Accept Your Fate

7 LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

It was a beautiful day, and Fernando and his boss, Mr. Lucas, who was in his early thirties, were already in their business place after leaving home very early.

Although, that didn't stop them from having their breakfast before leaving; Mr. Lucas ensured that.

Fernando was convinced, at last, that he didn't fall into the wrong hands. Indeed, Mr. Lucas was an angel sent from above to his rescue.

He couldn't have told how his life would have ended if he was ashamed to meet Mr. Lucas and pleaded for help.

Most people skip their destiny helpers because of one thing or the other, but Fernando was different.

He never hesitated to ask for help or help someone who seeks his help.

Life is about giving and taking.

Maybe, that's why people never hesitated to help him when he needed one. Fernando and Frank were entirely different people, even though they all came into existence from the same parents.

Looking at the wide and long single building, was Mr. Lucas' provision shop with a large signboard on an iron that had two stands with inscriptions on it.

Inside the shop could be seen commodities of different sizes. Both small and large products.

Luckily for Mr. Lucas, he was the only businessman with such a large shop in that arena, which means he always had massive customers who kept him busy with selling, and he earns a lot.

Although it was very stressful for him to sell alone, he still managed to do that. At least, Fernando's presence will ease everything.

“ Mr. Lucas, where did you get this man from?” an old woman who came shopping asked as she tried to suppress her laughter.

“ Is anything the matter, ma'am?” Mr. Lucas wondered as he took a glance at Fernando, who was pacing up and down in the shop as he tried to attend to some of the customers who were lost in finding what they wanted.

Mr. Lucas showed him everything in the store and the prices were written on it to ease everyone from stressing themselves of asking questions.

“ Nothing serious. I'm just wondering if he won't finish everything in this shop with his mouth.” the old woman spoke teasingly, and Mr. Lucas chuckled.

However, Fernando wasn't aware of this gossip.

~~~

It was almost dawn and Mr. Lucas wanted to go out for an important thing.

He called Fernando to hand over the shop to him and also to warn him to be careful and observable.

Immediately after Mr. Lucas stepped out of the shop, and a lady came in. Upon sighting the lady, Fernando was lost in thought as he intensively stared at her without blinking an eye.

She has a lovely body. Lovely perky breasts, gorgeous thighs, great legs, and curvaceous in ways.

Pale smooth skin, so tempting to touch. Quite tall with average body size with beautiful black hair, that was packed up and styled with a small pink color pin, which created a bunch at the top.

She was wearing a sports bra and running shorts, with a water bottle in her hand. It was best to tell that she was coming from a sports center.

Fernando was stunned as he examined all these things. He wasn't aware that the lady who stood before him was talking to him until he was awoken by her touch.

“ Hey…” she waved her hand close to his face after touching him. This brought him back from his sea of thoughts.

“ Ye… yes,” he jumped off his thoughts and hastily answered.

“ Are you okay?” she asked.

“ Yeah, I'm okay, and thanks for asking.”

“ Hmm…” she sighed and continued,“ I have been talking to you for an hour now, but you seem to have been lost in thought. Moreover, I don't think I have ever seen you here before.” she lowered her gaze to her.

“ Oh, sure. I came recently, and I don't think I have seen you buying anything here either,” he spoke with a creaking voice.

“ Well, you might not know me because I don't shop here daily,” she replied to him, but he was drawn into his thoughts again.

“ I would like to see Mr. Lucas, please,”

She requested, but she noticed that the obese man before her wasn't paying attention, instead, he was staring at something on her body that she didn't know about.

“ Young man,” she called out.

“ Yeah, I'm listening. What did you say you want?” he responded pretending to be hearing.

“ Gosh! Who on earth is this folk?” she sniffed in a low tone.

“ Can you please say that again?” Fernando inquired, and the lady rolled her eyes angrily before replying.

“ Never mind.”

“ But why?”

Before Fernando could complete his statement, the lady had turned around to leave.

He rushed out of the counter to follow her. Before Fernando could pass through the counter's door, the lady had gone out of the shop.

As Fernando stepped his feet on the door which would guarantee him access to go out of the shop and run to the lady, his senses came back to his right position.

“ I have forgotten that I am looking after someone's property.” He mumbled before raising his hand and calling on the lady.

“ Hey! What's your name please?” he screamed out, but the lady was already far away to hear his voice.

He kept screaming until she was out of sight.

With sadness, he went back inside the shop and began to imagine the lady's appearance.

He plastered her image in his mind and all sorts of imagination were playing with his senses as a visible smile continued shining on his face.

His thoughts and imaginations went deeper and he wasn't aware that a customer was talking to him.

“ Young man,” the customer tapped Fernando's shoulder, and he jumped out of fear.

“ Your eyes weren't asleep, and I guess you are not deaf, but you didn't notice my presence. What's wrong?” the customer inquired with concern.

“ I'm sorry, I was carried away by my thoughts,” he apologized.

“ Please, don't kill yourself over the things of this world. You came to this world empty-handed, and you are going back with nothing. So, I see no reason why you should be thinking that much, even if you lost a family member.”

The customer advised as he received the stuff he brought to the counter to pay for, and was already packaged by Fernando.

“ Thank you, sir.” Fernando appreciated and the man nodded and waved a ‘goodbye’ to him.

‘ This man doesn't know what he is talking about. I wish he knew.’ Fernando thought inwardly.

No sooner than the lady had left, Mr. Lucas arrived.

“ Welcome, sir,” Fernando welcomed him with a greeting, and Mr. Lucas nodded as he stared at the customers picking items into their baskets.

“ How is the business moving? I hope you have no issues,” Mr. Lucas asked as he stood outside the counter and placed his hand on it.

“ No issues, sir. The only thing is since you left, only a few customers have come to shop.” Fernando explained.

“ Ohh, that? That's how evening business is. Only a few come to buy things. I told you this city is dangerous, so not everyone stayed out late outside.” Mr. Lucas explained.

Fernando listened attentively as he thought of informing Mr. Lucas about the lady he saw, but he wasn't sure if he had clear information about her, so he kept it to himself.

Moreover, he wasn't in the mood to share information they didn't ask him about.

‘ It's best to tell someone about anything when they inquire about it, and not say it out without being invited to.’

He thought inwardly as he maintained a calm face.

When the sun was completely replaced by the moon, they closed for business and went back home to have some rest for the night.

