Chapter 4

Her head was hurting badly, but she needed to get away from her mother before she stops her, she just needed to get away and find a place to stay, the need to get married was already on her mind. The reminder was always there, she was going to be thirty in a few month  though she already considered herself thirty since she was already in the year, but as an only child if her parents it was natural for her mother to be worried, she was all she has and she probably wants a family which is not a bad thing but Rebecca was not going to let her virtues down just because

She hurriedly left the house promising her mother that she was going to come back after she was settled, she was surprised that her mother didn't try to stop her, she was really surprised that she just let her go just like that without a fight, when she had been worried that her mother was going to try and stop her or argue with her. But she seemed rather too calm for words.

Mrs Rose didn't want to stop her daughter because of what she said earlier about staying alone to find the right man, that  was the exact same thing a friend had told her, so she needed to give her daughter some space, she had held her too tight while growing up and it probably affected her too much.

Rebecca got to Browny Hotel in the evening, she paid with her card and got in, she needed to rest, she just couldn't help the hurt from her head, she needed to rest so much that she didn't even lock the door she just slummed on the bed and dozed off. As she slept she had a dream, she saw her friends and her parents, her dad was there and they were beautifully dressed, she stood up to look at herself and couldn't believe her eyes, she was looking so much like a princess, her face was made up to suit that if a bride, but her attention was more on her dress, she wondered why she was wearing a wedding dress, she couldn't remember dating anyone, she was still single why was she wearing a wedding dress.

Her mother came close to her and wet her dress with her tears of joy. "Finally my dear, you are getting married"

That was a wake up call for her, she was getting married but she could not even picture the face of any man, she looked around but found no one, then she whispered to her friend Josh to tell her where her would be husband was. Josh took her to the window side and they both looked down and she saw a man older than her father, but richly dressed, as though the man knew she was standing there he looked up at her and smiled, she had seen his face before somewhere, but he was too old to be her husband. She looked back at her friend and there were tears on them.

'had she become too old that no one came for her that her father and mother had to get her a rich old man to marry?

She looked out again and the old man was no longer there, there was now a handsome man, this couldn't be a joke, why was there a handsome man looking at her, he also looked familiar, he waved at her and she waved back. If that was her husband then she wouldn't mind getting married, she turned to look at her family again but they were all gone, no one was in sight, she went back to the mirror to look at herself again and she was her old self again with her straight gown with no curve to show, she looked at her reflection and concluded that she couldn't get a man because she was so ugly. Then her face began to change, she became uglier, she grew old wearing the same cloth with no one around her, she woke up in a sweat.

She was panting really hard, she thought of going back home, she thought of doing so many things at the same time, but then she remembered her mother, she knew going back home would only make things worse for her, she decided to stay but she couldn't stay alone, she called her friend Josh and told him where she was, it was already 8pm but he told her he was coming to the hotel to see her, she was happy she has a friend she could count on, he was a wonderful person.

As she stood up she noticed her door was locked so she rushed to lock it, then she tried to change her dress to something simple, she felt hungry and needed to go out of her room, she didn't want to order for food while in her room, she made her way to the restaurant, she was starving, when she got there she saw lots of people eating, most of them were there with their partner, she was the only one alone, she looked down and saw her camera with her, she smiled as she knew she wasn't alone, she had a friend with her, her companion.

"May I take your order please?

Asked a very beautiful voice, she looked up to see whom the voice belonged to and could not believe her eyes, it was an old woman probably in her late forties, how come she had such a sweet voice.

Rebecca could not keep it to her self alone, she smiled at the woman before answering.

"Your voice is so beautiful"

The old woman was happy she smiled graciously.

"Well this is my first time here, so just give me something popular, I don't want to try something strange I am alone here before I will start reacting"

The woman smiled and left to bring her something she feels was going to be okay for her.

As she started eating a couple eating adjacent to her caught her eye, she even had to change position to get a proper view of them, the girl was so beautiful but the man with her, he was the same man she had seen in her dream, he was even more handsome in person than in the dream, she continued looking forgetting her food but her friend's arrival brought her back to reality.