The Rural Crush

She took her secret, private smart, latest phone, and started calling him again and again but he never bothered answering her calls, that brought misery in her life as she hardly ate and watched soapies as usual.

She left countless messages in his phone but he never bothered in responding to them.

The thought of her being dumped by the guy broke her down and down, she never imagined her life without him, it was built around his, she just could not stay single, not now not ever😪! 

Finally! Her period came😄, although it came late but the point to her was that it came along. 🤗This was the best news she had ever heard,  and dreamt of after so much time.

Since she was the happiest girl in the world at that time, as soon as she discovered that her period was back, she was a voluntarily- maid girl, she did spring cleaning in the whole house for a whole week.

she cooked daily, did her favourite house chore which was washing dishes, well, she would'nt even lay a complaint about doing that for the whole year, but she did get exhausted, I mean who wouldn’t? 😅

The guy went ahead with ignoring her, passing her as if she wasn’t part of the existing souls on Earth.

That broke her heart, but fortunately for her, she had a brother to lean on, the closest brother she ever had, and one who never judged her, one who was a friend even though he was older than her, his name being “Blessy”, these two were as tight as a glue glued in a shoe.

Time went by, the guy came back again as if nothing had happened, with no apology, no remorse, wanted to carry on where they ended, she really loved the guy so she just melted and agreed to everything, I mean the guy never talked about love but it was always intimacy after intimacy  agh! 

They carried on with that kind of a relationship, she thought it was her boyfriend but on that thought, she wondered why he wanted to meet for sex always, and having briefed conversations, but she let that pass.

Unexpectedly, he, dropped her again, fell for other daughters of Eve, which broke her down again, unfortunately, that is how it all ended, no goodbye nor what, just like that! How sad and heart-breaking😭. 

 She had no other choice but to move on, moving on to her never meant to find and date another guy but it was to forget about him and not show him that she was hardly coping without him, unfortunately, that did not happen, she never forgot about it, she wanted him back because she thought she was in love.

 She remembered a proverb which goes like “Love is blind”, as soon as she recalled that one, she just closed its chapter in her mind and told herself that the guy loved her big time.

She always told herself that after all, her guy is her man, and men are just men, they hardly change because they almost all have the same mentalities, they always want to have more than one girls and that point mended her heart a bit.

Candice tried by all possible means to reach out to him but he just ignored any incoming contact that came from her.

She knelt down on the ground and thanked God that at least she wasn’t pregnant with his baby, otherwise he wouldn’t have taken care of the tender soul.

All that happened when she was only 17. Providentially she had passed, she moved into a higher class, it was her time to explore the age of maturity, the king of freedom age which everyone enjoyed so much.

She was so patient whenever it came to ill-emotional situations, she cried, she really did since she was emotional naturally.

Candice was the type of a young girl that would be over clouded by emotions, burst into tears, run to her bedroom or outside and cry.

By the time she came out of the bedroom, or whenever she came back from wherever she came from, she would be okay, not happy but okay.

It worked for her, I mean we all have ways to deal with the overcrowding of emotions although she was emotional.

She really loved jogging or taking walks just to refresh her mind, she used to do that every evening she got a chance, mostly when she was not okay. She loved space, and am pretty sure everyone does need that “some me time”🤔, so we call it.

The flight of days and weeks are the ones that kept her glued in her so called phone ever since she visited her biological family in the rurals, well not really rurals but not urban settlement either, but livestock was there.

She never knew the value of a family before, as always, she was never comfortable with visiting until she did.

She felt so free to be around her brothers and sisters, she felt natural love that could never go wrong, she felt so free, she felt like flying without wings because of the inner joy she had inside her.

 Her joy was written in her eyes, not because she had cereals to take in the mornings for breakfast or Russians with burgers, sausages and coffee, no!

It was sour porridge, but it was there if it was there, that was food that was always there beyond all capable impossibilities.

She loved the natural feeling of a home, no fights, no hatred, nor rudeness, no nothing, but love was just pouring in like straight water coming from the waterfall. 

He came when she was with her three sisters, he came with his hector to prepare the soil for maize planting.

Since she was from the city of a city, she had no idea of such, it was her first time seeing a hector doing that job, every one of the four girls, included her, had a 5 or 10 litre bucket with maize that they used to plant in the ground, the hector doing the cover-up job.

They had these eye-contact that no one would care to express, it was something inner, he threw his shoes on the ground and Candice cared so much to take them and move all around with them. She had this prayer in her heart that “Oh my God! If only he can just speak to me”. 

She felt unexplainable feelings for him, feelings that she had never ever in her life felt, she forgot about anything and everything behind, her mind was just set straight for the guy. 

it was still morning, the job was completely done, there came a moment when he had to ask for the shoes which Candice  had all along, she thought her heartbeat was about to come out of her mouth because of nervousness, she had never felt like that before.

She took two or three steps to give him what he wanted. He gave her that sweet smile and asked her name, where she stayed, asked for a number and saved it. She felt like going crazy, although she never showed him how she felt.

The guy sent her an sms just after he had left her home for about 3 minutes, telling her about her beauty, she used to blush and all that, one would swear the guy was rich.

I mean she was the type that loved cheesy guys who wore latest unique sneakers,bought from Sportscene or Total Sport, guys who were always up to date with fashion that was her, yellow bone guys.

He texted her asking to meet earlier in the evening, just before sunset, well she couldn’t wait for that, she kept on checking the time, finally!

It was 4 o’clock, she went to the place where they had planned to meet. She walked and walked with her heart beating continuously, it never stopped.

They met, smile, love, happiness was written in their faces, they hugged and set down on the grass and had a very wide chat, they talked about families, relationships and all that, then they kissed out of the blue😎.