ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Kathy Pov

I woke up the next morning with much excitement, I hurriedly took a bath and ate breakfast while waiting for my ‘husband’ to sluggishly get up and do those things too, but the moron, yeah I am stuck into calling him a moron in my head for a long time, I hope he doesn’t find out though, so the moron was still lazing around in bed, I woke up to find myself in his arms, and had hurriedly removed myself, it was me who left my side of the bed so I couldn’t call him out on it, thankfully he wasn’t aware, I plan on having fun and making the most of this one week, I picked up my phone and googled the best place to visit in Nassau and I wrote down the places that caught my eyes, I know I can’t visit all but I would try, I hoped he will come along but if he doesn’t I will go alone, can’t miss out the fun because of a boring husband.

He finally got out of bed by nine am and went to take his bath and while he was there I ordered breakfast for him.

“Nice of you to think of feeding me,”

He said sitting down to eat.

“I am only paying back a favor,”

I responded, he ate in silence while I went through my phone, checking out the various locations.

“So what do you plan on doing today, I know you look excited already.”

He asked when he was done eating.

“I have listed a few locations I will like to visit,”

“I know you would have, do you want me to come with you or would you rather go on your own?”

“Of course I want you to come with me,”

“Really?”

“Yes, I thought about what you said and there is no reason for us not to coexist, it’s not like we have a feud between us, at least not anymore, so yeah I will like you to come with me, it won’t be fun on my own,”

“Alright then, when do we leave?”

“Right now, I have been waiting for you to wake up since five am,”

I let out getting up and carrying my cross bag, he followed behind me, when we got to the entrance of the hotel, we walked up to one of the taxis before he asked me where we were going to.

“Where are we going?”

“Our first stop is festival place,”

I said in excitement.

“You googled it?”

“Yes, and I also wrote them down, from festival place we would go parliament square then to bay street and so on,”

I revealed, he nodded in approval, so I told the taxi driver to go on ahead, it took about thirty minutes or an hour to get to festival place and the place was filled with tourist, we walked to a few different places, I found a hair salon and ran towards it.

“Hey, where are you running off to?”

He called, I stopped running and turned to face him.

“I am just going to get my hair straightened out and trimmed,”

“No, don’t do that,”

“Why?”

“Your hair is beautiful as it is,”

“I know and it can also be beautiful when I straighten it and get a trim, I have done it before,”

I said still going towards the salon.

“I like it better like this, don’t straighten it,”

He said stopping me, I wanted to argue and tell him to back off my case, but then I remembered that I have decided to be civil with him, and truth be told my hair looks better when it is in its naturally curly state, so I agreed.

“Alright fine, I won’t, now let’s go to the next stop which is the square,”

I said and followed the directions my map told me, he followed behind me.

“I didn’t know you would listen to me, wow, feels nice to have you listen to me,”

He said, I ignored him, I should have gone ahead and trimmed it. I thought rolling my eyes, we got into another taxi that took us to the parliament square, the ride there was fun on its own, the driver seemed to be a fan of the kpop boy band BTS and played their songs all through the way, I am a huge fan of them too, so I felt so honored to meet a fellow ARMY, when we got to parliament square, I made sure to tip him well.

“I see you like BTS,”

“Yes, I do, don’t you?”

“Yeah, they are good, Max is a huge fan,”

“Wow, really? That’s so nice, remind me to meet up with him, I didn’t know,”

Now I wish I married Max instead, but the thought didn’t sit well with me though.

“Yes, ma,”

He said as we walked into the square.

“Wow,”

I let out in amazement, the place was huge and had a statue of one of the Queen’s, I couldn’t remember who it was I am bad at history.

“I know right? This place is amazing, it was originally built in 1815 and it is used for important functions such as the Supreme Court and also th…”

“Thank you, sir, I don’t wanna hear the rest of it,”

I said cutting him off, it was boring.

“Tish, dummy,”

“Whatever, so who is the statue at the entrance?”

I asked out of curiosity, as we walked around the huge place.

“Wow, you don’t know the queen?”

