IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN

Chapter 8

Ashanti POV

I was daydreaming and got brought back the minute I heard my pencil snapping, the child is cute though grown as well okay I admire Sandra sometimes the courage and feel for her. sometimes I don't know why but I just don't find myself to hate her as I should

After coming from reality I quickly packed my stuff and was about to get out when I heard a voice call out to me

Sandra POV

Today I got called by my son's (Calvin) school saying he was involved in a fight so I had to fetch him and he told me he was hungry I sometimes don't blame his anger it's due to his arrogant father like father like son always refusing to see the bigger picture

Currently I only have 2 kids a boy who's 5 and a daughter who's 3 it's about time I stop this loop plus I'm expecting another one too haven't done the gender reveal yet

I was in a queue then spotted Ashanti I always spot her there in this cafe but never have the courage to bring myself to her, I should actually thank her I'm not saying my son is a mistake it's just that it was not a good space in our relationship with me and his father when he came so yah I should thank Ashanti for understanding the situation and not including me in their drama going back in time I sometimes ask myself was it complicity or obsession

It's like she recognized me and started parking I grabbed my son hand and followed her today I have courage Ashanti!

I called out to her, okay she heard me and turned to me okay it doesn't look hard here goes nothing

" do you mind if I have a word with you"

She pointed at the spur across the road at least it's going to be comfortable with my son there

LAYLA POV

I got home to find my husband helping our daughter truce in feeding their little champ Jason can be fussy in eating you know we have 4 kids clover my first born the oldest is 8 then followed by truce who's 6 my daughter then there's Jason and Lilly who's fraternal twins who's 4 turning 5 soon, Truce can be unpredictable sometimes she reminds me of someone I know ,i got a flashback on how back in the days on how my jaiden wanted to do everything for me he looked so cute back then and he was picky and confusing at picking teams while playing with the whole fam during reunions

He used to be more spirited and confident but things changed after our parents passed away worst part my mother was 6 months pregnant jaiden was looking forward to finding something to protect

Jaiden loved kids ever since he was young,but everything came to a standstill after the accident,it changed him for the worst he was grumpy guy ,the cute little fella who was granny champ was gone , sometimes he would smile just to make her miss savage feel better

But now he's worse ,he feels like the world is always counting him aside and henceforth that's why he's so picky and stubborn it's so hard to come to terms with him , especially in an argument he stands in his ground

Shucks i didn't even realise that I was crying, Kaiden left the kids to hug mommy before the kids starts asking a lot of questions

Him :(wiping my tears)hey

"I'm sorry I didn't even realise that I had tears in my face heck I didn't even feel them" gosh I feel so guilty why is my emotions all over the place

"it's fine my love ,are you okay ?"

"I went to see Jay today,he scares me ,I feel like he's closing too much this time around"

":I'll check him up don't worry hey ,I'm here"

"It has Eliza written all over it"

":okay relax Hun ,we don't want to scare the kids do we"

" :(shaking my head)no we don't" he was busy trying to calm me down but clover and Truce should have noticed when I raised up my head there they are looking at me like I'm some baby who needs a pampering gosh I'm so embarrassed right now my hormones are all over the place

"why is mommy crying" clover asked and looked at truce who shaked her head

Him ":Uhm you see my princesses earlier at work I refused to buy mommy Ice cream now so she's whining about it " both clover and truce looked at him weirdly clover can sometimes read between the lines he gave that look

Him:mommy ate too much spicy food and now she wanted to eat ice cream it's not good for her "clover gave me a sachet to wipe my tears while truce confronted her father lately in this house we have an advisor that we must report to

Truce :mommy (handing her ice cream box)here you'll feel better soon I'm going to tell daddy on grams

":my baby is all grown up, taking care of mommy" I gave my little curiosity a hug

Truce:come on eat it I'll watch daddy for you " I wanted to laugh so hard I mean her pride reminds me of Jaiden sometimes I wonder what to do with them

Him:what is Jason doing

Truce: he's singing

Him:truce.!

Truce:okay I'll check up on him (giggling)

Both of them are like siblings instead of father and daughter and then there's Jason and Lilly my twins years always making sure the house is a mess so you must check on them again and again to check if your house is still safe Truce and Clover has to end up babysitting and be big siblings before I become nuts but truce is the talker and clover is more like the doer or handle with ease and weirdly they only listen to truce in this whole house

Okay so we arrived at spur and my son saw the play area and quickly ran to the play area forgetting that he was the one that said he was hungry in the first place.

I ordered for a caramel milkshake and Ashanti ordered for a sticky date pudding

While waiting for the pudding she suddenly asked me how I've been Weird. She so calm about this. " I've been okay and how have you been?" I asked She was like "I've been behaving lately and I've been good."

We both laughed at that statement . She wanted to keep on insisting on that statement . I looked at her and gave her the really look ? She noticed after she noticed that I don't really give in she flipped her hair and took out her glasses " "don't give me that look. I've been behaving lately. "

She's now insisting on the part of behaving. I mean girl there was an event like few months ago and you did numbers on other people that I don't wanna mention and today you have the energy to see that you've been behaving.

She quickly went to the bathroom and she came back. Luckily our dessert was also came as well

Didn't the girl indulge herself into in her pudding? Until she heard me sipping my milkshakes. That was then she realized

that oh she's eating with someone. She was like excuse me. "This is just too good. I couldn't help myself but to indulge myself."

And then the talk suddenly went to talk about Calvin and how he has grown up. And which was weird cos she was open and she was chilled. She was more comfortable to talk to talk to and have a conversation with. Weird or weirder still can't get my head around it . And then she suddenly shifted the talk to me. She was like "so what are we doing here today?"

I was taken back that I couldn't even respond to her

Her "I'm very much sure we didn't come here to talk about Calvin . He's a nice child and a little champ. But I'm very much sure that we didn't come here to talk about him. Right?.... luckily I recharged myself with the pudding. Let's just hope that um what you gonna say is not gonna make me lose an appetite or drain me. Right? "