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Why do I have to go through this,why must my vulnerability be taken advantage of. Chiamaka muttered to herself as tears rolled down her chin ,she has already turned pale and her eyes swollen, she has been like this the whole day and her mum was beginning to get scared, she had to call Ozioma Amaka's aunty.
Soon her aunty arrived,she could hear Amaka's sobbing from the sitting room, she droped her hand bag on the couch and quickly made her way to Amaka's room. She has always been a caring aunty.
Immediately Amaka saw her, she rushed to her and buried her face on her shoulder, she was broken and couldn't hold back the tears that kept coming.
"It's okay my dear, don't cry, dry your tears her aunty said as she wiped her tears with her hands.
"Come sit", Aunty Ozioma said as she held her hand and they both sat on the bed.
Do you want to talk about it? I'm all ears".
"Firstly,tell me how you met this guy, what's his name again? "Prince"she answered.
"Go on, you will feel better after sharing" Ozioma said encouraging her to speak.
"His name is Prince and I met him on Facebook. we became friends after he sent me a request and I accepted, we got talking and I learnt he was from our tribe but from a different community.
we started going out, along the line I started noticing that he lied about a lot of things, like his work place,he told me he worked in a company as a supervisor.
I got to find out that he wasn't even a confirmed staff, he was on contract and earns very little of what he made me believe.
I never saw his pay cheque because he always have this excuse of how the company is owing him and some others.
Aunty, can you believe he also lied about his community. Initially, he told me he was from Omofo, only for me to find out he was from Egamini.
I never doubted him because he spoke in Omofo dialect and we mostly communicated in English.
After I found out and he couldn't hide it any more he apologized and gave some excuses why he had to lie.
He later arranged for me to meet his people.
I met his whole family and they seem to be nice people, I was welcomed into the family and we left the next day.
Aunty, I have gone through a lot in his hands, i thought I was building something with him.
"It's okay my darling, life happens to everyone"
There was one time,I had access to his phone, we were looking at pictures together then a particular picture caught my attention, so I asked him who it was and he told me the lady in the picture is his sister.
To my greatest surprise,that was his ex girlfriend as he claimed when everything blew in the open. How did I find out, this particular lady chatted me on Facebook introducing herself as princes' wife. Telling me to leave him alone that he is married to her.
After hearing all of this I decided to let him go, but then he started begging and pleading to come back through my friend because I blocked him everywhere and he couldn't access me except through that friend of mine.
Mercy my friend was pleading on his behalf, so I started having conversations with him through her
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Yesterday, it happened that my friend got a new phone,and I was checking out the features and eventually logged into her Facebook. I saw her chats with my boyfriend.
" Eh eh, for real? Aunty Ozioma asked." For real aunty" chiamaka replied as she continued to narrate the story.
You know I was surprised because I never knew they had gone beyond phone calls.
I read through the chats and found out he was actually asking her out and she was entertaining him. He told her he loved her, he just kept professing his love to her .
That broke me totally and I just can't stop crying because I have given that relationship my all and to think that my own friend betrayed me is something I cannot get over.
"So sorry you had to go through all that" Ozioma said patting her gently on the back.
It is well, you Know it is good that it ended now, what if you had gone into marriage with him and found this out after you had married him.
Wipe your tears and forget about him, he doesn't deserve you,you know. Now go get dressed we are going out baby girl she said while dragging her to her feet.
Chiamaka reluctantly got up, had her bath and went out with her aunty .
Maybe I will feel more better after this she thought to herself.
