On the other side...
*** JULIA ***
Since I got home I still can't get Rick out of my head. It looks like he cast a spell on me, because of him I can't even answer David's calls anymore. I have no doubt I fell in love with Rick, while I have already got engaged to another man. I wonder how I will get by in this matter of heart. I just met Rick, but what I began to feel for Rick exceeds what I took years to feel for David.
The only thing that still crosses my mind is to go to this production house again. Because since then I've been trying to reach Rick to tell him at least' that I got home for the chance to converse a little with him, he still doesn't answer my calls.
I'm sure he's busy with work, oh my God this guy drives me crazy. I have to call my girlfriend to tell her about what's happening to me, only she can help me. Because my mother can't even hear such a thing from me.
*** RICK ***
Brenda and I were making the presentations when her mobile phone started ringing.
She had taken the cell phone and after looking at the screen, she just put the laptop silent and put it on the table.
—Well, we were talking...
*** RICK ***
I watch Brenda speak and it was just as if I dreamed, despite all the hours we just spent together, I always had trouble believing. In his presence it is just as if I no longer have any worries and my whole life is already rosy, that all my worries have already found solutions. But it was quite the opposite, because she just lit a fire in me that never crossed my body and this fire runs through my whole body.
Brenda has finished introducing herself and gives me the floor, yes she wants me to introduce myself to her. What I hadn't thought about before I did it. I told him everything about myself, without forgetting something. Yes, we can say that like that, because I thought I could have a chance with her, so it wouldn't be good, to hide something from her and also it's not too good, to start something by basing her on lies.
So I gave him the summary of my whole life and all that it contains.
Brenda had taken the time to listen to me well and began by smiling, I wondered what made her smile, but I had to pass on this question because I like to see her smile. Because his smile is so special to the point where he makes my heart beat at the normal pace.
Brenda is a girl that many men want to have under their roof, a girl of incompatible beauty, a beauty that transforms darkness into light, winter beauty and at the same time summer. I was just looking at her and I said to myself inwardly « Lord make her mine, the only woman in my life. Because I love her too much, I don't know why she makes me feel such a thing and I don't even want to know. I just don't want it to stop, I want it to be until eternity. » By saying this, I can feel this heat that has invaded my whole body like vital energy.
I no longer asked myself questions because I thought I already have the answer to all my concerns. It's true that I started by realizing that with what happens to me I won't be able to live my life without Brenda, but at the same time, I look at my world, and Brenda's and I thought it will be difficult for me to be part of Brenda's world.
Brenda is the daughter of a large family, her parents are present in business and they are still very powerful, not to mention that they are not the same as me. I am a Beninese and they are Cameroonians.
It is true that despite our countries that are based on different traditions, custom, and everything else, we have the same color of blood that flows through our veins and that we are all Africans.
But many do not see things like that, without forgetting that everyone has their own way of seeing things. » In any case, if we are really made for each other we will end up together. » What I said to myself after several reflections. Because I don't yet know if Brenda sees me the same way I see her.
- Brenda it's a bit me her and I think that if time allows us, if there's something else you need to know, you'll know.
- OK cool, so if I understand correctly you left your country leaving your family in the quest to bring your dreams to life, that's right, you're just cool like your first name.
—Oh well? Do you think so?
- No, I don't think it's just the truth, because Rick means « King or Strong Man » if I'm not mistaken. This justifies your first name. Who gave you this first name? I think it would be mom.
—How did you know that?
- Simply because when I talked about her, I noticed that she occupies a large place in your heart and I am even afraid if another woman will have room in this precious golden heart that you have.
—Oh really? It's logical that I have to love my mother, as I just told you, she is the only person who showed me everything about life, the only one who fought for my well-being, the only one who was abused because of me, so to tell the truth, she represents my life. But it would not be because of this, that the one who will represent my second strength apart from my mother, the one with whom I will spend the rest of my life, could not have room in my heart.
—Wow!!! I like your way of speaking, so can you tell me the name of this princess who may have had a place in your heart? Because I know very well that a man like you can never be without a woman.
—What makes you think of this Princess Brenda?
