"Yes, I do. She's Zeece, Dorcas's friend."
All glimmers of hope went down the drain for Grace. Even Lillian buried her face in her palms. Shocked, Grace exclaimed, "What! What did you just call her name?" She looked from Nath to her daughter who was quiet and she could tell she understood what was going on.
"Let's go to the canteen together, Lillian," Dorcas said in her friend's huge office the next morning."Yeah, let me round up," Lilian said as she worked in her system.
Nath got home, took off his clothes, showered and went downstairs into his living room. He turned on his large plasma TV and switched the channel to BBN show on his DSTV.He loved watching the show, but looking at it now, he could only see. He could not figure out a word out of what they were saying. His mind had traveled so far that it was hard to drive himself back to the present.
Lillian finished cooking for her father and set the table for him. She hummed and moved her body from side to side. She was listening to Me and love don't get along by Tatiana Manaios in her headset.The volume was so loud that she did not hear the footsteps of her father as he came into the dining room. She had come to spend the weekend with him, just like the old days. Even though it had been a while since he visited her f
Her father was surprised to hear that from her. That was not the first time she had told him that. The first time, he had overlooked it because he thought she was joking, but now that she mentioned it again, he could not help being surprised."Only Nath?" He knew who Nath was. She had told him about him several times. He knew every story behind the two of them till the present moment. "That boy tha
Lillian sashayed from her office and started walking to her mother's. She had summoned her to come over that Wednesday morning. She did not know the reason and that was why she was going there to find out. But it would be nothing other than business. She could always get her mum's intentions through the tone of the voice she used to talk to her and based on that tone, it was going to be all business.She knocked twice
Dorcas emerged from her kitchen with a glass of apple juice she had made for her visitor. She was living in a self-contained apartment in Ikorodu, Lagos. And her visitor was surprisingly Alexander, the waiter in the restaurant she had been with Nathaniel.They had been in touch after exchanging contacts and she had been to his place a few times. Those were the times she would tell Lillian that she was in Nath's house
"Lillian?" Nathaniel called. He did not want to believe his eyes as he rose to his feet.Nester looked at her boss and gave him the is-she-the-one look which made her boss shake his head slightly. "I will excuse you, sir," she said and went out of the office after acknowledging the visitor.Lillian walked closer to his desk and stood still,waiting to be offered a seat before sitting down. She could not say anything, nor look away from his eyes. How come his face did not change at all? She was sure she didn't change much as well, so what was so difficult in recognizing her? It would have even been better if he ever mentioned that she looked familiar, but he never did. Not even once.
Lillian got off her car in the company's parking lot and was about to close the car door when she sighted Dorcas coming out of a Corolla Sport some feet away from where she was. Dorcas did not own a car, so someone may have dropped her.She watched as she began smiling and a man emerged from the driver's seat who Lillian could recognize anywhere and anytime of the day.Nathaniel.She realized Dorcas had not been telling her about her relationship anymore and that was so unlike her. Not that she wanted to pry into their business, but the best friend she knew would never cease to update her as things were going for her in her relationship