My Girlfriend

I was walking along Kirinyaga Road when I met with a girl crying. When I asked her why she was crying she told me “I had wanted to borrow seventy shillings from my mother for a trip and then she stated beating me.”

I asked her if she wanted some of my money and she said yes. I reached into my pocket and gave her three hundred shillings for her trip. When I gave her that money I asked her name. Reah Njeri, she replied and then I told her my name is Harrison Njoroge.

Because her home was not far away she asked me “Can you see a red house at that hill?” I told her that I could see it and she told me “When you want to come to visit me, come there.”

After a week, I went to visit her. When I reached her house, I called her name and she came. She was very happy to see me and I was very happy to see her. I decided to take a walk with her and while we were walking I asked her if she had a boyfriend. She told me “No, I don’t have a boyfriend.” Then, I asked her is she could be my first girlfriend and see agreed.

I felt so happy because she was the first girl I had spoken with in my life and she agreed to be my girlfriend.

I asked her if she could come to my house to visit me and she said “yes I can come.” When she came, I made her a cup of tea and then we went for a walk around the village. Since she was in standard eight and I had finished standard eight, I asked her “Can I marry you when you are finished standard eight?” She told me “I will be yours and you will be mine.” When she finished school, I went to her house to get her and then we came to my house to meet my mother.

I told my mother, “This is my wife.” My mother did not believe that I had a wife. Now we are continuing with our lives.