chapter 8

That night as I slept I had a dream and I saw myself walking down the aisle in my flowing wedding gown, I was I walk to where Denis stood and the priest asked if there was anyone seated here that will not want this couple to be husband and wife, "speak now or hold your peace".

As he said that everywhere became so silent that you can even hear if a pin drop, I scanned through the crowd, they were unknown faces, I didn't see anybody that I know seated among them and they were looking so sad on my wedding day, where did they even come from, as I was still wondering about the strange sad faces, a man stood up from a distance, an elderly man, he was moving towards me but he wasn't walking, as he got closer and I saw his full face, I screamed in terror, "Dad" and I woke up.

It was my father that stood up to stand against my wedding with Denis, my Dad has being dead for three years, he can't oppose my wedding with Denis who was his P. A even the day my Dad died in his office it was Denis that discovered his cold body lying in his office and raised alarm.

My dad had lungs cancer which after his visit to his medical doctor abroad, he was fine, he got better, and was back to work in his usual active mood, eating and doing what he loves to do as before, he still take some medicine just as his doctor prescribed, and he was also warned to stay away from certain drugs, food and some other things, he followed every rule given to him not until that day, he never showed any signs of sickness in the morning or afternoon only to be discovered dead In the evening, during the close of work right in his office, autopsy showed that he was overdose how can dad overdose himself, I thought he was taking his drugs according to prescription, why did he have to take a overdose and die, how would I have cope if not for Denis.

Mother died when I was still a little girl, father refused to remarry he wanted to give me the best parenting he said I'm like a million children to him, he also wanted to walk me down on my wedding day and hand me over to a good man who will cherish me like him, he wished to see me happy and I have looked forward to making him proud until death snatched him away, I cried and couldn't eat for days, I wanted to die with him, life was so lonely without my lovely dad, who toiled day and night just to give me the best.....