The couple got out of their house and joined their already merrymaking guests. It was like a barbeque party so everyone was enjoying from deferent steaks; pork, beef and chicken; and variant drinks.
As Anna was welcomed by her loved ones, congratulating her, Liam held a microphone and asked for everyone's attention.
"Thank you all for hearkening and yielding for my request of attending this quick unplanned and unprepared party. It was so sudden because I couldn't wait any longer. She did something unexpected and so pleasing yesterday that made me speechless and sleepless. Before I speak more, I want to share with you of how I first met her." Liam said and there was a deafening silence from the guests. All were so attentive.
"Three years ago...."
FLASHBACK
Three years ago!
Somewhere in Niyo village, a curly dark haired young man sat quietly in a corner of a crowded room staring at people, he was already tired of the noise but had nothing to do about it.
"Liam" A lady called heading towards where the guy was sitting holding a young boy in her arms.
"Yes, mom"
"Take Ron somewhere cool so that he can take a peaceful nap" The lady said.
Liam received the boy about three years and got out of the house. He safely put his baby brother in his car seat and got inside the car as well, this was his opportunity to ditch the party. He drove out of the place and away just looking for a quiet place to lodge in for some hours. He pulled over in the woods, made the boy sleep more comfortable and got out of the car to do some yogas.
He ran, jumped, squatted and did push ups till Ron woke up, the alone time was worth it.
"You wanna join me buddy?" Liam asked the little boy breathlessly.
"No, where is mommy? I wanna go to mommy!" Ron said and started crying.
"Okay, sir! Don't cry, let's go find mama, alright?"
"Hmmm" The little boy nodded.
Liam gave Ron his phone to watch his favourite cartoons then drove out of the woods and headed home. When he was about to reach Niyo's small town, he saw a tall chocolate skinned girl carrying a jerrycan on her head. She was wearing a long black skirt touching the ground and a purple blouse. Liam gazed at her swaying well curved big butt in amazement.
"Wow!" He said, he made to speedup the car so that he could see her face but halted when the girl looked on left and right in an attempt to cross the road. Liam's mind got blown the moment he saw how beautiful the girl was in the face.
When the girl crossed the road, he waited for her to go further ahead then started following her to know where she resided. He followed behind her till he saw her branch off in a certain direction then disappeared behind some houses. He waited to see her come back but to no avail. Disappointedly, he drove back at the party in full speed.
"Where have you guys been?" A girl asked as soon as Liam got out of the car but Liam ignored her, he took his brother out and disappeared into the house.
As the place was still crowded, he went into the cemetery in southern part of the land they were on. Liam sat alone only listening to chirping of birds and insects, he stared in space at nothing in particular till he heard a sound of cracking leaves behind him, he sensed somebody approaching him but he did not turn to see the person. The person sat near the next grave stone and aslo kept silence for several minutes.
"Does it still haunt you?" The person asked in a deeper voice. Liam remained silent for sometime and later nodded his head lightly.
"Does it?" Liam asked back.
"Yes" The guy replied, "I still hear mama crying."
Liam lowered his head and gazed at the name 'Marvin Maxwell' then at 'Melissa Maxwell'. He dusted off the dirt on the stone.
"I saw a girl in town a few minutes ago" Liam said and the guy looked at him in astonishment.
"You liked her?"
"There and then"
"Eeww! Can we go back and I see her?"
"Tomorrow" Liam confirmed.
"Tomorrow is forever..."
"Max!"
A girl's voice came behind the two buddies.
It was Kim!
She neared them with a sad expression and wordlessly sat on her brother's lap then laid her temple on his chest.
"Are you alright, Kimberly?" Max asked.
"No."
"What is it? Did anybody say something bad to you?" Max asked.
"No"
"Then what?" Max asked massaging her nape softly.
"I wish we were poor but happy, like other normal families. With mama and papa" The girl said with a heavy heart.
Max and Liam shared a worried look. They said nothing, Max held her closer and comforted her.
They went back for Max to bid goodbye to the village visitors who had come to commemorate his fallen parents as they would do every year.
The next day at noon, the two friends went to the small town as Liam had promised to show him the girl he had fancied.
Liam directly pointed inside a small grocery store where she was seated. He had come to buy his mother's soft drinks in the morning and he had spotted her.
"Shouldn't we go introduce ourselves to her?" Max asked.
"Forget about that" Liam said nonchalantly but in actual sense, he was scared to face the girl.
"Idiot! You either find me there or I find you here on my way back" Max said shifting his body to get outside the car, not even waiting for a minute.
Liam closed his eyes in a bit, he had been thinking about the girl since yesterday's encounter to this moment and it had created something he couldn't name in his heart.
"Okay wait, " He said, "Do you have something like a cape at least"
Max turned to look at him with a raised brow, "Who are you hiding from? Are you a criminal that....."
