Patience isn't easy when you need something done immediately, I stared at my phone patiently waiting for my phone to come on, it was taking forever. I stared at it waiting but nothing was happening.
My patience was being stretched thin, I never wanted anything as much as I wanted my phone to come on, I realized my phone wasn't connected and all this while it wasn't charging. Life was making a deliberate mockery of me. I watched as my screen lit up slowly as it turned on.
One minute felt like forever. I stared anxiously at my screen as it finally lit up displaying my wallpaper. I haven't appreciated the default wallpaper as much as I should have, I inputted my password and was about to call the number when mom walked into the room.
I turned my phone off and turned to look at mom, everything had to pause until she left the room, my parents can't know that I was going to be getting married to a complete stranger. It sounded stupid to me too but it was the only way to achieve my dreams, at least the only way I knew.
"Mom," I whispered. She heed a reply, she remained fixated at the door staring at me, I was waiting for her to say something but she just kept staring at me. I was starting to feel conscious and uncomfortable, I shifted in my position while avoiding her gaze.
"Mei," she said and finally came closer to me, she held my hands and looked at me with pleasing eyes. "Where you lying? You really do not plan to get married do you?" She asked me. This felt like a trap, mom never called me Mei, she preferred to call my full name because she found it more unique. As much as I didn't want to lie to mom I had to, my father could be outside listening to our conversation.
I looked at her, a little sad about how I had to lie to her. "Àmà," (mom) I called to her. "I am getting married, it's the only way out," I said. She looked at me shocked. "Out of what? You shouldn't marry a man you do not love, you'll leave with him for the rest of your life," Mom advised, I only had a year, the rest of my life seemed far fetched.
"I do love him mom and I want to spend the rest of my life with him," I said. She stayed still and didn't say a word. "Mom," I called out to her. She looked at me and nodded, she stood up and walked to the door. "Come down for lunch, your father and I will like to know about this new man," Mom said sternly and walked out of my room.
I turned to look at my phone then at my door, did I want to go down or be here. I never rebelled against my parents, I am the perfect child. Am? I have managed to go against all my parents decision in the short span of waking up and getting home. One more violation o do the law wouldn't hurt. I grabbed my phone and dialed the number, the user was still not picking. I was getting desperate but frustrated.
I was missing lunch to talk to someone who might not even agree to the plans. But I am desperate and I know that when you desperately want something you have to try all legal means to get it. I am trying and it's not working. I tried the number again and it rang, I stared at my phone as it dialed the number, every second went by with no one answering the phone, what taking so long. Answering a phone call was so easy, it shouldn't take this long to pick the freaking phone.
Each second and every buzz of my phone made my heart skip a beat, I just wanted it to be him, reaching out to grab my phone, it was just another notification from work.
I decided to keep calling the number like my life depended on it well it literally did. I kept trying and it kept going to voicemail mail then at the fifth try it rang making my heart jump in my mouth as I waited..."