A SECOND CHANCE TO YOUR HEART - CHAPTER 19&20
“Aww, sweet”Veronica gushed from the car.
**
A RESTAURANT.
They settled in here, obviously losing their flight. Matty and Clara sitting next to each other while Joelle and Veronica opposite them.
“Mom!”Clara called again, smiling hugely.
“Honey”Joelle smiled.
“Yes! I now have a mom”she sang.
“Clara!”Matty muttered. “We adult wanna discuss, can you go with the guards for a while?”he said.
“Yes Daddy!”she giggled and followed the guard standing behind him.
“I’m very sorry for the inconvenience”he faced Joelle.
“It’s fine, she’s a sweet kid”she smiled.
“She is, about….”
“She said you both came to meet her mom and something happened”Joelle cut in.
“My girlfriend though, hmm… Clara’s mom died after birthing her and recently she have been asking for a mom”he said.
“Sorry about her death”she muttered.
“It’s fine”he smiled and looked at Veronica who has been looking at the both of them, one after another.
“Oh, she’s my twin, Veronica”Joelle introduced.
“O….kay”
“Mr Matty, right?”Veronica said and he nodded.
“What are you planning? That little child is way too excited for her to find out you both would be separating soon, so what do you have in mind?”
“I’ll take care of her, it’s nothing to worry”he smiled.
“It’s something to worry though, she has been here all along, right behind you”she said and he turned to see frowny Clara.
“Cla…..”
“We aren’t leaving with mom? I want a mom, dad, my friends at school talks about theirs but I have nothing to say about mine”she sniffs.
“Clara….”he tried touching her but she moved back.
“Why don’t you both get married!”Veronica said without thinking.
“Nica!”
“My twin has a kid, he’s four, it’ll be nice if you both do it for the sake of the kids”she said.
“I’ll be in the car, Dad”Clara muttered and walked away while the guard followed her. Matty ruffled his hair in frustration, watching her leave.
“What do you say?”Veronica asked.
“Can we both talk, like alone”he turned to them.
“Sure, take your time”Veronica said and excused them. The both of them sat down again.
“You have a son?”he found himself asking.
“Yes”
“His father?”he asked and she looked at him. Yes, she was trying not to look at him, obviously shy a little.
“I’m sorry if I shouldn’t be asking but….”she cut in before he could complete his statement. “It’s a complicated situation but we aren’t together anymore”she said.
“Oh”
“He ended it himself”she muttered.
“How about we get married”he said.
“Uhn?”she blinked.
“I mean for the kids, your son would be just too happy as Clara is right now…. I’m just saying”he said.
“You don’t even know me”she muttered.
“We’ll get to know each other”he said.
“Matty, right?”she said and he nodded. “I’m still struggling with life right now and I don’t know how it’d end with me…..being your wife…. mother to Clara and….all that, it’s just…..I don’t know if I’m the best choice”she finally settled on that but him smiling after everything she just said made her thought otherwise.
“I’ll be responsible for everything, you just have to be a good mother, that’s all”he said.
“What if… just what if his father, I mean Jesse, my son. What if his father gets back and….”
“There’s nothing to worry about Joelle, we are just gonna be couples to the public and nothing else, I’m not ready to start a real thing either”he said and she sighed, a little bit relieved. When he ask they get married, what she thought at that instant was doing what couples do, would she get to love him or what? But he just cleared everything.
“I have a grandmother, Veronica my twin, Jesse and myself. We aren’t that….. wealthy….”she dragged the last word, making him stare at her.
“We’re good, but I’m just trying to like…..yunno, I heard couples assist each other and so….”she chuckled on her own words which made him did same.
“Like I said, I’ll be responsible for everything”he said and she nodded nevertheless, hitting her fingers on her palm in nervousness.
“You were heading to the airport”he changed the topic.
“Yes, Canada”she said.
“Great, same location”he smiled.
“Oh!”she muffled, not knowing what to say.
“We should sign this up, I mean it should be like a contract. You can lay out things you don’t agree or like and I lay mine, rules, I don’t think will be useful, but either ways, it should be a contract, right?”he said and she nodded.
“I’ll get that once we get home”he said.
**
DAYS LATER, CANADA.
Granny and Jesse would be brought here today. Matty made it a big deal to throw a little party for them.
“Mom!”Clara ran downstairs with her white teddy, looking beautiful.