"Can you shut it and give me the shit!" Liam said, "Nevermind, I got it"
Liam put the cape on his head covering his hair and then pulling it's front part downwards to cover the half of his face then rearranged the hoodie on top of it.
Max shook his head, "Hope this girl who makes the whole you this nervous has some sense, otherwise I will kill her myself"
The duo quietly left for the shop just to find two girls inside, talking merrily.
"Arrhm!" Max cleared his throat, "Do you have cigarettes in here?"
Liam mentally rolled his eyes disappointedly, 'Really bro, of all the items in the shop; you had to ask that'
"No, sir!" The other girl who was with the one they had came for politely replied. "You can try on that bar on your left"
"Oh" Was all Max replied but his mind was busy scrutinising the girl on the plastic chair. She was quietly darting her eyes from her friend or whosoever it was to Max and sometimes to Liam.
On the other hand, Liam was sweating beads everytime his eyes met with his crush's.
Max was still thinking of another excuse for them to stay longer when he heard the girl who had replied to him speak in another language that wasn't English but was fortunately so familiar to both him and Liam.
"Wow, Nana! Seems like God has finally granted your wish"
"What wish?" The girl spoke for the first time which left Liam as well as Max mesmerized at her tender voice.
"Of getting a white man" The first girl replied wiggling her brows. "What else do you want? He's right in front of you. Can I make a move for you...."
"Nancy..." The girl warned embarrassedly
"What?" The first girl asked feigning confusion. "But you always dreamt of marrying a white man, isn't it?"
"Yes but definitely not this one" the main girl replied glancing at Liam.
A strong wave of disappointment ran through Liam's stomach that it curled the flesh on his forehead. Max inwardly sighed and crossed his arms to watch the movie unfold.
"Come on, Nana! Don't confuse me more. The guy is cute. He's got all a woman would die for. What else do you want for a white man to have that he doesn't have? Money?"
"Not that. It's all about the person I want not the whole race" The main girl replied with a dreamy smile.
"Then who is that?" The girl whose name had been discovered as Nancy asked with knitted brows.
The two best friends stood unmoving, eagerly waiting the answer so that they would know whether to pursue or if the girl was already taken and give up before tiring themselves.
The girl lowered her face blushingly fumbling with her fingers as a person deep in love would do.
"Justin Bieber!" She uttered.
"Mtcheeew!" Nancy disappointedly hissed at her stupidity. "Look at this mumu now! Where do you think that Justin Bieber of yours will find you, stupid girl. Sometimes I wonder if you really have some brain in there or if it's not porridge boiling in your skull."
Liam smiled at the relief of her response, 'Thank God. But why him though, am I not cuter than him?'
The girl pouted, "But why, is there any problem with that? I love him."
"Okay, keep loving him and shutting real men out till you reach 50yrs. This guy is cute, look at his lips..." Nancy said
"Why don't you take him yourself? You like him already!"
"No" Nancy said lazily, "I heard that whites don't shower!"
Liam who was all happy and thankful for this so called Nancy making a pass for him creased his brows questioningly while Max was fighting so hard not to burst out laughing and rolling on the ground.
"Jesus Christ!" Was all the girl said gazing at Nancy with widened bright eyes.
"You think am lying? You make a research, baby" Nancy said unbothered chewing on something in her mouth. "I would rather take this huge one."
'Well, I think it's my turn now!' Max thought readying himself for what only God knows she was about to say on him.
"Now just imagine him holding you up in his arms, driving into you crazily" Nancy said shamelessly checking Max out from head to toe. "You would call your long deceased ancestors to save you from him."
While Liam and the girl were utterly speechless of Nancy's audacity to speak such dirt before them all, Max was enjoying the limelight and his head was already calculating on how and when to have her.
"Ewww! Imagine your feminine soft skin rubbing against his muscline hard chest." She said moving her tongue in a round circle seductively. "Not to think of his deep voice! Hooo...! It can make you cum in your pants even before getting touched."
"Nancy!" The girl warned covering her face shyly.
"What!" Nancy asked maliciously, "It's not like what am saying is anyway. Only that our biology teacher once told us that most masculine gym guys have very tiny dicks."
The smile on Max's face faded like a good morning dream. Liam couldn't hold back his laughter any longer. He laughed out loud.
As embarrassed as the girl was, she ran through the inner door to hide.
When Max couldn't take the bad joke anymore, he stormed off to their car angrily leaving Nancy looking innocent and cool. Liam trailed behind laughing breathlessly hard at him.
"That bitch!" Max cussed heaving angrily, "I bet you will change that statement before the end of this week when I will be making you cry my name over and over again showing you how big it is."
Liam said nothing but laughed all through. He laughed so breathlessly hard___holding his stomach, that he almost fell on his face.
Max was now mad at Liam as well but when he remembered how he had taken decades to see Liam laugh, he had last been this they were just boys.
*END OF FLASHBACK*