On this Saturday morning, I woke up and prepared to attend a marriage ceremony of one of my uncles. I was very excited
This was the first woman he wanted to marry, but something was discovered and his life was saved.
So this woman will always have make-up on her face. Even at night. At first, he will tell her she is very beautiful. But later on, he realized that he had not seen her real face since they started dating, even me that usually comes to visit them on holidays.
So I asked her one day.
"Why do you always wear make-up? You even come out of the bathroom with make-up."
She told me she loves it and she has been that way since she was a child. I even wanted to start imitating, but I let her continue, She said she feel shy not wearing make-up. That was why she wears it immediately after having her bath.
I nodded my head. After all, my uncle wife is beautiful, as far as with make up she's this beautiful, then naturally she's more like an angel. So what's there?
BACK TO MY UNCLE'S POV
Marriage time, after I had proposed to her and all, and we were to walk down the aisle together, one of the elders in the church, a woman, saw my wife's face just as she was about entering the church and shouted.
"No clean it. Please. Miss, clean that thing. We do not support makeup. You can't enter the church with Makeup. Me myself I was confused.
My uncle was already at the alter waiting. They didn't waste time. My uncle's wife to be had no time to make decisions either. The whole church was waiting for her entrance. One of the women untied the first set of her wrapper and quickly used it to clean the face like someone scrubbing floor. I almost laughed at how she did it.
She wiped all makeup out.
Before she could say APPLE, they were pushing a female Baboon into the church for my uncle to marry.
The last son of the family. This is not a good idea at all.
This woman had seventeen tribal marks on her cheek.
She looked like the gods of the land.
On seeing her the person in charge of the ceremony shouted blood of Jesus.
And turned to my uncle Mr Jude, is this your wife? My uncle replied no. That he has never seen this woman in my life. That's when I said how would you see her with make up all the time. I just had to stand far away before they catch me.
My uncle's best man abandoned him at that wedding and ran out of the church, I joined him in the escape run. The groomsmen started going out to ease themselves at once. Cars started driving out.
When I looked back I saw my uncle with his removed suit and tie also running when he met up with us he said he realized he was the only one left in the Church. So he decided to join the long run.
We trekked home that day.
Marital trekking.
That was how the marriage ended. Me that was prepared for full dancing turn out to be a marathon runner.
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