Sabotage
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Two weeks later, everything went back to normal. Thelma decided to go study for her upcoming test in a library. Thelma got to the library in the early hours of the day cause she wants to study attentively for a test. She quietly walked around the library filled with a lot of books well and alphabetically arrange from the bottom up to the library's high walls. When she found the books she needed she carefully looked around to find a comfortable Conner where she would sit. Every spot seems to have been taken by other students not quite long she sites a spot at the far end of the library with an open window. Thelma hurriedly rushed to the spot and occupied it. She placed the books on the desk and opened it headed straight to read a few chapters. She seems to be losing concentration, Thelma is filled with inner thoughts which acted as a stumbling block to her focus at the moment. Thelma leaves the chapter of a book she was reading to look out the window from where a soothing gentle breeze was coming from on intervals as she was feeling and enjoying the breeze filled with the smell of books in the library. She drifted off in thought... remembering how she did all she could to sabotage ifeoluwa's relationship with her Ex. She felt a bit guilty but sobbed it off cause to her she did all she did for love. On the fact that after all she did none worked the fear and pain she went through. How she almost lost ifeoluwa if not for the turn out of events after ifeoluwa and her Ex visited the Ex's family for introduction. Mere thought of it gave her goosebumps and her eyes teary.
This leads Thelma to understand better, a word from a popular social media content creator to his best friend which says. This is my heart, if anything happens to it, it has happened to my heart. Such a poetic choice of word to come from a secondary school dropout Thelma thinks. Thelma is a fan of this content creator not because of his content but because of his poetic way of expressing himself whenever the social media content creator is with his best friend. Thelma See's this content creator as the Williams Shakespeare of our time. This is my heart if anything happens to it, it has happened to my heart. He said those words pointing at the best friend on the video she watched. It downed on Thelma that ifeoluwa is her heart and that if she heard gotten the approval of the Ex's family for the Ex and ifeoluwa to get married. Tragedy would have befallen her, in her thoughts she might not be able to survive it. I know I shouldn't be happy about the turn out of things as ifeoluwa suffered a heartbreak, am thankful for the miracle Thelma thinks while taking a deep breath and giving out a sigh of relief. The reasons why ifeoluwa was rejected was because of tribe she goes again thinking. The society seems to be tearing down everyone's wall. The tribal hate here is also so devastating. Two people can love each other so much that they know they're meant for each other. And deserves to be each other's happily ever after. It takes only your name to tear all that down leaving the couple heartbroken. This tribal hate has caused so many unfortunate event in the country. Forcing each other tribe wielding a sharp edged sword firm and strongly reaching for each other's head. Many have gone to the other side and never returned because of this same hate. It's so bad that even if the couple fights it's family and tribe, insisting and then marry's each other should any of the couples pass before the other. The other tribe and family who lost their own tends to frustrate the other couple who is alive. For the men they are tied down with some ancient traditions which should have been abolished and forgotten just to make them suffer. Imagine taking a copse to an eight hour journey to another tribe to her father's compound the same day of her burial and making it back to the husbands tribe for the burial the same day of the burial. Imagine being stripped off, of everything you and your husband worked for and asked to leave your husband's house immediately your husband passed on in your late 60s. If you insist on staying back, they make you go through an outrageous wicked tradition. Like, spending the night alone in a room with your dead husband, drinking water used in bathing the copse. This is to mention a few. All this and more because of the hate this tribe's have for each other. Thank God it ended this way Thelma said and gave out a sigh of relief again. One thing I wouldn't be able to accept is watching Ifeoluwa go through torture. She remembers she's in a library to study for her test and snapped out of her thoughts. This time she is focused and studying quite well. Seems she has let every thought in her mind out. Not too long Thelma received an SMS notification on her cellphone. She opened it to see the message was sent by Ifeoluwa. Inviting her over to her hostel for a meal. It states I made ewedu and gbegiri come over later. Thelma read
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