Chapter 129

Cindy was going going through some of her friends profiles on Facebook, when she stumbled on a family group picture. It was a lovely sight to behold, so she had to stop and take a better look at it. She clicked on the picture, found out it wasn't bold enough, so she zoomed it. She was so fascinated with such an awesome family coming together to celebrate their grandpa, they looked colourful in their divers attires. While she went through them one after the other, she stopped at one of the males, he looked familiar to her. She had to zoom in the more, there he was standing out tall and handsome as usual. Cindy was shocked, could this be the family that Mike was talking about she thought. There was only one way to find out, Cindy clicked on her Facebook messenger, she typed a message to her friend whose profile she saw the picture. Unfortunately for her, the friend was not online, so she saved the picture on her iPad and made up her mind to wait for the friends reply. A lot of though when through her mind, but she could only pray it wasn't what she thought, so that she wouldn't feel heartbroken.

The picture seemed to have done it's expected job quite well, in less than 24 hours, it had gone viral. As it was expected within the high class families, there children were either school mates, class Mates or neighbors. They would always check each other's profile to see what was new.  When it has to do with  ceremonies, the visit to such family or personal page would be on the increase. They would either be looking for the dresses that were worn, the Calibre of people that graced the occasion and other things. When one person amongst the friend circle, had spotted such post, others would be tagged as he or she like and share it. Hence the speed at which it went viral.

Lucymang and Brains were checking things online, after a wonderful launch, they lay down side by side, surfing he net. It was a beautiful picture of Lucymangs fried that attracted Brains. He asked her to open the young man's profile so he could see more of his pictures. He was in love with his sense of dressing. Lucymang had to switch into the friends profile and they began their journey checking most of his posts. They began to see some other pictures posted by him. They got to a particular one which was a group picture, behold, it was Margaret's family picture and Mike was conspicuously seen with Margaret in the midst of the family. Brains was doubtful initially, he wasn't sure that it was Mike in the picture. He had to ask that Lucymang zoom in for him to have a better view. That was when he confirmed that the image he saw and was seeing right there was Mike's. The next thing that got to his mind was what Mike could possibly be  doing there. He asked Lucymang how close she was to the the family in the picture, her response shows she doesn't have a direct relationship with them, rather the friend who they saw the picture on the profile. Brains interest and curiosity was beefing up, the position he saw Mike with Margaret was enough to suspect something fishy. All he wanted was to find out if Mike and Olivia had called it quit. The only way to find out was through Lucymang but he had to figure out the best way to ask her for that favour without getting her suspicious.

It happened that Mike was alone that evening, Margaret had excused herself and left the room. His phone rang, when he picked, it was Pat on the line. She was talking so fast that he couldn't understand what she was saying. He tried to calm her down, when she became a little calm, he then asked that she repeat what she was saying. He hurriedly took his phone and opened his wassup. There it was, the group picture he took amongst Margaret's family members. He was still confused as to why Pat sounded the way she did, he couldn't see anything bad about the picture. The only thing he was able to pick out as to the reason for her anger, was the possibility of jealousy. The rest of the calls that came through Pat, Mike refused to pick. 

Meanwhile, Pat had seen and overhead Olivia and Mira watching and discussing the picture in their room. She knew that it would take them just a phone call to figure out whatever that must have led Mike to such family and the link between him and the lady standing with him in the group. She wanted to get Mike notified so he would know what was going on down there in Paris. When she had  tried few times to be get back to Mike and he wasn't picking anymore, she dropped him a message and let him be.

It was all celebration in Harts house, visitors kept coming and going. Most of them were top government officials who come in with security details. Olivia was mostly busy all through as she kept receiving these guests. It was the little opportunity she got that she was able to sit with her sister Mira and discuss the picture which Mira saw on her friends page. She had suspected the face as being familiar and deemed it fit to ask her sister Olivia. When Olivia saw the picture, she knew it was Mike, there was no way she wouldn't know him. The same question that everyone kept asking propped up in her mind. What possibly was he doing in such family she thought, the only possible answer could only come from the person who posted the picture. Mira had to take up the job of finding out what Mike was doing in her friends family house on the United Kingdom. It was a task that she had to be careful about, because of her sisters condition and career. She had wanted calling her friend immediately, but she thought otherwise. She would rather ask that they met and discuss somewhere in town.

When all these were going on, the said picture was the only one online, by that evening, other pictures had surfaced. Mostly the ones showing the launch time, some of them were only Mike and Margaret. Some, Mike was captured with his face so close to Margaret as he listened to her whispering some things to him. The time around, Margaret was the one who took the viral pictures to Mike. She pretended that she wasn't aware of it, she was mostly sounding unhappy with it. When Mike saw it, his countenances changed, he knew he had got a lot of job cut out for him, in terms of clearing whatever doubts the viral pictures must have created in the mind of people who knew him. He wasn't in any way ignorance of the fact that such picture might have got to Olivia and the family. He persuaded himself to remain calm and avoid reacting so as not to take it overboard. 

Margaret saw that she had successfully exonerated herself from the blame, so she quietly asked him to excuse her for a moment, she left Mike alone and went to her accomplice who posted the pictures. They had many friend requests from people, both those they knew and the ones they don't. Due to their plans, all the requests were accepted. This enabled them respond to nearly all the questions and comments that were made on those pictures. 

Mike's friend request was one of the few ones that got accepted, he wanted to find out what was going on online about the picture. He immediately searched for the profile and saw it. By the time he checked the picture, it had increased. That was when he understood the implication of it. Some people were seriously making comments on the compatibility of himself and Margaret in marriage. This had drawn a huge traffick to the page. He felt the need to read more, so he started scrolling down to other messages.

 Mike noticed that the person that posted the pictures was taking time to respond to those who either asked question or made their comments. Few of them had asked if that was a wedding feast which had the response " pre wedding feast." He wondered why the decision to go online with such joke, which he considered expensive. There wasn't anything he could do to remedy whatever effect the pictures might have had in people's mind. He had even ignored Pat and when her message came in, although it was already late, he would have reached back to her, who knows, she might be a saving grace. He had no option than to let nature determine his fate.

Cindy couldn't help but cry when she saw what was going on about the picture, she never expected nor was she suspicious of mike in anyway. The various questions and responses from the commenters and responder respectively sent chills over her entire body. Who would have thought that Mike went for his pre wedding event when she believed his story.