HE SAID NO.
EPISODE 25
Amifel was at Elegantè couture with Esther, one of her clients whose wedding was fast approaching. Esther asked that Amifel follow her alongside her sister to shop for her wedding dress and Amifel agreed.
They were on the topmost floor of the famous Elegantè couture, the view from up there was incredible. Different gorgeous designs of glistering white wedding dresses were displayed on the expensive-looking dummies.
“How do I look?” Esther said as she swirled around in front of one of the full-length mirrors. She was trying on a beautiful ball white dress with shiny speckles of stones dispersed all around the upper part of her dress, the lower part which started from her waist was bogus, making it look like lots of things wereee stuffed underneath the dress.
“You look amazing,” Amifel said excitedly, “Like Cinderella!” she added almost immediately, her sister facial expression showed that she did not quite agree with them as her eyes scanned through the hallway for other wedding dresses.
“Why don’t you try this,” her sister offered, pointing to another dress which looked somewhat like what she was putting on, however the lower part of the gown was ruffled and the shiny speckles weren’t as clumsy as the first one.
She decided to try it on,
“Now you look like a beautiful Disney princess,” her sister smiled satisfactorily while folding her arms.
“What do you think?” Esther asked, turning to Amifel.
“It’s beautiful too,” Amifel smiled, trying to sound enthusiastic, she preferred the previous one she wore.
“Let’s check some more but I have my eyes on this one,” Esther said to the female attendant who was taking them around. Amifel was already getting tired of walking around. For more than half an hour, they kept trying on some more dresses, they later decided to settle for the one her sister chose.
The female attendant asked them to go over to the receptionist while she removed the dress from the dummy. Amifel moved to the corridor, the sight from there was a beauty to behold, she could see people walking to and from the big premise, through the glass slides.
Her eyes fell on a dark-skinned lady walking out of the exquisite hall with a big white gown folded underneath her arm, a fresh and handsome looking young man on suit walked right behind her wearing dark shades. He was tall and fair-skinned and his broad chest made him look like a Nollywood actor.
“Awwwn, such cute couples,” she smiled as she leaned slightly on the glass shield to catch a better view. The lady’s back view looked like someone she knew, she brushed the thought aside but she could not help but stare at her, her skin shone in the midday sun. As the young man collected the gown from her and opened the door to a white SUV which was supposedly his, the young lady turned back momentarily and that was when she saw her face.
“Blessing!” she said aloud, Blessing had already taken her seat in front of the car while the young man reversed the car as they slowly made their way out of the premise.
Running down to meet them wasn’t an option, they would definitely have zoomed out before she gets down.
“Blessing is getting married?” she asked herself, wondering why she has been hiding it from them, or maybe Grace knows about it, but she would have told her, she thought to herself, the whole thing looked confusing to her.
“Amifel, let’s go,” Esther called from afar.
“That’s her business, “she said to herself as she walked towards them.
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Grace was working on her laptop when she heard a knock on the door, she left what she was doing to get it.
“Amifel, what’s up,” she asked, surprised. Amifel hurried in like something was chasing her as she dropped her bag on the table.
“Grace is getting married!”
“How did you know that,” Grace said as she sat on her bed before placing her laptop back on her lap.
“You don’t look too surprised, ”
“Well, maybe a little, did she finally tell you?”
“It’s like you know about it before now?”
“Uhmm, I sort of guessed, but I wasn’t sure,”
“I saw her at Elegantè couture with her fiancé,” Amifel explained as she sat down beside Grace.
“Really? I hope it’s not another married man?”
“I doubt, the man I saw looked somewhat young and classy too, but why is she hiding such a thing from us?” Amifel asked she sounded pained.
“Amifel, why are you stressing yourself unnecessarily?”
“I thought we were friends, are we supposed to hide such things from each other?”
Grace put her laptop aside before facing Amifel.
“I saw her earlier this week when I came home from work and I heard her talking about some wedding cake for her big day. “she explained.
“We both know that nobody would hide such good news, without reasons. She definitely has her reasons, and it’s her life. She might eventually tell us when she thinks the time is right, and she might not. Either way, it’s her life, lets just keep praying for her.” She concluded before carrying her laptop again.
“I don’t know why I feel so hurt, but you are right sha, she would be fine,” Amifel concluded.
“Keep praying for her,” Grace repeated. “What were you doing at Elegantè? I heard it’s a badass shop for classy wears,”
“I followed a client to shop for her wedding dress. Mehn, that place is dope, the gowns are to die for, I really can’t wait to get married” Amifel said.
“Don’t worry babe, very soon, very very soon.” Grace comforted her.
“Amen!” Amifel said, lying on the bed while staring at the ceiling with longings in her eyes,
To be continued…
Written by Sodamade Olamide Tolulope.
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