It was my sister's wedding and I was busy working, my job is the type that customers can walk in anytime. Imagine not working for a few days and you are planning to travel, suddenly a customer can just show up at your shop and gave you a big contract to make hair for people for an event. Which means I have to travel for work.
Would you prefer to leave the job for the wedding or choose your sister's wedding over the job? At this point I was confused I don't want to disappoint my sister and I needed the job to secure the connection.
One thing about my family is that we don't judge each other but there are times when we get really upset with one another. We are ten in the family excluding my dad and sibling who passed away a long time ago.
We get into arguments from time to time and I guess that's because we have lots of female children in the family but that doesn't take away the love we have for ourselves.
We normally have two-stage of wedding in our country which is an introduction where the two families will first meet themselves and an engagement where dowry plus other rites will be done.
The wedding started on Friday and I have so much work from that same Friday till Sunday because as a hairdresser my work usually starts from Thursday down to Sunday so how do I explain that to my close sister of mine?
And the work has to be done in another state which means I will be traveling.
But instead of disappointing her with no explanation I called her on the phone,
"Hello sis", I said after she picked up.
She replied, "Baby sister, where are you now?".
My heart pounded so hard because I don't know how to explain the whole thing to her but I summoned the courage to do so.
"Sis, what happened is that I have plenty of work this weekend and I don't think I will come early to the wedding", I told her the situation of things.
She replied, "So that means you will miss my wedding?"
I said, "No, sis but..."
She didn't let me explain more before she press the red button on her phone. I don't have a choice but to call my mom so that she could help me explain to her but I was shocked that nobody wants to listen to what I had to say.
I couldn't attend the wedding because I wasn't even anywhere close to the venue but my mind was there with everyone.
Some weeks later, I decided to pay a visit to her because my mom was still in her house so I could beg everyone for not attending the party but I was anticipating that my sister might angrier with me.
I got to her house and knocked on the door. And she answered, "who's there?"
I answered back, "It's me".
She went back inside and left the door open while I helped myself into the house with her wedding gift.
My mom couldn't stop staring at me so I asked, mom why are you staring at me as if you just saw a ghost?
Mom replied, "so you are not dead yet and you choose your work over your sister's day".
I replied to her, "Mom please just help me to beg her because at that moment I was very busy and I wasn't around".
My sister heard that from her room and she came out as if she was going to kill me then she said, "so, I don't worth it right?".
I replied on my knees, "You do worth it sis but this work was a very big one that can fetch me more connection to have more customers and if I don't do it they won't patronize me again"
Both my mom and my sister talked some senses into my head for missing something so special like that and when they were done talking I knew my sister's mind is calmed a little so I stretch her wedding gift to her, "Here is your wedding gift sister".
She replied, "As if the gift is everything but I can't get angry with you forever".
She stood up and hug me then I handed over her gift to her.
And I did make sure that I never missed any of my remaining sister's wedding again because I don't want them to get angry with me again.
