Chapter 207: Fairytale Love

When the girls brought the cooler of pepper meat, Mr. Matt seem to be unhappy with, he gave them an unsatisfactory look and then he said to them;

"Why are you bringing it now?"

"S...sir, we j..Ju...just finishes with n...now...now."

One of the ladies responded in an extremely shaky voice. I looked at her and wondered why someone could possibly be scared of a man like fake dad, he is a very easy going and easy flowing person, at least so I thought at the moment, it was only later that I realized that the way he behaves towards us was different from the way he behaved toward his staff, even mom made it clear to me, that he can't treat his staff half the way he treats us, else they will feel Iver pampered and they will not perform the activities that they were employed for. I actually understood that very vividly, he saw us as family and that was why he acts the way he did towards us.

"You are just finishing the asun now, despite your number, where is Evelyn? Tell her that I will want to see her, I don't even want to talk to you."

Mr. Said, ending his conversation with the ladies quite rudely, after he said this, they quickly found their way out, they were probably happy to leave his presence because they look rather too terrified to stand before him.

"Don't mind them, I actually asked Evelyn to employ as many hands as possible so as to make things easier and fast, but yet, everything seems the same."

He said to us as the two ladies left.

"Hahahah... Matthew Ohakwe, you are yet to change from this your life, you know you are a very strict person, right from when we were in school, up until now you are yet to change."

Mom said.

"Hahaha, I think that I even got worse, my dear, it is not easy to manage people, one has to be strict else, he will be taken for granted."

He explained. Fake dad actually seems harsh but I understand him, he had to be the way he was to avoid disrespect. And mom also said something about him being strict even back in school, that is the kind of life I will like to have in the higher institution, I wouldn't want to be bullied by the likes of Bright and Kunle and other bullies who had always taken every single opportunity they found to bully me, well, I believe that the reason why I was bullied was not that I was smaller, but because I made myself an easy target, I often too nice and soft, always acting like what we called Ajebota in the Nigerian parlance. But I am so definitely not going to be that kid in secondary school when I gain admission into the varsity. As I had the thought of a higher institution in my head, the thought of Cynthia crept into my head again. I really do not know why she had to be that way towards me, why must she have to hate me because she found out about what I am, I thought that they say that love can solve any problem, why did it not solve this? Or, was she not truly in love with me? I just do not know what to do about it at that moment, All I could do was ponder and hate on love itself. In my mind I cursed love as I felt this intense hate against it, I even wishes that it could materialize so I could use my powers to destroy its hateful face. At that moment I saw love as lies and fairytales told by fools, who tend to paint it with colorful and imaginary pictures, yes, it is a fairytale, no wonder it is best expressed in cartoons, I also thought of it as a mare lullaby that is sung go kids as night flutter by, only meant to put them to sleep, never intended to become a real thing. I even went as far as relating it to disease, for sure, I saw it as a disease, no wonder the love infected will always say, "love is blind". But in a real sense, a lover is worse than the blind, because at that moment I saw love as just a parasite attached to the bearer's mind, draining them of their attention, passion, possessions, including their lives, I even went as far as seeing it as the most overused and overrated word which had now been used as a weapon of extortion. 'Oh you unruly love, wicked old fool, why must you? Through our hearts, you cast your spell, egocentric and fastidious fellow, but be not proud, though some has tagged you mighty and meek, you and I know you are not so, it is only those that think so of you that you can infest, poor love, never can you near me. Hateful and joyless love, you aren't even half as happy as hate.' So I thought in my mind, or all these I thought of love at that moment. But thank God that this idea about love changed very quickly, it changed even before it ate deep in me. But of a fact, I wonder how people see love, judging from experience, I have come to see that for sure there is what is called a fairytale love, and that fairy tale love is what makes many people fall out of love quickly, they have already in their mind built and created the idea of how love was supposed to be, this is often caused by watching too many love movies or reading too many love novels, all these fictional works tend to deviate peoples mind from what real love truly is to another thing in totality, and this is often found among the female folks since they are the ones who often prefer the love stories. Most of the male folks will rather watch an action movie than a boring love tale. I noticed that almost every girl is looking for a perfect guy, a Prince Charming or at least, his look-alike, they were all looking out for a protective Knight In Shining Armor who will always take them out on a romantic candlelight dinner where they will have a romantic dance with him, not just dancing to any song, but dancing to his very sweet songs which he sings with his melodious voice. Oh! The fought of that alone makes their hearts jump.