WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
EPISODE 38
*Two weeks ago*
Jeffery arrived Radisson Blu lounge, quite later than the time he had agreed to meet with Vivian. He had to help Jane in doing some house chores, as that has become a tradition he started since they got married, he helps her with the cleaning of the house on weekends, because Jane insisted he doesn’t employ a housekeeper after Martha’s case.
Vivian already had a table reserved for them.
“I’m sorry I came late” he apologized when he got to where she was seated.
“It’s okay, I’m glad you agreed to meet with me” Vivian looked like she had a lot on her mind. This was the first time Jeffery was seeing after she and Katherine were attacked. With the way she looked, it was evident she was completely healed.
“How have you been?” Jeffery asked.
“I’m doing better now, what would you like to have?”
Jeffery could tell she didn’t want to talk about the gun shot incident. So he decided to leave it at that, and ordered for a beer, while Vivian got herself, a soft drink.
“So Vivian, what was it you said you wanted to talk to me about?” Jeffery asked, after their drinks had arrived. He had other things to do, and needed her to get to the point, so he could leave on time.
“What I want to talk to you about, is a sensitive matter, Jeffery” Vivian leaned closer to the table, not bothering to touch her drink.
“Okay what is it?” Jeffery became curious.
“When I was 15years old, I got pregnant” Vivian had a look of regret in her eyes.
“Okay?” Jeffery wasn’t quite sure why she would call him out of his house, to tell him this.
“I lost my parents at the age of ten, my mother’s younger sister took me to live in Kano with her, and family, as she was my mother’s only surviving relative” Vivian took out an handkerchief to wipe the tears that were already forming in her eyes.
“I practically became the family’s house help, I did all the house chores, and took care of her little kids. But I didn’t mind, as she sent me to school, and paid my fees, so I saw my helping her around the house as a payback for her sending me to school. Then one night, after my thirteenth birthday, my aunt’s husband came into my room, and started touching me, I resisted but he overpowered me, and raped me. He threatened to kill me, if I ever told my aunt. That continued for two years, without my aunt’s knowledge. Then I got pregnant, when I was fifteen”
When Vivian’s aunt found out she was pregnant, she beat her up, demanding she told her who the was responsible for her pregnancy, and when Vivian finally opened up, and told her, that it was her husband. Her aunt called her a home wrecker, that she wanted to destroy her home, and that her husband wasn’t capable of doing such a thing. When she confronted her husband, he denied it, and told his wife that; Vivian has been the one trying to seduce him all these while.
“So what happened to you, and the baby?” Jeffery asked.
“My aunt threw me out of her house. And I had nowhere to go, so I started living in an uncompleted building, doing menial jobs, and begging for food on the streets. Until I became due to deliver”
Vivian was groaning in labour pains, with no one to help her, she couldn’t go to the hospital, because she had no money to pay for the hospital bills. So she was all by herself in pains, not having a clue of what to do.
“How were you able to deliver the baby?” Jeffery asked with curiosity.
“After hours of groaning with no one to help me, and the baby wasn’t forth coming, I was at the point of passing out, when a woman who lived close to the uncompleted building, I was sleeping in, walked in. She had heard my screams, and decided to come see what was happening. So she was the one who helped me with the delivery”
After the woman helped Vivian to deliver her baby, she took her, and the baby to the one room apartment, where she lived with her husband who was a police officer, and four children. The woman was a petty trader, and her husband wasn’t being paid much at his job.
Vivian stayed with them for a week, and things became quite tough for her, she didn’t have money to feed herself, nor her newborn, who cried day and night because of hunger. The family only gave her the little food they had, which was barely enough for Vivian to sustain herself with, talk more of her to be able to brea$tfeed her newborn baby with.
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
One day, the lady and her husband, gave Vivian the idea of taking the baby to an orphanage home, where they could care better for her.
The police officer, told her he would take the baby to the orphanage, with the disguise that they found the baby in a dumpster.
Vivian didn’t agree at first, because she couldn’t stand the idea of giving up her baby, but after two days of the baby crying continuously because of hunger, she finally caved in, and allowed the police officer to take the baby to an orphanage.
She stayed with the family for six months, saved some money from her menial jobs, and she moved down to Lagos in search of greener pastures.
