THSI PARTICULAR CHRISTIAN BROTHER...(prt two)

...this new road was unfamiliar for Mara. When he started asking her how the cookie tasted, when did somebody hen pave it. Was somebody allowed to have it while pregnant?
unfortunately, Mara answered all his questions as best as she could because anyway, does eating the cookie once or twice make you the professor of cookie eating all of a sudden?
why did he suddenly need to ask Mara all these questions? what gave him the right to ask her all these questions?/ would he have dared to ask her if she had not gotten pregnant?
that is a question for another day.
so, it was during one of these insane late night sharing of sexual experience(at least on Mara's part) that Gephas made a stunning revelation.
He told Mara that all along, ever since he met her actually he had had feelings for her but was unable to act on them since he was a bit older and he had realized this only after Mara had finished form four.
Mara was over the moon and like a burst water pipe, began to pour out all that was in her heart, she went on and on about how she too had had feelings for him, about how she too just did not know how to share them with him, she went on about why he did not tell her about it. To which he replied that he was afraid of her father. As Mara would recall, she talked most of the rest of the night, all this time opening her heart too the man she had always thought would replace Peter, her primary school sweetheart.
Shocker!!! sine they were now past, the feelings part having established their feelings for each other, Mara, decided to ask about what happened to his previous girlfriend since a man does not open up about his feelings for you while they belong to another, right?
nope! wrong! well, not entirely wrong unless the man was simply taking you for an emotional road trip but only you were on the road, he never went with you. something like a GPS. he knows the road and so he is able to lead you very well along it but he is right where he was at the start of the journey or in Mara's case, he is heading a completely different direction.
Gephas took this particular ooprtunity to make his great reveal- 'swiry'. this is a woman who he was in a relationship with for two yeras and he loved her so much. yeah yeah, whatever man.
as shocking and a tad too painful as it was for Mara, not so much about the woman but about the staggering realization that she had been dealt on a good one, she held her head high and replied Oh! she could e casual too about the matter , right?
so, what was this saved brother getting at by his bastard like behaviour. wass it a moment of satanic influence or what? Mara will never understand. she also will never understand his casual treatment of their interractions, lik ethey never happened.
it took a coule of failed attempts for Mara to totally move on from this saved brother and his consatnt emotional manipulations and unclear signals buut at least she installed a GPS system for future road trips.
The saved brother is now married and when alone Mara reminds herself that she was always alone in this game and hopes that she is wiser now.  She has learned that the gem with the roughest edges is mostly the most precious ones. what she doesn't get is this," is Jesus not a source of peace and not pain? How can somebody who claims to have him behave the opposite by such a large margin? Hmmm....

Red-hot carpet: THIS PARTICULAR CHRISTIAN BROTHER(prt 1)

Red-hot carpet: THIS PARTICULAR CHRISTIAN BROTHER(prt 1): Mara's mother always told her that if she  got a man, he should be saved. i agree, because in all honesty, how can two walk together unless...

THIS PARTICULAR CHRISTIAN BROTHER(prt 1)

Mara's mother always told her that if i get a man, he should be saved. i agree, because in all honesty, how can two walk together unless they agree?(Amos3;3).
however, there is this crucial part of the equation that mothers forget to add, mine included. that, if you happen to find a brother who is not a practicing born again, you cannot change him, rather, he will draw you to his way and then boom! i know it sounds like it should be common sense but as Mara found out,common sense was not hat much common. Anyway, for today, that is not the point.because I am not yet sure how to down that road without being hypocritical or judgmental. Let me tell you about this christian brother. Whether he is a practicing born again is between him and Jesus.
Mara was seven months pregnant by the time she was finally able to tell her parents and go home. Gephas was her neighbor back in the village. he was at the time, the only one of all her neighbors the one she could relate. Gephas was a little older than her but they could talk and laugh. he always made her uncomfortable and nervous and Mara did a long list of stupid things when she was around the guy. she was a fluent speaker( she is a performing artiste-speech is vital for the success of this chosen career path) but somehow, she stammered through everything she said when she was with him. she trembled even, damn, she could hear her voice shake. she only got that feeling when she was on stage, you know while performing an act. Which is exactly what she would do whenever she was in the presence of this man.
Mara considered this Gephas person a friend. so, since she had jumped the hurdle of telling her parents about the pregnancy, she could tell her friends, at least the ones who did not know yet. one of them was Gephas. she settled on a text because she dared not call lest he ignored her quite openly.
the sequence she has now gotten used to followed;
shock- disbelief('' What! you are lying, uwongo)- awkward questions( so, what are you going to do?, who is the father?)-moment of silence-asking for time to process( let me call you).
Call he did,albeit  late into the night. and my oh my. He was exactly what Mara needed. He was not judgmental, they joked about it and Mara felt a little at ease. The following months were late night  chats which would sometimes go late into the night. he was always so encouraging and supportive. always telling her to pray for her baby every day, to be still and let God be God. all this was so cool and very helpful through out her pregnancy.
He was there even for the delivery, at least he was one of the people he texted to ask for prayers when the doctors told her her baby was in distress and she needed surgery. He even came to see her in hospital and brought with him a card.
All this time, Mara's head knew that he was just a big brother. but why did her body temperature shoot any time he was around her, and why did did she anticipate a message from him all the time?
Brother Gephas was still supportive even after the birth of the baby and would still text until his encouragement  took a different turn altogether.