“I know it’s a queen but which one is it, I am bad at history,”

“Don’t let the locals hear you they will be mad at you,”

He said. I didn’t believe him though.

“Tell me already, or do you not know too, well I can always browse it,”

I said walking off.

“That’s Queen Victoria, the statue was built in honor of her,”

“Oh, you could have just said that instead of playing with me, anyway let’s go to the next place, I don’t like staying in a place that makes me feel dumb,”

I said walking out, he followed behind me, laughing at me.

“What’s so funny?”

I asked when he kept on laughing, he pulled me to a stop in front of the statue and pointed at it, I looked and didn’t notice at first, before I noticed the name boldly written on it, color me stupid, I thought getting his hands off me and walking off, he could have just pointed it out in the beginning.

“Aren’t you going to take a photo?”

He asked and I stopped walking again, the dude was bringing out the worst of me, I wanted to smack him for making me act like a fool.

“Yeah, true, can I take one with the statue?”

I asked instead, resulting in only cursing him in my head.

“I don’t know, but let’s take it if someone shouts that means we shouldn’t have, and if they don’t mean it is allowed,”

He replied bringing out his phone, I posed in front of the queen and he took a few pictures of me before passing the phone to me, I took some of him too and gave the phone to a man who was passing to take photos of the both of us.

“Thank you so much,”

I said to the man when we were done and he went on his way, I gave him back his phone.

“Where is our next stop?”

“I still have Bay street, Straw market, and Fort Fincastle,”

“Let’s go over to bay street first we can then go to Fincastle from there, I am hungry,”

He said pulling me along, we went through to bay street, I found a lot of places where they sold jewelry, I bought a few for myself and also got one for each of my sisters and brothers, mom and dad, even though I still wasn’t talking to them, I would give it to them when we makeup, I also bought for his mom, dad and Anna, I got him a bracelet and he accepted it without complaints.

“Progress,”

I thought as we went over to the local restaurant to eat.

“Have you tasted rum cake before?”

He asked.

“No, what is that?”

He pointed in the direction of a stall and pulled me along with him, when we got there he spoke with the seller who brought the rum cake out and sold some to us.

“This is Tortuga rum cake, there are others too but this is the most popular, try it,”

He said feeding some to me, I tried it and couldn’t conclude if I liked it or not, but I like the gesture though.

“Taste good right?”

“Yeah,”

From Bay street we took a walk to Fort Fincastle where the Queen’s staircase was located, he told me to just look from afar without climbing but I stubbornly refused, on the ground that he wanted to deprive me of gaining the experience of climbing the staircase, after a little argument he agreed.

“Aren’t you coming?”

“No, I will sit here and wait for you,”

“No, way, what if I lose my way?”

“You can call me then,”

“Come on, please?”

I pleaded and he finally agreed, which I later regretted, it was easy to climb the stairs, we bought souvenirs and even took photos at the top of the staircase, but coming back down was hard as fuck, I got tired and stopped walking.

“I warned you to remember?”

“You never told me why, you just said I shouldn’t climb, next time be more direct,”

“Okay, bye,”

He said walking off.

“Are you leaving me here? What kind of a husband are you?”

I shouted at the top of my voice making sure the others around could hear me, I saw men carrying their spouses, he should do the same, they walked because he came right back, I smiled at him.

“Don’t you dare smile,”

He said bending down, I didn’t think twice before hopping on his back.

“Hold on tight or you might fall,”

He said as he started descending from the stairs, I held on to him. When we got down he dropped me off.

“Thank you, dear husband,”

I teased and he eyed me.

“Are we going somewhere else?”

He asked, as much as I would love to continue, I was too tired.

“No, that would be all for today, I am freaking tired, let’s go back to the hotel, I had so much fun today already,”

“Okay then,”

He said. Hailing down a taxi who took us back to the hotel, I immediately went to take a bath and after that, I went to bed, my whole body was tired but I had fun, the moron said he had something to do and left the hotel room, I didn’t bother to ask him as I was much too exhausted, the only thing I could think about was sleep, which is what I did…