WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
EPISODE 37
Jane stood petrified staring at Jeffery, she tried to understand what he had just said to her, but she couldn’t. How could her mother be here? How did she find her, where has she been all these years?
Several times Jane has imagined what it was going to be like, when she finally meets her mother, many times she has prayed for this day to come, and now that it is finally here, she doesn’t know how to react. Was she supposed to be happy? Or sad?
What was she going to say to her? What did she even look like? What if her mother doesn’t like her? That was the same reason she dumped her in a dumpster, in the first place. Jane decided not to see her, she wasn’t ready to get hurt by the same person twice.
As she turned to walk away, Jeffery held her hand. “Baby, where are you going?”
She stood confused, not knowing what to say.
“Babe?” Jeffery shook her a little.
“I’m sorry Jeff, but I don’t think I want to see that woman, I don’t think I can stand getting hurt by her for the second time. I will just go over to Amaka’s and when she is gone, I will come back”
“Come on, just come see her first, I know this is something you have always wanted to know since you were a child, please just come in”
“Jeff, I really think I should just go, probably I will meet her another time when I’m more prepared for her visit”
“That’s why you have me by your side, I’m here to give you the support that you need, just come inside”
“I don’t think I can Jeff, please let me just go to Amaka’s place”
“Of course you can, come on let’s go inside”
Jeffery led her into the sitting room, where a lady was seated on one of the chairs, with her back to the door. As Jane walked closer, the lady’s profile seemed familiar, and then the lady stood up, turned, and faced them.
Vivian!
Jane asked; “Vivian?” Why on earth was Vivian the one standing there, did Jeffery not just tell her, her mother was in the sitting room? Why then was Vivian the one sitting here? Or could Vivian be her mother?
Jane turned to look at Jeffery, and he nodded slowly at her. It was then it dawned on her, that Vivian was her mother. Jane placed her palm on her racing heart.
“Baby, are you okay?” Jeffery held her as she almost fell.
Vivian rushed to Jane’s side too, and as she tried to touch her, Jane pushed her hands away.
“Don’t touch me, please”
Jeffery gave Vivian a sign to calm down. Then he led Jane to sit on a chair.
“Baby please sit down, do you want some water?” as Jeffery tried to leave and get her water, she held his hand.
“Please don’t leave me” She whispered.
Vivian was looking confused, and out of place, she didn’t know what to do, or say to Jane, was she supposed to hug her? Or was she supposed to just stand there, and watch? She has thought all about what she was going to say to her while she was driving down here. But coming face to face with her, she feels so helpless.
“Maybe I should rub on her back?” she asked.
“As my what? Please what are you doing here?” Jane asked, looking directly at Vivian.
“I… I … thing is….”
“The thing is what? Go on I want to hear it”
“Baby, the thing is that..”
Jane stopped Jeffery with a raise of her hands. “Let her speak, I want to hear what she has to say”
“Jane my dear. I.. am. Your…” Vivian couldn’t get herself to say out the words.
“You are my what? Say it out!” Jane screamed.
“I’m your mother” she stood staring at Jane, who had a shocked expression on her face.
“Hahahahahahaha……” Jane bust into laughter. “You are joking right? This has to be the joke of the year right?” she looked at Jeffery but he shook his head letting her know they were serious.
“Jane I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch with you all these years. I have been searching for you for the past two years”
“You dumped your child in a dumpster, and it took you twenty four years before you started to look for her? Wow bravo, what a mother that you are”
“I know there is nothing I would say that can justify my actions, but please hear me out”
“There will be no need for that, it’s too late for you to give any form of explanation, or don’t you think so?”
“I know Jane, but please just hear me out”
“Baby, I think you should hear her out” Jeffery held her hand.
“No, I don’t need to hear anything this woman has to say, I already know all I need to know about her, we worked together remember?”
There was silence in the room, for they all knew how badly Vivian had treated Jane when she had found out Jane was dating Jeffery.
“It’s getting late, and I think you should start leaving” Jane stood up, pointing towards the door.
“Jane please, I beg you to..”
“That’s the door use it Vivian!”
“Baby, don’t you think you should hear her out, Please?”