“I’m sorry for what happened to you in your past, but I still don’t understand why you are telling me all these?” Jeffery asked.
“Two years ago, I started searching for my baby, I went back to Kano, to look for the family, and they directed me to the orphanage home where she was taken to, though it was no longer in existence, but we were able to trace the relative of the woman who owned the place. And he told us the family he gave her to for adoption were dead. So it became difficult for us to find her, but I kept searching”
“Okay?”
“Few days after Jane tendered her resignation letter, her dress zipper had issue while we were at the office, so I had to help her fix it. It was then, I discovered she had a birth mark on her back, similar to mine. I didn’t place much importance on it, until her last day at work, she complained of a similar allergy as mine”
“What allergy is that?” Jeffery asked anxious.
“Peanut allergy”
Jeffery knew she was right, because he knew about that birthmark on Jane’s back, and she was also allergic to peanuts too, several times she has told him about it. If Jane and Vivian were having same birthmark, and similar allergies, could it be that they were related?
“I still don’t get where you are driving at with this”
“I know this might sound stupid, but I have been having this strong feeling, that Jane might be my child, I know she is an orphan, because she indicated that in the employee documents she filled out when, I employed her. There is only one way to find out, please I need your help Jeffery”
Jeffery looked at Vivian as she spoke, if what she just told him was true, then there is a strong possibility, that she might be Jane’s biological mother, because her story has many similarities with what Jane told him about her growing up.
“So what do you want me to do?” He asked Vivian.
“I need a sample from Jane, to be able to have a DNA test conducted, please Jeffery, I know this might seem inappropriate, but please this is my only way of knowing if she is truly my daughter, or not. Please if you could provide me with her hair strand, or a tooth brush please, so that the test could be done”
Jeffery thought about her request for a while, before making a decision.
“I will provide you with the needed samples, but I’m going to Lab with you for the test”
“No problem” Vivian was relieved with Jeffery’s agreement to help her.
“And you are not going to come to Jane with this, until we have confirmed your suspicion. I wouldn’t want to raise her hopes, and then have it shattered when the results come out negative”
“I agree with you on this too”
The next day, Jeffery took a strand of Jane’s hair, her tooth brush. And took them with him to the Laboratory, where the test was to be conducted. Vivian came with her own samples as well.
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
Twenty four hours later, they went back for the results, and found out Jane was indeed Vivian’s daughter.
“I can’t believe this” Jeffery kept reading the result over, and over again, he couldn’t believe Vivian was Jane’s biological mother. And all these while, she has been plotting against her, making life hard for her while they were working together. It’s really indeed a small world.
“So you are really Jane’s mother?” Jeffery asked, as if trying to confirm what the DNA result showed.
Tears streamed down Vivian’s cheeks as she continued to look at the DNA results herself. Her daughter that she has been looking for, for the past two years, was right in front of her, and she never knew it.
Several times she has wondered what her daughter looked like, what she was doing, if she was still alive, or had died when she was still a baby. But never did it occur to her that, she was right there with her. And to think she maltreated her, and plotted her downfall.
“I can’t believe it myself” Vivian spoke, as she wiped tears out of her eyes. “Thank you so much Jeffery, I wouldn’t have found out about this, had it not been for your help”
“How do you intend to tell Jane about this?” Jeffery asked.
“I really don’t know, I know she can be hot tempered sometimes, something I now know she got from me” Vivian smiled. “I will need to inform my husband, and my two kids first. Let me break the news to them first, especially my husband, he doesn’t know I had a child before we got married, so I will need some time to find a way to break the news to him, and after that, we can tell Jane about this”
“Alright, though I think you already know what Jane can be like when she is angry, so this is not going to be easy”
“I know, but I think I can take whatever she throws at me, I actually deserve it. So, I’m not expecting this to be easy”
Jeffery and Vivian parted ways, and kept communicating through phone calls. Until two weeks later, one evening after Jane had gone out to have a celebratory dinner with Amaka, over her new car. Jeffery received a call from Vivian asking that she wanted to come over to his place, and discuss something very important regarding Jane and herself.
“Vivian, can’t it wait until tomorrow?”
