SWEET REVENGE OF AN EXGIRLFRIEND Episode 1

SWEET REVENGE OF AN EXGIRLFRIEND
Episode 1
Love! Love!! Love!!!
Some people will say, "don't fall in love with your
heart, but fall with your brain".
I think the latter will be more applicable
especially when the relationship has not yet being
defined.
"Today, I must visit Linda in that house she is
wasting her life thinking she is waiting for an
invisible marriage proposal. What is even wrong
with her? She keeps turning down important
suitors coming her way all because of that
nonentity. I must go there uninvited" Linda's step
sister, Mercy says, preparing to visit her at her
boyfriend's house.
Linda had been dating her boyfriend, Fred for 9
years, and it had dipped her family members into
massive state of worries, especially her mother.
She was loosing herself on why her daughter kept
turning down marriage proposals of well
respectable suitors that had been coming for her
hand in marriage. Her elder step sister, Mercy
took it upon herself to knock some senses into
her, but Linda was always pulling stubborn
whenever it came to Fred's issue.
"The door bell rings"
"Who could that be? I'm not expecting anyone"
Linda wonders, heading towards the door: "Who is
there?" She asks
"Linda, open the door, its me, your sister" Mercy
answers
"Mercy? You are here? You did not notified me
before coming?"
"Linda, allow me to come in first before bathing
me with questions" Mercy says.
And Linda ushered her in, shivering in fear.
"Why are you panicking like you saw a ghost? Or
am I now a ghost?" Mercy asks wandering her
eyes all over her sister's body.
"Um....not like that sister.. just that I was not
expecting you and........and......"
"But I am here now" Mercy interrupts her: "Let's
go inside please. I need to drink chilled water"
Mercy says, entering inside
"Why is she here? She is certainly going to create
a misunderstanding for me and my boyfriend. I
will make sure she leaves before Fred returns."
Linda says, heading inside.
Mercy who was thirsty opened the fridge to to
grab a bottle of water and was astonished on the
sets of food she found in the freezer.
"Oow, my sister is already living like a wife when
nothing has been done on her head." She says to
herself, wandering her eyes all over the house.
When she got to the laundry stand, she noticed
the heep of clothes Linda was about to wash and
shook her head
"Linda, this is enough! Did you hear me? This is
enough! When will you receive sense?"
"Sister, I don't understand. You just came to my
house and start shouting at me, what is the
problem?" Confused Linda asks
"Linda, did you just call this place your house?
Listen, here can only be your house when Fred
finally marries you. I'm pitying you, sister. You
are totally blind that you are not seeing the clear
image on the wall. Fred is not ready to give this
your relationship a meaning. You are here
washing clothes for him, cleaning the whole
house, cooking different kinds of delicacies for
him, sitting at the house all day doing nothing,
waiting for him to return and serve him. Linda,
are you not even ashamed of yourself? What
happened to your sense of reasoning?"
"Mercy, I knew that your coming here will only
add more matters to my worries. Its my
friendship, so allow me to deal with it in my own
way.
Fred had already promised to marry me, just that
he pleaded with me to give him more time to
arrange himself before hitting on marriage.
So Mercy, I would like you to stop bothering me
with this issue of marriage. Fred and I love each
other, he will marry me when the time deems
right for him. So, I would like you to stop
pestering me with it, please"
While Linda was expressing herself, Mercy was
busy looking at her tommy and how frail she was
looking.
"Is Linda pregnant?" She tried asking her, but
decided to keep mute, since she was already
flared up: "Anyway, let me observe her closely
first before throwing the question" she said to
herself and continued: "Linda, I did not come here
to incite your anger, I'm only saying all these
things just because I care.
Mother is busy worrying herself out with so many
irrelevant things. If she is not worrying that
maybe, you are an "Ogbanje", she worries that
maybe her enemies are working overtime in your
life.
You are not getting any younger, Sis, so
everybody is worried."
"Mercy, I will get married when the time is right,
simple." Linda snaps, entering the living room and
lied on the sofa.
Mercy was still observing her. She joined her in
the living room and they started watching a
program on the television.
40 minutes later, Mercy asked Linda to give her
something to eat, that she was hungry.
"Mercy, seriously, I am very weak.
You can go to the kitchen and serve yourself."
Linda says
"You are weak? But its too early to be feeling
weak or is there something else going on?"
"Like what?" Linda snaps
Mercy went closer to her and quickly touched her
stomach.
"What are you doing?" Linda asks, slapping out
her hand.
"Linda, your stomach is strong, are you
pregnant!" Mercy asks with sheer curiosity
"Ooom! What is all these now? Mercy, I think you
should start going, and besides I don't want Fred
to meet you here, he will be returning home any
moment" Linda fumes and suddenly got herself.