—Wow!!! I'm a princess or did I hear badly?
—Oh sorry I didn't say on purpose, it just came out like that, sorry if it bothered you, please excuse me.
—But why do you apologize for nothing? Have I said now that it bothered me? I'm just happy to hear that a cute guy like you calls me princess. I see that you miss your princess or?
—What do you mean by that?
- Your princess you left in the country to come here.
—But why do you get ideas? Do I look like someone who can have a princess? Before I have a princess, I must be a prince, while I am very far from being. So I have no princess, I'm a simple servant and once I realized this, not to mention what today's world has become, I just decided to fight to make a living before embarking on such an adventure.
—Rick, can I ask you a question?
—Yes, without any problem.
- For you to be a prince is to be rich in money, luxury stuff, material goods, to have power, authority, and everything that goes with ephemeral power or else? But let me tell you that you have everything a prince must have and even more than that, do you know why I say that? Simply because at home, being a prince is not having the ephemeral stuff of this life, the richness of this world that expires. But to have this wealth that surpasses all understanding, this wealth that is still a power that can give life to death. And this wealth is...
- LOVE, this wealth that surpasses all those precious stones that lead human beings to kill each other, to hate each other, to cultivate discrimination, to establish different classes on which the life in which we are based. This wealth that must be our priority because with it everything is possible and the impossible becomes possible. It is even for this reason that it is said that God is love. Brenda I understand all this, it is this same wealth that pushes those who know its value and importance, to love each other so strongly unreservedly, to give their lives without even thinking. I know all this Brenda, but nowadays, this wealth or power I will say that is so important in the lives of each of us, has lost its place to the ephemeral things of this life. It even surprises me that a beautiful lady like you, despite the luxury world in which you grew up and you are, you reason like that. Really I can't believe that there are still women who know that love is more precious than anything in this life.
- Oh yes, there are many girls who are not under the spell of the ephemeral things of this life. You know I can understand you, you have been disappointed once or several times if I am not mistaken and you tell yourself that it is because you do not have all these ephemeral things that the one you loved left you ignoring that you are richer than she thinks.
- Not even, it's true that I'm twenty-four years old, but to tell you the truth, I've never conjugated this verb LOVE, to a girl except my mother or sister. What does it mean? That I had never embarked on this love relationship adventure, to the point of tasting this dish of disappointment. I have a father, but it's just like I don't have one. There is only my mother who helps me and everything else. Now with all these worries that cross my mind every day that God does, how will I still embark on something that will still cause me trouble? My mother has always told me that you don't put two fingers in a single nostril. What I jealously kept in my head and decided to build my life before anything else. But well, as you already know, it is said that man proposes and God disposes, so I will still be ready to face everything if God has traced another path for me. I hope you understand me?
—Yes, yes.
Brenda answered me « YES YES » with a smile. So I thought maybe I wasn't saying anything good and I pushed my curiosity.
—Brenda, why are you smiling? Do you think I'm completely behind the plates?
- Not even Prince Rick, I smile because I love your way of speaking and you make me think of my maternal grandfather. It looks like his spit portrait.
—Is he still alive?
—Yes, in great shape, you will meet him if time permits. You know I understood you well and to conclude on this subject, you are afraid that your heart will suffer destruction because of love or love relationship, I will say. But what you don't know is that by putting this in your head, you just refuse not to discover the colors of life, it's one of my girlfriends who told me that one day. So please make the effort to let yourself go if the opportunity presents itself to you.
—Oh really?
—Yes, yes, my dear prince.
—So tell me about a little time world of love. I mean this prince who was lucky to have you.
- Seriously?
- Yes, I'm very serious, you already know everything about my love life. So I'm listening to you, but if you don't want or if it's not the time yet, I don't think I'll force you.
—No, don't worry. But before I start, can I have a glass of water?
- Whether it's fresh or...?
- Fresh, it can be fine.
—Okay, give me just a few seconds.
- Okay Rick the king of the kingdom of love.
—Humm!!! Please do not exaggerate, you have more authority over this kingdom more than I do.
—There you're wrong, my dear. Ha ha ha!!!!