~~~

“ Welcome back home,” Mr. Lucas said as he fell on the couch.

“ Yeah,” said Fernando.

“ No…!” Mr. Lucas screamed out as Fernando was trying to jump on one of the couches, instead of sitting down carefully.

Before he could open his mouth, Fernando was already on it, and luckily for him, Fernando didn't break any wood on the couch as he thought.

“ What's the matter?” Fernando fearfully asked.

“ I thought you were going to break the couch with your weight by jumping on it.”

“ Ahh! Am I an elephant?” Fernando smirked, but before he could shut his mouth, the sound they heard left them speechless.

Mr. Lucas was right.

The wood just broke into pieces and Fernando sank into the couch as the remaining wood couldn't bare his heaviness.

“ I told you. I knew this would happen, and it has finally happened. You are too heavy for this wood. I think a carpenter needs to get a stronger one for you.” Mr. Lucas declared.

Mr. Lucas was living in a bungalow house he built with the money he made from his business.

He had been a businessman for many years. With the profit he made from his business, he paid his wife's bride price, but she was currently with her ancestors.

This means Mr. Lucas was living alone in the house without any family members.

“ I know how painful it is for someone to be in your condition because I have once passed through such a life that I didn't give a second thought when you told me what happened to you before helping you.”

Mr. Lucas conversed.

“ Huh? What do you mean? ” Fernando wondered.

“ What you are currently passing through was what happened to me many years ago when I was twenty-two years old. I almost gave up on everything, but I encouraged myself and began this business.”

He paused and sighed in relief as he sat properly on the couch as they faced each other with Fernando.

“ You mean, you once experienced this same condition I'm in?” Fernando asked shockingly, and Mr. Lucas nodded.

“ Family hates me. My relatives disowned me, and the few friends I had left me. No one was ready to help, and no one was ready to listen to me.”

“ But why will your family hate you, when everything about you is okay?” Fernando inquired with a sad expression, thinking that some people hated him because of his body size.

Mr. Lucas took a deep breath before opening his mouth to speak.

“ My mom died after giving birth to me, according to what my father told me. Although I wasn't aware of this until I turned ten years old.”

He paused and attempted to get some drinking water for himself, but Fernando stopped him from doing so, instead, he went to the fridge and get bottled water for Mr. Lucas.

After a few minutes, Fernando came back with a plastic cup and the bottled water and handed them over to Mr. Lucas.

When Mr. Lucas was done drinking the water, he dropped the cup on the table before him.

“ And what happened?” Fernando curiously asked, as his ears were itching to hear more about this man who saved his life.