“No Jeffery, trust me it can’t. I’m already on my way to your place, Please”
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
Few minutes later, she was at Jeffery and Jane’s place.
“Vivian hope all is well? You sounded really troubled over the phone” Jeffery asked as he opened the sitting room door for her.
“There is a little problem Jeffery, where is Jane is she home?”
“No she went out. What’s up?”
“You know I told you, I was finally going to brace up and tell my husband about Jane?”
“Yes you did”
Jeffery had advised Vivian to tell her husband about Jane. When she had told him, she was scared of what her husband’s reaction was going to be, when he found out she had a child before he married her, and she never mentioned it to him.
“Well, I was still thinking of a good way to present it to him, when he came to me this evening asking me about Jane”
“How did he get to find out about her, if you haven’t told him?”
“Apparently one of my husband’s political opponents, have been trailing I and my family’s every move, trying to dig up dirt that they can use against us, in the up coming elections”
Her husband’s opponent had sent him, pictures of Vivian at the Laboratory where the DNA test was conducted, and also a copy of the test result showing that Jane was Vivian’s daughter. They threatened to tell the public about it, if he doesn’t step down as a gubernatorial aspirant.
“So we need to let Jane know, before it gets out, and she gets to hear it outside” Vivian paced the living room.
“Wow” Jeffery took to pacing the living room himself, he wanted to be the one to tell Jane about this first, before Vivian meets her. If she gets to know about this, in this manner, she was definitely going to be mad at him.
“I would suggest I talk to her first, we can’t just drop such news on her like that”
“I know, but we don’t have much time, the news can get out anytime. Please Jeffery let’s just tell her about it now”
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
*The Present*
“Jeff, so you knew Vivian was my mother for the past two weeks, and you never said anything about it to me?” Jane asked Jeffery in disbelief.
“Baby I’m sorry, I know I should have told you..”
“Like he.ll you should have, Jeffery we live under the same roof, we sleep in the same room, on the same bed! Didn’t it ever occur to you that you should tell me? How were you able to look me in the eyes, and lie to me for two whole weeks?”
“I didn’t lie to you babe”
“But you kept an information from me, not just any information o, but something as sensitive as who my biological mother is! How would you have felt, if I had hidden something like this from you?”
“Angry” Jeffery answered calmly.
“Very good, because that is how I feel right now. I am angry! Jeffery I am angry” Jane got up from the bed, and took her pillow with her.
“Where are you going?” Jeffery stood up, and blocked her way.
“I’m sleeping in the guest room this night”
“Babe come on now, don’t allow this to come between us, please I am sorry, what can I do to make you forgive me?”
“It’s not about that Jeff, it’s about the fact that you could conveniently keep something like this from me, for two whole weeks, Jeff we had sx uncountable times within these two weeks, and you were still able to hide something like that away from me. Haba Jeff”
Jane tried to leave the room, but Jeffery kept trying to block her way.
“I really messed up babe, and I’m sorry. Please don’t go, I will go and sleep in the guest room instead” Jeffery took his pillow and went to sleep in the guest room.
After Jeffery had left the room, Jane tossing from one side of the bed to the other, from lack of sleep. How could she sleep when her husband was across the hall in another room? He caused this, why didn’t he tell her Vivian was her mother? Why wait until two weeks before telling her? If Vivian’s political opponents weren’t threatening to expose her, probably they would have kept it away from her much longer.
For choosing to allow Vivian to him to advise him on keeping a secret from his wife, Jeffery deserves to sleep in the guest room this night.
Few hours later, Jane was still struggling to get some sleep, but couldn’t. She felt for Jeffery with her hands, so she could place her head on his chest, but was greeted by an empty space, on his side of the bed.
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
After hours of trying to sleep to no avail, by 4am, Jane decided to go to the guest room and join Jeffery. She wasn’t going to allow anyone especially not Vivian come between her, and her husband. Even if she was still angry at him, she was still going to sleep on the same bed with him.
When she opened the door to the guest room, she could tell Jeffery was having difficulty sleeping as well, for the sheets were rumpled and scattered from his tossing.
She climbed the bed, and joined him, placing her head on his chest.
Jeffery placed his hands on her back “I’m sorry babes” he whispered.
“Let’s sleep, we will talk about it in the morning”
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 31 – 40
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