Chapter 2 ONLY PLATONIC

I packed my luggage and bade my friends and family members a goodbye, I cannot wait to start a new life afresh in California. Starting a new life means I would have to adapt to a new environment and a new way of life, start building my friends again, and thank God for social media, I would keep in touch with my friends and families online. The first thing first is to start searching for a job, and I am pretty sure it would not take too long before I eventually find it. I began my job hunt, and several weeks after I began to search for jobs, I eventually found one. In a marketing firm and I was very pleased with it. I was to resume the following week, on a Monday

I resumed work in my company, and I was very happy; I changed my environment and also my friends. This will help me with the healing process better. The change of environment is really good, except for the fact that you have to begin to make friends again, New friends, but making new friends does not mean I have to throw away my old friends that had been with me through thick and thin. I was very happy resuming work. I resumed work wearing a skirt and a blouse, and the first thing I did was to report to the office of my boss Mr. William popularly referred to as Mr. Will, a tall and handsome young man, he took an interest in me since day one. But all we had was a platonic friendship and a platonic relationship. He would call me to treat some files, and I would oblige him; he would call me to also go with him on trips, which we did together without a hitch. I told my friends about this development, and they told me that he would ask me out, but I told them that it was not possible. All we had was a platonic friendship and a boss to junior staff kind of relationship. My friends told me time would tell, and I could not just wait for the time to indeed tell. We continued our friendship, and we were getting closer than imagined. This is great stuff, but I already made up my mind not to be entangled in any form of relationship whatsoever, but the rate at which we were getting closer was quite alarming. Soon we began to shift from being platonic to being romantic; I don't know how it happened and how the switch was made from a platonic relationship to a romantic one. We continued to roll and get closer and closer. Then we could no longer take it no more. He invited me to go on a picnic with him, and I obliged. It was one of the best feelings ever. I am so much into William and I do not want him to be with any other woman; I mean, I cannot bear to lose this one! No, not this one. The way William got to find his way into my life is quite different from the rest of my relationships in the past. None of my exes was my boss, and again, none of my previous relationships started out as being platonic before being romantic. I could not control this feeling that I had, and I let love lead.

I am being so much into William, as I play with him frequently and was all over him, I touched William frequently, William was just wondering what the girl might be up to, soon afterward I served the menu and William and I was eating, and I couldn't get my eyes off William throughout the course of the picnic, ....... After the picnic, we went to the beach to have fun, and we were all very happy together...

the picnic was going well, and we were really happy; there came other families who were at the beach too having fun, we were also having fun, but the fun was beginning to fade off, so I asked Will to tell me about his family and about his dad that he always seldom talk about. This time I won and he agreed to tell me about his late family and especially his dad.

Oh baby Melanie, where do I start from, William said, oh okay I will begin from, .......... My name, my name is William... and we have just one major problem that has always affected the male children only.... Love... my grandfather Jacob met my grandmother in a shopping mall, and everything clicked, their love grew like wild fire, my grandfather was like fire while my grandmother was like fuel, they were unquenchable, they loved each other so much that that love soon was became the end of them, they couldn't get their hands off each other, not for

a second would they let go each other, they were inseparable, on that day my grandfather was working in his farm while my grandmother was beside him, he wanted to grind the maize meal, for his large poultry, the engine was left running, my grandmother hugged him from behind, the force was too much and they both were propelled into the machine and grinded into fine paste my the machine, my father was brought up by his aunt, love, my father and mother with myself and my sister Theresa were returning from a journey from the country side

We decided to have lunch in the car, we were a happy family with exact same love that ran in my grandfather, running in my fathers, they were so much into each other that they could not get their hands off each other, my father was driving while my mother was feeding my father...then my mother taunted my father with a chicken lap, in other to get the chicken lap from my mother, he lost control of the wheels and our car veered off the road and off the bridge, and the car came nosediving, my father died with a chicken laps hanging from his mouth, I wasn't a kid I knew what happened, that was when I vowed never to let what destroyed my great grandfather, my grandfather and my father destroy me, prevention is better than cure, I vowed never to fall in love, that way I will be able to avert that curse. And when I met you, Melanie, the closer I get to you, the more the love grows in my heart, as each day passes and I keep discovering how sweet you are and I can't control my heart, I have to prevent it from happening cos I am already going crazy for you. He concluded.