place was a mixture of fear, doubt and anger. Daisy tried to push the thoughts and feeling away, but couldn’t. For the sudden thoughts seemed determined to keep up a mind game with her.

As she quietly battled with this new emotion that threatened to engulf her, she felt Jide gently sq££ze her hands. Then Slowly, she raised sad, doubtful face at him, while his was smiling peacefully, oblivious to the inner struggles of the woman beside him.
Daisy noticed now that they were closer in the queue and it would soon be their turn to board the plane.
‘i guess…happily ever after awaits us, sunshine’ Jide said smiling down at her.
Then slowly, Daisy’s previously lost smile creeped up, back on her face.
The magical spell wasn’t more about what Jide had said, but totally about the way he had said it. It had been so open, so loving, so giving, so sincere. All of which, didn’t seem to be hidden under a mask of pretence.
Daisy’s smile spread wider all through her body now. The significance of the word he had said to her made her so. It was actually the longest he had spoken to her since today, and she never knew him to believe in ‘happily ever afters’. All of this lifted her fear and doubts about the future that had seemed uncertain. And so finally, she won the mind game.

The new Daisy, the one that had arrived Nigeria months ago to chase an uncertain dream, had stopped believing in happily ever after’s. But if it ever still existed, she mused, then it was guaranteed with this man whose eyes had entranced and held her forever.
And so gently she sq££zed his hands too. ‘and i can’t wait to live it with you’ she replied softly.
Jide said nothing, there wasn’t much left to be said. Instead he drew his wife closer, placed a kiss on her forehead, then helped her mount the steps to the plane. Unconcerned with how the other passenger would interpret his gesture.
And so, this became the beginning of a marriage adventure for them, they would live through their lives, taking chances to achieve the happiness that existed between the ups and downs that life would surely throw at them. But the best of it all, was that they had grown wiser, learning from the school of life, friendship, love and family. And their love which had been tested and proven to be resilient under the heat of fire, could surely stand the rain and weather the storms of marriage till death would do them part.

***THE END***

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