I'm finally at home and I was really happy because I could finally pay the school money for my sister finally so that she could compose in peace. I had entered inside and after greeting my mother looked surprised to see me come home at the same time when I told her that I was going to work, I asked my sister that she was not inside.
My mother told me that she had left, accompanying one of her girlfriends who had come to visit her. So I got up in order to change and start by drawing up plans for what I will do with the money that Mr. Gabin gave me.
It could be read in my mother's eyes that she was wondering what's wrong with me, because I quickly came home when sometimes if I leave home for work like that, I come back completely in the evenings and now I also look happy.
I had decided to let her know everything once I finished changing myself, but it seems that I won't have this chance to go change before spitting the piece on her, because my mother was already asking too many questions, not to mention the eyes she was making when she looked at me.
Indeed, that was what I was thinking to myself, because I was about to take the direction of my room when I heard the voice of my mother who put me a brake. « Rick, can you tell me what's wrong, did you have a problem with your boss or what's it? With these questions that mother asked me, I quickly guessed what she was referring to.
Knowing me, she said to herself, maybe it was because I had a problem at work that I quickly came home and it was so that she wasn't in the scent of what's wrong, that I did everything to display the face I display, just to hide my pain as usual. Because I don't like to disturb them with my worries. My only wish is to be the source of their joy, their happiness and not that of their sadness or misfortune.
I turned around to sit next to my mother always with this joy that was read on my face and my mother had continued with her questions.
—Rick my boy, what's wrong? And above all, don't tell me that everything is fine because I know very well that you are trying to hide something from me.
—Mom, of course everything is fine and I don't hide anything from you at all.
—What did you tell me before leaving this house this morning? »
- I said that I will go to work and that I will surely come home in the evening.
- But here you are at home now with this ghost smile that you're displaying just to make me believe that everything is fine, so that your sister and I can't notice anything, isn't it? Rick you are my boy, the first gift God gave me and I know you very well. What you may not know. Tell me what's wrong, if you have a problem with your boss, tell me so that I can go see him to ask him for forgiveness. Even if I know you're not the type to get into trouble. So talk to me my baby.
—Mom, everything is fine and I have no problem with my boss. It is that...
I had taken the time to make my mother aware of everything about the trip I will make with Mr. Gabin and the amount of money he had given me.
My mother was flooded with joy and she couldn't believe that I would go to a country in which she had never set foot. With tears in her eyes, she had started by giving me advice as she usually did and addressed a subject about a man she had never told me about before.
- My boy, you know, I too wanted to visit this country once in my life, especially Cameroon. Because I had forged a strong bond with a Cameroonian woman who is the daughter of a friend of my father.
—My grandfather?
—Yes, my boy, your grandfather had a friend when he was still alive and he is a Cameroonian. I don't remember her name, but I at least remember the name of my friend in question, who is her daughter. Her name is Maria, a very beautiful, kind and very intelligent girl. I have at least her first name because this first name refers to the name of the Virgin Mary. Maria and I were good friends, because she came to Benin with her father and as sometimes your grandfather took me where they stayed, if they came, Maria and I had forged a very strong bond.
—Oh well? But mom you never told me about her when even looking at you you you can see and feel that you were really good friends and that you surely had a good time together.
- It's not wrong my darling, but the problem was that even before your grandfather's death, I no longer have the news of Maria, because she no longer came to the country with her father, not to mention that after my father's death, we no longer had the news of Maria's father. So I don't even know if he is still alive or if he has already gone to join his ancestors just like your grandfather. But I know that Maria is always healthy and surely that she gave births and beautiful princes and princesses that she said when we were still small.
- I understand better now, but Mom, I have a question for you.
—I'm listening to you, my boy.
- You just said that a Cameroonian was grandfather's friend and it sounded well in my ears. But I want to know why some people in some countries do not like to build relationships with people in other countries are different from their own. While we are all Africans.