“Vivian, please turn around, you will see the door, use it, it will lead you outside”
Vivian still stood looking confused, she looked to Jeffery for help, he signaled her to leave.
“Vivian, I wouldn’t want to push you out! So please leave my house before I loose it!”
Vivian seeing Jane wasn’t ready to listen to her, finally decided to leave. Jeffery walked her to her car.
“Vivian I’m truly sorry for Jane’s reaction”
“No Jeffery, you don’t have to apologize, I deserve any treatment I get from her. I wasn’t expecting her to welcome me with open arms. Thank you for your help”
“I’m going to talk to her, and then you can come back another time. I’m not promising you she is going to come around soon, but we will just have to keep trying”
“Thank you so much Jeffery, I’m glad she has a kind hearted man like you, as her husband”
“You are welcome”
Jeffery waited for Vivian to drive out, before he went back inside. Jane had already gone upstairs. She was having her bath when Jeffery came into the room, so he sat on the bed, waiting for her to come out.
Jane came out of the bathroom, without saying word to Jeffery. She took out her nightwear, which she already laid out on the bed, and put it on. She laid down on the bed, covered herself with a duvet, and turned off her bedside lamp.
“Baby, please we need to talk” Jeffery’s voice was calm, and pacifying.
“I’m sure whatever it is, can wait until morning, I’m tired please”
“No it can’t wait, and I think we should talk about it now. Please”
“If it’s about Vivian, then I don’t want to talk about it”
“Babe are you angry with me?”
“I’m tired Jeffery, not tonight”
“Then you are angry at me then”
“Like I shouldn’t be? You should have prepped me Jeff. How could you have kept something of such magnitude away from me?”
“Babe.. I am sorry, I was planning to tell you”
“When exactly? After she had left? Jeffery you were supposed to have told me, first you dig into my past, without telling me, then you found out who my mother is, and still didn’t tell me. What were you aiming to achieve exactly?”
Jeffery knew he should have told her about it, but he was looking for a perfect way to bring up the topic. She has been very happy lately, and he didn’t want to dampen her spirit with the news of Vivian being her biological mother.
“What I did was wrong, and I am sorry. Please forgive me?”
Jane started crying, Jeffery got closer to her on the bed, and held her as she cried.
“Sorry babe, shhhhhhh….” he rubbed her hair as she cried.
“All these years, I wondered where she was, and why she had abandoned me the way she did” Jane spoke in between sobs. “I went to bed at night, yearning for my mother, wondering why she never wanted me” Jane sobbed harder as she clung to Jeffery’s shirt. And he quietly listened to her, rubbing her hair.
“Now after twenty six years, she is coming back to tell me she is my mother, what am I supposed to do with that? Does she know what I suffered all these while? Now she expects me to leap for Joy because she claims to be my mother”
“Stop crying babe, I’m sorry things turned out like this, but I think you need to hear her out”
“How did you even get to find out she is my mother?”
Jeffery got up from the bed, and took off the shirt, and trouser he was putting on, and changed into his pyjamas. Then he joined Jane back on the bed, and sat crossed leg facing her.
She had already stopped crying, and was waiting to him to tell her, how he found out Vivian was her mother.
“Before our wedding, I contacted someone, to help me do some research and findings on your past”
“You wanted to find my birth mother?” Jane asked calmly.
“Yes, I really wanted you to know who your parents were, and where you came from. I’m sorry I didn’t ask you before doing it, but I just wanted you to have idea of who your folks are”
“But I already told you, I was okay knowing the woman at the orphanage as my mother”
Jeffery had casually brought the subject up, and Jane had told him not to bother about looking for her parents, as she didn’t care.
“I know, but I also see the way you look with longing in your eyes, whenever you saw a mother showing love to her daughter. And I wanted you to just know about your mother”
“Okay, so what did the person you contacted find out?”
“He was yet to find anything useful, when I received a call from Vivian one morning, asking to see me, because she has something very important to discuss with me”
“You spoke with Vivian recently? When exactly was that?”
“Two weeks ago” Jeffery had a look of guilt on his face.
“You spoke with Vivian two weeks ago, and you didn’t bother to tell me? I thought you didn’t like her, after what she did to me? Okay go on, what happened when you both met?”
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
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