49/50THE PRESIDENT DAUGHTER
SEASON==2==EPISODE==49
The following day in the afternoon, I got
myself re-ady and zoomed off to the
ap@rtment with my mother’s car. I called
Nancy and told her about my coming, she
said she’ll be at Vincent’s place so I can
speak with Promise.
I got there; Promise received me in to the
house. I noticed how she was trying to hide
her bruises from me. I don’t want to do as
if I alre-ady know about it, so I just pla-yed
along with her as we engaged in
conversation.
Promise: You didn’t tell me you’re coming; I
would’ve prepared something better
Me: What did you cook?
Promise: Beans and friend plantain
Me: You like beans too much, just give me
plantain jare
Promise: Is it every day one will be eating
rice? (Walking into the kitchen)
I waited till she c@m£ back with a plate of
fried plantain; she pushed a side stool in
front of me and dropped the plate on it. I
saw some bruises on hand, but I didn’t say
anything yet.
Promise: Should I bring water or jui-ce for
you?
Me: No yoghurt?
Promise: Nop
Me: Ok a glas-s of water will do
She went in and c@m£ out with a bottle of
water and a glas-s cu-p and dropped it on the
stool.
Promise: (About to go back to her seat)
Me: Pour the water for me na
Promise: Do that yourself na
Me: I asked for just a glas-s of water but you
brou-ght a bottle of it
Promise: That’s how it should be na
Me: Just pour it
The bruises on her bec@m£ more visible
when she was pouring the water…
Me: Promise? (Holding her left arm)
Promise: What?
Me: What happened to you?
Promise: **hissed** some hoodlums robbe-d
and beat me up yesterday on my way back
to the house
Me: Where?
Promise: On the street
Me: Which street?
Promise: Along that Masukwai crescent
Me: Hoodlums on Masukwai cres£nt?
Promise: Yea
Me: Promise are you lying to me?
Promise: Why should I lie to you?
Me: Because there have never been
anything like that on that street, there are
no hoodlums or criminals around here
Promise: Yea maybe those ones c@m£ from
another area
Me: Ok Promise tell me the truth now, what
really happened to you?
Promise: I just told you na
Me: I don’t believe that, tell me something
else
Promise: There’s nothing else to tell, that’s
what happened and I’m trying to forget
about it
Me: Fred did this to you right?
Promise: What kind of question is that? Why
will Fred beat me up?
What is wrong with girl??
Me: I did a background check on him and he
isn’t what we think he is
Promise: Really?
Me: He is a bad guy, a very bad guy. He is
on drugs and even owns a club where many
ungodly acts takes place
Promise: What are you trying to say?
Me: Break up with him
Promise: I should break up with him now
because you tell me to?
Me: Promise you have to, that guy is no-
good
Promise: Look! I’m sick and tired of you
telling me what to do ok? What do you take
me for?
Me: **Shock** Promise?
Promise: What?!
Me: **Speechless**
Promise: Not even my Father has dictated
on me like this, what’s your problem? Why
telling me who to be with and who not to be
with?
Me: Look I’m very sorry I got you involved
with Fred, I really sorry I made a very hvge
and expensive mistake; plea-se forgive me
and break up with Fred
Promise: No I won’t break up with him and
st©p telling me what to do! (walking out on
me)
Me: Promise? Promise?!
Promise: **Out of sight**
Oh my God! Not again!! What have I gotten
this girl into? No no no no no no… another
girl’s life must not be ruined because of my
mistake. Oh God forgive me, it wasn’t
intentional.
(I dialed Nancy’s number)
Nancy: Hello bro
Me: Nancy the situation is now worse
Nancy: What happened?
Me: Promise is not listening to me, she’s
so mad at me
Nancy: What do we do now?
Me: Is Vincent there with you?
Nancy: He is in the kitchen
Me: plea-se go give the phone to him
Nancy: Ok hold on for a sec
Vincent: Hello
Me: Vincent
Vincent: Yea?
Me: Promise is in bondage, she nee-ds all
the prayers she can get plea-se I beg you
Vincent: Nancy just told me about what Fred
is doing to her, that’s not good
Me: It’s getting out of hand; she’s not
listening to me, the solution I seek for now
is prayers
Vincent: Ok bro, we shall go on three days
fasting and prayers for her
Me: That’d be great
Vincent: Don’t stress yourself, the devil will
surely bow in defeat again
Me: A big Amen to that
Vincent: Later bro, lemme check what I
have on fire
Me: Ok ok
**Hangs up**
I did a conference call with Mirabel and
Cynthia to let them what’s going on. They
were also disturbe-d about it. They
suggested we confront Fred but I impeded
them from doing that, at least not yet. Once
Promise agrees to break up with him, he
won’t be a problem.
