239: We Have A Father?

In a suburban area, a beautiful young lady can be seen alighting from a taxi. She flips her hair back and forth. She moves to the passenger seat behind her and opens the door. Two kids can be seen running out of the vehicle and standing on the house patio next to the house. 

The lady bends and talks to the taxi driver and lifts her thumb for the driver, the kids blow a kiss at the driver before running to the door. At the door, a lady opens the door and the kids give her a high five before going into the house.  

The lady hugs the young kady before getting into the house. 

The kids rush upstairs and leave the two ladies to themselves. The house is beautifully furnished. Expensive interior designs and expensive sofas in the house. 

"How was your work mum?" 

Looking at the lady greeting her, she raises her brows and looks at her. 

"I told you to stop calling me mum, we have been here for six years and you still call me Mum, come In Mirah, you are making me look old you know," said the lady.

Mirah chuckled and helped her out with some stuff in the kitchen. The lady decided to prepare some food for the children. A lot of vegetables and some meat on the side. Done with the preparation, she went to check on them.

"Mommy, I can't get the uniform off my body, I think it got stuck again," said the boy looking at his mother with puppy eyes. 

"Mmh, what happened, you still need me to get it for you, your sister is always faster than you, where is she by the way?" Asked the lady.

"In here mama, preparing water, I dont want him to bathe in cold water, he is already sick from being rained on yesterday you know," said the girl who had a small towel on her body.

"I am not sick, I was just coughing mama," said the boy.

The lady looked at the two kids trying to argue amongst themselves. 

"Okay, shut up you two, Zeke, you know you are asthmatic so be grateful that Noelle is looking up for you, Noelle, don't be bragging every time you do something to someone, okay?" 

Both kids nodded and rushed to hug their happy mother. 

"I love you all so much," she said and hugged them tightly.

They both headed to the shower, each of them bathing on their own while their mother is watching. She had to make sure that they scrub every part of their body clean.

"Zeke, your back," said the lady whole pointing Zeke to the area that he was supposed to wash.

Zeke placed the scrubber on her back and did the job of cleaning it. Noelle was asked to go, her mother got her a towel for her body and one for her head. 

Zeke was done with his cleaning and was given a towel to dry himself clean. 

Done they went to the dressing table to dry themselves and apply some lotion to their body before they started running downstairs.

"Hey auntie, how was your day?" Asked Noelle with her head in a tight bun. She has some dirty blond curls. They were wild most of the time, so her mother had tried to help her tame them every day. 

"Not bad, what about you?" Asked Mirah while placing a plate of food in front of her. 

"Good, I can say, my drawings are coming out so good and by the time I am ten, I will be a pro, just know that," said Noelle.

Mirah clapped for her. Zeke was just looking at her shaking his head at what his sister had said.

" I thought mum said no boasting, what are you doing?" Asked Zeke placing some food in his mouth.

"I am just giving an outline for the day, it's not boasting," said Noelle and focused on her eating.

"Aunt, my day was great and I did very well in my class reading," said Zeke avoiding his sister.

Mirah nodded to both of them and urged them to go on eating as she did some stuff in the kitchen. 

Their mother walked downstairs and picked a cup of tea from the coffee maker. She watched happily as her two kids were talking cheerfully at the table. 

Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Everyone eating stopped and every eye watched as the door was being opened. 

"Ooh, hi Clara," shouted the lady at the door.

"Daniella, ooh my how are you doing?" Asked Clara welcoming herself inside the room after kissing her friend at the door. 

"Hello babies, how are we doing today?" Asked Clara as she stood at the kitchen counter and found the two kids eating their food. 

They know they had been taught about table manners and they respectfully swallowed their meal and replied to Clara who had lots of bags with her.

"Hey, auntie Clara, don't you think we are too old to be called babies?" Asked Noelle.

"Mmh, maybe, what can you do? Can you lift a whole can of water or wash clothes?" Asked Clara eyeing Noelle. 

"Yeah, I do wash my panties and handkerchiefs what about that, plus, I do bathe on my own now," said Noelle while looking at her. 

Clara gave her a high five and presented her with a bag of the many that she had. 

"Okay, where is mine, because I have been the bodyguard here aunty Clara?" Asked Zeke as he looked at the girls in front of her.

"Ooh, baby boy, I couldn't miss you having anything, I have things for you too." 

 Both kids mumbled thank you and went ahead to finish their meal. Clara handed another bag to Mirah and they excused themselves to Daniella's room.

"How was your trip, baby girl?" Asked Daniella once they were inside Daniella's room.

Clara looked at Daniella and smiled. It's like she didn't know what to tell her. She fidgeted in her seat and raised her head giving out a loud sigh. 

"Good I guess," said Clara. 

Daniella noticed her tone and sje knew that her bestie was not fine, the way she was almost crying she sat next to her.

She hugged her tightly and let her settle calmly on her lap. Caressing her body slowly, she played with her blond hair. 

"What's wrong Clara?" Asked Daniella once she was done crying.

"I don't know Daniella, I just broke up with him, I can't do anything, Daniella. I am just so engrossed in my thoughts to think about him. We tried but I could t do anything with him. "He was just there and I was looking at him."

"Are you serious? That is the fourth guy you are doing that to, what's wrong with you?" Asked Daniella making Clara face her. 

"What do you mean? I don't know?"

"You don't know? Or Damien is over your head that you can't think straight?" Shouted Daniella.

"What about you Daniella, why haven't you gone out ever since you delivered? Let me guess, you can't get over Davids that much? Every day your kids ask you about their daddy, don't you think it's right to explain to them where their father is or simple, contact her and let him come see them, at least they won't be sad every time they have a meeting and you go there alone!"

Clara was now furious at Daniella. Done with her talking she breathed out a sigh of relief and sat down, hadi g her head in her hands. 

"I know, Damien can't leave my mind but he has moved on, he had a girlfriend and that girl is the one enjoying everything you know," said Clara.

"Yeah and maybe Davids has moved on too, don't you think so? That's why I don't want my children to know anything about them, Clara."

"Sorry I didn't mean to shout at you, I am just frustrated."

Daniella sat next to her and they cuddled on the bed. 

The two children run away from the door after the arguments stopped and went to their room. Sitting on the floor, they faced each other, their legs in a yoga position.

             "What do you they are shouting about?" Asked Zeke. 

"They love doing that, plus I don't understand their lives. Have you ever seen mum with a man and Auntie Clara with any man? They might be in a relationship," said Noelle. 

"Eww, that is disgusting Noelle, that is out auntie and not anything to do with being in love with each other," said Zeke hitting his sister's hand. 

"Then what do you think they are talking about? We don't have another idea.  Have you ever seen anyone who looks like us? No, our curly hair and my funny look and with your type of hair that is all over the place, no one is like us," said Noelle.

"Do you think we have a dad? Like one who is alive? I would just want to meet him and tell him how we have inherited everything from him," said Zeke. 

"Okay, bro, what if our dad doesn't even know we exist? What if mum is hiding us from him? It's like I am saying our mother is a bad person, but something might have happened. Do you remember when we sneaked our I pads and watched the movie where the mother argued with the father and they left without knowing about each other? Then the mother had kids and their father didn't know and knew about it  later?" 

"Noelle, this is reality, this is not a movie maybe you are right but what if we don't have a father? I will cry now."

Noelle hugged her brother tightly and let him cry on her chest. 

"I know we have a father and he might be looking g for us, dint cry, we can try and look for him together."