She never knew when that statement slipped from
her mouth.
Fred had warned Linda to stop inviting her
siblings over to his house, that each time they
visited, they incited her against him with marriage
issues, and they will end up having
misunderstandings.
"What did you just say? You mean your boyfriend
will be mad at you if he sees me in his house?"
Mercy surprises.
"Its not what I meant, please. You are getting me
wrong.
You said you are hungry right, don't worry let me
get you something to eat." Linda says, heading to
the kitchen as dumbfounded Mercy continued
looking at her while she left.
"Now, I see! This guy does not want to have
anything to do with our family. He does not want
to commit himself. And this my foolish sister is
blindly loving him. No, I won't remain quiet, I
must tell her this, I must" she gaited to the
kitchen and spat out her mind whether Linda
would like it or not.
"Linda, I have something to say, and I don't care
if you will feel angry about it or not but I have to
say it....
Linda, its now clear that Fred does not want to
have anything to do with our family, he does not
want to commit himself at all. Do you know why?
Because he does not want anybody to blame him
or point an accusing finger at him if he ends up
not marrying you."
"Mercy, I have seen you won't shut up."
"How can I keep shut when a man is busy playing
with my beautiful sister's life"
"OK, so what are you suggesting I should do?"
Linda asks
"Linda, just call him, sit him down and calmly ask
him when he will be coming to see your family"
Mercy suggests
"And?" Linda asks, carelessly paying attention to
what Mercy was saying. She only tried to get her
busy talking so that she won't suspect she was
pregnant.
"And if he fails to give you a satisfactory answer,
you then hit the door and call it a quit. You have
important men lying up for you, don't waste your
time with him"
"Is that all?" Linda asks
"Linda, it looks like you are not paying attention
to all I have been saying?"
"What did you mean by that? I asked you, 'is that
all'?"
"Hmm, that's all for now, I am only being
concerned, that's all".
"Mercy, do you think I haven't done all that? But
he kept giving me a satisfactory answer, that he
will be coming to marry me soon"
"OK, I understand that, but don't you think living
here with him is quite odd? If you keep living with
him, he might no longer value your worth and
might end up not marrying you"
"Enough! I said enough!! What is all these? I
won't tolerate you splashing negative words
against my relationship. If not that you are my
sister, I would have walked you out of this house.
In fact, I'm not preparing the food for you again.
And please don't bother me again. What
nonsense! You are married, go and face your own
family and leave my love life alone" Linda flares,
hissing loudly and then left the kitchen. She
doesn't like using her ear to hear negative things
about her relationship with Fred.
The way she reacted pinched Mercy in the heart,
she then thought that she had overstayed her
welcome and decided to leave.
"Linda, I am going, and I am so sorry for showing
much concern. Just take care" she said heading
towards the door, hoping that Linda would feel
remorse for how she shouted at her, and called
her back but she didn't. She even felt glad that
she was finally leaving.
As she reached the door, Fred was about pressing
the doorbell.
"Good morning" she greeted him with a long face
and walked passed him.
"Oh no, this is what I was afraid off, now he will
think that I was the one who called her to give
me advice on what to do about the pregnancy"
Linda fears in her heart.
"And that? She came here?" Fred asks
"No Sweet, its not what you think, she came on
her own accord. Didn't you see the sad look on
her face? I gave it to her the way she wanted it
and she couldn't endure it and decided to leave"
Linda explains
"Hmm, Linda, I told you I don't like any of your
siblings to be pock nosing into our lives, they
only know how to create problems for us and fill
your mind with negative things" Fred says,
entering inside..
"And that reminds me, whats your final decision
about the pregnancy? You told me last night that
you will think about it?" Fred asks
"Sweet, I can't do it. I have decided to keep this
pregnancy. If I decide to go for another abortion,
it will be making it the fifth time, and besides you
have promised to marry me, what's the need of
terminating this one?"
"Baby, it's not like I'm asking you to go for an
abortion, the pregnancy is still tender, all you
need is just to take some pills and it will be
flushed out. I have promised to marry you, and I
will never change my mind on that, but you have
to give me more time. I'm not yet ready for
marriage, now. Please, give me a little more
time."
"Yes, I know and I accepted to give you all the
time you want, but having the child won't stop
anything, I have come to the conclusion that I
won't be terminating it."
"Linda! If you won't terminate the pregnancy, just
know that anything that happens afterwards will
be none of my business. So if you decide on
keeping it, that will your own decision to make
and not mine" Fred irks, walking out from her, as
Linda gets confused, looking at him.
.
To be continued..
Written by: Ngozi Lovelyn O.
Brought to you by: Danoskie
Episode 2 will come to you tomorrow morning.
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