Chapter 72: Chapter 72

: Vows Renewal.

"And they twain shall become one"_holy Bible.

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Tears stung my eyes as he stared at me with emotions so raw they tugged at my heartstrings.

" Temitope mi, iyawo mi(my wife), my friend, my lover my partner, my forever. Five and half years ago I made vows to you, some I couldn't keep. Right here right now in front of our family and loved ones, I say:

I'm sorry for all the ways I've failed you, for all the times I did not choose you. You came on this journey with me flaws and all, No one has seen me at my lowest and highest like you have thank you.

Lover, you know there is this fire you ignite in me, there is this hunger you awaken. How can I not be grateful?

Feels like I don't deserve you cause I know have hurt your feelings, I'm vulnerable you've got the keys to open up my secrets.

I choose to love you: I pray God helps me love you. Love is not always the fuzzy feeling in the pit of our belly and you've taught me that. Its  sometimes a choice because it wasn't always sweet and its not the fuzzy feeling that made us survive.

Thank you for teaching me Intimacy isn't sex or how raw we feel after it, thank you for teaching me that its a tango dance with our souls. How we know each other in and out, how the littlest thing about you excite me, how your presence calms me or how I crave you.

Mother of my children, the two we have now and the two we are adding as times goes by" winking at me.

"I vow again to love you, to cherish you, to hold you, to fight for you, to choose you, to honor you, to pray for you, to serve you, to fight with you, to raise our children with you, to spoil you silly, to take you to eat the most delicious meals, to hold your hands, to go the distance with you, to go the distance for you" he added tears filling his eyes and he cleaned the edges with his fingers. Slipping a ring that looks like my old one and still looks different and new at the same time.

My waterworks increased as I sniffed and sniffed, crying like a baby.

"I don't know what to say, Im too overwhelmed to say something this deep to you, but from the yansh(bottom) of my heart, Ayomide, I love you and ill love to continue to be your wife" The tears were uncomfortable now I was a big pool of emotions.

"Ill never leave you again, we will never give ourselves reasons to stay away from each other for so long, that I promise you. Take my heart, I want to build a home with you" I replied.

The goofy faces everyone was making around us, while some had tears in their eyes at our emotional scenes made me shy and I hid my face in his chest.

"My shy baby" he whispered into my ears.

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Pamela

I dug my feet into the sand as rich pure laughter flowed from the deepest place of my belly through my lips. "Stop tickling me Ayomi" I shouted.

We were sitting on our private beach  in Miami, my head lay on his laps and my body in the sand. We were on our second honey moon or baby making time as he tagged it.

My biggest job the last few days apart from trying hard not to burst into tears at how grateful I am for this man, is trying to make sure he doesnt shoot a baby in me.

He looked at me contently and sighed loudly "There is a way I feel when I'm with you, this peace and bliss at the same time this tingly feeling in the pits of my belly"

"Thats just lust ode(fool)" I laughed at him.

"Okay I agree that you know how to push my buttons without meaning to" threading his fingers into my eyebrows.

" Awnnn so sweet!" I smiled pulling his cute cheeks.

"Lets go make babies" I added slipping my hands into his shirt.

"You too like rough play, baby" smiling so bright at me his eyes crinkled.

"Of course, something must kill a man after all" pulling out my tongue.

"So its sex, you want yo kill you" He asked in return, shaking his head in amusement.

"Shattaappp like you dont like it more than me. But you actually know that there is a medical condition where the man gets stuck called Penis Captivus"

I laughed loudly at his facial expression.

"Ya just a weird fellow" shaking his head again

" Your weird fellow, baby" I replied

"Yes my weird fellow!"

"Your big baby" I said again.

"My big baby" he repeated, smiling after him.

"Your better half"

"My better half'

"Your potato potato"

"My potato potato"

"Your baby mama"

"My baby mama"

"Your chickita Chickita"

"My chickita Chickita"

As I lay there listing all the definitions of what I was to this beautiful soul, tears stung my eyes.

You see our journey wasn't your average journey we were already two broken halves, life took it swing at us.

I saw the man who has come so far with me in our 5 years journey as a married couple, over and over we have mended each other over the way.

We weren't perfect on our own, but I loved the definition of his imperfect self. All my imperfections fit into his, all the places were our strength fit in each others weakness.

"Babe!"He shouted and I sat up staring into his honey brown orbs.

"Even if we both break down tonight,and you say you hate me and we go to bed angry, I know everything will be alright. Ill be here waiting, I promise im changing I just need Time."

"Cheers to mending each other forever. " You see its been our journey of Two halves as one; Two souls as one.

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