'We all are in our way of getting some of our own back.'
I knew luck was something that was never on my side a long time ago, but still, it didn't faze to distract me or take me by surprise because it is in moments like this that I hate to be like I am.
I look up and my eyes fall on Kai, I instantly want to turn my gaze or worse run, but unfortunately for me, I've been a captive of his gaze for a long time now.
I feel the tension in between our eyes, I want to pull away but am angry at myself for not being able to do so. As we rock eyes I find myself being more angrier at him for looking at me the way he is looking at me!
'What is he even doing out here? Is it earlier for him to have lunch?
What would be the rate of us meeting here?'
I feel a tap on my hand and it breaks me out of the curse that I am under Kai, I turn to my mother and smile at her.
"Where is your father's office." I keep my smile on my face as I realize this is my mother's first time visiting my father.
We came here first at the gala night but I guess she never got to make it to see his office, and then they came to say goodbye to me and Dad when Mom, sav, and Yarrow were leaving to tour Rwanda and that time we met them outside the building too, so they again never got the chance to come in.
I look at my mother as I maintain to keep a poker face on with a smile planted on my face like am not going crazy with confused feelings and trying hard to keep Kai out of my mind, soul, and system so that I can feel him trying to penetrate in.
"This way Mom." I direct her to where we will be walking with my arm and we start walking, good for me I don't get to pass beside him because I feel like he would take my breath away or worse I could collapse to the ground if I got any closer.
He works on the first floor and my mom is heading to my father's office so we walk to the stairs and walk away.
We reach my father's office and I find myself releasing a relieved breath when I turn to find an empty hallway. Somehow I was scared that he would follow us.
My mother knocks and as if he knew it was her, he comes to open the door himself.
He grins at my mother and then takes her in his arms.
I watch as he breathes her scent in and sighs lovingly. I look away because I know what awaits just after the hug.
They pull away and I can hear the sound of their lips on one another.
They stop and I look back at my dad.
"You are here too?" He asks looking at me and I just nod my head.
"Didn't you go to school?" I shake my head. "I felt tired so I slept in." He turns to look at my mother for more explanation but she just waves her hand in the air for him to let it go and I roll my eyes when he does.
He walks to the side and allows us to move into his office.
I realize he's had it decorated because the last I was in here, he didn't have the cushions that he has now.
We walk and take seats on them, Mom sits beside my father and I just sit facing them.
"We brought lunch," Mom says and Dad grins for the millionth time since we got here.
"My darling wife, how was I blessed?" He asks and I watch as Mom smiles back at him.
"How?" He leans in her, beside her left ear. "To have you as my wife." He is laying kisses on my mother's shoulder, she turns and she meets my gaze. She smiles at me before she pulls my father away from her slowly.
"We have company Barney, our daughter is here." I can hear him groan. "She should have gone to school then or…." Before he continues he pulls away from my mother and sits properly looking right at me.
"Why haven't you come to work?" The question takes me by surprise and I turn to my mother as if she could tell me an answer but she just looks at me too.
I turn to my father and bite my lip.
"Dad, I uhm.." I don't have an excuse and I've always hated lying to my father but since when he cares about my work?
"Do you know that Mr Royal will be filling in for me too because am not here the whole afternoon? You should go and help him now that you skipped school." I feel a rush of panic run down my spine and in a moment I might lose my rate of breathing.
'How do I get out of this mess?'
I don't want to talk or come closer to Kai anytime soon but I guess fate has other plans for me.
Am getting on my feet to go because I don't have a case to fight or excuse myself to my father.
"Barney, let the girl rest. She told you she is tired so let her rest besides she came with me for the doctor's appointment." I look at my mother as she speaks for me and when my father says nothing in return I take it as a win and sit back down.
"So let's eat before we are late for the doctor's appointment." I look at my mother and offer a silent thank you smile at her, she notices it and nods her head with a smile of her own.
My father says nothing more about me skipping school nor about going to help Kai.
We ate lunch together and by the time we were done while my mother was still cleaning the place, we got called in by the doctor.
"Is he not coming here?" My father turns to look at my mother and so do I, I don't get what she is talking about but I presume it might be the doctor.
"Oh, we arranged a perfect room for you to meet him along with a perfect setting to where you will deliver from?" My mother looks at me and then my father.
"Aw, that's so sweet of you." She leans in to him and I instantly look away from them not wanting to be a loser witness of their affection.
I walk out of the room and not long they also come out.
