WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 41 – 50
EPISODE 42
“Did she tell you what she did?”
“Yes she did” Jane looked down in shame.
“And if I were to be your brother, would you be here asking me to take her back?”
Jane was short of words, she didn’t know how, or what to respond to Dele’s question. If he was truly her blood brother, would she be asking Dele to take Amaka back? How would she have reacted?
“Dele, I’m sorry, but I just want you to think of what you felt, and have always felt for Amaka, I know deep down that you still love her, so please think of that love and forgive her, I beg you”
“It’s not that easy Jane” Dele stood up from his chair, and went to the window. He stood there staring out the window, looking at nothing in particular.
“It’s not that easy to just wipe out the image of her kssing that guy in my head, and just suddenly move on like nothing happened”
“Dele I know this is hard for you, but I need you to find a place in you heart to forgive Amaka”
“Jane, this is….I don’t know” Dele looked like he could cry any minute.
“How about you agree to talk to her? hear what she has to say, at least that is the first step”
“I will try, I’m not promising you anything though”
“Well you would have to do more than just try, you owe me remember?”
“I do? When, I mean how?”
“Well let me refresh your memory a little, you remember you promised to make it up to me for barging in on I and Amaka, that night that you were drunk, and then you threw up on me, and then..”
“It’s okay, please don’t remind me, I can clearly remember now”
Those were the days, Dele thought himself to be in love with Amaka, if he could reverse the hands of time, he would do it, and he wouldn’t have pestered her at all, he would have just left her alone. He actually thought she was worth fighting for, but now he knows, he was clearly mistaken.
“So.. you would agree, that you owe me”
“Yes I do owe you Jane” Dele said out of embarrassment.
“Good, now I want you to make it up to me by speaking to Amaka, and maybe see if you can work things out with her”
“You are putting me on the spot Jane, and it’s not nice”
“Dele please, I know I can’t force you into doing anything you don’t want to, but please, I want you to try and forgive her, she is really miserable, I beg you”
“I have heard you, it’s getting late I think you should be on your way now”
“Are you chasing me, out of your house or what?” Jane asked, feigning anger.
“You know, I can never do that, I don’t just want you to be out on your own at night, besides I know you haven’t fully perfected your driving skills yet so..”
“Says who? Is that what Jeff has been telling you? I’m an expert driver, and you shouldn’t mess with my driving skills”
“Okay, I agree with you, but still, I think you should be on your way, I don’t want Jeffery breathing down on my neck for keeping his wife out late”
And as if to confirm what Dele was saying, Jeffery called. Making both of them to laugh.
That night, Jeffery and Jane were both preparing to go to bed, when Jeffery decided to bring up the issue of Vivian.
“Babe, we need to talk about Vivian, that woman is your mother, and I think you need to forgive her for what she has done, at least speak with her, and hear what she has to say”
“Fine, I will speak with her” Jane mumbled, as she took her usual position, and placed her head on Jeffery’s chest. She was feeling exhausted from all the movement, and talk she had with Dele and Amaka, and all she wanted, was to sleep.
“Good, so do I set up a meeting for you both tomorrow then?”
“Hmmmmm” Jane dozed off, and whatever Jeffery said after then, she didn’t hear.
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 41 – 50
The next day was a Sunday, and after church service, Jane was preparing lunch, when Jeffery came into the kitchen.
“Babe Vivian is here”
“What is she doing here? Are you both meeting again or something?”
“You asked me to set up a meeting for you both remember?”
“I did? When was that?” Jane couldn’t remember ever asking Jeffery to do any such thing.
“Last night babe, before we slept”
“Jeff….. you of all people should know better than to take anything I say when I’m about to sleep any seriously” Jane lamented, not that she didn’t want to talk to Vivian, but she just didn’t feel like she was ready yet.
“I’m sorry, I will keep that in mind, next time. But she is here now, so please just talk to her”
Jeffery had a mischievous smile on his face, Jane knew he was anything but sorry. She threw her apron at him, so he could finish up with the cooking.
She went upstairs to wash her face, and applied a little powder on her face, she didn’t bother to change out of the shorts, and camisole she had on. It was her house after all, if Vivian wasn’t comfortable with what she was putting on, then she can as well go back to her own house.
When she walked into the sitting room, Vivian was sitting quietly on a couch, she was looking really worn out, she had eye bags, and her skin looked darker, and pale. Jane could not believe this was the same impeccable Vivian, whom she had seen the first day she resumed at High Waters Interiors, and wanted to be like. Vivian use to be her idol, and role model back then, before the issue of her relationship with Jeffery came to be known. Jane couldn’t believe this was the same Vivian.
“Vivian, are you well?” Jane couldn’t stop herself from asking.
