This is a continuation of 2 Major Ways Of Protecting And Securing Your Relationship Against External Attack – Part 1. The third and final part of it will be published next week, on May 15, 2019. Keep a date with me.
I loved my girlfriend, Anne, so much, yet I granted Nneka her request. I know you can guess correctly why I did so. Wouldn’t you?
A few days after my meeting with Nneka at the bank, she gave me an appointment to meet her at a popular hotel in Enugu. To ensure that I didn’t fail that appointment, she offered me some money to pay my fare, from our school in Nsukka, to Enugu.
It was a fun-filled day at Enugu. Apart from us consummating our new relationship there, that meeting offered an ample opportunity to discuss more and relax more without any form of hindrance. We spent close to twelve hours there before returning to our campus in Nsukka in the evening.
For about three years that I dated Nneka at UNN secretly, Anne never had a clue about it. She never suspected me nor Nneka of any foul play against her either.
There were three factors that made my secret affair with Nneka very difficult for Anne to discover.
- Nneka was always around with Anne at school, especially when I had no appointment with any of them;
- Both Nneka and Anne usually discussed things in common, as well as confide issues of love and sex between themselves;
- And three, Nneka usually took Anne out for shopping to buy things for her.
I was shocked when Nneka proposed, at the beginning of our last year at school, to marry me. Do you know what she said when I told her that I had already promised Anne marriage?
She said: “Forget about her! The time of boy-and-girlfriend is gone! Now is the time of seriousness; the time of marriage. Again, you and i come from the same region of this country, Anambra State, while she’s from Delta State.”
To show me that she was serious about her marriage proposal, she invited me to another hotel in Enugu for us to discuss the matter.
It was a different ball-game when I met her in Enugu. While I was expecting to hear what she had to tell me, she said: “I want us to move to a better hotel in Abuja, where we can discuss better.
After discussing and enjoying ourselves at the Abuja hotel, she drove me to her parents mighty family house at the Guzape area. I was highly and well-received by her parents, whom, I suspected, she must have discussed me with.
As we were preparing to return to school in Nsukka, her father invited me to his home-office and offered me a personal cheque of N2M (two million naira). The cheque was duly written and signed by him in his own handwriting.
When I asked what that money represented, he said: “I learnt you’ll be completing your course at the university later this year. Use the money to get yourself an accommodation while scouting for a job.” That was what finally turned my interest and attention away from Anne.
On my return to school with Nneka, I became desperate on how to severe my relationship with Anne. The more I tried to do that, the more I felt guilty. The more I remembered the advice offered Okonkwo, the major character in Things fall Apart: “Do not to have a hand in the death of a boy who calls you ‘father.'”
A few weeks before leaving the university, Nneka called me on phone to inform me that her father had secured a beautiful accommodation for me in Abuja. After that information, she started making arrangements for us to leave Nsukka together, as soon we were through with our exams.
When that day finall came, both of us travelled in her car to her family house in Abuja, without leaving a clue for Anne. On our arrival in Abuja, Nneka’s father led us happily to the house he rented for me. After taking us round the place, he then handed over, to me, all the keys and all the documents pertaining to the place.
When I requested for a bank account for me to return the N2M he offered me earlier, since he had secured a house for me, he said: “Keep it for your use while running about for a job.”
Two weeks later, my father-in-law to-be, also assisted me to secure a lucrative job at an indigenous telecommunication company, there in Abuja.
As soon as all that processes were completed, Nneka and l walked down the aisle to say ‘I do’, ‘I do’to each other. And today, we are still in that relationship. To God be the glory!
Keep a date with me for the third and concluding part in this series, 2 Major Ways Of Protecting And Securing Your Relationship Against External Attack – Part 3
…to be continued next week