After the call, I slowly walked towards her
room and entered without knocking; I saw
her sobbing on the be-d. I got on the be-d
next to her and tried to raise her up
Promise: Leave me alone (crying)
Me: plea-se Promise… I don’t want to lose
you because of this foolish mistake I made
I’m begging you
Promise: Why? (Seating up) tell me why?
Do you know what I’ve been going throu-gh
because of the love that I have for you? Do
you have any idea on what I’ve been going
throu-gh inside of me? As if not loving me
back was not enough, you went ahead and
hook me up with a beast! A tyrant!
Me: I’m really sorry; I never wanted all that
to happen
Promise: What can your sorry do? Will it
ease the pain that I’m going throu-gh? I
accepted Fred in order to st©p my love for
you, thinking I will get to love him and
forget about you, but what happened? I’m
still at the losing end… Fred beat me like i
deserve nothing but pain. He is jealous of
our clos£ness that he deleted all the
pictures of us from my phone. He first beat
me up because of the position he met us
with on the day of our second to the last
exam. I never fell from any bike, he was the
one that hurt me because of our clos£ness
we’ve been having long before he c@m£ into
the picture
Me: Promise you should’ve spoken out
Promise: How could I when the guy I love
gave me to the beast himself?
Me: Promise you know it can’t work
between us plea-se I beg you, kill that love I
beg of you. Mirabel and I are getting
married soon; plea-se don’t do this to
yourself.
Promise: I have tried and tried, but I can’t
help it
Me: Break up with Fred and the right person
for you will eventually come
Promise: Do you love me?
Me: Promise…
Promise: Just answer me
Me: plea-se na
Promise: I know you do, you had the
intention of asking me out back when we
were in 100L but you couldn’t talk to me
because I didn’t give you a “go ahead”
signal
Me: I love Mirabel
Promise: You loved me first
Me: That can’t change anything now; you
know I’m getting married to Mirabel soon
plea-se don’t make things difficult for me
and yourself
Promise: It’s okay… I know I can’t do
anything about that and I wish you both well
Me: Thanks, I really appreciate your
un-derstanding
Promise: Just facing the reality
Me: But you have to break up with Fred
Promise: It won’t be that easy
Me: Leave that for me to handle, I got you
into this mess and I’m getting you out from
it
Promise: **Tears dripping down from her
eyes**
I wipe the tears off her cheeks with my ba-re
hand and we both hvg each other for many
seconds… we broke off when we heard
someone coughed out.
THE PRESIDENT DAUGHTER
SEASON==2==EPISODE==50
We turned around and saw Nancy standing
in the middle of the entrance; I didn’t shut
the door when I c@m£ in.
Me: Nancy, you’re back
Nancy: Yeah… I c@m£ to check on Promise
and the door was opened so i… I’m here
Promise: Welcome
Nancy: Thanks! So… what’s going on?
Me: She has agreed to break-up with him
Nancy: Really? Whoa… great! Call him now
and break the news to him
Me: Not on phone, she’ll have to meet and
tell him face to face
Nancy: Huh?
Me: Yea
Nancy: Can she do it? Promise can you?
Promise: Victor I don’t think I can
Me: Of course you can, we’ll stay behind
you
Promise: I can’t face him anymore
Me: He won’t leave you alone by just
s£nding him a break-up text or call; you
have to be bold to tell him to his face
Promise: I can’t
Me: You’re not going to face him all by
yourself; we’ll be there for you. Just break
the news to him with all sincerity and
boldness and walk away from him, I’ll take
over afterwards
Nancy: That could work
Promise: And if he keeps coming? I don’t
want what happened to you and Mirabel by
Dorothy and Marcus
Me: I don’t want that to happen either and
that’s why we have to act now
Promise: Ok, we should do it tomorrow
Me: No problem
Nancy: What if he comes by today? I don’t
think they’ve met today
Me: **Looked at the time** it’s 17 minutes
to 6:00
Nancy: Not late for him, he even comes
around 7 or 8pm
Me: Then we do it today if he comes
around, Promise hope you can handle it?
Promise: Ok
Me: Good
Promise: What about you?
Me: What about me?
Promise: Will you sleep over or you’re going
back?
Me: I’m slee-ping over
Nancy: So… since she’s agreed to break-up
with him, are we going ahead with the
fasting and prayer?
Me: Yes so that everything will go well
Promise: Fasting and prayer?
Me: Well ermmm… the thing is, I thought
you lost it because of how you reacted when
I asked you to break-up with Fred, so we
wanted God to intervened and bring you to
your s-en-ses **tea-singly**
Promise: You’re not serious
Me: You won’t un-derstand, because I’ve
never seen you like that before…
Promise: And whose fault was it?