We walk to where my father was telling us about and am amazed about how big this building is.
He took us to the ground floor which is built as a dungeon but not also a dungeon because it looks like a floor.
Dad leads us to a room at the start and a fifty-year-old man is waiting for us working on a report in white cloth.
"Doctor William?" My father walks forward for a handshake with him.
"Barney." They shake their hands strongly and firmly and when they stop, Dad turns to look at us urging me and my mother forward.
"This is my wife Ivy, and my daughter Lily." The doctor first shakes my mother's hand and then mine after.
"You have a very beautiful family Barney." He compliments and my father turns to smile at us.
"Oh, I know." He says grinning proudly at us. "But they aren't the only ones, lily has a twin sister lilac, and another young man yarrow, and now there is another angel on the way," Dad says and I look as the doctor is hit with a wave of surprise.
"Wow, am….." he looks away. "Am, Barney that's amazing. Who could have thought?" The doctor looks speechless and amazed at the same time which makes me think that maybe there is something off about my dad having a family.
He looks at my father and then chuckles. "I gotta say, you got me and this would get all of the boys." My dad chuckles too.
"I thought this was your first, who would believe it's your fourth?" They go for another round of chuckle and when my mother turns to look, I also raise my eyes at her in confusion.
Dad catches on to our quietness and turns to look at my mom.
"He is an old friend that we went to college together." Mom nods. "And?" She asks and I can see the confusion on my father's face. "What?" Mom snorts and I know exactly what she is questioning my father and as my eyes happen to move to the doctor's, I know exactly that he also knows what my father is being questioned.
He clears his throat and all our eyes turn to him, he smiles at Dad before his eyes go to Mom.
"In college, we had a clique and like any other group of young-blooded boys we made a vow of never getting married or have kids. It was one of those times where we all got dumped probably in the same weekend?" The question is directed at Dad and when he looks at Dad he grins.
"One day, same day." They laugh at the memory and I think my mom seems to have grown impatience with their own world, I mean I also did.
They should probably plan something and go get a drink over it with all those boys and stop it right here because technically me and mom doesn't follow what's happening.
"Honey, can we get this over with." She asks and Dad nods.
"Yes, darling." He turns to the doctor.
"William?" He nods his head and then he tells my mother to lay on the bed.
He starts by questioning her on how she is been doing and the reports of the previous doctor that she went to.
Am there physically but mentally am not there the whole process, my mind is running around itself am just dreading the whole time until we get to listen to the heartbeat of the baby and when it comes, I don't even know that I am prepared myself enough for it.
I feel the wave of surprise hit me at the sound of the heartbeat of the baby, it takes me to another dilemma.
I pull my phone out and record the sound in the room, my mom has a smile on her face and the look of my father is that I haven't ever seen in his eyes before.
The moment is so magical.
'God am never missing these moments ever.'
I feel lucky that I had the chance to come here.
I look at my mother and I know I resemble her smile and I know this is not even my baby, I couldn't bring myself to imagine what she is feeling right now with the angel in her belly.
We are all so engaged in the moment that when is time to come back to reality it feels harsher.
My phone starts ringing when the doctor is asking my mom if she would like a sonogram picture of the baby which she nods at with tears in her eyes.
My phone rings for the second time and this time I step out of the room to take it.
"Darling, are you okay?" I roll my eyes at the nerve of this boy calling me like that.
"What is it, Lucas?" He chuckles at my question.
"I miss you, sweetheart."
"Am hanging up if you don't speak what you want," I warn, and I sure as hell not joking.
"I want you?" With that, I hung up the phone and put it on silent mode before I joined my parents again.
My mom's back in her dress sitting on the bed talking with the doctor with my father standing so close to her.
I just stand at the door till they are cleared to leave,
We make our way back to the second floor and my father announces that he will just head back to work.
I look at my mother and we both know that it's his way of telling us it's time to head home.
I head outside with my mother and make our way to my car.
"God today sure was so tiring than I expected?" She says and I just smile because I know it's the pregnancy hormones speaking and not her.
"Mom thank you for being me here for your appointment." She touches my right thigh.
"Anytime sweetie."
"Now I feel like I can't wait any longer to meet the angel, when do you know the gender?"
"Me and your father we agreed to keep it for the last. This baby came as a surprise so we are keeping everything for the last." I turn and smile at her. "Can't wait."
"You hearing your big sister little bubble, your big sister can't wait to meet you and so neither mommy can anymore." She says while resting her palms on her big belly and I can't help myself but chuckle at her.
