EXTRACT: CHAPTER 15 - BLAST FROM THE PAST! DO NOT LET YOUR PAST DESTROY YOUR FUTURE! SETTLE IT FIRST! SETTLE YOUR 3R's

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A Hospital Suite at St. Mary’s Hospital
“I curse the first day I saw him. Cursed be that day. If only I knew how monstrous he was I wouldn’t have gone into such a relationship. Look at what he has caused me.” Juliet cries into my shoulder
Kingsley is lying half dead in the hospital. His mother is praying and crying by his bed. He has to survive it.
“Ikenna may it not be well with you.” Juliet my friend voiced the words while staring at her fiancé, Kingsley.
What surprised me was how Ikenna got to Kinsley despite the security around the neighbourhood he was attacked.
“Who is Ikenna to you?” I asked my friend
“He is my ex”
“How did you get to know him?” I asked she didn’t give me an immediate answer. I felt it was a bad experience and she didn’t want to talk about it, especially in front of his mother so I led her to the reception. Not long after we got seated she started her story.
“When I got into the university Ikenna was one of the first people who welcomed me into the school. He was chivalrous and funny but was feared by the other students. We dated for a while and it was fun. But when I got tired of the relationship and wanted out, he denied me that and told me that no other man was going to be with me except him. I thought he was bluffing and tried to date a course mate but nobody in the school would come close to me. I had no doubt it was because of Ikenna. After graduation he kept tabs on me and terrorised me. Any man that I met would back off after a while. When I met Kingsley where I served my one year service during my NYSC days, I hid my past and Ikenna along with it. Kingsley is a good and gentle guy and I was scared that I would loose him if I told him about the rugged life I led in school. Not long after Ikenna showed up and threatened me. I called his bluff. I shouldn’t have.”
“He was a cultist? Ikenna I mean.”
“Yes”
“Why didn’t you tell Kingsl ...?”
“I was scared!” she cried out
I’m dumb founded. I hold her tight. Just then we notice activity as doctors and nurses run towards Kingsley’s room. Jennifer darts off and I join her there.
The doctors and nurses were all over him trying to snatch him from the claws of death. But, they couldn’t he was injured so badly by Ikenna and his friends. Doctor Stephen finally told us he was dead. Juliet couldn’t put herself together. She cried and rolled on the floor. I tried to calm her down even the nurses tried to calm her but to no avail. Not long after, she got up and left the hospital. I asked her where she was going to but she wouldn’t tell me.


Marriage is two people with different lives and stories, coming together to make a new life. We tend to forget the history and past lives of the individual people. There are a lot of strings attached and a lot of stake holders to placate. Before trying to forge a new life in marriage both parties must be responsible enough to settle the 3R – Relatives, Relations, Reflexes – factors that could weigh in on the stability and happiness of the new family ... 

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- E. I. OPUTA

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