Love Perspective

Part 1. Reminisce

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Chapter 1

Felix smiled as he stepped into the sitting room, it was 11:30 pm and his favorite radio show just started.

He walked across the room towards the radio. The tiled floor was cold, "chai!! I left this air conditioner on" he said to himself as he clicked a switch on the wall.

The heat during the day this mid august has been very unfriendly, it could cook your scalp.

He picked up the radio, cranked up the volume, the radio blared as hip hop beats filled the room, he quickly reduced it, he had not thought it would be that loud, Elfreda was asleep in to bedroom, he had snuck out, trying as much as possible not to wake her, she was a light sleeper.

He let his mind drift away in reminisce  as many thought began to flood his mind, then he heard a caller in the radio show say, "I think my husband is cheating on me..., he has been showing signs of it, he comes home late, he picks his call outside the house and he won't let me touch his phone..., I am just waiting for proof ohh, I will take the kids and leave his house, I can't let a man make a fool of rme.", she sounded scared, like someone was going to confirm her fears.

"hmmm", the presenter sighed, then asked in his usual baritone voice, but softly, "have you considered talking to him about it, don't take such a decision without proper knowledge of what is going on, ok!". He called her name, so softly you could feel its calming effects, how does he do that" felix wondered...

He held the old rusty radio onto his chest as he sunk into the couch, it was all he had left of his father. His father had died while he was quite young, he was just thirteen years old then, he could remember his father clinging onto that radio even on his death bed, he was sure his father would be shocked if he knew the kind of programs been aired this days.

He was so tired, he had a long day at work but, being promoted to the position of a General Manager does not make life any easier.

He just couldn't sleep, he was worrying about a lot of things, right now his marriage was at the forefront of his worries.

He and Elfreda, had met on campus, he was in his second year then, his best friend Pius had come to write the entrance examination into the university, they had agreed to meet at a cafeteria after the examination.

He remembered sitting on a blue plastic chair; at the corner of the cafeteria, while watching a soccer match between Manchester United and West Ham United, just then he heard his name, he turned and what he saw had made him freeze.

The most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She stood there waiting for her order to be served, she had ordered a bottle of Coca Cola and a plate of rice and chicken, yes!.. he had stared at her long enough to overhear her conversation with the waiter.

He was jerked awake by someone hugging him, oh Pius, it was Pius that called him...

He could still remember how embarrassed he felt when he realized she caught him staring... "ha! fun days", he thought to himself.

The frame on the wall caught his attention, there he was in the picture, he was riding a bicycle, Elfreda sat on the bar of the bicycle, laughing hysterically at something.

How did my Elfreda become this cold stranger? Where did all that laughter go? He stared at the ceiling as if somehow they could give him the answers to his questions.

Just then an idea flashed through his mind, he picked up his phone and began dialing...

"Hello, am Felix Ndibe...", he said as the other end of the line came alive. "Felix Ndi.. ", the radio presenter tried to pronounce his last name but gave up and simply exclaimed, "Mr. Felix! is on the line..."

Welcome to Heart to Heart, your favorite radio show on your award winning radio station kings 106.5 fm.

Felix quietly waited for Drizzy Drizz the radio presenter to finish his pump, he was used to this by now, he had followed this show for years.

"come to think of it", he thought to himself "who would believe that I felix would call a radio show too seek relationship advice ".

"...so what matter of the heart do you want to share with us today? Mr Felix.", Drizzy Drizz boomed over the phone.
Felix opened his mouth to speak, but the words could not form.

What was he to say, that his marriage, just one year old, was already heading for the rocks? Or that the love of his life had become some cold, ungrateful stranger.

The sound of the presenters voice interrupted his thoughts, "...hello are you there...", "I can't do this", Felix thought.

He pressed a button on his phone...the line went dead.
"This is my woman, I know how to handle her"' he said unsure of what his plan actually was.

He switched off the radio and headed for the bedroom.

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