“What did I say about running?”Joelle carried her.
“I’m sorry”she pouted.
“You look beautiful on it”Joelle said, dropping her on the chair, on the dinning.
“I hope my brother gets to like it”she giggled which made Joelle smiled.
“They’re here!”Veronica rushed out as she came down, rushing to the door but a maid was quick to open up.
“Mom! Jesse!”she screamed, hugging them.
“I was thinking they were taking us to the wrong place”Granny muttered and she laughed.
“She kept whispering to me that I should run if things get bad”Jesse said she she laughed more. His eyes moved to Joelle and in haste, he ran to her.
“Mom!”
Joelle squatted as he embraced her, both crying.
“I missed you so much”he sniffs.
“Mom missed you more and I’m sorry”she sniffs also. They disengaged from the hug while he whipped her tears and she did same then she kissed his forehead.
“Forgiven?”she asked, smiling.
“Yes”he muttered with a nod and she hugged him again, this time tightly.
“That kid lied about loving himself more, it’s all his mom”Veronica smiled.
“Silly!”Granny hit her and she groaned.
“Granny!”Joelle already left Jesse as she walked to Granny while Jesse and Clara who’s in front of him stared at each other.
“I’m Clara and your mom is mine while my dad is yours”she smiled but he still maintained his expression.
“We’re like siblings, I’m very happy to have a brother and you’re cute”she said but he shocked her by walking to talking Joelle.
“Mom! Who’s she?”he pointed at Clara who’s looking sad.
“Oh Clara, your sister”she smiled.
“I don’t want a sister”he said and just then Matty came down.
“He…..is?”Granny stretched her words.
“Oh, Matty, Jesse’s Dad”she said awkwardly.
“Jesse’s Dad?”Granny smiled, walking to him but as she got to him, she slapped him on the face, a hot one.
“Granny!”
“Where have you been all this year’s and just coming now!”she shouted.
“Granny! Let’s talk about this later, kids are around”Joelle took her away while Veronica laughed, staring at confused Matty.
Minutes later, they settled on the dinning table.
“Welcome home son”Matty smiled at Jesse who didn’t even spare him a glance. He’s glaring at Clara who’s just looking softly at him.
“Let’s eat”Joelle said, noticing the unpresentable silence. Granny glaring at Matty while Jesse doing the same to Clara, all Veronica could do was laugh secretly.
**
CALIFORNIA, JEFFERY’S PLACE.
Jeffrey walked out his room, heading downstairs to meet his friends.
“Heard about your mom’s plan?”Kingston said.
“No”he said, grabbing a wine.
“Erica isn’t coming right?”Anna said, dropping her glass of wine.
“She is”he said.
“I really don’t like her and she’s…..”
“Not now Anna, I’m hungry”Kingston cut in.
“I was still talking King!”she shot him a glare.
“I didn’t know”he scoffed and just then, Erica entered with a package, obviously what Kingston ordered.
“Hi guys!”
“The devil’s here”Anna scoffed.
“Oh, it’s here!”Kingston took the package from her.
“Hm hm”
“Our marriage has been finalize”Anna said.
“What!”Jeffery gasped.
“Yeah and you’re not gonna see me on the wedding so there won’t be a wedding cause I don’t get what your mom is thinking, getting married to you, gross”she scoffed.
“Am I that bad?”he asked.
“You’re not my style”she said plainly.
**
MATTY’S MANSION, NIGHT.
Jesse and Clara staring at each other.
“You don’t like me?”she said.
“I don’t and I’m not sharing my mom”he said.
“But I like her and she’s now my mom”she said.
“I still won’t share her”he said.
“You can share my Dad also, he’s nice”she said.
“I don’t want a Dad anymore and I don’t like it here. I want to go back home with my mom, dad and granny”he said.
“You have a Dad?”she said.
“Aunt Veronica has been my Dad so I don’t need a Dad”
“She’s a female, makes are meant to be dads”she said.
“I don’t like talking to you also”he scoffed and turned to leave but met Matty.
“Hey kid!”
“If you left mom and I for years and now back, I don’t need you cause I have a Dad already”he said and walked away.
“Why would they mistake me as him”he muttered, looking at sad Clara.
“Are you his real Dad?”she asked.
“Uhn?”
“It’s bad if you left them back then”she said and also walk away.
“Seriously!”
TBC