- My boy, this case has existed since then and it is because of this spirit of discrimination that we Africans have that the other confinants came to colonize us. All of us have the same color of blood that flows through our veins, we have the same skin color and this same power, the supreme power that binds us all and this power is love. But just because of our languages, our cultures, our traditions that differ from one country to another, we forget that all of us have come to this world because of two people, a woman and a man. It is just because of hatred, jealousy that is at the base all this and only love, the true can eradicate this phenomenon of discrimination. Without lying to you, Mr. Samson and your grandfather were good friends and their friendship was so strong as the one seen in the movies.
—Oh, then Maria's father's name is Samson?
—Yes, I remember now, except for the last name that has not yet come to mind.
- OK, mom you said that their friendship is like the one we saw in the movies, because it is only in the films that we find these bonds of friendship so strong because nowadays it's completely something else. If I understand correctly.
—You caught my boy well.
—Okay Mom, I'll go change.
With these words, I got up and headed from where my room was. My mother was so happy for me to the point where she began by praising God through songs of praise.
On the other side ( CAMEROON )
*** BRENDA ***
My father and I have already come home, I was in my room and I was reading my fans' comments on my facebook page when I received a message from my girlfriend Julia who lives in Ghana.
It was just as if she knew I would come to see her because we had not conversed for a very long time.
I had answered his text and we started by discussing everything and nothing. We spent hours teasing each other by video call. We were talking when Julia started talking to me about her boyfriend, her prince charming and I smiled looking at her. Because seeing Julia talking, we could see that she was completely crazy in love with this guy she's talking about. She told me about him had love and tenderness and it was as if she were in front of her man.
I said nothing and I was just looking at her when she asked me a question that had sent me to a world of thought that was not yet classified in my own worlds.
I wasn't saying anything to answer his question and I was thinking of dodging him. But it looks like Julia didn't want to let me go.
JULIA: Brenda why is that always what you do if I ever address this topic about you? Don't tell me that you're never going to get married eh. Or do you want to become a religious sister? Because I can't understand you anymore.
BRENDA: My girlfriend, you know very well that I'm not so complicated. The problem is that for the moment my concern is not a man, nor a romantic relationship.
—And what is it then my dear? Because if it's your professional future, you have already traced your way, not to mention that you have the daughter of a great businessman and one of the greatest businesswomen in Cameroon. Now tell me, what's your concern?
« My dear, do you know that it is not only enough to trace the path of one's future or give one's destiny, but also to know how to be ready to face the obstacles that will arise on these paths in question? I'm going to get married for sure and my greatest prayer on this theme is that God fill me with beautiful princes and princesses, not to mention a man worthy of the name who will make me happy with whom I will spend the rest of my life. Julia, I just don't want to discover the world of love, but to make a place for myself in this world we are talking about. It's not that men don't bother me or run after me, but the problem is that since I discovered what a romantic relationship is, love and everything that goes with it, I started by being afraid.
—Afraid of what, my dear?
- Afraid of being fooled, afraid that I will be sung love just for form, just because I am the eldest daughter of a very rich family who are already working to earn a living, I am afraid that they will just get with me to enjoy me, I am afraid to see my heart in small pieces, fear that my heart will be destroyed several times. I hope you can understand me now?
- Yes, very well even my girlfriend and you are perfectly right, but it's just as if you refuse to grow up, to discover the other colors of life.
—What do you mean by that, my dear?
- You know Richy Plume, the Beninese writer, poet who even has a facebook page called « Richy Chronicles »
—No, should I be interested in him?
- Oh yes, with what you have just brought out of your mouth, through his stories based on love, his poems very simple to read and understand that take your breath away, you will be able to better understand what love really is and the role love disappointment plays in a person's life.
- It's well noted, my dear, I'll see what to do. Start by preparing yourself to welcome me because I will be in Ghana in a short time.
—Are you serious there?
—Yes, my dear.
I was still in conversation with Julia when my father started by calling me and I was obliged to pause our conversation to go see my father.
On the other side ( BENIN )
Two days later...
To be continued...