Lionel was driving to Kelvin's school to pick him up, he had promised Zaynella that he would. As usual a country music was playing in the car. He was a lover of country music.
He was stuck in traffic and decided to enjoy the view while waiting, he wound down his window to allow the light breeze to caress him. On a note of instinct, he turned to his left and saw her again. The girl from last time. This time around she wasn't alone. A woman was sitting besides her an older version of her. They were discussing about something. That scene had hit him hard more than he expected, he watched as the two of them talked ignorant of the eyes that wanted to swallow them.
Watching them for so long made his eyes sting and his vision blurred. He couldn't watch any longer, but his heart couldn't let him remove his sight. He knew something was missing in that picture and at the thought of that memories that he have tried so hard to forget surfaced. He willed him self to forget to remove his sight but couldn't his heart didn't want to and his tears were falling already. It took him all the will power he could muster not to call the name at the tip of his tongue.
It was a sheer wonder how he survived the torture in his heart. Luckily for him the traffic started clearing and he knew he needed to clear his thoughts they were a mess. Unlike the last time, he drove out without waiting and when he found the perfect quiet place, he parked the car and got down to relieve his pent up emotion and again he cried, mixing his tears with the summer rain that was beginning to drizzle.
Driving up to the front of the school, he saw Kelvin in his usual spot with his headsets on his hands in his pants pocket and eyes closed obvious to the female eyes ogling at him. It was not new for Lionel to meet this kind of view he had after all experienced something similar to it in his own days. Kelvin was after all a very handsome young man with great physique that was uncommon in high school boys. His face was well sculptured and with his now serene look he looked like he just came out from a painting and their was also his height and his alluring voice one couldn't help but he drawn to such a specimen. He reminded Lionel of a particular someone from his high school who left school early due to an issue. Looking at Kelvin, Lionel figures out that he could pass for that someone's brother, it was just that the someone in question was more good looking that him.
Hearing the particular hunking of the car, Kelvin trothed to it and casually sat down in the passengers seat after throwing a casual greeting to Lionel. Lionel drove out after acknowledging the greetings. Despite the gloomy air hanging around the car, they made small talk as they drove to the restaurant.
Inside a small office, a woman of about thirty sat down going through files. She was clad in a red body hug gown with an open v-neck and high back. Her shoulder length brown hair was pulled up in a messy pony tail. Her straight nose wasn't pointed and it stood perfectly on her straight diamond shaped face. Her lips were thin heart a nude pink color, her slender shaped eyes wheat brown in color was a match to her skin colour a shade of dark rose. She sat poised and elegantly on her chair as she reviewed the files. She was no other than Molly Hess. The daughter of Mia Hess and Kendrick Hess. The owners Heise a popular engineering company that deals with building. Molly was an average beauty with a nice body even though she wasn't a beauty that attracts bees and butterflies she was well endowed. She stood tall at the height of 5'7 and her aura was elegant. The young lady had grown up indulged and pampered but have come to learn from a bad experience that most times you need to be strong to get what you need. Molly glanced up from her work to look at the small figure that was occupied in her own world drowning her self with music from her head phones.
It was her young daughter who currently thirteen years and a mini version of her and him combined. The girl was obvious to the troubled eyes staring at her. Molly knew that the music was her daughter's way of closing up to the pain and memories.
At the age of thirteen, Davina was forced to grow up. After having witnessed things that a young girl her age shouldn't witness, she decided to grow cold to the world and block their hurtful words and she achieved that through her music.
Molly watched as her daughter fell asleep with her head phone still on. She dropped the file she was reviewing and walked up the small girl picking a pink butterfly blanket from the top of the shelf. She quietly laid the girl down slipping out her headphones quietly, she covered her with the blanket.
She stared at her daughter. 'She looked so much like him, she have got his eyes and mouth shape'. As she stared at the girl longer, memories she wished to forget surfaced.
It have been almost five years and he wasn't back. At the beginning he doubted her parents word because she knew of the hatred they had for him. They accepted him only because she forced the to with her life along the line. She was their precious daughter and they couldn't bear to lose her. When she saw the proof she still doubted but it has been years and he never came back and never called. What was more he left with everything all his papers and he left a note too clearly telling her with brutal words that it was over. Her parents never wanted her to see the later because they knew how much she loved him so they hid it. But she came across it by mistake when it was placed in a file meant for her father that was submitted to her. She waited for him to come back because she believed in his love even now she still waited, but what was the use. Should she wait till death? she still hoped and longer for him, for his warmth. Her daughter had been her hope this last five years, it reminded her of their love.
And that was why she hurt the more to the point of neglecting her baby, because she reminded her of him of his betrayal of his elopement. She had avoided the girl and by the time she figured out the damage she was causing, the girl has built her own word and she still believed that her father would come back making her to constantly be at war with everyone especially her grandparents. She felt guilty feeling the girl's unresolved faith for her father. Even when she was told of the elopement she said that her father was innocent and couldn't do anything to hurt them.
She was worried and beginning to count her judgment. She wondered if she have been wrong all along. She knew what he was capable of doing and what he wasn't and elopement she believed wasn't part of it but their was evidence clear was and that letter, she have known his writing and tried to master it for years to know that it belonged to him. Which would have done something as breaking up a family like theirs. She would have suspected her parents, but their attitude these past years proved nothing but support. She was torn between her duty as a daughter and a mother. She didn't know that she was crying already until she heard her daughter's voice questioning her.
"Mum did something happen did grandparents force you again why the tears", she had woken up earlier and found her mother's distressed face and tear filled eyes at first she thought she had been confronted by her grandparents for a divorce, she didn't know why they were forcing her mother to divorce her father, she clearly believed that their was something to that. But looking at her mother now, she believed that something else was bothering her and fear trepidation gripped her small her.
Molly watched as daughter with a tear stained face, she was clear on what the girl was talking about. She smiled at her to let her know that it had nothing to do with that, the more she smiled the more her daughter's face contoured with fear and soon the young girl was already crying.
Lost at the reason for the girl's tears, she could only hug her and soon both were crying each with different reasons. Their heart breaking tears were enough to keep people out of the office.