Chapter 237: Meet Me In My Office

"Common mom, any need for that?"

I asked looking a kind of disappointed. 

"Will you keep quiet? What do you even know? Why am I even taking advice from you? What experience do you have? Oh, that little hide and seek games that you and Cynthia are playing... So that is what made you think you already got experience enough to advise your mother on relationship matters. Look at you, I am just looking at you, so you won't let me in on what is going on between you two, keep keeping secrets from me, I will soon start my own."

Mom said, since again she tried to change the course of our discussions, but Damian the Merman know exactly how to end an unfavorable discussion.

"Mom... They are waiting for us, and im kit, I'll be waiting for you in the sitting room."

So I said and quickly turned and started walking back to the sitting room.

"Hey you this sweet heartbreak, will you come back here?" 

She said but I paid no attention, I just walked majestically and made a funny cat walking steps. I often do this when she is mad at me, she finds it very funny, she will often rain abuses on me, but funnily, none that she meant.

"Don't you dare start that now, I'm not in the mood for play, come let's talk about it now."

She called seeming angry, but I definitely knew that she never was really angry, she only wanted to scare me into staying and talking about what I don't want to talk about. So I still continued, I shook my little strong butt in a way that made her laugh. It was only when she laughed that I turned to her, with my hand on the doorknob and said to her:

"If you want me, meet me in my office."

I said it looking at her very seriously like I even got any office, this made her laugh even more then I opened the door and left her in the room, I swaggered down go the sitting room only to meet still on the spot where we left him, he never moved, only that this time he was not on his knees he sat on the bare Tiles. I looked at Cynthia the kind of eyes that meant, what is going on, and she popped her shoulders to also gesture to me that she was also confused. She did the shoulder popping with her two palms open and her lips sagged creating the facial lines that wrinkled from her nose sides through her lips down her jaws.

Fake dad looked at me with this face of gratitude as of he knew why I have gone to do with mom, I tries to go and sit down where I was sitting before, which was where fake dad also sat before crawling on his knees, but aunty Paula called me, she used her hand to tap of the little space on her seat, she just asked me to sit with her, yes, she might not have said it, but I knew that she meant that I should come and sit here. With this I came to her, she looked at me and killed, as I sat, Mr. Bright shifted so that he can also hear whatever it was that his wife wishes to ask me.

"Tell me dear, what did she say?" 

She asked, I was actually confused, how did they know about what I went to discuss with mom? It was really confusing, I thought I shot the door, or was someone eavesdropping on our talk? 

"What did she say about what ma?" 

I asked to confirm before I jump into answering the question which was not asked.

"What did she say about the plea of the young man?"

Mr. Bright asked in a whispering voice as he yanked himself even closer.

"Sir and ma, I think we will have to wait for her to come outside first, it is not like I can decide for her, so she will say what she will say."

I responded with my eyes all deemed, I tried to air these words most reasonably with fear that it might come out wrongly. Well, thank God, it was well understood in the context which I wanted it to be.

Now, after the response, I still could not stand up from the seat, I sat thinking of I to do the standing, I was sitted right in the middle of the two couple, Cynthia's parents, with aunty Paula holding my hands of firmly, and in her mind, she made prayers that she should make the right decision which just like me, she believed that fake dad was the best decision. Well, I must confess that it took mom more time than expected of her to leave the room, I actually think that I noticed the delay the most, probably because I was in the position I wished to leave, and with that firm grip from aunty Paula I found it impossible fo any breakout. Well, after a few waiting times, with fake dad still sitting on the ground, the long awaiting queen stepped out, she elegantly came to the sitting room, what she was doing all along in her room was definitely a mystery to me.

An aura of shock overwhelmed the entire sitting room when mom finally step outside, she even appeared more beautiful than earlier, I think she had been making up, though a very light and hard to notice kind of makeup. Everyone had to get back to their normal poison very fast, even fake dad who was sitting on the ground quickly got back to his knees, it was kind of hilarious the way he did that, almost like a student who was asked to kneel down, by his superior but only got tired and decided to rest in the absence of his punisher but was caught unawares by him.

