Chris Intentions

Chris stayed back in the village just to stayed closer to Tina as he came early to Tina's village and drove Tina to her Seamstress work place, as Tina was still learning her tailoring.

Chris spent most of his time with Tina on her free time and lunch time and he made his feeling and intentions known to Tina, asking Tina about her educational level and also promising to sponsor Tina thru her education to the university level to become a certified graduate in nursing if Tina didn't wanted to continued with her Tailoring again.

Tina had told Chris her story, how she got pregnant and what truly happened between her and Patrick as to why she wasn't able to further her education despite winning the scholarship award to further her into any federal institution of her choice.

Tina never knew Chris knew Patrick and they were actually best friends in the city and while they were younger.

Chris never also mentioned to Tina that Patrick was his best friend too and he knew Patrick since his childhood days.

When Tina told Chris how Patrick had took her to his bedroom without her consent and slept with her against her wished despite her plead, Chris remained quite and told her,

"It okay babe, it all in the past now, Or do you still have any feeling for him?."

Tina gulped when Chris asked her if she still had any feelings for Patrick.

She remained silent as she didn't knew if she had any feelings for Patrick or hated him either.

The last time she had seen Patrick face to face of recently, she couldn't believed her eyes as Patrick was handsome, hot looking, cute with his dark bronze skin as he was even taller and huge.

Tina remembered she hadn't truly stared to Patrick's handsome face before, to admired him face-to-face nor his physic, as she was always shy and she just knew he was Patrick by name, as Prisca had told her before that the guy asking her out and was disturbing her for her to be his girlfriend, was Patrick.

Tina never knew Patrick was that handsome to that extent as he looked smoking hot like a model. Even though she had gone with Prisca to his place, she didn't really examined Patrick's face then, compared to the last time she saw Patrick, as of then, having a boyfriend while she was still in college, wasn't of her interest at all. As she wanted to focused on her studies and passed her scholarship exam, as her education was the most important vital thing to her then, and not frolicking around with a guy in the name of relationship.

Chris hated the fact that Tina was quite whenever he asked her if she still had any feeling whatsoever for Patrick and he suspect probably Tina was lying to him, maybe she still liked Patrick or maybe the affair they had in the past wasn't forced, and probably Tina had agreed to did it with Patrick then, and now forming victim for him.

[If not that I had known Patrick before I meet Tina, and Patrick had told me personally that he slept with her and couldn't restricted himself from touching her, despite her plead for him to stopped, then I would've thought Tina is lying to me.]

Chris sighed as he loved Tina, and he decided not to asked Tina anything having to do with Patrick again, as he planned on taking Tina away from her village before Patrick would returned one day to looked for Tina or proposed to Tina to marry him rather and forgave him, Beside they already have a child together and Patrick had previously mentioned to him that he still in love with Tina, missed Tina, and he still wanted Tina back.

[Who wouldn't want such a beautiful lady like Tina] - Chris thought silently as he decided not to probe about Patrick again, since Tina never told him that Patrick came to looked for her either.

[It was all past now. and I should let bygones be.] Chris thought in his mind and he planned to visited Tina's parent.

*****

The following Sunday afternoon, Chris came visiting Tina's parent as he wanted to asked for Tina's hand in marriage.

Chris came with his car and parked outside and he meet Tina's parent at parlour, while Mama-Tina welcomed him politely into their parlour, and Chris sat down in their parlour chair, even as their parlour wasn't fashioned, as they weren't rich, but Chris didn't cared about if they were rich or not, as all he cared about was marrying Tina.

"Good afternoon ma, Good afternoon Sir" Chris greeted Tina's parent politely again, although they were already familiar with him but he still had to greeted them again to show some respect as sitting before his elders.

"Welcome my son" Papa-Tina answered, as he was also already familiar with Chris.

"You are looking for Tina right?, Let me go and call her out" Mama-Tina said as she turned to leave but Chris immediately spoked.

"Yes ma, but actually I came to see you and Daddy today, not really Tina," Chris said and Mama-Tina paused and stared back to him, as Tina was obviously at the backyard washing her cloths with that of her younger brothers, As Jude and Richmond were rinsing the clothes to spread it, while Godsent's was busy playing with a little bucket of water.

Mama-Tina spoked,. "Let me go and call Tina, she's at the backyard washing clothes with her siblings."

Mama-Tina was about to leave to called Tina, but Chris stopped her again.

"No ma, actually, I came to see you and Daddy.."

"I hope there's no problem?." Papa-Tina asked as he stared at Chris, as he was previously busy reading some newspaper and was less concerned with what Chris wanted or was talking about, As he was more keen on the new development and things happening in their Village, but when Chris mentioned "here to see him.." Papa-Tina stopped reading and shifted his gazed back to Chris.

"Any problem..?"

"No sir, No problem actually" Chris replied, then he continued

"Sir actually, I will want to be returning back to the city, but I want to make my intention about your daughter known, as I will like her to come with me to the city or see to sponsoring her education"."

Mama-Tina frowned hearing what Chris just said, as initially she would've been happy jumping up and thanking God that despite her daughter has a child out of wedlock, her daughter was still luckily to seeing a responsible suitor, but ever since she saw Patrick and knew Patrick had came for her daughter before, as she had seen him severally before and remembered he even asking her for Tina before, but then she never knew his intentions to then, of asking about Tina, as she had thought Patrick was only asking about Tina then, just like every other familiar customers usually asked of Tina's whereabouts and absent from her shade.

But since she now knew why Patrick had been coming all those while to asked , she felt the young man too, still cared and had feeling for Tina, that's why Patrick had been asking.

Looking at Mama-Tina's frowning face, Chris felt probably Mama-Tina didn't liked him anymore nor wanted his relationship with her daughter, but he still had to tried, what she has to say and what Tina's father would say too him about his Proposal.

"Young man, Chris, You know you cannot just take my daughter, Tina along with you to the city, that's not polite. Assuming Tina was a boy, there won't be much talk on that, but you know Tina is a lady, A beautiful one at that, So she cannot follow you to the city, except you marry her first" Papa-Tina scolded as he tried explaining to Chris calmly, to understood his reason of him not allowing Tina went with Chris to the city, even though he was familiar with Chris been around.

Chris was still a man with lustful desire and might slept with Tina outside marriage if Tina followed him to his house in the city, and with Chris seeing Tina everyday, under the same roof, it not actually safe for Tina, Papa-Tina thought.