a Nic

. She smelled fresh like a rose, and she came into my room with Agnes, wh

r hand. I walked up to my chair in my room and have a seat, wh

y up. The driver is already here, and why didn't you make your face? You know that you'l

didn't have any intention of pleasing the man to whom I might be m

and. So I am perfectly okay like this, the way I am. If I pretend with him, what if I cann

chless at first. She finally

ood. If not, I will be back here, becau

She said, "You nag a lot. Just hush and eve

ollowed my mother downstairs while Agnes t

t my father, standing in the center of the living room. He was still in

ged man greet my fathe

sure you return on time." My father spoke to the man in bl

driver replied, and my

ara

up in my eyes again. Even when I went to school and studied acc

me again to live with my parents like I used to. The farms we visited-the harvested pr

at a time in a person's life when they must shoulder a compulsory

you off. You can always return home to us if you still don't like the city, but I won't expect

y father is telling me about bringing my future kids

my family lineage and to have someone to look up to in the following years. T

, and I walk up to his side. He petted me closely and reassured me about my husba

waved goodbye to my parents, uncles, and aunties, who had pull

so married off like I was sold off. My parents also had a sad lo

ly going to the city to multiply and to

blew off my nose, knowing my face had become a mess. I watched

s' home. And stealing a final look backward, I saw my mother crying and my father hugging h

e to the town would take hours, as the city was far from the countrysi

t to find something to distract my mind and to see

in my country. We use the Facebook network to br

es and reactions and the fear of fake accounts tha

y people with the same name as him, and finding the honest Darlin

alongside my parents. It was easy to connect with old family friends, especially those with

file I entered, I gasped as I saw the f