THE TROUBLE

"why did you go ahead with a false Marriage? What have you brought upon our only son?"

"Do you think the people will want to look up to our son if he is without a Queen? the kingdom will be attacked if the king to be doesn't have a Queen!.."

"Shut up!" The angry king who had never for once raise his voice on his wife was suddenly screaming at her.

"I did what a mother would have done and I will do ever more"

"Stop destroying our son, and if anything bad happens to my son you will not like what will come at you". the king seem to threaten his wife.

" Are you threatening me now?"

Looking at the queen with a eyes full of rage and anger the king says "I am not threatening you, I am only telling you what you should expect" he says and left the bedroom.

It been there days since the king to be MICHY LEVY fell terribly ill, he was to.. the palace physician had revealed that the reason for the illness is due to the marriage which was not with the right person, which made the gods to become so angry, and the prince will only get spared when his rightly bethroded one is brought to me. The physician who was asked to do everything possible to make the prince feel better reveals that it is the angry gods who have held down the prince health and they are to look for his bethroded one, Clara Anderson.

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"My name is Justin, and I am here to look for my beloved Clara Anderson" a man on his mid 20 stood at the door of Mr Anderson and say.

"Come in young man" Mr Anderson ushered his guest in with a smile.

"Thank you" he goes in majestically.

"you are here to marry my daughter? But where are your parents too? And your name again?"

"My parents are dead and I live with my aunt, my name is Justin..."

A hopeful Mr Anderson turns to his wife and ask for the name of Clara suitor whose name had been etched in her arm before disappearing.

"MICHY LEVY" says Mrs Anderson, with her hands held tight to her cup of coffee.

Mr Anderson turns to his guest, this time not even smiling. "Young man, you may take your leave now, you are not my daughter's suitor, you can leave now" the confused man took his leave.

Clara who over heard everything that has transpired between her father and the young man, stayed up in her room and kept to the gist her friend shila was gisting her over the phone.

"..but we used a condom to avoid getting pregnant because we both aren't ready for a baby just yet" Shila says with a smirk emoji.

A virgin Clara who had been had sex in her life, due to the numerous warning get parent had baptised her with, on how she is only meant to sleep with her suitor whose name is already etched in her arms, goes to give Shila some advice. "Shila, why don't you keep your self and body for your husband to be?"

Her message was read, but got no response. After sensing the awkwardness in the silence, she goes on to say " I am only suggesting, you know I love you best friend"

"no bestie, I am not angry at your advice , it just that I am sexually active that is why I use a condom to protect myself, and as for my husband to be, I don't know who I will end up with just yet, I have three boyfriends I might end up with just one of them, who knows"

" Wow" a shocked Clara who couldn't believe one could have the boyfriends while she is here trying to look for get beloved suitor who she is to be married to because of one tradition says so!

"are you surprised? Everyone now has a boyfriend, why don't you consider dating Michael? He likes you and he is very cute too"

Clara who doesn't know how to explain her predicament to her friend because it will only sound so foolish and she would laugh at her..

After much deliberation on how to explain to her friend on why she cannot just date and sleep with anyone, she gives us and ended her chat by telling her to take care, which she meant.

It was evening already, the Anderson family gathered round their well polished dining table which had been shipped off from Germany. Clara's mother had prepared rice with sauce for the family.

They ate in silence, half way through the meal, Clara who felt as though she is in the middle of a whole mess, stops eating and requested to know why she cannot just get married to just any one she feel like since her suitor name is off her arm already. She haven't gotten a reply when a knock was heard at the door, wondering who it might be Clara stood up to go get it..

"hello, my name is Jake and I am looking for Mr Anderson" she ushered the guest in and her father came out to meet him.

"Young man, if you are among the investors who had been calling earlier..." He haven't completed his speech when the young man told him he was here for his daughter hand in marriage, as he is to be betroded to her.

"and what do you say your name is again?"

"My name is Jake, and here is the proof that I am to be married to Clara Anderson" he says as he lifts a light to his arms which reads out Clara Anderson's name.

"Young man, you may take your leave"

"How do we prepare for the marriage" the gentleman who is in his mid thirty ask in a polite tone.

"There is no marriage, your wife is not here, go elsewhere" he flared up