After having talked with Mrs Smith for a while, I decided to return back to Aunt Vicky's ward. She was still with her friends, gistinng, and Jessica was also still in her sitting position, where I left her. She had consumed her own breakfast, what I brought. I knew she would, she only needed space and after getting it she fed herself. Nice one, hunger knew no stubbornness. Next time I would stay and see how she would starve herself. Although, she could opt to go out and get herself something to eat, after all she had the money. Her mom used to give us money to carter for our basic needs from time to time. Although now, I wouldn't ne collecting anything from Aunty Vicky even if she tried forcing me to collect it. Yes, I had money to take good care of myself for months, plus I would be receiving salary every month of the year regardless of whether I went to work or not. That means, I wouldn't be needing any financial help from anybody for now. Unless if I wanted to add to what I already had, which I guess wouldn't be a crime. Of course not, after all it's good to make more.
Frank was really amazing, and I was lucky to have him. He was thr kind of person that would practically do anything to make me happy. The company was really his as at the moment, it was his father's but look how he was spending on me! What if the company later becomes his? Well, I guess I would be among the richest women in the world. I am not trying to say I will enrich myself or force him to make me rich, nay! Frank was the type that loved spending on the people he loved. Hence, I believed if we eventually get married he would spend for me. But if he didn't, I wouldn't mind because... after all it wasn't as if I would get married to him because of his money. Nay, I wasn't that kind of a person. The love I had for him was really, very real and I had never felt that way for any man in my life before. He was handsome, cuteness overload, and he was nice, generous, strong... he was my knight in a shining armor, my king, my prince, my love, my everything.
One funny thing about our relationship was that, his parents didn't know about it. They were yet to come back from their trip, and might be held where they were for quite some time as the place was now facing a pandemic. Another thing was that, he was yet to propose to me. I wouldn't blame him for that though because I wasn't giving him face to do that. We were actually yet to officially confess our feelings for each other or officially accept each other. We were more like friends in love, or perhaps more than friends or unofficial lovers yet to become officials. Also, we had never made love. I mean, we had never been intimate for once since we had known each other. Unlike other relationships that a man and a woman would start sleeping with each other, Frank never attempted to do that and I had no regards for it as well. I used to be very careful around him, not that I didn't trust him but because it would be better if I protect myself. Anything can possibly happen, and we – human beings are weak sometimes, especially in terms of feelings and s*xual desire. There was no way we could protect ourselves from those two things without being careful.
Sometimes though, regardless of how careful one is he might end up being tricked. Just like in the case of Jessica, although I wouldn't say she was careful... however she was also tricked into involving into some kind of s*xuak contact. Although I wasn't really sure about what exactly happened, but I believed in one thing, something had happened between them and I hoped to know about it some day. Right now, I wouldn't dare ask her about it. She would definitely be pissed off and that might severe the already trembling relationship between us despite the fact we were cousin sisters. I would patiently wait for her to one day confess to me about whatever happened between her and Reade. I would really be glad to hear that. But what if Reade himself had told Lorraine about it? Perhaps I should ask Lorraine but would she be willing to share the story with me? I didn't know cops with sharing information, they would must likely call it confidential. However Lorraine was kind of different and I believed if I asked her she would tell me. Hence, I decided on our next meeting, hopefully I would try and ask her about it. If I was lucky, she would gist me everything, but if I wasn't then she would deny being told anything about whatever happened between him and Jessica on the day of the festival.
Talking about the day of the festival, I would be glad if the festival is banned. I mean, why continue with something that had already lost its course? The festival was meant to be a peaceful protest, or so I thought, not an avenue to enjoy life and break into people's store or snatch away people's valuable items from them. I nearly lost my phone when someone snatched it away from me on the day of the festival. Although I was so lucky to retrieve it back from him but it wasn't easy. I had to run after him like I had never run before. I was really happy to catch up with him at a dead end. After getting my phone bay, I was supposed to return home but I still went on with Jessica and her friends. I was so blind that I didn't really care much about the consequences of following them. But if I hadn't meet them on that bridge and headed to the Mainland with them, then I wouldn't have met Frank. Yes, I met him while trekking... on my way back home after having been left for good by Jessica and her friends. I was really upset. But gladly, I met Frank and now I would be happy if we get married as soon as possible. That way I wouldn't have to worry about losing him. Although problems could arrive even after getting married to him, such as in the case of Mrs Smith and her husband, Mr Smith.
