#WHEN_LOVE_JUST_HAPPENS_2
EPISODE 43
After Jane left Vivian in the living room, she went upstairs to lie down, she cried as she la-id on the be-d. She always knew she was not wanted as a child, that was why she was abandoned at the orphanage, but hearing those words coming out from Vivian’s mouth, hit differently, how was she supposed to accept such a woman as her mother?
“Babe?”
Jeffery was standing at the door of their be-droom. Watching her cry breaks his heart. He alre-ady told Vivian to st©p coming by the house, since her visits only ends up causing his wife to cry.
“Come on babe, st©p crying” Jeffery c@m£, and knelt beside her on the be-d. “plea-se st©p crying, whatever she said is not worth your tears” he cleaned her tears with his hands.
“She told me, she didn’t ask to have me in the first place Jeff, even though I know she is right but, it does hurt still”
“Awww baby I’m sorry” he sat down on the be-d, and placed her head on his l@ps. She continued to sob on his l@ps.
“You shouldn’t let things like that get to you”
Jane continued to sob for some minutes, before Jeffery raised her head to look at him.
“Come on, let’s take a walk, you have cried enough”
He got off the be-d and pu-ll-ed her up as well.
“Jeff, I don’t feel like going out, I just want to be indoors” Jane protested.
“Come on babe, the fresh air outside, will do you a whole lot of good”
“Oh ohh….. I don’t want to go”
“Don’t be a cry baby, we are going out for a walk” Jeffery took her hands, and started walking out of the room.
“At least let me change into something else now?”
“What’s wrong with what you are putting on?”
Jane looked at the shorts, and camisole she had on, the shorts st©pped mid th!gh, leaving the rest of her legs expo-sed. And the camisole did nothing to cover her arms either.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to wear this out, don’t you think so?”
“What I think is that, you are looking just fine to go out for a walk with your husband, now let’s go”
Jeffery took her hands, and they went out for a walk around their neighborhood.
“Babe, I know you will be feeling bad about what Vivian said, and then you would start having a feeling of self pity. But I don’t want you to feel that way”
“It hurts Jeff, it hurts real bad to know that no one really wanted me as a child, I was seen as a burden, even now I wonder if she still sees me as a burden”
“I don’t want you to look at it that way, you know, everything that happened to you in your past, made you into the woman you have become today, your background made you strive to become a better person. Yes it wasn’t a nice experience, but because of that experience you have become the woman that I love”
They walked in silence for a while.
“You know Vivian went throu-gh a lot as a teenager herself, and even though the way she reacted to it, wasn’t the best way, but she was a child still, and was looking out for herself”
“So are you trying to justify her actions?”
“Nope, far from that, but I want you to know that people react to problems differently, some stick around to find a way to solve it, while others find the easiest route, and run away from it. Vivian just happens to fall into the latter, she only did what she thought was best for you, and herself”
“That still doesn’t justify the fact that she abandoned her child, and never went back to look for her”
“Yes it doesn’t, but she did it anyway, she placed herself above her child. So what are you going to do about it? Are you going to keep crying, and ma-king yourself feel sad for something that’s entirely someone else’s fault, and not even yours?”
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Dele’s phone has been ringing completely off the hook, and it was Amaka who has been the one calling him non st©p. She has been s£nding him text messages almost every hour, begging him to forgive her, telling him how much she still loves him.
He couldn’t concentrate on anything he was doing, because she kept coming to his mind, and he has been trying to get her off his mind but to no avail, because most times, when it’s as if he was beginning to make progress in taking her off his mind, he only ends up thinking more about her, because of her constant calls and messages.
He finally decided to take Jane’s advice, and chose to see Amaka, and probably hear whatever it is she had to say, not like it was going to change his mind, but at least that would get her to st©p bombarding his phone with her calls, and text messages.
“Hello Dele?” Amaka’s voice held surprise, as she answered the call, she couldn’t believe he was calling her.
“Hello Amaka, I…”
“Dele before you say anything, I just want you to know how truly sorry I am for what I did”
“Amaka I have heard you”
“plea-se Dele, let’s meet and talk”
“About what, exactly?”
“Dele plea-se, can we just see, I really would love to see you?”
“Fine, I’m at my place, can you come over?”
“I will be on my way right away”
Amaka who has been on her be-d, lazing around all day, quic-kly got up from her be-d, she did a spin dance, before she ran into the bathroom to have her bath, for she hasn’t had her bath for over two days now. After Dele broke up with her, she lost the will to do anything, bathing inclusive.
After she had finished taking her bath, she put on clean undies, unlike the ones she has had on for days, she changed into something more S-xy and appealing.
‘Amaka, he only asked you to come over, and not to have S-x, this is not a boo-ty call’ she reprimanded herself as she selected the undies. But she still went ahead and wore them anyway, ‘you never can tell what could happen’ she said to herself. She didn’t want to be caught unfresh for any reason.
She picked out a short black dress, which Dele always loves to see her on. She decided to put it on.
When she arrived Dele’s ap@rtment, he was watching a football match on his TV. And after he opened the door for her, he went back to continue watching the game. He didn’t even acknowledge her dressing, or the makeup she had taken pains in applying on her face.
She went over to the couch where he was sitting, and sat down with him.
“Dele plea-se can we talk?”
“Go ahead and talk Amaka, I’m listening” his eyes were glued to the TV as he spoke.
