I got off down an alley to find Othello standing with my mother and Ivy fronting our house, they spotted me and everyone's expression changed. He went from sorrowful to ashamed, while Ivy was bothered by my presences and mother didn't care at all. I walked passed them without eyeing them, dimmed vision, running to my room. What was he doing down there? My mother came in without even knocking "So impolite, you should really watch your behavior young lady, your friend is the perfect guy I have ever seen, handsome and well educated and amongst all rich. What do you want more? His sister got caught up in some serious problems and he needs your father's help, you should be there for him." She yelled and I shouted "Do you really care about what I want or you are just framing it to me, I want space. Because you can't notice if there is something wrong with your daughter, Am I even your daughter?" Leroy entered the room and he stood beside me glaring at his mother "Go play in your room, boy!" She exclaimed "My name is Leroy, stop calling boy, I grew up and you didn't realize." He reacted. I gazed at her and I wished that the lady back in the club was my mother, not that fake hardly even a mother. She left and Leroy turned to me "Her screams woke me up, what's wrong with her again?" He asked rubbing his brown eyes with the back of his hands, I placed my hands on his pink cheeks and muttered "She is insane just like her daughter, just go back to sleep don't worry about her." He removed my hands and smirked "I grew up for real."
I went back to my room to put on my pyjamas, and my phone was ringing like crazy and Edwin's name was popping on the screen, I answered to hear Othello's voice, I hung up immediately, no second thoughts and I texted Tobias informing him about everything. And the questions started raging in my head. Mabel texted me like 14 texts at once. I couldn't read them so I called her, she was trembling, "What's going on?" I asked "Lily was found killed in the backyard of their house and Othello is going nuts." She shouted "What? Oh my god, he was here like 40 minutes ago, poor Lily what happened to her?" I questioned "We don't know exactly, but apparently she was dating the drug dealer that Othello used to buy from, and he got involved in some serious stuff with a mafia and Lily was the reason he was involved." I held my head between my hands as I put the phone on the speaker. "Now Othello himself isn't safe, and if the cops find out he was dealing with those people he can get arrested too." She added "I don't care about him, but his little sister is 16, she is way too young for this shit." I responded
Tobias replied to my text and asked to call me, I ended the call with Mabel to answer Tobias, after telling what happened he remarked "I know we should not take advantage of this, but it can help with your case he uses drugs and maybe he is a dealer too, otherwise he won't be involved with these people, and an advice don't involve your father." I agreed with his words and thought about what was happening that all night till I fell asleep and I dreamt of this baby boy so beautiful playing around me and giggling, and as much as I tried to catch him to hold him, something was not letting, I felt like he was mine but I couldn't have him, I was happy yet uncomfortable till I heard my name "Elleona!" Tobias's voice called for me in the dream and woke me up.
I woke up just as confused and I couldn't tell anyone, I just kept it for myself. I avoid telling Tobias himself about it, even if we used to meet more often that just two days per week, and I have learned so much about him that I used to ignore knowing, he was a 21 law student and working in an association at once, that was the reason why he got me a lawyer to help me get my equity. The case of Lily's murder got us backed up a little bit, I was thinking about their parents Roger and Justice were going through hell and back everyday, and Tobias felt their pain remembering Olivia, he said "Losing your loved ones out of the blue and in a young age is agonizing and harrowing in so many ways. It's a wise choice to push back the hatred you have for him, and let karma do her job."
I didn't plan any revenge on him, I wanted space and peace, and my karma gave them for me, by taking him away. Edwin told me everything in Lily's funeral, Roger was ashamed of his kids, and Justice was crying over both her children. He caused his sister's death and his captivity for 5 years, I heard he begged to be held in a cell alone. In those 3 months I grew closer to Mabel and Edwin, they moved in together, I was happy for them and I smiled again. Tobias was always by my side, I got through the nightmares but never the baby. My tummy grew bigger than ever and I was always wearing baggy hoodies and shirts. Still no decision but I couldn't take the abortion pills, I couldn't kill my baby not after seeing him in my dreams.
I would sit on the grey carpet of my room just next to the window holding my belly and crying, sometimes for hours, thinking about giving a piece of me up for adoption, the baby was growing inside me and I felt like a mother. I was crying again and Tobias called suddenly, I answered weeping, no words but tears, I left my room to the backyard waiting for him to appear just like he suggested. He parked his car and jumped over the wooden fence wandering around the poorly lit garden to find me sitting on the grass covered with tears, he sat next to me and held my hand, he wrapped his arm around me just as I put my head on his chest covering my whined with the strings of his black hoodie, he kept repeating "Shhhh, focus on my voice and breath please." I felt safe, just like when I was that little girl planting the flowers with my father in that very garden, petite hands tapping the soil and praying for the plants to grow right away, but I was holding onto him, I felt like the world was tightening and the space between us was trivial.
The night clouded over and the stars began to shine brightly on a hazy navy blue sky, he pointed over to some of them and told me their names, Tobias has astrophilia which is the rare love and obsession with planets, stars and outer space. I was so comfortable, listening to his talks and words trying to distract me, sometimes he didn't make any sense yet he made me laugh for the first time in three and half months, he was there for me not just to help me through this but as a permanent person in life, he was the friend I lost, he was the man I found.
The saying of looking for happiness where you lost it is wrong and my experience in life proved it, I wanted to ignore it all to avoid it so it could pass, but it never did. The exams were a week away and Mabel made sure that I am not missing out on anything, so I could get my degree. The final exams were on June 1st, the senior year had a prom and a graduation party that I wanted to skip so badly, but Mabel forced me into going, and my father was so excited to be in my graduation party since Ivy never graduated.
I don't know what to say about this part, the part where I faked every detail about me, so my father will be happy, the part where all I wanted was to let go, but something inside of me was keeping up for my father's sake and my baby's. Thinking of what is going to be next might help me through this, I got out with Mabel to buy a dress, I had no interest in any of all the hundred dresses I saw in that mall, Mabel still got to pick one for old Elleona not the one sitting there desireless. A green fern dress, so simple just like my smile yet beautiful, with pretty little details, I would have loved it if I was not wearing it in such circumstances. When I got back home drifted away from the happy thoughts back to holding my tummy and recalling that dream till I glimpsed Tobias's car right in front of my home's door, I gasped also I trotted, I found him sitting in his car he looked like he was waiting for me. I checked my phone even so there is no missing call nor texts from him.
I knocked on his window and opened and sat in the front seat next to him with a confused face, he smiled "This is the second time I am doing this it should be easy, right?" I was more than just mystified and it was too obvious, first he cleared his voice and took my hand then he beamed "Would you go to prom with me?" I felt the color draining from my face not long after the questions storming inside, he confessed "I know that you are going to the prom, and I thought you will need a um a date, or maybe you are not even planning on going. Nevermind okay, mostly you are not going." I stared at him at every detail of his face scanning it, and breathing in the thoughts instead of letting them out. "Okay." I mumbled and he heard it again. His face puzzled and he asked "Okay, as in going with me to your prom or as in" I interrupted by nodding, the corner of his lips lifted up slightly and he started the car " I am abducting you, text your father tell him you will be back by 8pm" He ordered as I smiled back.268Please respect copyright.PENANAkE27thLO94