Love At Last

NANA

I stormed off Cayden’s house and finally let the tears I held in all the while I was having a brawl with my father, flow. I was so bitter at heart and heartbroken. I thought of leaving the city since my dad was now back to disrupt my the peace I enjoyed.

On getting home, I immediately headed straight for my bedroom ignoring nana who was sitting in the living room. Of course she followed me in, seeing the manner I walked past her without at least acknowledging her presence.

I went into my room, brought down my box from on top of my wardrobe and started to pack my things immediately while weeping profusely.

“What are you doing?” nana asked.

“I’m leaving nana, I can’t stand it anymore. The atmosphere here is choking me seriously. I need air, I need to breath.” I kept removing my clothes from the hanger and putting them in my box hastily, without arranging them properly.

“And who do you think you’re leaving your child with?”

“I’m taking him with me, nana. I’m done with this trash!”

“Trash?”

“Yes , trash,” I affirmed immediately.

“Listen, I get that you’re upset about something but if can at least calm down and tell me what the problem is, I’d appreciate it. Why are you shedding tears? Did someone say something to you?” she asked, still maintaining her composure.

“Is it not your son?” I threw the shirt I had in my hand to the bed forcefully. “He just won’t let me have my way. Why does he have to resurface from nowhere and butt in my business?”

“Your dad?”

“He’s not my dad, nana,” I rebuffed.

“Will you shut your trap? Shut it!” she rebuked while I returned to packing my things. “No matter what the issue is, he’s still your father and nothing can change that. You’re a Greyson no matter what you do.”

“I may be his daughter because we have the same blood running through our veins, but to me, I don’t have a dad.”

“Can you cut the nonsense out already and explain to me properly what is going on?”

“I’m leaving nana. That’s what’s going on.”

“Why?”

“I can’t take daddy’s over domineering attitude anymore. I’ll take my son with me and leave with Cayden.”

“You lie!” she reprimanded firmly. “You lie, Lily. You go nowhere!”

“Nana, even you?!” with shock written all over me, I asked.

“You can’t abandon your family and abscond with a man. It’s unheard of.”

“Nana even you? You’re also not in support of I and Cayden? Is it because he’s your son?” with a teary face, I wailed.

“Just shut up and listen to me already!” she exclaimed in a bid to get me to calm down and listen.

I turned to her. “I won’t shut up!,” I retorted; her ploy didn’t work on me this time. “Let… me… speak. I’m in serious pain right now, nana. I am! And even you I thought would have my back?” making gestures while I spoke, I paused for a while before continuing, ” turns out it’s always the child before the grandchild,” I returned again to dumping my clothes in my box.

“Just unpack your things already. Even if I result to tying you up to get you to stay back, I’ll happily do so.”

“It’s obvious you your son are now in cahoots. You both have ganged up against me, right? No issues.”

“Stop spewing nonsense from your mouth and listen to me before you draw baseless conclusions.

“Baseless conclusions?”

“Yes, baseless conclusions! Just listen to me already.”

“I’m listening,” I wiped my face with my palms and folded my arms, tapping my feet against the ground continuously.

“Your dad called me already…,”Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

“What?!” I turned swiftly to her.

“Lily can you please let me speak?”

“Fine.”

“He’s coming over to talk to you so wait for him and hear him out at least.”

“Dad is coming here?” I started to panic.

“Yes , he’s coming. So wait and hear him out.”

“Then I have no reason to stay here.” I put a few more clothes into my box and locked it. I took the box by my hand and headed out of the room with nana of course walking behind me still trying to persuade me otherwise.

“Why are you so stubborn, Lily? Your dad came here the first time and you told him off. This time I won’t allow you humiliate him the way you did the last time.

“He humiliated me enough already!” fuming, I threw my box to the floor. “Everyone seems to have forgotten how much I want through including you, nana! I trusted that of all people, you…,” I pointed her, “would be able to see reasons with me,” I completed my sentence.

“I love you Lily and that’s why I’ll always choose the best for you.”

“And making amends with my dad is the best for me?” I babbled.

“I think it’s best you settle the scores already, Lily. The fight is long over due now. Cut it out already! Must you drag on to the very end?”

“I saw dad at Cayden’s and said all I needed to. I have nothing more to say to him.” I picked up my box.

“He told me you didn’t even give him the chance to speak. Is that true?

“Speak about what exactly? Say sorry? Or better still, blabber on, on how he missed me?”

“It’s your father we’re talking about here, Lily. Bridle your tongue,” she cautioned stiffly but nicely. “Give him a chance to explain himself to you. If he says he’s sorry, then he’s sorry.”

“Nana saying sorry at this point won’t change anything so what’s the point of it all?”

“At least it shows your father’s now remorseful.”

“Nana how is it that you’re so welcoming towards him after everything we both went through?” I asked with a mixture of astonishment and perplexity in my voice.

“You’re both my children. And no good mother would drive a wedge between her children on purpose.”

“Nana I…,” the sound of the doorbell ringing interrupted me.

Nana immediately rushed to get the door and my father walked in.