Chapter 13: Chapter 13

They conversed merrily. Then there was a firework display.

“To the lady in my heart,”

“Her smile makes me smile,”

“Standing in the bottom of my heart,”

“ Linda WILL YOU BE MY SOULMATE,”

He kneels down and with a smile. Linda was shaking, she shook her head.

“No!” She said as she stood perplexedly. Her palm on her face.

Ethan was also shocked at Linda’s behavior but would only smile

She picked up her handbag and ran out of the restaurant.

She flagged off a cab.

“Shit!” Ethan swore.

Why did she have to continue turning him down?. He thought.

He hurried after her. but she was already inside a cab. The cabman drove before he would mumble any words.

He hopped into his car and drove off.

When in his car, he picked up his phone, he dialed Sophia’s number

At the pick of his call. He halted the car.

“Hello Sophie,” he said.

“Hi, love guy, how was your date?” she said.

“That was the reason why I called you. Linda rejected my proposal,” he said disheartened.

“Oh Sorry, where is she?” she asked. Sweat boiled formed on his head. It seems his whole world had come crashing down on him. She felt his heartbeat and felt sorry for him. She knew that Linda greatly loves her ex-husband. She was also adamant. She was so difficult to be persuaded to do what she doesn’t plop her mind on.

“Ethan, take it susceptible with her. You know how love works, gradually, she will come over it. Have you invited her to your sister’s birthday?” Sofia asked.

He has bypassed to invite her.

“Shit!. I forgot, can you help me out?” he asked.

He was feeling awful. He appeared to have lost half part of himself. He became preliminary.

The feeling of guilt overwhelmed him without notice.

“I can’t help you. You have to help yourself,” she said.

The word help yourself whacked him like a dagger. That wasn’t what he loved to do.

“How was that going to be possible, when she just breaks my heart into an asylum,” he said. Sofia laughed.

“Take it susceptible, she will come around, she just needs time, you know how women act. They will want a man to persuade them before they acknowledge him. You just need to continue to be caring. Just a little whiff then she will be yours forever,” she said.

He just glanced at his car wheel. He doesn’t know what to say other than to accept her suggestion although he knows that it will take longer to satisfy her.

“Okay, I concur, what can I do for now?” He asked as if he was a toddler who doesn’t perceive how to do a particular thing. He was so unsettled that anything Sofia will say will have many effects on him.

“You will have to visit her. And you must personally invite her to your sister's birthday. From there, we will know what to do. I got your back prince,” she said.

He inhaled deeply.

“Okay, agreed, but don’t you think she was still angry at me,” he asked.

Sofia was shocked. Was it the prince talking about a common woman? Will she be angry? She thought in her mind.

“She certainly can’t be angry at you. She was only shocked. She will come over it,” she said.

“Okay,” he said.

They both rang off.

Ethan was ameliorated a bit. He was about to ignite the car when his phone buzzed.

He thought it was Sofia again, so he picked it up without peeping at the caller ID.

“Hi, Prince,” a male voice echoed out and went into his ear

He recognized the voice.

“Michelle!” he said.

“Yeah, the only one Michelle,” the voice said over the phone.

“Friendly, I am missing you,” Ethan said.

“You are missing me and you can’t even call me to invite me over for Bella’s birthday,” Michelle said.

“I am currently not in the palace. I left the palace two years ago,” he said.

“And that one too. You can’t even tell me and you are my buddy,” Michelle said.

“Ouch! I was busy sorting so many things, that I forgot most of the things,” Ethan said as he tried to explain.

“Sorting many things for you to forget your buddy?” he asked jovially.

But Ethan was in a dilemma that he wasn’t in for any joke.

His head hurts. His mind drifted

“You are getting me confused,” he said.

“Buddy, just cool. It seems you are suffering from heartbreak,” Michelle said.

Nobody knew him other than Michelle. They had been childhood friends. They both attended the same school up to the university but had to change their university education when Michelle’s father called for him to move to Arizona, a country far away from Sari.

As the years ran by, so was their communication reduced.

“That is how you see man,” he said as he rubbed his hand over his hair.

“Cool off buddy, you will come over this if you leave that abandonment of yours and drop your name. True love comes when there isn’t anything on a man,” Michelle said.

“What are you talking about?” he asked, he could not comprehend what he meant. His mind was far away as the reflection of Linda flocked into his head. He tried to blink it off but It came glued into his head.

“I will use myself as an example. You knew how rich I was. Every lady tends to break my heart easily because I usually love easily and blindly. I left home and left my abandoned. I pinched In a small town like yours where I only hope to find true love. Right now, I am not only happy but the princess of the town is feeling in love with me. We are now well known in love. True love is for the commoners. Until you wear a commoner's shoe will you enjoy the division of love,” he explained.

Ethan laughed. He just can’t picture Michelle in a commoner's clothes and pushing carts or what?

“You are really funny, I just get on laughing, when do you become a comedian, I knew you better than this,” Ethan said.

“Eyes can only see what to believe. You shall see my bride on your sister's birthday, man,” he said.

Ethan Still laughed. He doesn’t plan to laugh, but what Michelle was saying was so funny to him.