ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Kathy Pov

“Please can you not put too much makeup on me?”

I said to the stylist doing my makeup, it’s finally the engagement day and I am hella nervous, I woke up with a bad feeling and I couldn’t shake it off, I silently prayed to God that all my plans go well today, it’s almost six pm which means I have to be out of here Before seven when the party starts, a lot of people were already here, some that I know others that I dont, I meant a few of my relatives already, they were all gushing and ahaing, I tried to play along as much as I could but the more people came to see me the more anxious I become.

The past few days have been hectic for me, I had to play along with my family, while at the same time trying to put the finishing touch to my and Louis plan, thankfully both turned out to come out well, but it left me exhausted, I barely slept through the past couple of day, I had to do a full-body massage and also hard manicure and pedicure. It wasn’t easy at all.

“Are you guys almost done? It’s taking so long and the guest are all almost here,”

My eldest sister Nora said as she walked him, she was heavily pregnant and looked so good in a blue maternity gown, she got lucky and even though her marriage was arranged her husband loved her even Nelly too is a lucky bitch, I am the only unlucky one among us if I didn’t have Louis I might have been the only one stuck in a loveless marriage.

“Almost done,”

I said smiling at her.

“I don’t see Juliet around, isn’t she supposed to be here?”

She asked they didn’t know Juliet and I are no longer in talking tense.

“She is busy sis, and will get here later,”

I lied not wanting to go into discussing that.

“Okay, you look beautiful baby sister but you also look so anxious, don’t worry everything will be fine, I felt this way too when I got engaged and it will even be worst on the wedding day.”

My sister said, the makeup artist put a finishing touch to my makeup before excusing herself, I stared at myself in the mirror, I looked really pretty, and the makeup artist did s a great job, I loved what I saw, my sea-blue eyes were sparking even though I felt dead inside, my eyes were one of my best part, I loved them, such a shame that I won’t have time to show off this look.

“I don’t want to do this No, I really don’t want to get married,”

I said to my sister truthfully, as I turned to face her, showing all my fears and true emotions.

“You don’t have a choice, it’s your fate and there is no escape, you know that,”

“I hate it, I am not happy, I have been pretending to be okay with the whole engagement but I am not, I just want to live my life, I don’t want to be tied down in a loveless marriage,”

I cried out, I didn’t know what was going on with me but I needed to talk to someone if only there is someone here to help me tell my parents that they didn’t have to give me away in marriage to a man a barely know so that they can keep their family union. If only my siblings can speak on my behalf, then I won’t have to leave them all behind and go to a strange land, I guess it was the fear of living far away from the home I know that is making me speak up.

“Kathy, I thought we talked about this,”

My other sister Nelly said as she walked in, she was dressed in an elegant bridal style gown and she looked just as pretty as Nelly, both of my sisters were pretty, in fact, everyone in my family had visuals, even my mom and dad.

“Yeah, we did and you guys told me of how your marriage turned to one of love, but my case is different, can’t you see, Nel, you know the man I am getting married to, you know how he was when we were younger, so how do you expect me to happily be married to someone like that?”

I asked holding back tears, I won’t cry, I promised myself that I won’t.

“Kathy, don’t cry, I hate it when you guys cry, I promise Cross won’t do anything stupid, and mom, dad, and our family have never made a bad decision, look at me, and Nora and our brother too, he is happy with Jenn, at first it always like this but when it is done you won’t regret it,”

“Well, they are about to make one mistake though,”

I said, I tried, I really tried to talk to them, to ask for help but they are giving me no choice but to go ahead with my plan of eloping with the man I love.

“Kat, mom and dad knows what’s best, if Cross wasn’t good for you, they won’t have pushed through with it,”

Nelly said but I found that hard to believe.

“Did you know that I was given to him at my birth? Mom and Dad didn’t just wake up and decide this, it has been done the day I was born twenty-three years ago.”

I said trying as much as possible to get them to listen to me but like my parents, they both thought this was what is best for me.

“We know, and we are telling you that, if dad and mom didn’t see him fit for this they won’t have pushed through with it,”

Nora said, there was no getting to them, I was just wasting my time, and I had to leave, it was already past six.

“I have heard you guys, please can you tell the driver to help me, I need to get some drugs are the clinic down the road,”

I said to the maid in the room, she nodded and left.

“Wait, someone can get it for you, you don’t have to leave,”

“I will go myself,”

“Kathy, don’t do anything stupid, you remember how it turned out for me right? You will become an outcast, even we can’t do anything to help so don’t do anything you might regret, I am speaking from experience young lady,”

My sister said.

“I don’t know what you are on about, I just need some fresh air and I am gonna get it while I buy the pain relief drug, don’t worry I am not you,”

I said and exited the dressing room, I quickly went off to grab my bag in my room, before walking back downstairs through the backdoor, the whole front door was filled with people coming in and out of the mansion, I met the driver at the parking lot, even the parking lot as big as it was, was already almost filled with different cars, trust my parents to invite the elites to the engagement, well they are gonna have to deal with the embarrassment, I didn’t care, I just needed to get out of this place.

“Can you drive me down to the pharmacy down the street, I need to get some drugs and I can’t drive myself,”

I said to him, he nodded and entered the car, I entered too and sat down, bringing out my phone I texted Louis that I just left the house, we were supposed to meet at his house and leave before morning in a rental car he got, we were not taking many things just a few clothes and snakes since the journey from Arizona to Mexico by road takes over a day.

He didn’t reply to my text, but I wasn’t bothered since we already talked about it.

When we got to the pharmacy, I got down and went inside to get the drugs but I went through the other door of the store, and quickly got into a cab, as the cab passed by where the driver who brought me was standing I bent down a little, there wasn’t any need for that though, cuz the driver was busy talking with someone and he wasn’t paying attention to the road.

My phone started ringing, I checked and saw that it was my mom, I picked up so that she won’t be suspicious.

“Mom, I went to get some drugs,”

“I heard from your sister’s, but get back soon as we don’t want to delay,”

She said, I could hear the warning in her tone, but I was bent on not listening to that warning, like is it not when they see me that they can disown me? If they don’t they will just have to adjust to living without me, maybe after a long time has passed them I can come back home, but I will make sure to come back as an established woman and also with enough money to pay back what I took from them.

“Okay, Mom,”

I said, ended the call, and blocked her line immediately. It took about fifty minutes to get to Louis house because I had to switch cabs so that they can’t trace my movement, and, I got down from the second cab two turns before Louis house, and walked the remaining distance to his house on foot, non of my family knew where he lives so no one would know where to look for me. when I entered the place was quiet, no one was at home, I tried calling his phone but it wasn’t going through, I decided to wait inside for him to get back, “maybe he went to get something,” I thought…