“Here is where you can put up in for sometime…. I can assure you it’s a safe place, I’m sorry it’s not specious like what you all have been exposed to….it’s just one hide out Jane and I decided to build for ourselves”
“What are you even talking about son….this is big enough, we are grateful” Ofelia and Mel together with the rest have already been brought to their new place but instead of being happy, Mel is a little disappointed in her Mum for accepting this offer…. it’s Already coming to Eleven in the night and good enough Mira slept on the way there….they are relived there won’t be more unavoidable questions coming from her at least this night
“What do you think child” Ofelia asks the so quiet Mel
“What do I care….” the response she gave and her mother apologizes for her manner
“It’s getting late…..we need to get back and you people also need some rest” Mac says
“And I promise I shall bring the things you asked for from Tobi’s tomorrow” Jane asks
“Let’s go Babe” Mac wants to drag Jane out of there but she walks up to Mel she kneels close to her
“Melanie girlfriend…. I know you’re hurt, I don’t know why you’re but I can assure you Tobi loves you a lot……don’t forget about that” she kisses her and they say one last goodnight and exit the room……..Mac closes the door behind and doesn’t see someone creep behind him, they walk to his car and drive off………….
“Haven’t you cried enough son……you have done too much of this already, you don’t look good and I’m already getting tired” Monica complains to Tobi who has been crying ever since he was brought by Jane
“How can I stop mother……how can I when I don’t know what Mel wants at this point…. what if she suddenly wants to throw all the five years we have built away?” he asks as if he’s so afraid of the answers and his mother orders him to sit properly
“Look me in the eyes Tobi….. what if you also stop crying like a woman, and step up….you need to fight for what’s yours which is Melanie’s love” he suddenly stops the tears and look into his mother’s eyes
“Mother… what if I get hurt in the process”
“Whatever, are you not already hurting….. I told you not to tell Melanie this but you never listened, now you should go seek her out, ask her to listen to you and you talk to her….Melanie can not just stop loving you all of a sudden”
“How do I even do that…”
“Start by calling Mac…. you know what to ask him….I swear I’m going to make those bastard friends of yours pay fro this pain they have caused you”
“Oh mother please, you don’t even know what you’re promising…. we don’t even have proof”
“We can always find one…. I can not watch you suffer and I do nothing….. you work on getting your family back and let me handle the rest”
“Thank you mother but I don’t need your help in doing that”
“Then what do you need my help in”
“Just stay……I’m going to ask her to let me explain things over to her”
“And what if she still refuses to forgive you…what would you do”
“Hand myself in…..I will not think twid about doing that” she can see sincerity and determination on his eyes and she’s so afraid…… she walks away from him and decides to call Mac to find out if there is anything new……………..
Mac didn’t go back to the hospital since it was already late and they both needed rest….they were able to grab some packed up food on their way home and Jane went straight to the kitchen to serve them…. she came back with two plates
“Thanks…….I thought this was going to take time”
“When I’m tired….I didn’t need to warm the food up” there is some awkward silence between them but Jane breaks it
“Baby…what really happened, no one wants to tell me anything and I’m afraid the boss I knew all these years has been hiding something so serious from me”
“That’s true Darling……. Mel and Tobi are fighting”
“Yes I already know that but what I can’t understand is, fight about what?…. that’s what I want to know” Mac is not sure he wants to tell her thus but he knows Jane, she will not give up until she’s told
“Promise me this will remain only between us”
“Cross my heart…..I i swear you van trust me and tell me about it”
“Five years ago….a final year student was brutal raped by some unknown man after she was kidnapped by some strangers, she was broken completely…. her then boyfriend abandoned her because she got pregnant as a result of that brutal rape”
“Jesus….are you serious about this….. where did it all happen”
“The student was no other than Melanie and her rapist is no one but Tobias Akankwasa…. your boss” Jane stands up abruptly
“Tell me you’re Lying baby”
“It’s the Truth…. you wanted to know what was happening but now you know but please no one must hear about it” just then a call came into his phone and a still looking so confused Jane sits next to him
“It’s Mum… I’m sure Tobi is becoming worse now” he picks up
“Hello Mum”
“Hello Buddy”
“Tobi….how are you….. where are you”
“At home and please don’t even ask me how I’m doing because you already know”
“I’m so sorry I couldn’t come see you right away but I can pass by tomorrow and we talk”
“How is my wife doing….has she calmed down already”
“Calm down Tobi…. Mel is doing fine and she already moved out of the hospital”
“What???…. to where….where is my wife, did she go back to home”
“Hey hey!…. relax, take it easy Mel is fine and she’s in a safe place, that’s all I wanted to tell you but like I told you earlier, she’s yet hurt and so mad at you and probably herself which is entirely something normal but if you can understand my point, please give her the distance and let her think things through, let her recover from this heavy blow”
“How do I even do that”
“You can….trust me you can but for now, I encourage you talk to her mother…she wants some examinations too and she deserves it”…………
Melanie and her mother and aunty are still in the seating room and it looks like non of them is really sleepy, today has been too much all of them but Ofelia still wants to talk to Mel alone so she asks Jessy to take Mira to the room she will be sharing with Mel……….
” Now we have to talk” Ofelia turns to Mel the moment those two are out of sight
“I see you already heard about it…..I’m sure Mac has already told you the whole thing”
“Yes he did but not all of it…… how do you fell now daughter” she asks with concern and Mel just bursts out, all their tears she had promised would never come out again are already out
“I’m healed mother….physically I feel healed but my heart is hurting….. it is paining and I don’t think I can survive this…..I have been a fool all along”
“Don’t say that please….. don’t”
“Why….what did he do it, why did he keep this way from me mother…. I feel all the love he has been professing to all these while was nothing but all lies….total lies….what’s true is what I only feel for him”
“So what are you going to do”
“No idea…. I have no idea what I’m going to do….i I should train my heart to get used to the fact that he’s not worth my love”
“Don’t day that”
“Oh!…. you still see him as an Angel mother…. like seriously”
“No no far from it… but don’t you think that it’s best you let home explain”
“Explain what” she gets mad and rises up
“He had five years mother…..five years to do that test what did he do?…..the only real thing about Him was the house we lived in….he possesses a very strange character of, he’s a devil in disguise” she gets away from her mother
“So what are you going to do…”
“The right thing I should have done so many years ago…. hand him over to the police”
“No Mel….. you can’t possible say and do that”
“Why not…. I can do it and I’m going to”
“Please think about your daughter… think of how much he loves her and she loves him….. give him a chance, let him explain, and speak up….. they hear a knock at the door and Ofelia thinking it must be one of the neighbours coming to welcome them
” Let me see who it is” Ofelia walk yo the door and opens the door wide open and Mel instantly stands up
“You again what are you doing here” Ofelia says and the
“I cams to talk to Mel”
“This late….I thought I told you to stay away”
“You did but I can’t… what I want to tell Mel is very important….I have to talk to her and this time I’m not leaving until when she tells to me or when she says she doesn’t want to talk to me”
“Sorry try again next time….I’m sure she doesn’t want to see you” she about to shut the door in his face
“Wait mother…..let him in”
“Melanie!!!?”
“Do so….just do as I say” Ofelia doesn’t understand why Mel is doing this talking to bastard but she let’s Ron walks in confidently towards them
“Mother leave us alone” she’s neither happy nor smiling and Ron doesn’t look happy himself……
To be continued…
