Everything…

THE

HAND OF

LOVE

“REMEMBERING WHY YOU LOVE HER…”

Sometimes we find love and sometimes we don’t. So many people around the globe have found their special someone, they are married and most possibly they have kids. Though there are many who found love there are others who fail to find the right partner, they fail to find the right lover, they either get heart broken or someone turns down their proposal for a date.

James knew a friend called Shaun. They met at the train station, and on their first meeting James was weirdly approached by this man who had experienced the most confusing yet exciting thing, LOVE.

James on a regular work morning never arrives early or late but just on time, yet this was no regular morning. On this day he arrived early at the station which was a bit odd because usually he arrives at the station at 6pm yet this time he arrived at 5:30 not knowing that his watch ahead.

 As he arrived at the station he noticed that there was one at the station and worried as he was he asked the workers and they gave him the correct time. He became frustrated, he considered going home but he had a relationship problem regarding his wife.

James recently started feeling like the lady (his wife) he is with is not the right person for him, he feels like he does not love her anymore and he was emotionally abusing her. He grew out of love at a young age and he was in desperate need of advice but he was too stubborn.

He took of the old watch he bought himself when he was attending varsity and he through it on the rail way in frustration because it made him get to the station very early than usual, thinking to himself that it was stupid for him to leave the watch his wife bought for him because he is emotionally confused.

After he threw that watch away, he turned around very fast, which was a sign that he was very upset and set down. All of a sudden a very old man just appeared facing another direction sitting with him.

 The old man asked him, may I tell you a story please, James said No! With a surprised look as he was looking around in fear, but the old man insisted and James agreed, but James also with a curious shaking voice asked where do you come from? I was alone. The old man said where I come from is not an issue just know that where you have been I have, and where you will be I will be.

When James wanted to ask more the old man looked at him with a smile.

IT STARTED…

30 years ago I had a very terrible break up, the lady I thought was the one for me cheated on me and had the courage to tell me that I am a horrible lover…as he was talking James said listen I am sorry but I can’t help you, but the man replied please listen.

He (Shaun) started again 30 years ago I had a very terrible break up, the lady I thought was the one for me cheated on me and had the courage to tell me that I am a horrible lover, that day I went back to my apartment. When I arrived slowly the rain started dripping, which made me rest, well before that I thought maybe God is punishing me because we (the cheating lover and himself) loved a rainy weather. That day I passed out on the couch and this is what happened.

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One late afternoon Shaun woke up in the late after a long a week full of presentations, he rested on Friday and woke up at 12:00pm he thought he must have been tired because he was wearing the same close that he was wearing he was dumped buy his lover, he took a shower and he decided to give his friends a call and tell them what happened.

As he was doing so, his friends told him to come over the club because one of his friends owned one. He dint want to go but the way he was feeling he decided to go and just have fun. He got there as late as he always was and set at the usual corner with his friends, they dint want to talk about the break up, being boy they all stood up and went dancing, just to make him meet new ladies and have fun as they were doing so, he stood up wanting to leave but a lady bumped into him by mistake and being a gentleman as he was he apologised and as he was doing so,

The lady said, HI

He said hi my name is Shaun,

At that moment he felt like he knows that lady he knew her surname and he knew her hand because he thought he recognized him from the lady will accept to marry him in three months

Shaun turned and said thank you but the lady was confused and

She said what for?

He said lady siting here with your hand in my hand made me realize that you re a person that I will come to know,

She replied you don’t know me

He said you look like my first wife who I have not married yet, our first kiss is so sweet and when we make love it’s so sweet, with a hand that will be wearing my ring probably three months from now and when you said I do, I saw the beautiful children of ours.

He continued…

I know it might sound strange we just met, but I think you already know me. Because I feel like I just came from time to tell you thank you for giving me a beautiful life and if only you knew our beautiful children of ours and if you look in the mirror you see the beautiful picture of our lives in your face. The lady and Shaun left the club.

They started going out and their relationship felt good and they were happy, they even forgot what Shaun said in the beginning of at the club, they were overwhelmed by love and in three months Shaun proposed and she said yes and in six weeks they got married and Shaun as he was saying his vows he remembered the hand that held him with love and warmth but it started disappearing, fading in the light, out of frustration he looked at the face and he noticed that she was fading.

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I woke up with a lot of anger because I was dreaming. That day I had a perfect dream he said to James and I knew there is nothing I can do to get that back, out of frustration he took a shower and without contacting g his friends he walked out of his apartment he saw that it was raining so he took his leather jacket, as he was about to walk out he remembered that he forgot an umbrella, he turned around as he walked up the stairs he came across a lady called Brenda, who looked exactly like the lady in his dream.

The lady bumped into him, dropping her laundry she said sorry with a very soft voice…

He said hi my name is Shaun,

Hi I am Brenda she replied,

When she got up Shaun gave her a helping hand and looked at her hand, and said I know this hand, and she said what, he continued this is the same hand that will say yes to me in three months, the same hand I held in front of the minister.

She replied you don’t know me

He said you look like my first wife who I have not married yet, our first kiss is so sweet and when we make love it’s so sweet, with a hand that will be wearing my ring probably three months from now and when you said I do, I saw the beautiful children of ours.

He continued…

Yes! I know we just met, but I know you know what I am saying.

She smiled and said tell me more

As time went on they grew more and more in love and they both forgot about the dream but never forgot how they met, in three month Shaun proposed and six weeks after they got married and as Shaun was saying his vows he said to him thank you for the beautiful life that we yet to live and you beautiful hand that made it possible.

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As he was talking James asked where is she now? Shaun replied still with me in my heart, spirit and soul. Though we grow old, we never grow apart. I would love to meet her James said, and he said you already did. Where James said, at your apartment when Brenda bumped into you and you said HI, James looked at him with confusion because he now remembers how he met his wife and no one knew but them both and the old man pointed a finger at a train and when James looked and looked back him the old man disappeared.

James stood up and at that time it was 6:00 with his train coming, while everyone waited for the train to stop, James was thinking about how he emotionally abuses the love of his life as the train was leaving people were calling out his name but he couldn’t hear anything, tears dripping on his face, he got up took his bags and ran to his house. When he walked in he found her praying for James and he walked in, held her hand and said thank you!!!

Brenda said what for…

He responded, for choosing me to be your man, our kisses are so sweet like the first time and when we make love it’s so sweet, with the hand that has been wearing my ring for 6 years and when you said I do before, I saw the beautiful children of ours, pointing at his two year old twins and said I know it might sound strange because I was abusive to you, but I thank God for the your hand of love that reminded me who we are. James stood up and stretched his hand and said can you dance with me.

James learned a lesson, that love never runs dry most especially when it is given freely.