“Dele plea-se look at me”
“Amaka I can hear you, it’s my ears I’m using to listen to you, not my eyes”
Amaka kept quiet for a while, not knowing the right way to react, Dele who wasn’t even bothered about her silence, kept screaming, and shouting when the referee blew against his team. At that moment she knew she has lost him. The Dele she knows, would never ignore her to watch a football match, if the match was so important to him, he would beg her to watch it with him, or even turn off the TV, if she insists on talking to him about something that was important.
Dele ignored her for about ten minutes, before he decided to turn off the TV and faced her. That was when he noticed the dress she had on, he smiled within himself, because he knew what she was trying to do. But she would have to try ha-rder than just putting on a dress he loves, before she can be able to get him to fall for her again.
“You have my full attention now, what was it you wanted to say?”
As he turned to look at her, Amaka sat there wondering what made her cheat on him in the first place, what was it she saw in Pius that made her ever considered him worthy of flir-ting with in the first place? First of all, Pius wasn’t even as handsome as Dele, and neither was he half as caring, as Dele was to her. If it were to be for the money, Dele is far richer than Pius, what then was her problem? Truly they say; you don’t know the value of what you have, until you have lost it.
“If you don’t have anything to say, I might as well just put the TV back on, and go back to watching my game” Dele spoke out of exasperation.
“Umm… I am sorry, I actually want to let you know that, it was never my intention to cheat on you, I never meant to hurt you, I was just being stupid, and you ended up getting hurt, I’m truly sorry”
“I thought you said, you didn’t have anything to do with that guy, and that he was the one who f0rç£d himself on you? So how come you are now saying you were being stupid? I don’t un-derstand plea-se enlighten me?”
“I was… emmm” Amaka knew if she really wanted to make things right with Dele, she nee-ded to be totally honest with him.
“I was flir-ting with him as well, I don’t know why I did it, but I flir-ted back every time he flir-ted with me”
“So you were planning on having a quic-kie with him in your office, before coming to have dinner with me?”
“No, no, no.. I actually that k!sswas f0rç£d, he practically f0rç£d himself on me, you have to believe me”
“I have heard all what you said Amaka, so what do you want me to do? What exactly is it that you want from me?” Dele asked Amaka.
“Dele plea-se I would like for us to get back together, I would love to be your girlfriend again, and I promise to do better this time”
“This is not just a job that you can just come back to Amaka, it’s not something that you can just wake up some day, and decide that you want to get back to. Amaka I don’t want to be in any form love triangle”
“Dele it’s you I want, not Pius, not anyone else for that matter. Dele what we had was special, it was beautiful, plea-se let’s not throw what we had away, give me another chance, I beg you”
“Throw what we had away, you say? You threw whatever it is we had away, the moment you decided to start flir-ting with that new boss of yours, or didn’t you think of what we had, when you were busy flir-ting, and k!ss!nghim?” Dele asked in anger.
“Dele I’m sorry, and if you will have me, I’m willing for us to start afresh”
Dele stood up and paced the sitting room. “Amaka, what you did was very bad, it was heart breaking, I don’t know if we can pick up from where we st©pped”
“Dele we don’t have to pick up from where we st©pped, we can start on a new note, we can start afresh”
“We can’t just start afresh Amaka, I can’t just forget what you did” he walked to the wall dart board, that was hung on one end of the living room, he took the darts, and started throwing the them at the board, each missing the target.
“If we are to come back together, What then becomes of your relationsh!pwith your boss?”
“I’m definitely going to be totally professional with him, and I would st©p flir-ting with him too, in fact I have st©pped flir-ting with him alre-ady, I promise”
Dele threw the last dart on the board, before turning to look at Amaka.
“If we are to get back together, you would have to st©p working with your boss”
“Dele I would love for that to happen too, but I can’t choose my boss”
“You would have to st©p working there then”
“Wait I don’t un-derstand, are you suggesting I quit my job?” Amaka asked in disbelief.
“Amaka you don’t expect us to get back together, when you are still working with that guy? He is the reason we are here in the first place”
“Dele I’m sorry, but I can’t quit my job, I just got recently promoted, and now you want me to quit simply because you are feeling insecure?”
“I’m sorry? Did you just say I’m insecure? You are the one who went and cheated in the first place, if you hadn’t been going about flir-ting and k!ss!ngyour boss, we won’t be having this discussion”
“I’m sorry Dele, but I can’t quit my job, that’s not possible, it won’t work”
“You are right, it won’t work, we can’t work like this, asking you to quit your job, is selfish. But I still can’t look past the fact that you will still be working closely with that man. So we would have to forget about this, and go our separate ways”
Amaka stared at Dele as he spoke, she knew he was right, there was no way she could quit her job, and he would always see Pius as a threat, and a constant reminder of the mistake she had made. They would have to go their separate ways.
“I’m sorry Amaka, but this is the end of the road for our relationsh!p”
Amaka stood up from the chair she was sitting on. “I really wish things had turned out to be different for both of us, and for all it’s worth, I’m sorry, and if I could turn back the hands of time, I would never have flir-ted or k!$$£d that guy”
“And if I could turn back the hands of time, I wouldn’t have pestered you to be in a relationsh!pwith me, the way I did. I would have just left you alone”
Amaka did her best to not show how hurt she was by Dele’s words, so she turned, and picked up her purse from the chair.
“I wish you the best of life Dele, I wish life treats you well” she leaped and k!$$£d him gently on the corner of hisl-ips, before turning to leave the house.
Dele watched as she walked out of his place, he really wanted to go after her, and st©p her. But he couldn’t get himself to do it. He knew letting her go was a good idea. It was the best thing for both of them. He nee-ded to let this be-d fly.
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What do you think about Dele’s request that Amaka should quit her job if she want the relationsh!pto come back ?
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