Arranged Meeting

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"Circumstances sometimes put us in a place where caution means nothing at all"~my quote.

Gina was a typical good daughter. She was brilliant in her studies and stayed away from trouble practically.

Unlike her other siblings, Gina was not popular in the neighbourhood. She was a bookworm and also an introvert. She hardly attended parties and her only claim to a social life was going to church.

She was no doubt her parent's favourite child. Keeping her parents happy was a priority to Gina.

She met Ugo while she was in the university, he wasn't a student but was in school to make an enquiry for his younger sister.

Ugo sat across from Gina in the restaurant where he had gone to grab something to eat before heading back to work.

Gina's well rounded bum was a first attraction for him. He began to fantasize about the young lady and eventually decided to make a move.

He walked smartly up to her as she tried to pay and then offered to take care of the bill.
She also accepted his offer to drop her off at her lecture hall. Before he left, they exchanged numbers.

It was Gina who called first, two weeks after they met and afterwards, they spoke quite frequently; Ugo became like a big brother to her.

It was interesting to Gina that Ugo was different from all the men that she had come across especially her school mates. He let her talk while he listened attentively. He told her the truth always whenever she sought his opinion even if it would hurt her and he was also genuinely interested in her well-being.

Their conversations had never been dirty and she was quite comfortable with him. He applauded her for being a virgin when she suddenly opened up to him about it. His initial thoughts about her vanished like vapour.

Ugo was a banker and fifteen years older than Gina. At first he thought Gina was a good target for a hit and run. Who would blame him? The young lady's back would make Jennifer Lopez jealous. They were well rounded and moved rhythmically to an imaginary sound.

Once they started speaking, Ugo discovered that Gina had a lot more going for her than the heavy duty she carried behind. She was intelligent, very decent and with great principles.

She would make a good wife and so he decided within him to nurture and mentor Gina instead.

Ugo had an on and off girlfriend that Gina knew about but that was not a problem since she had no intentions of dating Ugo. 

Just before Gina's final examinations, she was on a lunch date with Ugo when he popped the question. "Gina will you marry me as soon as you are done with school?"

It came as a big shock to Gina, she had been good  friends with Ugo for three years but had never thought that she could be his wife.

Her family knew him as her mentor and she was sure that they would start to doubt that she was never involved with him intimately. She was also sure that they would object his proposal.

Lami who her parents loved had asked for her hand in marriage a year before. Lami's father had been her own father's doctor for a long time and they were also best friends. Gina and Lami met through their parents, more like an "arranged meeting".

Ugo knew about this arrangement and how Lami was also waiting for her to graduate from school. Though they had seen each other only once, they were very much in each other's life.

He lived and worked in the US as a medical doctor and was billed to return to Nigeria to work in his father's hospital.

Ugo had all these information so why would he want to punish her this way? She had it all worked out with the help of her parents but she became confused all of a sudden. What would she do?

~~~to be continued.

PS: All names used in the story are fictitious for privacy sake.