Each call started with him singing praises to the well respected mothers who were married to well respected men in the country.
The women who made his school's name ring in high places and gatherings.
After full time flattery, he then went on to tell them about a new mother who after hearing about them wanted to meet them.
His schemy ways wouldn't let him be direct, so he went through roundabout means without really telling them the true reason why he had called and gathered them together and after getting the agreement of the nine mothers of the other girls and boys in Olivia's class, he created an online group and added them to it.
All with the exception of Olivia's new ‘mom’ as he didn't have her number.
But all in all, he was looking forward to a good show as he thought it was a gang of nine against one and Gift wouldn't stand a chanc
“Gift, what's going on? We didn't see you after you returned to the city and were really worried about you,” she acted like she cared when Ken didn't come out of his trance and decided to further embarrass her.Gift swallowed hard and tried to suppress the emotions that were rising at the back of her throat.“She even dares to ignore the girlfriend of the youngest manager in the company, I think you were right when you said she was nobody,” the older lady said as she crossed her hands across her chest and spread her legs.“It’s fine, we are old friends, so she must be shocked to see me,” Trisia decided to ride on their cocktails.“If you're in a bid, I can talk to my fiance and we can help you. Are you here to see someone?” She asked again but was ignored by Gift who was starting to hyperventilate because of the small space
“Hm hm,” he cleared his throat as he passed by the group and they greeted him hurriedly before returning to their bullying, giving Zenith more time to get closer to them undetected.They didn't realize until he was so close to them and they could no longer escape from his wrath.“What's going on?” He asked, sending jolts of fear to their hearts, while the only person who had remained frozen was Gift.This came as a surprise to him and made him dislike these people more.Even if anyone was to make her cry, it had to be him, yet they had broken those walls before him and left her vulnerable making it difficult for him to think of a revenge plan when she looked like that.So he made a mental change of plan which was to build her back to her arrogant self and then get his revenge, until then, he had the strong urge to bring
However, the scene of earlier when she had defended his sister and gotten revenge for her with their childish plans resurfaced in his mind and he retraced his steps back to her side, telling himself that he was only doing it because he owed her that much for protecting his sister.Unsure of how to comfort her, he sat on the floor beside her, crossed his legs and pulled her close to his chest, feeling very conscious of her body heat yet another time.Gift who felt that her prayers were answered and she was given an extra gift of comfort leaned into him even more and let it all out.After some minutes of crying and blowing into his handkerchief, her face which had dark circles and eyebags under the concealer was now also bloated and she was hiccuping non stop.“Why don't we go to my office so you can have some water?” he asked, unable to un1llllll10lderstand this side of h
Haven gotten no sleep at night, what was supposed to be a little dozing off and nap turned out to be a few hours of sleep with her stretching over the three seater sofa and waking up with a little drool in the side of her mouth.Gift was startled awake with a sense of emergency and the feeling of being watched, but she woke up to a rather relaxing scene of Zenith having a normal conversation with some other guy that she didn't recognize until he introduced himself.Zenith had noticed that she was awake from the first time she fluttered her eyes but he had pretended to be engrossed in the conversation he was having with Trenor instead.“Did I sleep for long?” Gift asked softly as she rubbed her eyes, stretched and sat up. Trenor reacted first as he turned with a smile.“The sleeping beauty has finally woken up, here, have some water,” he said as he gave
Zenith because her agreeing to his way of seeing things made it feel like they were on the same team, but how was he supposed to be on the same team with someone he wanted to get revenge on. Trenor because he just lost his shot at asking her out. A young and elegant beauty who knew how to dress and spoke well but she had no interest whatsoever in being in a relationship. He fell back into his chair and made a mental note to change that aspect of her. “Hehe, I don't think someone can stay with that thought forever, so when you do change your mind, please remember that I'm single and searching and you are totally my type.” “Ahh well-” Gift who had never considered jumping into a new relationship after the incident with her ex felt uncomfortable at his proposal. “Trenor, I think you've said enough, your noise is too much and I can't focus,” Zenith u
Olivia on the other hand didn't sleep past lunch as she was too happy that no one dared to talk down on her about the fact that she didn't have a mother. Neither had there been anyone talking in harsh audible whispers behind her back. They all seemed to be talking about how she was the only one who had the youngest mom and about how jealous they were. To them, Zenith was her father and having Gift as her mother made her have the youngest parents in class, so their dark emotions towards her moved from intimidation and ridicule to jealousy and envy, which she didn't mind now that the void in her heart was being gradually filled. She smiled as the bell rang and took out her lunch box. Ever since she was a child, she'd had to eat food prepared by helps or the cafeteria since Zenith never had the time to make her breakfast, but now, she could pr
Olivia said a little prayer and thanked Gift for the food as she picked her cutlery, her motion not too rushed or too slow.Her lunch box had a heater that let her food stay warm at least, so she had nothing to worry about.Just before she started to eat, she spared her table partner a glance and saw that he was looking at her with a drool running down the side of his mouth.She frowned as she looked down and saw that he had wiped his tray clean of any grain of food and frowned.She hadn't heard him chewing loudly to indicate that he had rushed the food, yet in less than five minutes he was done.Joseph on the other hand could no longer bear to see the food getting pushed further away and abandoned just like that, so he sympathized with it.“That, you don't want to eat it?” He pointed to the food tray set aside.
To this, Olivia burst out laughing again, almost choking on her food as she started to cough.Arnold saw this and almost ran to her side with his water while Beauty smirked and hoped she would choke and die.“Please be careful,” Joseph said as he handed her water over to her and she collected it with thanks.After she had calmed down, Joseph was staring at her, still clueless to what had made her laugh so heartily.But he was glad that he made her laugh. Maybe she would give him food as thanks as he had thought that she suffered from face paralysis in the past when she never made any different facial expressions even when talking to the teachers and other adults and that was why he never reached out to her.He was scared of misunderstanding her intentions since he believed that he was dumb.However, that morning when he had s