Betrayed By Love!

Episode 8

(Melissa sitted alone at the pavilion reading a textbook when Linda comes to meet her)

Linda: (Smiling) Hello?

Melissa: (Reluctant as she stares at her) Hello?

Linda: (Sits) I just want to have some rest here while waiting for someone

Melissa: (Smiles) Oh! Alright....You are welcome

Linda: Thanks, can we keep a company?

Melissa: Of course, no problem about that

Linda: (Smiles) May I know your name?

Melissa: Am Melissa, what about you?

Linda: Am Linda, a final year student of history department

Melissa: Nice one, am a student of English

Linda: That's a nice course, we are in the same faculty

Melissa: Yes, am also a finalist

Linda: Cool, so what are you doing here?

Melissa: Am a lover of books, and I love being lonely at times

Linda: (Surprise) You can't just be lonely without a cause....whereas you might got friends too

Melissa: I've got just a friend and she's away to somewhere, so I just decided to come here and have some reading

Linda: I would prefer you go to the library instead of making use of this place

Melissa: Am a regular attendant of library, but sometimes I feel so cold inside there because of the air condition.....I think Nature is the best

Linda: Oh yeah! That's nice too, but am not too addicted to readings but I pick up my books once in a while when I needed them

Melissa: Why?

Linda: Am engaged in business just for survival or don't you?

Melissa: No, at all

Linda: Alright, Melissa....nice meeting you....your details I know is......you are Melissa, a finalist of English department and lover of books, right?

Melissa: (Laughs) Oh common Linda! Then I got the same details of yours too like that

Linda: It's okay by me, am a free person

Melissa: What about your friends or friend?

Linda: Friends?.....I don't have any

Melissa: Why?

Linda: (Smiles) This world is so short that I quickly experience and find myself being a victim of betrayal by friends.....so now, I see people as my enemies, I love mingling with people but I don't take them for friends

Melissa: So you don't take me for friend too....But I believe by the definition of friends that when you meet someone new, he or she has become your friend not a close friend, except you decide to make use of that close friend option

Linda: Yes, there is nothing too bad about making friends, I found out that not everybody reason the way you reason....We have different categories of friends....Never in my life come into the next world and advise someone about making friends....because there is not gain than to feel betrayed and let alone

Melissa: (Sighs and smiles) I think am interested in your story, and I would like to know the factors too

Linda: I find no factor about the lose of my friends, I never woke up a day to having a feeling of loosing my friends....I see them everyday....we exchanged pleasantries, but grudges I never had against them....I don't make them my priority anymore....they are not part of me anymore, and I know they must have felt sorry for doing that to me

Melissa: Can I ask you a question?

Linda: You are free!

Melissa: Can you just tell me the definition of best friends or what do you have?

Linda: I got best friends but best friends ought to be a permanent one and not changing best friends all the time just like I did....because am so adapted to making friends and can't do anything without them

Melissa: Now, listen to me....there is nothing bad in making friends, no crime in making them your best friends.....Judging by your explanation, you are free and simple, you mount so much commitment in your friendship than you yourself....let me tell you the truth, YOU MADE THEM YOUR PRIORITY, YOU MADE FEEL TOO IMPORTANT, YOU ARE TOO COMMITTED AND TELLS THEM MOST OF YOUR SECRET, AND YOU NEVER STUDY THE PERSON BEFORE KNOWING WHO THE PERSON IS.....you tell him or her your secrets all the time, right?

Linda: Yes of course, and she's a female, I just wish I had a guy as a best friend

Melissa: If you have a guy as a best friend, expect yourselves to be an advantage to that

Linda: I know, but I think guys keep secret more than ladies.....Most of the ladies are just backbiters

Melissa: And finally your character determines too

Linda: My character, how?

Melissa: Maybe the kind of character you possess to them, and how they see you

Linda: Well, if it's that, am just too plain for that....whatever happens to me daily, I tell them, we eat, drink, talk and laugh together, even my sex life....Just to know how free I am

Melissa: I blame you in that aspect, you are just too careless and free, why?....Don't you think about the other side, and let me tell you....You have to give friendships a lot and do a lot but giving a chance that when a quarrel or departure occurs...How would you feel and your secret is gone too

Linda: Honestly, you said the truth....I see sense in what you are saying....I would love to be your friend, because I never met someone like you....The way you talk and what you say is different....You are a lady of truth, isn't it?

Melissa: I don't know, (Smiles) But you observe that....Normally, I don't believe in what people say at times....I live a cool life and an example for other to follow

Linda: You are definitely one of a kind....I love you! can I have your contact for WhatsApp and calls, please?

(Melissa and Linda exchange contacts)

Linda: I would be very very glad about this...I would be leaving now to check on the person, I think am getting late here too

Melissa: You are welcome, maybe we'll talk some other time

Linda: Alright (gives Melissa a hand shake) Am grateful, I need to leave now....Byee (Leaves in a rush)

Melissa: Byeeee (Smiling as she's staring at Linda)

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