I drive her home and she directly goes for a nap, I reach for my phone and I have many missed calls from Lucas.
I roll my eyes before I call him back.
He picks it up on the second ring and I frown.
"Aren't you supposed to be in class?"
"Sweetheart, why weren't you answering my calls?"
"Why are you calling like your ass is on fire?"
"It is, where are you?"
"Home."
"I want to talk to you?"
"About what?"
"In person sweetheart." I want to deny but I realize that will just leave me with an option of just going back into my room and feeling sorry for myself so I don't.
"Meet me at bourbon coffee." Am rushing to hang up on him when he interrupts.
"Which one sweetheart, there are like three or four of them." I want to roll my eyes at him but I know it isn't his fault that am not being specific.
"In the city, I can send you a location pin."
"No, I will manage, or are you forgetting this is my country."
'Whatever.'
God am not feeling anything at all.
I hang up with Lucas and I put the car on the drive and drive to bourbon coffee.
There aren't so many customers and I love it like that.
I walk to the last booth that usually me and Leila fill every time we are here and wait for Lucas.
I feel good knowing that Kabul and Tony aren't here yet, they've got a night shift so if Lucas would hurry we would leave before they came.
Speak of the devil and you will see them.
Lucas walks in with a school bag on his shoulder. I don't bother to wave him over if he doesn't see me then it's his business.
"Sup baby."
"Lucas, stop with the petty names it's so annoying seriously." He smiles.
"Chill baby girl." He says as the waiter comes over with my coffee.
"Oh, you made your order?"
"How was I to know what you wanted." He smiles and says. "Glad you were wise because I don't do coffees darling, please get me a Heineken."
I wait for the waiter to walk away before I frown at him.
"Are you even legal to be drinking in public?" He chuckles at my question.
"This is Rwanda Sam, people here are working for money, they have to earn a living and at the top of that they also have taxes on their heads so you think they have time to care about underage drinking?" I don't have time to care about the system of this country but it also makes me feel bothered by it somehow but, hey it's not my problem and I don't think am the right candidate to judge here cause I've had my share of drinks at the very young age.
"Yeah well, teacher am not here for some classes. What did you want to talk to me about?"
They bring his drink and he thanks the waiter before he turns to look at me with the same smile on his face.
"You kind of asked me. But wait how are you? Your brother came to me." That instantly makes me angry and it makes me frown when I ask him again to know if I got him right.
"My brother, Simmons Yarrow Adams came to talk you to about me?" He shakes his head.
"Yeah well, not you only because we talked about your other half."
With a frown on my face, I ask back.
"My other half?"
He leans forward looking now more serious than ever and I pull back from him, he smiles at my action but he says nothing regarding them.
"Listen carefully Sam, I have a practice that I need to go back to so am going to hurry. Your brother won't tell you but I will, be wary of your sister. Sam, I think she is jealous of you and the only thing upsetting her about you is that you probably always get what she wants."
"What?"
He sits back properly and just stares at me.
"It's what me and your brother came up with and look I know nothing about your personal life, if I say nothing that's because I mean nothing but something in me tells me that mine and the little dude's suspicions are right."
"What?" I ask still confused by all he just said but as it spins in my head, it starts getting me angrier much more than I already was.
"Yes you know it yourself, you said it yourself you know nothing, what right do you think you have to come and have an opinion in my life then?" I asked glaring at him because man he just dug his own grave.
"Am sorry I didn't mean to overstep and am sorry that I have to go back right now but I ain't sorry for looking out for a friend." He stands up takes a big sip of his drink and finishes it in one go before he reaches for his bag and looks at me one last time.
"Have a nice weekend Sam."
I stay seated watching in disbelief at his disappearing figure.
'Is this boy serious?'
Am scoffing at myself when my phone rings for a text message arrival.
I reach for it still feeling the disbelief of what just happened but I can feel the disbelief grow much bigger and this time scarletting my heart beat's rate on a high level as I reread the text.
'Samantha, hello I hope you are doing well. Am asking because you missed work today.
But am texting because I want to talk to you, please don't shut me down immediately without a second thought.
I will take only five minutes of your time but if am being overbearing to you, am deeply sorry and tell me I will immediately stop.
Take care.'
I can feel my heart threatening to jump out of my chest, i rest my right hand at the top of it and look around wondering if people can hear it beating like I am hearing it in my ear.
'What is this now?'
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