Vivian who was taken aback, by Jane’s question, had to be sure she heard clearly before answering. “I’m fine my dear” she answered calmly.
Jane sat down on a chair adjacent to Vivian’s. “Jeff said, you wanted to speak with me?”
“Yes” Vivian came closer to the edge of her seat. “Jane I know you are probably tired of hearing this from me but I am truly sorry”
“You are right, I’m tired of hearing it, so please say something else” Jane knew she was being too harsh, but she wasn’t going to go any easy on her either.
“I’m sure Jeffery must have told you all what had happened to me, and how you were given birth to. Jane I was only a teenager when I got raped, I was clueless of what to do when I found out I was pregnant at fifteen, my aunt who was supposed to protect me, threw me out into the streets, the moment she discovered her husband was responsible for my pregnancy. I had no one to go to for help”
Vivian cried as she spoke. “When I had you, I felt the need to live again, you brought a meaning to my meaningless life, I couldn’t stop looking at your face, I could barely sleep”
“But you didn’t hesitate to give me up the moment you had the chance” Jane attacked.
“Because I couldn’t care for you, I couldn’t even feed you, you were always crying. And because I wasn’t feeding well myself, my breast wasn’t bringing out any milk. There was no means for me to cater for you”
“And giving me up, was the only option you had?”
“Jane, I didn’t mean to, I wanted to keep you more than anything, but it was either I gave you up, or risked losing you to the cold hands of death”
“Why didn’t you ever come back for me, when things started going well for you? Why didn’t you come back to the orphanage to get me back? Why did it have to take you so long, before you started searching for me?”
“I was too ashamed of myself, I wasn’t proud of what I did, and I didn’t know how to face you, I didn’t think you would accept me, if I had come back to get you”
“Was it just that, or you were afraid your husband was going to leave you if he found out you had a child out of wedlock?”
“There was that too, I didn’t have the courage to tell my husband that I was raped as a young girl, or that I already had a child before we got married, I kept telling myself I was going to tell him some day, and each day I kept pushing it unto the next, until days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, and then years, I never found the courage to tell him about you, or to come look for you either”
“If you had come for me soon enough, probably I wouldn’t have been abused as a teenager myself”
“You were raped as a child?” Vivian looked like Jane just dropped a bombshell on her.
“Yes, not just once, not twice, but several times. So you see, you weren’t the only one who was abused, I too was abused. Wait, why do you even seem surprised? what were you expecting, when you left your child at the mercy of other people?”
Jane was surprised that she wasn’t crying as she spoke to Vivian, she felt completely emotionless.
“Oh my baby I had no idea” Vivian placed her hands over her mouth, as she cried.
“I don’t need any of your pity Vivian. And no you didn’t have any idea, because you chose to think about yourself alone, because you chose to please your husband, and cared more about presenting yourself to him, as a saint that you are not! And abandoned your daughter to suffer in the hands of those who couldn’t careless if she died or not!”
“I’m so..rry” Vivian sobbed.
“And you expect that to just change everything? You expect everything to just get better because you say you are sorry? You expect me to forget the fact that you preferred to abandon me, and present yourself spotless to your husband, even when you had the chance to come get me out of that orphanage?”
Vivian sat there, sobbing silently as Jane spoke.
“Let me ask you a question, if your husband’s opponents weren’t threatening to expose you, would you have even told your husband about me?”
“I, emm.. I”
“Just what I thought exactly, what do you really want from me Vivian? Because I clearly do not understand why you are here”
“Jane my dear, please I need you to know that I truly love you”
“And you have a very strange way of showing this love of yours, well as you can see; I turned out well without your love, so I don’t need it, you can keep it for your other children, I’m very sure they will be needing it more, that’s if you don’t abandon them too”
“Jane please” Vivian kept weeping.
“You know it’s really funny, how you sit there trying to justify your actions, without even thinking of what I went through myself”
“Jane I was only trying to get you a better life, a life I couldn’t afford to give you, I was fifteen for God’s sake, I could barely take care of myself talk more of a child I didn’t even as for in the first place.”
Jane sat there staring at Vivian, watching as she opened her mouth and spilled out those words at her, she couldn’t believe how insensitive to people’s feelings, Vivian was.
“It’s okay Vivian, I understand that you didn’t want to have a child when you got pregnant with me, and clearly I didn’t ask to be born either, I hold nothing against you, so you can now leave me alone”
“Jane I am your mother”
“If having a mother like you, would mean having to be constantly reminded, that I was a child that was never wanted. Then, I don’t have a mother”
Vivian was shocked at Jane’s statement, she kept opening, and closing her mouth for lack of words to say.
“I think we are done here, please on your way out, do remember to shut the door behind you”
Jane stood up, and left Vivian who was still sitting down, in the living room, staring at her in shock.
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 41 – 50
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