BEYOND EXPECTATIONS

 He held my wrist,lowered his head towards mine,such a charming masculine figure.
My mind ran from reality to imaginations,someone I had admired for a while since I entered the hall is now so close to me.....should I expect a kiss? hmmm I wish......
  He kept staring at me as if he was ready to say the magic words..'Yes I do' , he whispered gently with no formal introduction. 'You are beautiful',
 holy heavens! "Did he just say that to me?" I couldn't believe it.
   At this juncture, my expectation was for him to say something that will push me to the edge of falling in  love "My name is Fred and I........I felt goose bumps all over my body, so eager to hear him complete the sentence......
'I have a gift for you which includes a dress,panties and ladies sanitary pad'.......such a gentleman, the mere hearing of dress put a smile on my face but why the panties and sanitary pad?,,,I coughed out of tension "Are you okay?"...he asked "Yes I am alright", my response came out sharply. I noticed from where I was sitting that you have stained your dress with blood and I kept wondering why none of the guests invited here drew your attention to it including the gentlemen over there,he drew my attention to them. I turned immediately to look at the gentlemen and i realized none of them was stealing glances at me. Without altering any word, I rushed to the washroom to wash down and change into my new dress.
  Everyone turned to look at me with admiration including the bride and groom as I walked gorgeously back to the hall.
The invited guests began to move to the wedding reception and I had to join but I realized my new friend was still not showing any signs of movement so I decided to go to him so we could go together but I was interrupted by an unknown  gentleman  "Hi, my name is Joel,a banker,may I please have the honor to escort you to the reception?", I looked at him from head to toe and I realized he was more handsome than the new angel I had found who rescued me from embarrassment but where was Joel when my dress was stained? Did he notice but pretended not to have done so? These words ran through my thoughts
"Hello, pleasure to meet you but I am sorry to inform you that I have an escort"...I saw the disappointment on his face but I cared less.
I went to Fred and asked him if he would love to escort me to the reception but he bowed his head, I asked if he was okay and he said he couldn't walk unless I help him to sit in his wheel chair and escort him to the reception.I was silent for a while, I didn't know he was physically challenged right from the beginning due to the way he sat, "Should I ignore my new friend due to his challenge because of what others might think of me or I should allow Joel, the gentleman with no physical challenge to escort me since he will draw more attention from on-lookers?",,,These words ran through my mind.
Every one had left the hall except ,myself, Joel and Fred....I decided to help Fred and leave Joel to his fate and for a moment I forgot all about what others might think of me hanging out with Fred because I realized that despite his challenge, he's the only one who rescued me from embarrassment when all others pretended not to have seen it....From that moment, I woke up from the imagination of fairy tales where we dream of getting things as smooth as we see it forgetting that in order to get what we truly desire, we must sacrifice for others regardless of their challenges.