PART 3: CRYING! WOULD ANYBODY CARE ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND MY PLIGHT AND HELP

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For the young Man, Michael, the story is different. His father’s support for the marriage has continued to wax strong. This is not to suggest that he was not disturbed by negative vibes the fiancée relayed to him, in view of her Mother’s body language. He was worried, almost devastated. He could not relate clearly with the sudden change of mind, worsened by the inability or refusal of her heart throb’s Mother to offer any explanation.

Being a close friend of the father, as Selina is to her Mother, Michael decided to appeal to his father to intervene. Without much Ado, Mr. Barnabas, Michael’s father, succumbed to the plea of the Son, to reach out to Selina’s Mother. On the self-appointed date, he set out early to Madam Celina’s, using the address, his Son, Michael gave him.

Getting to the address, Mr. Barnabas was surprised by what he met. Against all odds, the woman that he met was somebody he knew and closely too. To say he was thrown aback would be a very subtle manner of presenting an obviously unpalatable, undesirable and uncomfortable situation, but definitely not bad, as he later puts it. There was something he considered ominous, intriguing and paradoxical. Immediately on going in him; was in a way, something he could not easily fathom, explain or rather connect with clearly. Certainly he was not in doubt about who the person he met was. The closer, deeper and intimately, he stared at her, the more profound and assured he was about what and whom he met. The situation that confronted him, was never anything he ever contemplated, imagined, or ever discussed. His surprise, as he later puts it, stemmed from the fact that the person before him, did nothing to assist him. She did not display any sign that showed they ever met, knew each other, or exchanged pleasantries of any kind. This mien disposition of was enough to confuse Mr. Barnabas, considering in particular the fact that the person he knew bore a different name, was of a different background and origin from the brief his Son gave him.

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As an adult, Mr. Barnabas quickly gathered himself, and saw beyond the woman, well aware he was on a mission, one very important at that. Soon after he regained composure, relaxed and overcame her earlier state, the woman’s mood turned to something welcoming, encouraging and appealing. A weak smile, an obviously engaging look and a deep breath that seem to suggest, finally you’re here. These were packaged and delivered to achieve its objective of totally changing the tensed environment and creating a scenario where old memories are resurrected, erotic impressions ignited and heightened, in a manner that the present could be influenced and subdued by a combination of factors, loyal to cupid and the other forces that play a role in emotional cloning of a romantic nature.

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Having gotten the whole situation to what she considered her own control, she quickly behaved in way that painted a picture of whatever you saw or suspected was not intentional, and should not allowed to dictate or rather take us off our focus, even when she exhibited them to show that they matter so much, in the discourse, as time would later reveal.

Madam Celina’s latest behaviour, threw Mr. Barnabas off his feet. He was now in-between busting out in anger, over what he concluded was a deceit of the highest order, going by what he adjudged as Madam Celina’s conflicting identity, the ignorance she feigned when they met, and the enticing display of herself. However, he chose to go ahead with the discussion that brought him. First, for the sake of Michael; and secondly because of what he claimed, he read as Madam Celina’s readiness to talk, to express her concern, and to listen.

Reading accurately, the mood of her guest, and concluding that anything short of settling down for the discourse that brought him, may spill the milk, Madam Celina without wasting time, decided to go straight into the discussion. She opened up to her visitor, Mr. Barnabas, telling him what her challenge was.

After hearing her out, Mr. Barnabas, wondered why the issue she raised and considered fundamental impediment to the proposed marriage of the two love birds should surface. Much as he made deliberate efforts to sway the woman to reason otherwise, she stuck to her gun, expressing her objection and desire to discontinue with the marriage arrangements, between her Daughter and Mr. Barnabas’s Son.

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Story by Nnabugwu Chizoba