UNFORGETTABLE JULY 20XX: PART 5

Fast forward to this year..When Dami clocked 29..My 18th birthday was on its way.. i was done with secondary school and i equally gained admission to a university to study the course of my dreams-Accounting..

 Dami was still very much in love with Bro M....but they were NOT married!! At least not yet...
For me, I'd become fed up with everything... I was only hanging on to the last strand of hope.
 Dami somehow was still having the mindset that something good would come out of their relationship..One day, she'd come home feeling very happy and smiling from molar to molar and tell us how Bro M promised he'd come to the house soon-she'd even give a date- and when it's getting close to that date, something would come up..Bro M gets so busy that he cancels and everybody in the house gets disappointed..
The whole thing annoyed everyone especially mum... She didn't understand why someone would stay bent on being with one person all in the name of love..she didn't understand Dami at all..neither did I..All my pleas for her to get someone else went on deaf ears..
She still maintained that everything would end in her favour at the end.
She didn't listen to anybody..even when mum said that it couldn't be ordinary that they'd been dating for years and nothing good came out of it..that maybe he was under a spell or something, she still didn't want to hear any of that or anything close to that..She even got angry with mum for saying that..

Bro M still called me though,very much..in fact as i got into school, his call multiplied.. He'd call to know how i was doing and ask if i needed anything..

I had no option than to answer his calls..what else could I do? He was Dami's boyfriend and 'husband to be' after all..So i had no other choice.
I still sounded polite when talking to him...and sometimes I'd chip in things about his relationship with Dami and as usual, I'd never get a good response..

I still held him in high esteem, I told myself he'd eventually keep to his words...knowing the two had been together for long..Yet a part of me felt, i was only building castles in the air...part of me felt Bro M saw us-my family as very desperate and because of that, was stalling...but also a part told myself it couldn't be...that Dami had never presented herself as such. Because as i remember she told me she hardly brought up things about marriage to him..So at least i could manage with the thought of that...
I still ended up saying aloud while beating my chest at intervals, especially after i receive any of his calls that Bro M would finally come around or at least Dami will find love somewhere else if he wasn't ready.

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On July of that same year, exactly two months before my 18th birthday. It all started on that day...A beautiful Sunday... I had just returned from Sunday service..I didn't go to church with my phone..I got back and checked it. I had missed about  11 calls.... bro M's was part of the 11, in fact his was more than the others... I panicked..This wasn't the first time he called-yes, but this was the first time he had called as early as that..first time also he called more than his usual two times...
I began to imagine things.. what possibly could have that prompted him to call me that much...??

Moments later, i picked up my phone , scrolled through and selected his number....I dialed it and after the first two beeps...he picked up...
                                                   
                                                                                                         TO BE CONTINUED...........