The Castle

 Good evening Madam, have been sent to pick you up, hope I didn’t keep you waiting. He opened the door I sat there quietly studying my environment. He asked me what type of music I like so that he could play for me. I tried to have a conversation with him but it was evident that he was instructed not to have chitchat, so I sat there silently fidgeting with my phone.

Once in a while as I glanced up I always found him staring at me from the rear view mirror. I felt like he wanted to tell me something, warn me of what was awaiting ahead. Fifteen minutes later and I arrived at the destination. As he parked the car he uttered these words: ‘You’re different from all the rest and am hoping you’re here to stay and not leave. It’s a high time he finds a good woman and settles down. I want to chauffeur his wife and children not just different women’ Before I could even respond he quickly got out of the car and rushed to open for me the door. I tried to find out what he meant but he brushed it off and wished me a lovely evening.

There he stood at the entrance the man who thought could sweep me off my feet by the glamorous life he was offering me. I took the stairs and for each step I took those words uttered by his driver kept ringing over and over again in my head. I made my final step and it was the last step I took by myself, his hand locked into mine immediately. He stepped into the room and heads turned, this man has the personality that is felt in the entire room and I make him look good no doubt of that.

He walked with me with pride all over his face, it’s like he’d won a competition and his showing off his trophy. He introduced me to all his friends and enemies as his wife to be. Every time he uttered this words ‘Meet my wife to be’ I felt a chill down my spine. Don’t get me wrong I’m fluttered to know that he considers me a wife material but he has already made that decision for me and yet we haven’t even set foot on the dating field, we are still in the friendship zone.

I took a break because all this meet and greet was too much. Since I set foot in that restaurant it’s just been meet so and so. I took a sit at the corner where I went unrecognized and glanced at his world as an outsider. It was an amazing world, a world filled with all the glamour and luxuries one could dream of. If I was in that world I could buy all the Louis Vuitton heels and visit all the places have always wanted to visit.

However that was not the case, it was his money and not ours. As I sat there an elegant lady asked if she could join me, she took the seat next to me. As we were chit chatting the question of him and me came up. She sounded very bitter while talking about him so I asked her if they have a past together. She was honest and stated it never ended well. Her last words; ‘You’re very lucky, he wants more with you than sexual pleasure. With me that’s what he just wanted and no matter what I did, it never went past that. When you walk down the aisle just know you’ve hit a jackpot. I wish you all the happiness life could offer you. ‘

First his driver and now a woman from his past, those words each of them uttered to me kept ringing in my head and I felt like I was going crazy. I walked to the balcony and there I was at the balcony overlooking what was his property. He had it all, there’s nothing he needed apart from a woman of the house.

This life looked so great, it could fulfil all my heart desires and make me achieve all my dreams without working hard at all and I know a few women who would have entered his castle. As I stood there glancing at what was his, I kept asking myself what I am adding to his life. His life was complete and he didn’t need another brick to add onto his castle. I stood there and enjoyed the last moments of what was in front of me.

I built a castle of dreams in the sky, imagined how life will be with him and it brought a smile to my face, I faced reality and the dreams came crushing down. I walked into the room and there he was standing agitatedly with his eyes looking around the room trying to locate me. When he got a glance of me his facial expression said a lot. He inquired of my whereabouts and told me am meant to be by his side all time. I laughed it off and started walking towards the exit, a sign I was leaving.

He hurriedly walked behind me and grasped my hand the moment I stepped out of the door. There I was one leg in and the other out asking me where I thinking I’m going to. I explained to him that his castle is already built and I’m building my own castle with my man. He wanted a better explanation and here is it:

‘Your life is amazing and you’re also a very good person but you came into my life a bit late because I have someone and to add on that, I’m that old fashioned chic who wants to build the castle with her man from scratch. I want to put the foundation with him and put each brick with him and complete it because this type of castle will be one that I’m familiar with. But yours I don’t know of it at all and the only thing I know is the entrance and exit.’

As I write this his decided to detach himself from my life because he says he can’t stand me with another man and I respect his decision. I didn’t mean to hurt him, he deserved someone to be honest with him for the first time in his life.

I wish you all the best and my prayer is that you find a woman who will love you for you and not your money.