Engaged to the Wrong Man Episode 1 [A TRUE LIFE STORY]

Story written by Igbokweuche Chidinma

Prologue 

Its five hours to my wedding and I am still two hours away from the occasion. Yes, you heard me right! two hours away and I am not even sure I want to go to the venue at all. You might be wondering why a girl won’t want to be at her wedding, it’s not as if I was forced into the marriage, Nahh, I said yes on my own, no pressure from any one at all. But today, I doubt I want to say those vows with my fiancée. How did I get to this decision? What made me change my mind? Well, its kind of a long story but we still have 4 hours, 50minutes before the wedding.

July 20^th 2013

I glare with frustration at my dress, it won’t just iron. I don’t get the problem with this dress. This is like the fourth time I am ironing it and I am already late. With anger I dropped the iron mistakenly on my dress. Before I realized my mistake it was too late- the cloth was burnt. That’s it! I give up. I am not going for this wedding again- Like I could miss it even if I wanted to. One of my closest friends in school is getting married today and I must be there. She had already forgiven me for not being in her bridal train, she won’t forgive me for missing the wedding. So I started looking for another cloth. I decided on a short red dress I bought a month ago with strappy sandals. Thank God it doesn’t need ironing. I began the ritual of makeup before I wore my clothes and left the house. Luckily, the bus stop was very close to my place.

The setting of the reception was a table of four with grey and pink decorations. So I found a convenient seat in the middle and sat down. Few minutes later two guys and a girl came and joined me. After few seconds I concluded that one of the guys was dating the other girl on the table, their PDA was a little too much. 

“so Hi, I am Daniel” the other guy said to me 

“Oh, ok I am Jenny” I replied

“So which of the couple do you know?”

“I am friends with the bride, actually we are classmates”

“Ok, the groom is my co worker.”

“So why are you sitting alone? No friends to hook up with?”

“Most of my friends are bridesmaids”

“Ok, I guess there is a good reason why you not a bridesmaid then.”

“Yeah there is an embarrassing reason why.”

“One day you will tell me the story.”

I just smiled, what made the guy think I will tell him the story another day, I mean how come he was so sure we will meet again?

We continued to discuss about random things, school stuffs, his works, my likes and dislikes, movies I love and so on. Before we knew it, it was time to present gifts to the couple. We went together. When my friend saw us, she just smiled, drew me closer and said “don’t let him go without him asking for your number”. 

Back to our seats we continued our discussions. When the reception came to an end, I picked up my purse ready to go, he also stood and escorted me out.

“So, will you be going to the cub tonight with others?” He asked 

The couple had earlier invited all their close friends for an after party at the club, honestly I didn’t want to go but I had no excuse to give my friend.

“Not if I can help it, I am not so interested in the all night loud music.”

“Same here, I was planning to go see a movie at the cinema later tonight, why don’t you join me?”

“Emm, ok maybe, let me get home first.”

“Alright then, I really enjoyed your company today, I really hope you will join me; just give me your contact, the movie starts by 9:30pm. I will call you before then.”

So I gave him my contact and left. 

I already knew I was going to go see the movie with him. So I took my phone and texted Cindy

Sorry love, I will be missing the after party, going to see a movie with Daniel

 Few seconds later she replied

Omg! going to the movies already? Hmm I am already looking at the styles I would sew for the wedding *winks* enjoy yourself and I want to hear all about it later 

 Typical Cindy, she had different styles of asoebi she had picked for almost every guy she had seen me with.

 

By 8:30pm, Daniel called and we decided he would come pick me, as it was going to be a little difficult for me to get a taxi by that time since it was weekend; So I texted him my address. By 9pm he was there.

After the movie we went to a sit out near the cinema and ordered for soft drinks, it was still too early to go back- no, we were reluctant to go. Honestly we were enjoying each other’s company a lot.

As we waited for the waiter to bring our drink, I took time to study him, I realized he was a devastatingly handsome man. He was close to 6ft 3inches tall, fair, a little bit macho and had an incredible brown eyes. OMG! Daniel was hot. I was shocked I was just realizing this now. I had spent the whole day with him and never really saw how cute he was. I noticed he was good looking when he sat next to me at the reception, but I didn’t know he was smoking hot!.

He cleared his throat as the waiter arrived with the drinks.

“So what’s the verdict?” He said

I looked at him quizzically “what verdict?”

“You have been studying me for the past 5 minutes, so I want to know the verdict”

“Sorry” I stuttered 

“No need, I just want to know the verdict.”

“Emm, you have the most incredible eyes I have ever seen, anyways I don’t think I am the first person to tell you that.”

“No, you are not, but  I loved hearing you say it. Well is that the only thing?”

“You already know you are handsome, what again do you want to hear?”

He smiled “I wanted to hear you say it, I love how you talk, you have the softest voice ever”

I flushed “thank you”

“You're welcome and you are also very beautiful.”

“Thank you again”

After talking for 30 minutes he took me back to my place.

“ I would love to see you again jenny”

“Ok, Call me then”

“Alright I will, goodnight”

“Goodnight”

On Monday morning I rushed off for my lecture; I don’t know how I overslept and  I don’t even live inside the campus so getting to my department took longer.

I barely made to my lecture hall before the lecturer came.

“Good morning all, I will be lecturing you for the next one month, Energy Economics, I am a specialist in the area and your department has hired me on contract to handle the course."

“I know that voice, I have heard that voice before! noo it can’t be him.” I looked up and saw Daniel looking directly at me.

Oh! He knew he was going to be my lecturer… Damn!!!

……to be continued