Amelia

Chapter 2

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"Animals are born who they are, accept it and that is that. They live with greater peace than most people do."
—Gregory Maguire.

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I had just finished an appointment and was currently sitting in the cafeteria with my colleague and best friend, Omotayo Akindele who was sick yesterday.

Last night I had fallen asleep very quickly that I hadn't even known when Pat had left she had left a note though, telling me that she had to go since it was late, I had seen it when I woke up this morning to the annoying sound of my alarm clock.

She had left after tidying the kitchen which was embarrassing since I hadn't had time to clean and arrange for a while now, so the entire place was a mess. When I had woken up this morning i had gone to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee, since I still felt a bit tired I had found the kitchen spick-and-span, the tiles were absolutely spotless and a cluster of sugar that I had poured while going to work the day before and hadn't gotten the time to clean was gone.

The floor was also spotless as well as the stove, I had made a mental note this morning while wearing my shoes to drop by her apartment today after work to thank her.

"So how's yesterday, I hope it wasn't too busy for you, you know covering for me?" Tayo asked with a slight frown on her face and a crease on her forehead. Tayo a nickname I had gotten from her real name, it was a traditional name from where she came from according to what she had told me, she was what one could call an African beauty, she had glowing tan skin just the right shade of brown which she always paired with her various contact lens, the contact lens she currently had on was a light blue colour, her hair was a huge afro and was tied into a middle puff with an Ankara outfit, her nose was quite straight and her were pink and pouty lips were coated with lip gloss

"No it was alright, just a little busy." I tell her trying not to upset her, Tayo was one of those really nice people that hated being an inconvenience and always tried to help other people  and hated when others tried to help them back, she was very beautiful and was more of an introvert than extrovert but she was extremely nice.

We had attended the same University but weren't really close then, she was just like one of your classmates that you acknowledge in class but never talked to aside of that class ever again, that was exactly how we were. We eventually became close and bonded with each other after finding ourselves working together in the same hospital and since having known each other in uni, and both being the new
staffs who didn't quite fit in yet we formed a close and tight bond.

"So when's Caleb coming back from his trip from the neighbouring town?" Upon hearing the name of my boyfriend,
a smile immediately lits up on my face. Tayo sends me a knowing grin, Caleb and I had dated for roughly about eight months and he was the sweetest.

He made me smile a lot and I had even introduced him to Pat and Tayo, we were actually quite serious but not that serious to get married, maybe in the upcoming years we would be that couple that everyone secretly looked up to and wanted to be. I had also introduced him to my sister using Facetime, she had smiled and asked him lots of questions, she had even gone as far as to threaten him and she had also told him embarrassing stories of me. The call wasn't really for long since the call had been disturbed by the cries of my little niece Jaya who had injured herself while playing, Nicole had to cut the call short to take care of her and her injuries.

He had currently travelled to the nearby town to meet his parents and elder brother who lived there, he has been gone for the past 2 weeks and would be arriving tommorow which is a Tuesday. I had missed him a lot, this was the longest we had been separated since we started dating, most times he hardly left me for more than a week but this time was different though, his mum has been bugging him that he hardly spends time with her, at least that's what he told me.

Before I started dating him I always felt this heaviness and ache in my heart, it had always been there since I was younger from the time I had killed my dog Odie he was actually a cute puppy, he had died from I having accidental putting pesticide in his food, as I grew older the ache became much more heavier and harder to ignore, I had gone to a doctor and he had confirmed nothing was wrong with me, it was just my emotional state, once I met Caleb I felt the ache in my heart diminish a little, it wasn't as much as before, even now it was still quite there I didn't know why I felt it or why I did buy I believed that the more I stayed with Caleb the less I would feel it, after all they didn't say love cures all things.

"Hopefully tommorow" I tell her with a grin plastered on my face.
"Ohh .... You two are incredibly cute." She squeals at me," literally couple goals and Caleb is so hot." She tells me with a dreamy smile on her face as she talked about his facial appearances and how I did a good job dating him, the first time I met him was purely coincidental.
" Umm... Thanks." I tell her not really knowing what to say to all that she just said.

We were cut off from our conversation by Jade, she was a nurse that worked closely close to us and a very big gossiper but she was incredibly good at her job, nothing ever got past her and she could never ever keep a secret, if you were looking for a way to spread a news, tell her and you don't need to worry about it anymore, it would be around the whole hospital in days, the whole town in less than 3 weeks.

"Girls, you wouldn't believe what I found out, you know Dr Albany, the veterinary oncologist that married that short Asian lady with dyed blond hair is having an affair with nurse Kim, you wouldn't even believe it when I first heard about it I was appalled."

"You know his wife Mrs Albany she was a very nice woman, ooh .. and very beautiful with some curves even though she's not as blessed in the bossom as I am and doesn't also have as much hips as me, she was quite beautiful and incredibly cute and her cheeks ...aww... They were so..." She told us her hand gesticulating to explain what she means.

"But I also heard that their first son Nick ah.. yes...Nick, that cute chubby boy, he is not her husband biological son and she also had a boyfriend in college who must be the father." and here we go again I thought to myself.

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I had just finished a surgery on a cat named Alice that was involved in a car accident, the cat suffered some major injuries a lot of broken bones, 2 fracture—one in her left front paw specifically her femur and another in her right paw and her back left front paw was crushed beyond repair so she won't ever be able to walk on it.

The driver had brought her here and we had used the information on her collar to find the owner and had immediately called them down. I grab my bag before making my way to the car, I call Tayo and after 2 missed call she picked up, I informed her I was about to leave, she told me she would be there in 5 minutes before ending the call.

I sat in the driver seat and waited for Tayo to get into the car, Tayo has been carpooling with me for the past week since her car was still at the mechanics for repairs. She finally arrived and we left the parking lot, we chatted for a while and our conversation was cut short when we reached her home, she quickly got out of the car and left not before throwing a thanks my way.

Upon arriving home, I got out of the car and made my way to the lobby where I was stopped by Violet one of my neighbor that lived in the floor above me she invited me to her baby shower, she was a petite woman with light brown hair that was always straightened, her hazel eyes didn't sparkle like they normally did today and her lips were coated in red lipstick, she had been dressed in a sky blue maternity dress.

I made my way to the elevator and once I reached my floor, I immediately went to Pat's apartment and knocked, after a while she opens the door wearing an apron and some particles of flour in her hair.

"Hi Melia, I am just getting making some cookies.....do you need anything?" She asked me with a smile on her face, the dimple on her right cheek became so much prominent.

"um... Nope, I would love to help you though."

A few hours later I find myself walking to my apartment with a few batches of cookies in hand.

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