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Here we are AGAIN. If you haven't met Freda, check her out in my novel 'MINE' ( This novel is a stand alone). Just in case you need a little background knowledge about her and her love interest, you need to read MINE.
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Freda looked through the window of the taxi she as it steered through her parents’ street. Although it’s been a few years since she left, things have not changed a bit. She felt nostalgic. A few children were roaming the estate, the few adults she met on the drive were thankfully not familiar so she didn’t need anyone to know she was back. She never thought of coming back but like Temmy said to her, it was time to move on.

 Maybe this is part of her healing process. There was a time that coming back was a taboo but looking at her current state, she knew she’s passed that phase now.

 She had cut off connection with everyone she knew in Lagos, even went ahead to change her phone number and nobody had access to her, except Temmy and her sister Helen and that had been months after she settled down and decided to make contact after deep thought.

 She was too hurt to think of anybody else other than herself and her baby.

 Even her social media handles has been dormant for a while. She needed the time to focus on herself and her healing.

“Aunty welcome, long time,” Salisu the gateman smiled and waved at her as the driver drove through her parents' gate after he confirmed from her if it was her destination.

She adjusted her sleeping son in her arms and smiled at Salisu.

She waited for the driver to park properly before she opened the door and alighted.  She saw her mother come through the entrance as if she’s been waiting for her all day which she probably has been doing.

“My darling,” she beamed.

The joy she felt was written all over her face. She knelt down by the car, looking to the heavens in thanks and with happy tears.

“Mummy,” She called in her emotional voice.

“How are you?” She patted her cheeks then reached out for the sleeping boy.

 Freda was sure that if not for the boy, she would have been smothered in her mother's embrace.

“Mummy I am fine, I am so glad to be back.” She smiled back holding the hand to her cheek.

“I am so happy to have you back. Those video calls are not my thing and you know.”

“It’s work mummy and I have explained severally.”

“Work or you running away from your fears or should I call it challenges?”

“Mom, I don’t want to go into that right now. Let’s bask in the joy of my presence. I even brought a plus one.” She teased.

“Darling, I am ready to wait till you are ready to talk but you know your father. Since he learnt that you were coming home, he has been insisting on you doing the proper thing.”

“Which is?” Freda asked.

“That’s everything madam,” the driver interrupted their conversation.

Freda opened the passenger side of the car to pick her bag, then pay the driver.

“Thank you,” she said and waved him off.

“Just leave the boxes there, I'll get someone to pick them.”

“Is daddy at home?”

“No he is not but you better start preparing yourself for a long conversation.”

“I already told dad that I will have the conversation when I am ready, for now let me do me focus on official work.”

“I will take you any way I can, I missed you so much,” her mother tried to hug her while holding her grandson.

“I missed you too,” she replied smiling.

“You just left me like that. How many people will believe that I am meeting my grandson for the first time?”

“You have seen him severally, mom.”

“It’s not the same thing. Have I ever held him?”

“There’s that.” She shrugged following closely behind her mother.

“I am so tired.”

“Let me settle my baby down in a room and attend to you.”

“I am not a visitor mom. I can take care of myself.”

“I know you are not a visitor, but you just arrived from a long journey and need to rest.”

“Yeah,” Freda settled into the closest sofa and stretched out her legs.

“My grandson seem to be a sound sleeper. Another baby would have woken up by now.” Freda's mom said as she joined her daughter in the living room.

“There are a lot of things you will get to know about him.”

“I told the maid to put the bags in your room, Oreoluwa is in mine though.”

“He is not awake yet and you have started hoarding him,” she teased

“It is allowed, you know how long I have been waiting to see him?”

“I told the housekeeper to get your lunch ready. You'll probably want to shower.”

“Yes, later. How is dad doing?”

“He is still the same. He misses you but you know men, he will not come out and say.”

Freda smiled.

“I think you should be prepared for the conversation though, so that things don’t become awkward between both of you.”

“Awkward, between who and who?”

“Anyway, you know how to wrap him around your fingers.”

“Just watch me perform my magic,” She winked.

“Temmy calls me sometimes. Bless her soul. She even comes to check on me too.”

“Isn’t she a darling? I trust her.”

“Does she know you will be coming around?”

“Temmy knows everything.”

“She is such a nice girl. She’s been here with her husband before.”

“Pfft, Temmy can drag Damola anywhere.”

“What about you, is there any one you can do the same to?”

“Savage much,”Freda responded

“What is the meaning of that one again?”

“Mom, when I have someone, I will definitely bring him home.”

“On a more serious note, does your daddy baby or what do you people call it these days know of Oreoluwa's existence?”

“I think I need to take that shower now. Love you mom, be right back,” she said and hurriedly walked towards her own room.

“If you like, hide from now till tomorrow, you will answer the questions.”

The only response she got was  the door closing behind her daughter.

SEE YOU NEXT TIME.

 
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