XTUS STORY CORNER: Marriage proposal..... Episode 3

ADULT BABY

Of course Angela was madly in love with Ugo, Perhaps, more than Ugo could ever know or fathom. However, the possibility of not having a future together started to surface to her after some unique incidences happened three months to the proposal.

Prior to that incidence, there were single potentials waiting to become joint reality. But just these incidences changed Angela's perception of Ugo. And made her rethink if he is really the one she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.

First was when Angela began to notice how close Ugo was to her Mum. To her, Ugo seems to take the words of her Mum as law. Every other person's statement or contribution to an issue at hand after his Mum talks to him, becomes secondary.

Mrs. Lambert, Ugo's mother loved him so well. The reason for this wasn't farfetched. Mrs. Lambert had waited for eleven years before having Ugo. During this period, she was faced with warnings and series of threat from her mother in-law to get his son another wife.

After much patience of waiting to finally get to have Ugo, sickness later tried to show its own face too. Ugo battled with various ailments from when he was six months to when he became five. All of these had made his Mum's bond for him strong.

Even after she gave birth to Chioma when Ugo was eleven, the love for the two still had no comparison. Somewhere deep down, she still had more affection for Ugo. While their Dad preferred Chioma.
This Oedipus complexity between Ugo and his Mum continued to exist, and was known to all. It was however not so comfortable for Angela. Both ladies seems to be competing for whose say Ugo ultimately listens to. Often time than not, Mrs. Lambert wins.

Particularly, there was a time Ugo and Angela had a group date with a couple of other friends. This date was the boom, especially for the ladies. The eight of them looked forward to it like the coming of Jesus Christ.
However, the expected happened, Mrs. Lambert had restrained Ugo from not joining the group. She hinged it on a religious believe that something dangerous was to happen and that Ugo should not go.

This was irrespective of the fact that Ugo was already 28 and stays in his own apartment. Yet Mum still dictates for him from time to time.

Long story cut short. Everybody showed up for the group date except Ugo. Angela had thought Ugo will come irrespective of the shallow excuse given by Mrs. Lambert. However Ugo didn't.

Eventually, nothing dangerous happened that night, except that Angela was now boo-less throughout the chats and discussions that night.
Ugo was still a baby to his Mum but Angela wanted to marry a man, not a child.

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