Chapter 7 The day

• CHRIS LYON
• If someone told me earlier this month that I would get married this month, I would have laughed at them.
• Today is my wedding day and here I was standing in front of a big standing mirror, staring at myself. 
• I was angry. Angry at a lot of things and angry at myself. Not only was I not able to convince Mia into refusing to marry me but I gave her reason to make her think that I like her.
• Mia believes I like her but I am just denying it and she was determined to make me realize it.
• I was so angry that I had to text Ethan to tell him that I won't be going to him anymore. I need some air and I needed to clear my mind.
• When I got back home, my mother was excited. It seems Mia had informed her parents that our meeting went well when in reality it didn't go well.
• My mother hugged and kissed me and told me how proud she was of me because I had met Mia. I do not know what Mia told her but it seems Mia didn't tell them what went down.
• I could not understand why she was adamant about getting married to me. I mean I know I am many ladies dream man and God's gift to women but she could have at least refused me.
• What was I expecting from a girl who has confessed to having feelings for me?
• The past week has been hell. I had to go shopping with Mia and our mother's. I had to act like I was alright when I wasn't. 
• I even had to take a couple of pictures with her because my mother insisted. She called me to the side and warned me to do right by Mia or she would have to tell my father to strip me of everything.
• I do not get how they were happy threatening me with all of this when I am their only child.
• Two nights ago, I went to meet her, asking her to call off the wedding but she refused to do so. She even dared to tell me that the more I fought it, the more she pushed through with it. 
• I do not understand why a girl of her age would be happy that she was getting married. She hasn't enjoyed her youth to the fullest yet she wants to get married?
• I still found it hard to believe.  She doesn't seem to give up. Not only does she touch me without my permission but she kisses me too on the cheek.
• The Mia I knew then is completely different from the Mia I know now.  This Mia is very confident and doesn't hesitate to do what she wants.
• "You look really good," My father said to me with his hand placed on my left shoulder.
• I did not say anything in return as I was very angry at him and my mother. I mean they had other means to punish me but making me marry now should have not been a part of it. 
• I couldn't wait for the wedding to come to an end. I mean it hasn't started already but I want it to end. Like an inferno, I was at the edge of combustion.
• When my friends found out about my wedding through the media, they made fun of me and I expected them.
• We all never looked forward to getting married until we were in our mid-thirties and early forties. 
• They kept making comments about me being a father and having a baby soon. They kept reminding me of the things he'd miss as a bachelor when I get married and it infuriated me. 
• I had no intention of staying with Mia even if I marry her. I have no intentions of being that loving husband to her.
• I was just getting married to her to have my parents off my back and to make sure they do not strip me of my title.
• I was forced to tell them I wouldn't be faithful to her and would make her life a living her for making me marry her when she could have avoided it.
• "Today you will finally be a man. You will be that son I am going to be proud of. You will start to take responsibility and begin and see differently. You know when I first married your mother, adjusting wasn't a problem because I knew what I wanted, and having a woman like her by my side made it easy which is why we know Mia would make a good match with you." 
• The knot in my stomach tightened hearing my father speak. I wondered if I wasn't a man enough because my father kept making it seem as if I had to be married first to be a mature man.  
• Another thing that annoyed him in all my father said was hearing him insert Mia name to the conversation. Hearing her name only infuriated me. I wondered what they saw in her to make them think we were fit for one another. Asides from her beautiful face and ocean blue eyes and banging body, there was nothing I found attractive about her. 
• She was just a girl who doesn't have a say of her own but does whatever her parents told her and I disliked that.
• Not only did I find her newly found confidence annoying, but I also found how she meddles in my life annoying. I mean she has always been meddlesome in my business but now it's just worse.
• Always sent morning and night text messages and although I have not for once replied to her message, that didn't stop her from ending them.
• "Your mother and I knew what we wanted the first time we saw each other. We fell for each other and we clicked. The connection was natural." I felt the urge to groan loudly hearing my father talk about his relationship with my mother. 
• I do not want to hear their story or how they met. I was not interested and I wondered if he hadn't noticed or he did but had decided to ignore my facial expression.
• I partly blamed them for the situation I was in even though I knew I caused all of this for myself. 
• "Your mother is the best gift to me. And I tell you son when you marry the right woman, you won't regret it. You will forever be happy because she is going to be by your side. She is going to support you and the most important thing is, you will be very successful. Mia is the right one for you and your mother and I had taken his decision because we know it's best for you." My father said as if he was a psychic who could see the future.
• "You say the right woman as if Mia is the right woman for me. I do not want her and I do not think she is the right woman for me. Father all you have said may be true and if indeed it is true, why not let me make my decision myself. Why do you think Mia is going to be like mom? To me, she is just a girl who doesn't know what she wants but has to do whatever her parents want because they think they are right." I spat out in annoyance.
• Whenever I called Mia's name, I couldn't help but be angry at her. She could have turned it down but she didn't and agreed with me
• "We..." I rudely cut his father.
• "If indeed it is true. You would let me marry out of my free will and I will choose the woman I want not just a random woman," I said through gritted teeth.
• "Mia is not just any woman. She is going to be your wife and the mother of your children. She is well mannered and from a very respectable family and besides she is your first love and no matter how much you deny it, you and I know that is the truth,"  my father said and I mentally rolled my eyes.
• "Easy for you to say. You think she's the right woman but I do not know...it is not that I do not know, I know that she is not the right woman for me and that it," I adjusted my tie.
• "You will say that now but I promise you, you will come back and thank your mother," my father said confidently before walking away.
• Everyone kept reminding me of the things I did and said as a little boy and the fact they believe I like her but are in denial just makes it all annoying.
• "I promise you, Mia, you won't ever be happy while married to me and I will be sure of it," I clenched my fist while staring at myself in the mirror with anger.