“Are you pleased with your woman to be?” My father the chief asks him
“Yes sir I am, I will love, respect, cherish her until we die” he says
The elders give us time to get to know each other, they lock us in a hut, but funny enough my dad does not approve.
“So what is your name?” I ask
“My name is Mokwena, I am named after my tribe, and your name is Bontle everyone speaks about your beauty in all different kingdoms”
“Well thanks I guess” I say
We sit in silence and look at each other, but for some reason I cannot help thinking about the boy I saw in the forest today, maybe if I got there tomorrow I will find and maybe we can get to know each other, I mean it’s months before my wedding anyway I need to keep myself distracted and something not worry about.
I wake up the next day, early in the morning so I can go to the place where I first met him, I take some wild fruit and some meat, who knows how long I would take waiting for, that’s if he shows up, but as I approach the place where we met, I see him, his there, I get excited, I tap on the shoulder and he smiles, but he does not look ugly anymore his a very pretty, I smile back and sit on the ground he sits next me.