She cried running away from home, "Joy! Joy!!" her mum called, but she couldn't stop but continue running away.
Joy has feelings for Daniel while her parents, is against their love, they have said everything to make her stop loving him, but she couldn't stop growing her feeling for him, Daniel also loves Joy so much, he was all in for Joy, their love for each other was inseparable, such that no man can put a full-stop.
Joy's Father was a Paramount ruler, as a Paramount ruler, it would be so bad if her only daughter is not married into a royal home, Uche was a royal blood and a man whose Joy's father support of marrying her daughter, he was a tall grown handsome young man.
But Joy did not Love him like he loves Daniel, she pleaded with her parents to accept who she wants to marry once and for all and stop putting her on a test which she would not get out of it alive but her parents Said " is who we choose for you that you would marry".
It was not all that easy for Joy, trying to make her choose what she does not like was never an easy option, Joy was left with no other choice than to run away from home, her parents didn't believe she could have done that, it was like a dream, when they woke up one morning and see that her daughter was not found in her bedroom, Words were sent across the village, it was a certain man whose spoke of seeing her around 4:30 AM as she sneak out of the palace.
The search for her continue, the king offered a price to any noble man or woman who would brought back her daughter to be awarded with five plots of lands, Joy was not happy with how her parents understands things, she said, " it would have been easy for me, if they let me married my heart desires, and not force a man on me, which I do not love.
She decided to let her parents know life is a matter of choice, it doesn't matter who we love and it doesn't matter if the person we love is wealthy or not, is love we are after, love is love, love is not selective, she hide herself in a unknown place for more than a week and one morning, she made her way home, when her parents saw her, it was a thing of Happiness and did not care to make a decision anymore on who she would marry.
"I know you got angry and ran away from home" because of love,
Said by king Josiah. her father.
"It was too much on me Father" Joy replied.
"we will not come in your of marrying your heart desire anymore, my daughter, Ruth, her mother intrude.
"Thank you mum, she replied.
Daniel was happy when he heard the news in Town, of him being the son in-law of king Josiah, "he was told that his prayers has been answered" as the king Josiah now accepted their love, few months later, Joy and Daniel traditional marriage and white wedding were conducted and it was successful all through.
Fast forward, their union was blessed with five children, four boys and one girl.
The end.