Or in the case of Rita and Mr John. Those two, even after having two handsome kids they were still having issues, but what exactly could be the problem? From what I could tell, it was more like a major conjugal issue. Like inability to fulfill partner's s*xual desire. But it might also be something else, who knows. And also, knows how perfect their relationship was and how perfect their matrimonial life was from the onset before it all turned out into what it was now. Sometimes if I think about how the table might turn after getting married to Frank, I would somehow feel bad. Even though I had huge trust on Frank, he would definitely not turn my hands down. Or so I thought. But if he did, that would be the end of trusting people. I would never ever trust any man again if Frank tries betraying me in the future. I would also stay far away from him, and from Aunt Vicky too because... I believe Jessica would make fun of me. She definitely would. But hopefully, that wouldn't be happening. I wouldn't want that to happen and I would always try as much as I could to make sure it doesn't happen through constant prayers. I thought to myself.
While Aunt Vicky continued with her conversation, I parked all the used tableware and returned them back into the basket. Hence, I left en route home. While on my way home, I decided to branch into one of the grocery stores to buy some chocolates. But just as I stepped in, I couldn't believe what my eyes just landed on. It was one of my lecturers from the college, Dr. Vikram. I quickly ran over to him and greeted him. He was also surprised to see me, although at first he looked as if he didn't know who I was. But perhaps a quick thought, he recognized me.
"Laura, right?" he wrinkled a brow at me with a befitting smile on his face. It had really been a long time since we last met and to be honest he had grown older than he was before. How time flies. He was a one time head of our department before he got promoted to dean, but despite his promoting he never stopped taking his time to tutor us. He was such a good man with a golden heart and would often advise us to pay more attention to our studies in order for us to have good grades, better job, and overwhelming future.
Sadly, I did well in my studies but here I was. If it wasn't for Frank, I mean if I hadn't met him then perhaps I would have still been jobless. But fortunately for me, God brought Frank my way. However I learned one thing about getting a job, while it is good to study well or thoroughly, getting a well paying job after school isn't always guaranteed.
"Yes, it's me Laura!" I said beaming at him too.
"Wow, Laura, it's nice to see you again!" he said.
"It's nice to see you too sir" I uttered.
Thus, he asked if I was living in Cornfield and I told him I relocated not long ago. Surprisingly, he had also relocated from Vincity shortly after his retirement but he never knew he would ever see me in Cornfield. He asked why I relocated and I told him my parents died, and after their death my aunt – who was living here invited me to live with her to which I did. He was sad to hear about my parents' demise, "Condolences!" he said as we both walked around the grocery store picking the things we came to shop for.
I was really glad to see him. He told me his retirement came unexpected, he had a very big issue with the college's management board and they summoned him to face panel. During the panel, they asked him to confess to things he had no knowledge on, it was about some missing funds. But then he refused to comply because he wasn't the one that steal the funds. For that reason, he was forced to retire. After having been forced to retire, he and his family decided to relocate to Cornfield as living in the city wasn't really cheap.
Here, the taxes were low and same goes to the bills. I was so sad to hear such a story from him, it was really heart touching. I didn't really expect a scholar like him to end that way. I was curious as to the kind of work he was doing currently, hence I asked him thr work he was engaged into right now and he told me he was rendering an online class for Premium Online University. A university that was recently launched with a single office in the capital city. It had no campus, no classes, no hall, lecture theatre or auditorium, everything was just online.
Even the lecturers were from different parts of the country and usually teach their students online. The students too were from different parts of the world. According to him, the pay wasn't much. However, it was enough to carter for his new life in Cornfield. He praised countryside life and had been contacting some of his friends from the city, those that would love to apply and also become lecturers at the online university.
