Julius' visit

..Crina pov.

It has been a week since I came back from the hospital. I have improved steadily. The college principal sent me an email and told me that I had a full month to heal. In fact I was told that I could not mind or qorry about my salary as it was going to be given to me even without me being at school.

This at least this relaxed me a bit as needed that money so badly. I had the so much medical bills, the house hold bills and then my son's tuition and all that .

But with that being worked upon, I was so happy and relaxed as the only thing that I was left with was healing. The relationship between Ryder and I has some how come back to normal . He has been acting as a son.

He has not done anything that I don't want him to do.

He never attempst anything that I don't want him to do at all. He has been the very best son though with this very good relationship I could still tell that he is a bit disatant.

One of the things that has shown me that he is distant is the fact that in this week, he has not slept home twice but he still calls to tell me that he is sleep over at his friend's work because of the too many assignements that he could have.

I have tried to cat like all is okay even when it is actually not oaky.

Any way, I decided not to over think about that and got ready to welcome my visitor who had called me about thirty minutes telling me that he wanted to come and see me.

Oh! I had not told you about who was coming to come and see me. It is actually Julius…..Oh, I think many of you don't even remember him. He is actually my knight in a shinning amour. He is that gentle gentleman who saw me first after the accident and took me to the hospital.

We have been in touch since then. He actually calls me each day and promised that he could come and see me and that is today. It is so convenient since Ryder did not come back home and I expect him not to be back until later in the evening.

Am so happy that I now have at least have afriend whom I can talk to. Contemplating about everything that is happening in my life, there was a knock at the door an di knew that it could probably be him. I found myself becoming excited. Damn it ! I had actually not even realized it at first . I was acting in a way that I was not supposed to.

I tried to tidy my hair as I moved towards the door. Even when I reached the door, I first paused a bit before I went a head and opened it. There he was standing looking as handsome as the first time when I had met him.

"Hey" I greeted and then wondered what I could do next . it is not like I had any male friends who came by here before.

"Hey" he greeted me back in his husky voice and then took a few steps towards me. I stood stagnant in the door way as I wondered what he was about to do. I wondered what was wrong with men recently- or it was actually me who either had either failed or perhaps did not know how to act before them in their respective character .

He took my small hand in his big one and raised it up, put it at his mouth and kissed it briefly. It excited me a bit. No one had done it to me before at all. He was actually the first .

"You are so welcome." I went on to say when he had let my hand free.

"Am equally so humbled to be here." He replied as he was following me closely towards the living room. We both got into the living room and each of us got down .

"I think I will get you something to drink." I said as I stood up heading towards the kitchen. I did not even wait to hear out what he actually wanted but I rather just got two coffees and was soon back to the living.

He was reading something on his phone but he stopped the moment he maybe hear me get back to the living room.

"Her you are." I announced as I handed him one the cups of coffee as I remained with the other cup. I sat down in the initial seat that I had occupied before I went to the kitchen. Soon , the awkwardness was all over ,

We were soon talking like two people who had known each other for such a long time yet it has been only one week and a few days since we first met . I came to realize how free he is . So free that he went an extra mile of telling me about his personal life. He said he as a daughter who is almost the same size with my son. ]he also told me that he divorced his wife five years ago when he caught him red handed having sex with his very good friend.

After so much wrangles and all that they divorced and at the end of it all, he gained full custody of his teenage daughter since the wife did not even mind about that all. He went a head and told me that the thing that he valued most was to make sure that his daughter has the best of life that any one could wish to have.

This brings us even more together since just like him my son is my first priority. He might be my step son but I like him with the whole of my life. He is actually the main reason that has kept me moving during so much hardships that I have gone through with all my life.

We talked for so long until the knock at the door…I definitely knew that my son was back from school . I was missing him already since I had not seen him yesterday .