Aunty Meg, surprisingly, just smiled at me. “Is that all? Is that the reason why you’re crying?” she asked me, looking at me with a puzzled look on her face. “I thought it was something really serious.
“So, this is not really serious?” I’d thrown at her, totally shocked at her response.
“Of course, dear, it is serious but not really serious,” she answered. “At first, I thought something terribly bad had happened between you and MD, I was really scared, you know.”
In my mind, I was thinking, what on earth is this woman talking about? Why is she making this issue look like child’s play for God’s sake? If she wasn’t way older than me, I could’ve slapped her hard across the face and wipe that silly smirk off her lips.
“Aunty Meg, please, don’t get me upset, you are literally making jest of me here, do you know that?” I shot at her. I showed that I was really pissed by her nonchalance.
“It’s okay, my dear, don’t mind me, I just didn’t want to make you feel really bad, okay?” she returned, sounding apologetic.
“Now, let me tell you, seriously, there are ways to handle a man like MD who is reluctant to take his woman to the altar, do you want to know?”
I nodded. “Stop teasing me, Aunty Meg, I am listening to you, please….tell me everything I need to know,” I said to her.
Aunty Meg was still smiling. And she just didn’t realise that the more she smiled, the more upset I became and the stronger the urge for me to slap her grew. She just wasn’t taking my matter seriously and I didn’t like it one bit.
“Okay, now, Anita, listen to me, and I am very serious here, okay?” she finally wiped the stupid smile off her face and wore a more serious look. “You don’t need to get really upset about this,” she began, looking at me straight in the eye. “I know this looks pretty upsetting and calls for concern but honestly, I don’t think it’s as bad as you think, MD is not such a terrible man, he would not go out of his way to deliberately hurt you, trust me….”
”But how can you tell, Aunty Meg?” I cut in, not waiting to hear her finish what she was saying.
“But I know this man, Anita, he’s not a bad person,” she continued. ”I don’t think he will want to dump you or abandon you like you’re thinking.”
