Lily has been blind for as long as she could remember, coming from a family of seven, four sisters and a brother, with her parents Inclusive, she was the last child of the family and was also treated like one, even though she was already 27 years old and still unmarried. Her mother especially dots on her like a precious china doll, always telling her to be careful of where she wanted to sit or stand, yes she loved her mother dearly and adored how she took care of her, she knew her mother only meant well for her, that was why she didn't always complain of the care, even when she could do some things on her own. She has always dreamed of a kind man who would come sweep her off her feet, but she was always been treated like a little girl, whenever they went out.
Lily wasn't born blind, she was only a victim of a terrible illness that infected her when she was just a baby, at that point when they knew she has infected her parent moved her older siblings to their aunt mary's house which was not so far from their town. lily wanted to feel like other maidens that were being wooed by bachelors in town, cause she does hear stories of who was or who has been wooed by young men from her sisters, she sometimes in her imagination fantasies about it, she knew if only her family gave her breathing space, then maybe someone would notice her for who she was, but that hope was gradually dying as she was passed the young age of being hooked, in six months she would be twenty-eight years old without a husband her sisters and brother were all married with their kids, she only hope she would get hers one day.
Her father does tell her whenever he finished reading to her that she would get her when the time comes.
One fine summer morning, they got a visitor at their door at the break of dawn, it was a man looking so tired in a soldier's uniform like he was just coming from a War, her father who opened the door welcomed the man into the house and sat him down, he gave him a glass of water to drink her mother was beside him quickly went into the kitchen and brought some food for him to eat he ate like one who hasn't eaten for some days so after eating mother prepare the guest room, in which he slept for a long time, since her sisters were married and didn't stay in the town, there was no way for her to get a description of how the looked like, just that her mom told her he was a fine-looking man. In the evening while sitting by herself at the dining table drinking a glass of milk she heard someone walk toward her and she quickly spoke up and informed him that her parents were at the back of the house, watering their garden, her mother came in at that moment and then their man who's name was Edward narrated how he got to their foot that morning, he and his friends were on their way to their home town when they were attacked by robbers who took their luggage and his friends all ran into different directions and that's how they missed themselves he knew they would all find a way to get home since they were not far from home.
Edward turned out to be a caring person, he helped her mother out in the kitchen and also her farm on her farm, a week later he announced he was leaving, lily felt sad cause she thought he was taking a liking to her, as he was always complimenting her, unknown to her Edward was already falling in love with her that was why he extended his stay, in the day he was to leave he gave lily a brackets that he would come back for it, as a promise he was going to visit again.
At Edwards's house his friends were already there waiting for him he told them where he had been and also about lily after two weeks passed Edward felt he needed to pay lily a visit, which he did, Lily was happy and at that spot, Edward asked Lily to marry him, her parents were in tears, because they thought no one wanted their blind daughter, but lily prayers brought her good fortune In its own time. They got married after a month, Lily found love, when she thought she couldn't.
Lesson to learn,
Never look down yourself, because you are in a predicament