Their Dream Girl

10 I found her.

Tlou

I watch Luna close her door and force myself to take the first step away from her. I have to say, that is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I walk all the way to my car and get in before I even let myself think about her, because I know I will go back there if I do.

Damn, she was right there. And I want to be with her so bad. But I can’t do that without my twin brother. He has to be there, for me to even touch her the way I want - for us to make her ours.

I’d stolen a kiss though. And it was life altering. The feel of her lips, against mine had felt like heaven. It was the best thing I’ve ever tasted.

I start the car and drive off. I can’t wait to get home.

I hope Tau is there.

My excitement wane as I remember that my brother is getting married. He’s not going to give up his woman for this one, no matter how sure I am about Luna. There is no way my brother is going to jeopardize his future of having a family once again for just a feeling I have about a girl I met in a club. I didn’t know anything about Luna only that she is our dream girl. The woman we’ve been looking for, for as long as we acknowledged that we wanted to have one woman as our wife.

But Tau is not going to budge. I need a plan. I stare out the windscreen at the taillights of the car in front of me as I think of how I am going to approach this. How I’m going to convince Tau to give this girl a chance, and dump Sade - his fiancé.

Damn, this is not going to be easy. My brother has lost faith in finding the one. I need to bring that faith back.

I drive to our house still trying to come up with a plan. I shut my mind off as I concentrate on navigating the hilly roads of Waterkloof where many politicians in South Africa live. My brother and I hate this area, but the only time we are going to move and sell the house is when we move to our new home with our bride. We bought a piece of land years ago in a secluded area in Wapadrand where we started the construction of our home, but with Tlou loosing hope of finding a woman for us, we stopped the construction.

Maybe it was time to resume, because nothing was going to stop me from making Luna ours.

The drive home turns into a blur as I imagine how she will look in our home. The itch to see the old house plans and the designs we’d picked out spur me to drive a little faster. I breathe a sigh of relief when I arrive home, press the button that will open the gate and the double garage door. I drive through the gate and drive down the curvy driveway to park the car in my usual space in the garage. Tau’s car is not there. He must still be on his date with Sade, I shake my head. He was wasting his time. He was just too blind from sadness to see that Sade was not the right woman for him let alone us.

I walk through the house with one thought in my mind. To fetch the house plans so I can see what needs to be done to finish the house. I walk into Tau’s office. He’d put the plans somewhere in his safe. I open the safe and ready to ruffle through the documents I know he kept there. I stop shot when I’m met by a black velvet jewelry box the size of a ring box.

I stare at it feeling anger rise within me as I realize what I was looking at. I open the box just to make sure I am right. Snuggled between velvet columns were his and hers matching rings – gold bands that looked simple and ordinary but meant so much. This is all wrong. I stare at them in disbelief.

He was really going through with this.

What about me?

What about the plans we’ve made since were little boys? He was just going to throw all of that away because finding our dream girl is hard?

No.

I’m going to change his mind. I have to. I put the box where I found it and look for the house plans. I find them at the bottom of the safe, where I’m sure Tau stashed them so he wouldn’t have to look at them.

I turn to his desk and lay them out. We wanted a big house, because we planned to have a big family. 

My heart hammers in my chest at the thought of having all of that. I smile knowing it was almost in our reach.

I found our woman, I want to shout to the whole world.

And damn, she is beautiful, I think as I pull a chair and sit down. I go through the plans, noting where the construction company had left off. There wasn’t much to do. The main structure of the house was up, what is left is the finishing touches, painting and decorations.

That can be done, I think as I write down some notes and the changes I want to be made to the house. I’ll contact the construction company tomorrow and go over there and see if the weather hasn’t had any negative effect on the house over the years. Maybe Tau would like to go with me. We haven’t been there in long time.

Well speak of the devil.

I hear the distant sound of his car driving to the house.

I hope he is alone. He and I need to talk, and I don’t want an audience for this. The garage door closes and a few minutes later he is walking into the office. He doesn’t look happy to see me there.

He must be remembering our conversation earlier. We didn’t really end our conversation on a good note. It didn’t exactly end, because he had walked out on me and I in a fit of rage denounced his fiancé.

And I was telling him the truth, she is not the woman for him, not by a long shot.

“What are you doing?” he asks as he walks into the office his shoulders pulled back as if he is spoiling for a fight.

 I ignore him and continue with my plans. My brother and I are identical but that’s were our similarities end. Where he is brooding and staunched, I am fun and the life of the party. He is a pessimist and I am an optimist. We are yin and yang. One cannot survive without the other. That’s why I don’t understand his need to break away from me, when he knows he cannot live the normal life that is expected from us. We just don’t function that way.

“What are you doing with those?” he comes to stand next to the desk. His eyes burn into the plans and I feel anger rise in him.

“Tlou?” he turns away from me. His shoulders rise and fall as if he’s holding back whatever he wants to say to me. “You cannot force this. How many times do I have to tell you…”

“I found her.” I say, not waiting for him to go through his speech. I’ve heard it too many times.