𝟑𝟎 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥

~~ 50. ~~

"Okay," Lola said and she sat on the bed with her back to him. He looked at her and then walked out of the room.

He met his friend talking with his mother and grandmother in the living room. And they all looked at him like they just saw a ghost.

"And where are you going to?" His grandmother asked.

He sighed and he answered. "I have something important to do at work. I have to be there. I can't let them make me lose millions. It's important."

"But I thought...." His mother was saying.

"Mom, I'm sorry. I have to go. I will be back immediately after I am done there. I just have to be there." He apologized. "I'm sorry grams."

The woman just exhaled and she said nothing.

"Have you talked with your girlfriend?" Bayo asked. He was looking at him directly in the eyes.

"Yes. She is in the room. I have to go." And he left the house.

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I

t's been hours since Demilade left. Lola sat staring at Bayo and his family in the swimming pool where she had been with Demilade the previous night. The event keeps playing in her head over and over again. And she still doesn't understand what prompted Demilade to do what he did.

But she kind of liked it. She admitted sadly.

The loud giggles of Joan bought her back to the present. Bayo and Helen were teaching their little daughter how to swim. The little girl is placed on a float and the father helps her to paddle her leg while her mother holds her in place and helps her to move her hands.

The little girl was very happy and she seems to be having fun with her parents.

Mrs Jolaoluwa and Grandma Grace had found it ridiculous at first but Bayo had insisted that a child can learn at any age. And the little girl looked like she was learning something. And from the way she was laughing and eager, she can tell it wasn't the first time the little girl was placed in water.

It was a beautiful sight to watch. The young family seems very happy. She really envied the couple and she wished them happiness for a long time. And hoped she can have something like that someday.

Although, she does have someone she likes, she can't seem to tell what is going on in his head. Sometimes, he made her feel loved and appreciated and sometimes, it's like she irks him.

She sat on one of the pouches watching them from afar. It remind her of her own family and it brought a feeling of nostalgia. She suddenly misses her family despite she still speaking with them the previous night.

She is proud of the family she has even if there was an exception of a mother.

Her mother had left them when she was eight years old and her brother four. She can never forget that day when she called her to her matrimonial room. She was sitting with big bags in front of her. She asked her to sit down together with her brother and she told her to take care of her brother. She told her she was leaving and that she couldn't continue suffering. She was tired of enduring poverty. She had promised she would come back to get them if everything becomes better.

She and Daniel had begged her not to leave but she was determined and had already made up her mind. She finally left them all alone in the house.

Her father had returned in his devastated and exhausted state that day to meet them in tears.

She can never forget that look on him when she told him what happened and their mother left them. She can still remember that look on him. The pain, regret, disappointment, hurt, hatred and self-loathing on his face. And she wished she never see it ever again on him.