Love At Last

Cry me a river

Lily

“Hey baby girl! Stop crying please, you shouldn’t take whatever those two said they were just petty disrespectful and desperate. It was all a trap” Jarod uses his palm to continuously draw a bridge on my back as he tries to stop the river of tears that now flowed freely from my eyes.

“They were right! I can’t do anything that turns out fine, I’m just a failure” I mutter as my wailing continues without a seizure and my pillow now soaked in my tears and sweat. “I want to be alone please”

Granny who stood at the door all this while finally spoke and told Jarod to leave me be, that I need my space to sob for the time being “Jarod dear, I think you should let her be for now, I’ll take care of her and make sure she’s fine”

Jarod hesitates but then agrees “Alright Granny, I’ll come back and check on her later this evening, please take care of her”

“I will my love, I’ll go make soup for her incase she develops a fever like she usually does from excessive crying”

“Alright Granny, I’d be on my way now” just as Jarod steps out from the main door, he sights Cayden who was briskly approaching the house. He immediately makes a U-turn and hurries back into the house and ends up startling Granny in the process who was on her way to go prepare my favorite beef flavored soup. Before Granny could attempt to inquire why Jarod came back to the house so suddenly, Cayden appears in their presence with both worry and curiosity motiffed all over his face.

Jarod is pricked by the mere sight of Cayden and even gets more irritated when Cayden begins to ask about Lily.

In a gentlemanly manner, Cayden first greets Granny “A lovely evening to you dear Granny… Jarod!” He then calls Jarod in a passive tone as he scans him briefly.

“Evening my dear, are you here to see Lily?”

“Yes please, where is she?” He asks as he scrutinizes the house with his eyes.

“Lily is quite indisposed right now, maybe you should come back later”

“Oh… what I need to discuss with her is actually very important and urgent, I would really appreciate her presence and opinion” Cayden was quite versed with the way he used his words, so much so that Granny felt obligated.

“Hey Mr, didn’t you hear her say Lily was indisposed… you should take your leave now before I am forced to make you” Jarod interjects in an admit to get Cayden out in a whisk

“Well hold on now” we both turn to look at Granny “why don’t we allow Lily to decide that. Young man, her room is two doors after this, knock and if she responds then that’s your luck but if not you would leave” Granny points to her door and Jarod’s anger grows even more as Cayden brushes him as he makes his way to my door

Cayden knocks thrice and then speaks in a taming pitching “Hey dear, how are you doing”

“See! She didn’t respond, now can you leave?”

And just as Cayden is about to take his first step, the handle of my door creeks and an opening lines up on the opening of the door. I peep and am surprised to see it was Cayden.

His eyes looks with my peeping eye “Lily, can I come in please, I promise I won’t strain you”

I hesitate for only a second or two and then open the door slowly. I catch his face brightening up but he does not give an obvious facial expression. Jarod is left in awe as Cayden makes his way into my room with gentle ease and then I close the door behind him and then the handles creek again, indicating that I had locked it.

Cayden immediately goes to pick up my reading table chair and positions it closer to the bed when I go back to sit down now instead. It was how audacious he made it seem like he had been in my room before and I was completely unbothered about it, I even sat closer to were his chair was.

He does not say anything for the first few minutes, all he does is gaze at my now swollen face and saggy eyes that gave off the obvious fact that I was crying my eyes out. At intervals I’d look to see his polished marine blue eyes pear at me. I imagined he may have wanted to scan other parts of my body as I was not sweaty and my wet dress now giving details of my upper body that were normally not pronounced.

I was more surprised that Granny would freely let Cayden get an inch close to my door, talk more of letting him enter into my room without going bunkers. Unlike in previous times, Granny’s newly found trust in Cayden was heartening to me.

He finally speaks after what felt like an hour of loud silence.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“Lily…” he starts in the kindest of tones