Chapter 105
I’m sorry Lisa but my mind is made up. I can’t stay here any longer. I feel so ashamed of what I did” joy said and Lisa smiled at her
“I know and I’m not here to convince you to stay. And you shouldn’t feel ashamed of yourself. People make mistakes. We’ve all made mistakes or hurt people one way or the other but that doesn’t make you a bad person.
We are all humans and humans aren’t perfect. I, standing before you now, have made mistakes too but what matters is the ability for you to stand up, accept you made a mistake, and correct them.
I’m not here to convince you to stay. I’m here to tell you to stop feeling that guilt. I hold nothing against you neither I’m I angry at you. I forgive you already so you should forgive yourself” Lisa smiled and tears slipped down Joy’s cheek.
“Shhhh, stop crying,” Lisa tells her as she hugged her.
She raised her head and caught a glimpse of Julia standing by the door watching the whole scene.
She pulled away from the hug and gave her shoulder a light squeeze. “You’ll be fine,” she said to her before walking toward Julia.
“Good luck,” she said and hugged her.
“Thank you” Julia smiled as they pulled away from the hug.
Lisa then stepped aside and watched them pack all their baggage’s into the car. They closed the car door and locked the house as they were don packing.
They both waved Derek and Lisa before hopping into the car , then the car zoomed off.
Derek stood watching the car till it was out of sight. He felt tears gathered in his eyes. It breaks his heart so much that Julia and joy had left. He remembered the day they became friends. He never saw them as just friend’s, they were like sisters to him and he had grown so fond of them. He was definitely going to miss them.
He felt a hand on his shoulder , he turned and saw it was Lisa.
“Some friends can be replaced but some can never be replaced. They’ll both be in our hearts even though they’re far away. I’m going to miss them” Lisa tells Derek who nodded as the tears he’s been holding slipped down from his cheeks.
Lisa hugged him as he cried on her shoulder.
*****
After Lisa had left Julia’s house, she made sure Derek had gotten home safely by dropping him off. After that she went to Dina’s house.
“You were not able to convince them to stay?” Dina asked as Lisa sat on the chair in the living room.
“No, I wasn’t planning to. I believe everything that happened is for the best” Lisa said as she yawned.
“I’m so hungry,” she tells Dina
“There’s snacks in that bag. You can eat from it and leave the rest for Clara when she comes back from school. I have no interest in eating that” Dina said as Lisa stood up and opened the bag.
“This looks like it was bought today,” Lisa said as she brought out a pack of snacks from the bag and went back to the chair she was sitting on.
“Yeah,” Dina said as she picked up her phone.
“Did you order it? It’s so delicious, ” Lisa said as she ate from it.
“No, Williams brought it,” Dina said and Lisa opened her eyes shocked.
“Jesus, Dina. Tell me you’re lying” Lisa said as she stood up from her chair and went to sit beside Dina.
“I’m serious, he brought it,” Dina said and Lisa smiled.
“Oh Good lord” Lisa said and winked at Dina.
“What?” Dina asked as she felt her cheeks turned red.
“Oh my goodness!! Dina you’re blushing. Are you guys??” Lisa crooked her eye brows.
“What!!! Hell no!! He’s just been coming to check on me lately. Not me exactly but Clara and he always buy her things. He came today and I told him she’s gone to school so he dropped what he bought and left saying he was going to come back later” Dina said with a shrug
“Just that?” Lisa asked
“Yeah. Clara is the reason he’s coming. He said the both of them had spent some time together when Clara was admitted in the hospital. He told me Clara gave him a really hard time. She was crying all night that she wants to see her mommy blah blah ” Dina said and rolled her eyes making Lisa scoff
“He had actually spent the night with her that day at the hospital. I didn’t think him and Clara will be this close” Lisa said
“Yeah, Clara seems to like him a-lot” Dina said with a sigh.
“Do you like him?” Lisa asked
“Wtf!! Hell no!!! I don’t, not even a bit. I’m not interested in any one. I’m glad I’m able to get over Charles, so I wouldn’t want another trouble in my life. I’ll just focus on me and my daughter ” Dina said and Lisa hummed and silence followed.
“So Lisa, back to you. Are you going to resume the office or stay at home till you give birth?” Dina asked breaking the silence between them.
“Not really. I actually applied for a job in a Chinese restaurant not that far from home. So I’ll be working there if they accept me” Lisa said and Dina raised her eye brows.
“Do you think Daniel will agree to that?” Dina asked
“He doesn’t have a choice besides I’m not planning on telling him now. I’ll tell him once they accept me” Lisa said
“Why do you want to stress yourself? You have Daniel a multi billionaire and you still want to work your ass out?” Dina scoffed
“Not really. I realized have been causing a lot of troubles for him lately so I just want to work, save up some money , get myself an apartment before I give birth. I don’t want to stress him with my expenses any longer” Lisa said
“What expenses. Is he not the father of the child and are you guys not???…” Dina paused as she saw the looks on Lisa’s face.
“Lisa, I thought you and Daniel were a couple?” Dina asked and Lisa swallowed hard. She couldn’t hide the truth anymore, one way or the other Dina was going to find out so she thinks she should tell her the truth now.
TBC