I must confess that the position of fake dad was rather dehumanizing, he just shouldn't be crawling on his knees like that, at least not before Cynthia and I. The man is a grown-up and not just that he is a stinking millionaire, yeah, that's not if he is even a billionaire. Well, the poor man does not care he could even prostrate if possible, all he needed was the acceptance of his heartbeat, my mom. Well, I don't blame the man, any man can do the same, losing a last as beautiful as my mom is very perilous to the heart. Common it is mom, Miss. Juliet Chibuzo, a true definition of an ebony beauty, the real Icon of beauty, common she deserve the crawling and more.

Even mom was shocked to find fake dad in the situation he was in, he was still on the floor, the same place where he was when she left him for the room. It was obvious how that melted her heart, but somehow she still found the stamina to keep up with her "hard girl" plan. 

"Why are you still in the ground, is this how low you have descended? Emotional blackmail? Well, Matt, you should know me well enough not to attempt to blackmail me, you know that is definitely not working on me, please if you don't mind, I will like to sit down."

Mom said so coldly to the man on his knees. This actually sent a shock signal to Mr. Bright, he could not believe his eyes, he could not believe that mom cold do that seen a man like fake dad on the ground begging her, I bet he will say "over my dead body to do this in public", I definitely don need to read his mind to know this fact, his face is already enough to betray him of his thoughts.

" no my dear, please do not leave me in this state, I am giving you my words that I will correct all my wrongs."

Fake dad said again with that look of his, that could be related to that of a puppy.

"Matthew, can you please allow me to go and find a place to sit?"

Mom said as it seemed like fake dad now took the position of a barrier or a stumbling block to her way to the seats. Fake dad has reminded me of the case of Jacob and the angel in the Bible, where Jacob said "I will never let you go, unless you bless me", for fact, fake dad was willing not to let mom go unless she accepts.

Now, this was when aunty Paula had to step in as the best and only friend I know mom had except for Mummy nurse who almost took the place of a mother or aunty to mom. Aunty Paula finally left my hands with these words in her mind." What is wrong with this girl, I think I have to step in, she is already taking this too far." 

I think that aunty Paula already knew that mom had it in mind to accept fake dad's apology, but was only paying the "hard girl" as she called it, so she thought it wise to go and let her see that it was not playing out well. Like for real, it sure wasn't playing out well, mom had to know that there is a time for everything, and this was definitely not the time for the game she was planning.

So, aunty Paula walked up to her, pushed her to a corner, and there started their little gossip whispers, though they tried to make sure that they were as silent as possible, I still heard everything they discussed very vividly. She was only asking her to cut that act and accept the apology, aunty Paula tried to make her see the kind of picture that she was painting on herself to everyone in the house at the moment, and she made her see that it wasn't a good one.

"You just told me that your son already accepted him, so what is the problem? What is it that is keeping you from accepting him, stop this act please, I know you have already forgiven him. You know me, you know that I will never advise you into anything that I know will not benefit you. You also know how much I hated him in the past years, now it is the same me that is asking you to accept him, forgive my dear, you are not a devil, see how he had been begging you since we arrive here."

Aunty Paula said. She was very quiet with her words, only someone with a gift like mine could be able to possibly hear the talk.

"My dear, you have suffered enough, you don't want to be single forever, or do you? God forbid my dear, you will have a husband, and I am sure you know that you can't get married to Damian's dad, he is not our kind."

She said now looking at me, she bled out a little skill at me as she saw my eyes planted at them.

"Is it possible that he can hear us?"

She turned again and asked mom.

"Very loud and clear."

Mom responded.

"Well, let him hear, if he is not a selfish son,  he will know that I am right, and I am definitely sure that he is not selfish,  he also cared about you which was why he also advised you to move in, move on with Matthew. My dear, now I want you to go to him, hold him by the hand, drag him up, hug him, and tell him you all are good now."

Aunty Paula said in conclusion of her advising sermon.

"But..."

Hey!!! Madam, I don't want to hear any buts, just do the needful, and do it now, wicked girl."

Aunty paila said interrupting mom from whatever it was that she wanted to say. And she left mom standing looking like one lost child.