LIFE OF STELLA {continuation}

CHAPTER 7

PRESENT DAY, YEAR 2007

Amarachi was more than beautiful. You could mistake her to be the main princess of the marine world. She was as beautiful as the morning sun and as cool as what I could not tell. Her beauty was only what we can imagine alone. Everyone confirmed her beauty and her father could not have desired anything more than his two pretty princesses.

Life was the best for the family until two months later. It was time for Stella to let go off the love of her life. It became hard for her to do that and so she became greedy; so greedy that she wished to go with him. It was then that her parent intercepted. They told her that it doesn’t matter if he is the happiest now, but later on he won’t be happy any longer if he should miss the golden opportunity to do his masters in one of the prestigious universities in America. They told her that if he misses it, he will blame her in the future and she won’t be able to laugh again. Her life will become a living hell and probably she will wish to die. They told her that if they are meant for each other, then no separation can stop their affection for each other and no amount of distance will separate them.

It was after the conversation with her parents that she made up her mind to stop being and acting selfish.

She gave birth to her daughter on the 17th of February, 2007 and the next month she called Damian to have an alone conversation with him. She proposed that he should grant the admission letter into Harvard University. Damian was bitter and offended.

“Are you tired of me, he asked her but she said no that he doing that is for the betterment of all of them.

“I am scared that you will get to regret no going later in future, I am scared that it will turn out to be a wrong choice for our family if this opportunity should pass us. It is rare for Harvard University to pick a Nigerian students to offer an admission to, Stella told him

“I know that dear but I am not bold to let go off you and my little princess, Damian said

“Even me, I am not happy to send you off to another country to study. I am not happy that we won’t be seeing you for a while, but God knows all. Maybe he wants to taste our passion for each other. Maybe he want to taste our love, to see if our love can shake the many cities and country to reach each other, Stella said trying to convince him that it is the right choice for them.

“I am not leaving you guys to go to anywhere; this is my home and my happiness is with my girls, Damian said in midst tears. I was about to tell him to stay with us but then my parents entered the room. My dad was pissed off with the way we were both talking and thinking like children. He dragged Damian out of the room and gave him a slap. I was sad that he has to receive a slap just for him to listen but he still turned deaf ears.  I was crying so bitterly trying to loose myself off my mother’s tight hold.

“Take her into the room and put some sense into her skull, my dad shouted at my mom for the first time. My mom dragged me into the room so that my dad to have enough chance to talk to Damian. I don’t know what he told him that made him to finally agree to leave for the city.

Damian left to the airport the next month. He left us with some money and pleaded with my parents to take care of both I and our child. My dad agreed and made him to know that I am also his child. It was painful to let go off the one that your heart yearns for so I let it out by trying like a child. That didn’t stop Damian from travelling to oversea. He promised to call all everyday and he kept to his words.  We never lacked hearing his voice for the first 5 years that he was there. He always sent us goodies and money and in one of his visits he brought us a laptop and that was when Amarachi was 3 years old. He stayed with us for a year before he left for work again. He got work in one of the biggest game companies in UK where he worked as there head programmers. He told us through Skype that he was developing software which he will launch as soon as he finds an investor and so our whole family started fasting and praying for him to find a good and promising investor who will be there to assist and help him grow his company. That kind of investor my dad called an angel investor.

He promised to come back to Nigeria as soon as he gets the investor so that we will be in America with him for the launching of the company and software. I was happy that soon our family will be together again.

After 4 months he called us and announced good news to us; he said that he got investors but they have not yet signed the contract. He added that they were still going through his proposal, he told us to pray for him and we did.  We sent out prayer requests to the church and to our friends. Prayers were made on his head and to the Glory of God he called us and told us that the signed it. He said that soon he will have everyone with him there. That day was a happy day for us, we laughed, sang and did merry, and of course he spoke with all of us for the whole day.