Toxic Attraction

Chapter 4

When love loves love

Since then; Ivory became a regular visitor at the bar, hoping to see his windflower Alicia, but he never did. Alicia was never a bar lady, her husband Dimitri used to take her to higher places of nobleness. A week later after constantly coming into the bar waiting for Alicia to no avail, Ivory got bored, he decided to take a piece of paper and a pen and wrote his feelings out. Along with him was a banquet of flowers, I mean daises.

These are listed as one of the types of flowers to get a girl because they symbolize beauty, innocence, and purity. Daises can be found in different colors and assorted that way. This gives them an extra level of cheeriness. Ivory’s option was to send Alicia daises that represent her favorite color or colors.

After writing a piece of his keenness on the paper, he heard gentle voices of ladies laughing with composure behind him.

Eventually he was hit by heavy nerves discerning that such tender voice might be that of his windflower. It was as if he was caught off guard and felt unrehearsed to meet her. However, he gentle turned his head towards them and there he saw two ladies sitting on the table behind, but there was no windflower in their midst.

That was Mercy and Veronica, Alicia’s friends. He was disappointed, but again while rubbernecking at them, he caught the same gentle laughter, he lifted up his head and saw a lady in a red dress with long hair talking with the bar man. Ivory couldn’t see her face since she was facing the bar man ordering cocktails. However, judging from some of the features if his memory served him well, he was sure that it was Alicia. He then didn’t waste any time, he interleaved the letter inside the flowers but also ensured that it was visible enough for her to see it.

He stood up and arranged himself very well for the moment, and there he proceeded to her, he grabbed her softly on the right shoulder, and immediately when the lady turned towards him he knelt down face faced on the floor while his hands were up lifted bestowing the daises to her.

Then he said to her “queen of splendor, my heart is the kingdom where only you can reign superlative, these are yours honorable lady of finest.” Ivory was in a dreamland of fondness and compassion where he was awoken by a remorseless hot slap from the lady, that it captured everyone’s attention in the bar.

Moreover, when Ivory lifted his head up to find out why Alicia did such a nasty thing instead of openly refusing the flowers.

He discovered that the lady was not Alicia, she Actually was one of the women aged Fifty who buttered themselves with make-up having a reasonable body plan, the woman was popularly known as Madam no age restrictions. She was only interested in people who possessed shekels of silver and not a wretched boy like Ivory. She used to hang out with young girls of Alicia’s caliber to match their standard, though she was mostly interested in young boys, the qualifications was if they would be able to afford and pamper her with luxurious gifts.

Veronica curved down and took the flowers, she snuffled them and they were scented with pleasurable aroma. Everyone in the bar witnessed Ivory’s humiliation; he left the bar without saying any word and never returned. After enjoying themselves, drinking and dancing, Mercy, Veronica and madam no age restrictions went out of the bar, madam no age restrictions was taken by a blue jeep at the entrance, while Mercy and Veronica paced to their respective homes of residency. Veronica went home with flowers, she put them in a vase and proceeded to sleep since it was already late in the evening and she was a bit drunk.

Early in the morning, while preparing for work, her fiancé noticed the daisies in a vase and saw that they were beautiful. He didn’t think his wife to be was cheating, and he was right, Veronica was not the cheating type, but not until he noticed a piece of paper on the daisies, he took it and read it, he was very manic after finding out the content of the letter. He instantly proceeded to the bedroom and shouted his wife “Veronica are you cheating on me?” however she ignorantly answered “no, why?” she woke up after realizing her husband was frantic. He continued to shout, “You think I’m a fool neh!” he tossed the letter to her on the bed asking, “What is this?” Veronica took it and it read as follows;

“When Love loves love, there are no occurrence of differences,

What my eyes have seen the heart cannot comprehend.

What the heart feels the mind cannot take in for questioning.

Brilliant radiant beauty that illuminates the horizon,

Rose bay – Nerium oleander, Japanese bush cherry my flowering maple

A quality that outshines the usual.

Your absenteeism, my glorious sunset,

And your presence my scintillate morning.

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IN A NOVELETTE OF MY heartbroken-ness, you’re the paragraph of my happy ending

An epistle of my love journey

And a catalogue of desirous intimate affinity.

In your Bosom shall my heart seek refuge, cottage of my endless jubilation.

Beauty that outshines the sunshine

Your prettiness my imagination unrestricted by reality”

Veronica was smiling while reading the content of the letter, that her husband became distressed and snatched it out of her. He went to work in a bad disposition. Few minutes after he left, Came Veronica's friends, Mercy and madam no age restrictions. Veronica was already awake, they exchanged greetings and laughed. Mercy and Veronica were eager to know every details about madam no age restrictions last night. As her usual habit she said; “who am i?” and they would say ‘madam nooooo age restrictions’ “who am I?” ‘madam nooooo age restrictions’ and they in one accord said; “bring your sons, bring your seniors and I......... shall swallow them into paradise” they all laughed and convinced Veronica to prepare herself so they could go take some few shots at the bar.

Veronica didn't waste time, she took a quick shower, dressed up and there they proceeded to the bar. While having their good time in the bar, Veronica noticed Ivory sitting alone taking whisky excessively as if he was under mental strain. She then left Mercy and madam no age restrictions and went on to join him. Getting there, she noticed that Ivory was very drunk and smelling alcohol all over his body.

She asked him “what's your name?” but Ivory couldn't respond, she then said, “okay, you're a handsome young man, but do you really want to tell me that you love madam no age restrictions to the extent of drowning yourself into drunkenness? Surely you're must be out of your senses” she then stood up, but before she could leave, Ivory chuckled, and when Veronica turned to witness what was he giggling at, she noticed that from Ivory's eyes, tears were dropping one after the other.

She then sat down and Ivory said to her “love” again he chuckled and at this point he was experiencing hiccups, he continued to say “are you talking about love? We all need love and care but what if the same love turns into a monstrous assassin? It can take you onto a Cliff and then drop you down the valley.

Love is like an ice cream, its taste matters only before it melts, and you're telling me about love.” He then took another hot shot, In the meantime, it was time for Veronica and her associates to vacate the place, her friends beckoned her and they left. However, Veronica was feeling guilty leaving Ivory in such state. Nevertheless, she had no choice.

It was a habit that Veronica could sit in the sitting room in wait of her husband’s return from work to offer him some food, taking a shower together and therefore proceed to bed. However, in that evening, knowing that her husband left in a sour mood in the morning, Veronica decided to do just as madam no age restrictions has tutored to make things right with her husband Josh.

Apparently madam no age restrictions gave her an intimate apparel sleepwear in preparation for the night. Veronica took a shower an hour before the time of her husband's arrival. She then put on the negligée and sat as usual, nevertheless, an hour passed with her husband to no avail, it was later that she decided to go and sleep because the drowsiness was overwhelming. In the middle of the night, she woke up and discovered that she was still alone in bed; it was then that she decided to call his line but it didn't go through.

She then woke up and proceeded to the kitchen to have some thirst-quencher, however when she switched on the light, she saw him napping on a couch in the sitting room. She could tell that he was very drunk, Veronica didn't want to intrude him, and she decided to confront his newly adopted habit at daybreak.

She woke up in the morning just to prepare him for work, but to her surprise, her hubby was long gone, he didn't want to talk to her after the letter saga.