Me: Mine
Promise: So you know? Good thing you
admitted it
Me: So what’s for dinner?
Nancy: I think we still have some left over
beans
Promise: Yea
Me: For who and who? Abeg make una go
cook something else
Nancy: Yes sir
Promise: What do you mean by yes sir?
We’re going to cook again because of him?
Nancy: Yes because I want to sleep
peacefully tonight, let’s go if you want that
too
Promise: Not me
Nancy: Ok o **walks away**
Me: You won’t follow her?
Promise: As your cook or gini? Better know
those you boss around
Me: Really?
Promise: Yea
Me: Oya get up
Promise: No
Me: Get up
Promise: No
I rushed her and start tickling her pla-yfully,
she starts to giggle and laughing anyhow till
I gr@bb£d her up and took her out of the
room heading to the kitchen while she was
still laughing out loud. We stepped into the
parlor and saw Fred stepping in as well. He
paused immediately he saw us in that
position and re-moved his glas-ses from his
face.
Didn’t he come with a car? Why didn’t he
horn so we’ll know about his arrival?? So he
is so regular around here that the security/
gateman will just open up for him???
Our laughing face immediately turned
normal, and then I slowly dropped Promise
on her feet. He let out a smile of which I
know it’s a fake one. I’m sure he’ll try to
beat her up for that.
Fred: I can see you guys are having fun
Me and Promise both didn’t say anything
Fred: Hey mahn **giving his hand for a
handshake and I shook hands with him**
Baby… go dress up lemme take you
somewhere special
Promise: Fred we nee-d to talk
Fred: Yea we can do that when we get there
or on our way in the car
Promise: No, now plea-se
Fred: You sound serious, hope no problem?
Promise: Let’s meet outside **walking
outside**
He smiled at me while doing a cross sign
before going out.
I sat on the couch to watch Tv but didn’t
pay full attention to it. Nancy c@m£ to the
parlor and said she heard Fred’s voice.
Me: They’re outside
Nancy: By their selves? What if he hurt her?
Me: I doubt it, he can’t do that
Nancy: But we have to be sure, lemme go
and see what’s happening
Me: Nancy let it be, he can’t… (I got
distracted when Promise stormed in and
headed straight to her room)
I stood up then Fred also walked in
following and calling her name. He c@m£
back to the parlor about two minutes after
he knocked and knocked and called out
Promise’ name but she didn’t open the door
for him.
Fred: You got to help me mahn, Promise is
breaking up with me
Me: **speechless**
Nancy silently walked to the kitchen.
Fred: Why’d she decided to break-up with
me all of a sudden? plea-se help me talk to
her
Me: Sorry I can’t do that
Fred: What? Why??
Me: I don’t want to meddle in her pri-vate
life anymore, I’ll respect whatever decision
she decides to take
Fred: But this is a terrible decision! plea-se
talk her out of it
Me: You’re a man, talk to her and fix your
relationsh!pand leave me out of it. If she
accepts you, fine, and if she refuses there’s
nothing I can do about it
Fred: She doesn’t want to listen to me, she
listens to you more than anyone mahn…
plea-se talk to her for me, I really love her
Me: No you don’t
Fred: Excuse me?
Me: You don’t love her
Fred: Of course I do!
Me: How can you be beating up the girl you
claim to love? A gentle and responsible
man will never do that to a lady no matter
what she did to you
Fred: She told you that I beat her up?
Me: No she didn’t had to, the constant
bruises on her says it all
Fred: It could be something else that
happened to her, like an accident or…
Me: **Cuts-in** Spare me all that Fred,
Promise has never had a single scratch on
her b©dy for the past four years that I’ve
known her then she started having them
constantly from when you both started your
relationsh!p
Fred: The truth is I didn’t mean to be
hurting her, just that, that ugh, just some
little misun-derstanding that every couple
have and i….. Ok look I promise never to
hurt her again
Me: Go tell that to her not me, I will respect
whatever decision she make
Fred: You and I know she’s not coming back
to me if you don’t interfere, and you also
know we would never have d@t£d if not for
you
Me: And that made her loses her trust and
respect that she has for me because I got
her involved with a guy that hurt and
disrespects her
Fred: I’m sorry it’s all my fault, it won’t
happen again trust me, just give me a
second chance
Me: Sorry mahn, I’m not gonna do that
mistake again. It’s her decision to make
Fred: You don’t want to help me because
you’ve been slee-ping with her!
Mirabel: What?
I turned and saw Mirabel at the doorpost.
TO BE CONTINUED……