Reminiscing

WANTED*_~

*Chapter 3*

"That's a very handsome young man there."

Tom said behind me as he was busy with the plates.

"Yeah it's someone I met earlier today. I bumped into him and now he was here with someone..."

"A lady?"

I nodded as I helped him with the plates. Trying so hard to push away some stupid thoughts about him. Tom did not say anything thereafter and I was grateful because I needed to push him off my brains. His smile...His abs. His long shabby nicely trimmed beard.

Fuck Aly just forget about him!

I unlocked the door at my house. The place was quiet as always signaling that there is no one else who resides in it except for me.

At least that night I wasn't going to be alone was I? I was kinda excited that Kelvin was going to come by tonight. I had missed him, the long nights we used to have making love, him promising me he was never going to leave me. I was in love. At least I had to convince myself that.

8:30pm. No call no text.

Maybe he was still going to come.

The table was set. I had cooked his favourite meal. Even got my best wine with some candles too on the table. I had even gotten myself a lingerie from a nearby shop which I was wearing to maybe seduce him.

I sat on the couch as I waited for him. Looking at the direction of the main door, hoping to be surprised but an hour later I was still waiting. Gosh who was I fooling? He was never going to come was he?

I poured myself a glass of the wine I had gotten us and gulped it down my throat, trying to remove all the negative thoughts I was now stuck in between right in my head.

I was never going to call him. I had accepted his apology and I was willing to give us another chance to try things out and where was he? Did he even meant his apology. Darn it.

4 years ago.

I was only 19. Had just finished high school. Mom was still alive and I was happy, life was just exactly it was supposed to be, though my parents had separated, I was just happy to be with my mom. She meant the world and more to me.

This other day, a customer came. A lady almost my mom's age, came and talked to my mom. She seemed rich. I could tell from the car she had just parked outside the restaurant. I was actually busy cleaning the tables and shoving away all the dirty plates. Their chatter was indistinct but I could see the smile across mom's face that she was about to brake a very big deal.

After the rich lady left. I ran to my mom. She looked so happy and she gave me a big smile.

"We have a lot of work to do my girl."

I hurried behind the counter and gave her a huge hug. We were actually in the middle of a financial crisis and God had just heard my mom's prayers.

The lady was hosting a big birthday party for her husband. She had heard about my mom's professional cooking and baking skills and had given her a job to do all the catering for the birthday.

After all the preparations and cooking and all, we had to take the food to the address that mom was given by her customer, but unfortunately I had to go alone. Mom had fallen ill.

Luckily I could drive and I also had a driver's license thanks to my pops.

I was so nervous about the whole job I had to take but I got some courage and went to the house.

On arriving I actually realized that the lady who had given my mom an order wasn't just rich from the assumptions I had had, but she was really rich. Like filthy rich.

Her house, the cars that were parked in the drive way, I breathed in as I parked my small Toyota Corolla besides the huge Land cruiser that was also parked there.

I just shrugged and came out of the car. With courage I knocked on the big french door was I supposed to knock? Before I could think anything else, someone came from behind me and opened the door. He just walked past me and then he stopped inside turning to look at me.

There that's when I met him Kelvin. I had fallen in love with him from the very first moment I had seen him.

"Are you just gonna stand there or you're gonna come inside?"

"Is Mrs Brown around? I have a word from my mom for her."

"You must be the cook's daughter right?"

I nodded and he let me in. From then I had known him. He had asked for my number, I had given him. Texted me, asked me out for dates. I had known that he was a player but I still fell for him infact he had promised me he would change and that I was the only one he needed.

Had given him my virginity on my twentieth birthday when he had taken me out for a picnic to an outskirt resort. He knew I loved nature and he had taken me there trying to make me happy.

Each day he would call me in the morning, text me during the day and maybe send me some flowers. He was my all, I had loved him like I've loved no other. And he knew that. I introduced him to my parents on my twenty first birthday some months before my mom died ,and he promised her he wasn't going to break my heart ....