chapter Two

The first week they were away from each other, Grace felt lean absence so much. She was in love, and it was on intoxicating her. But of them spent that week on the phone, talk, chatting and video calling. They missed each other so much and wished they were together; the nostalgia was too much and the force drawing both of them together was irresistible

On the second week, lean switch off his phone; grace couldn't get across to him, and she became very worried. She called his friends and asked about lean, and they told her they haven't heard from him for days. They told her they were also trying his number, and it was switch off

Grace spent the remaining day of the break troubled, moody and snap at everyone. All she wanted was to get across to lean. Her mind went riot with different thought ;What if something bad has happened to him. She was worried and agitated. After the break Grace rushed to school. She meet lean's friends who told her he was sick and his of was bad. She couldn't bear to be away from him, and she begged his friends to give her lean's address in Lagos.

They gave her and grace travelled to Lagos to see lean. Lean was putting up with a friend in the ghetto. He knew Grace was coming to see him ; his friends had called him to tell him. He wanted Grace to come, so she would experience the other part of life It was their plan to make her fall in love with him, experience life as a poor person and Lean would break up with her.

Grace came to Lagos, located the place Lean was staying, and she was shocked to see this kind of life he lived. She was too concern about his health to talk about his living condition. The friend who knew Grace was coming had vacated the house for them.

Grace and Lean were together in one-room apartment he live in a face me and face you compound. Lean was sick and Grace had to take care of him. She was not used to doing house chores, but she had to do it to take care of the man the loves. For the first time in her life, She slept on the mat and boiled water with a stove in a general kitchen that has several occupants cooking in it. The neighbors were just looking at grace, and they gossiped among themselves that she was a rich kid that was not used to such life

Grace couldn't cook, and they make do with the food they bought from a mama put from the street. Grace had to use the public toilet and bathroom with several other tenants. She fetched

Water from the wall in the compound. Most times there was no light, and she had to stay in the room feeling heat. Almost every day other, it was a war Zone in the compound. One of them quarried and escaped into lean room before the ladies would fight her.

She was not used to such life, but her love for lean made her go through all the discomfort. Grace was ready to get lean a better accommodation and furnish it with her money, but he refused. He told her that she truly loves him, She would live with him in any condition.

He made her felt bad, and she silently stayed with him and tried to make him get better despite the fact that she was not happy about his living condition.

Several days after Grace came to stay with him lean couldn't bear to see her go through what she was going through, he felt pity for her. He knew she was not used to such life and had stoop so low to it because of him. His acquaintance with Grace had mad him to know that she was not a bad girl afterwards; it was her upbringing that had made her proud. She had a soft board to her, and she was so kind, and he has fallen in love with the other Grace underneath the proud one.

Lean told Grace to go back to school; he doesn't want her to continue suffering because of him, Use told him she came to take care of him, and she wouldn't go back without him.

"Grace, you know we can't continue with his our friendship, we don't have a future together. You

Are the daughter of a millionaire, and I am the son of a poor man. You came and have seen the kind of life I will subject you to if we get. Married."

"My love, I will stay with you in any condition. I love you and that is what matters to me," she told him.

"Grace, I know you love me and I can't subject you to such a life. Please we need to stop this relationship because I see no further there. "

Grace started crying, she begged him not to live her. She also told him that his life was not going to end up as a poor man. He was getting the best education from a good school and with her connection" She would get him a good job offer Lean told her gnat her father would reject him because his father was a poor man. Grace told him not to worry, that her parents were understanding and would accept me because he loves him.

They continue to talk about the matter she was crying bitterly. Lean couldn't bear to see her unhappy, This was not the plan. The plan was to make her fall in love with him and afterwards, he would break up with her. He also has fallen in love with her, and he couldn't help himself. The plan has backfired" He was now a victim of his plan'

Lean open up to grace and ask her to forgive him. She bears him no grudges, she told him it was one of those things but thank God he didn't succeed, He as fallen in love with her. They went back to school and continue they relationship.

Grace introduced lean to her parents, they accepted him. When they graduated, Grace father got lean a good paying job. They got married, lean was hard-working and dedicated to his work and he became successful with the numerous investment he did.

When the three friends meet, they talked about the millions daughter and there plan and how the plan black fired. Everything ended well at the end and there were grateful all thanks to the millionaire's daughter

Two Years Later

Grace gave birth to baby boy who they named Lincon lean

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