I made a video for T'Challa yesterday after the baby shower, showing off all the gifts we received to celebrate the birth of our son and daughter. This morning I had some time to myself so I was putting things away in the nursery
"Stop right there." I heard Anika say I turned to see her blocking my mother from coming in
"It's fine Anika." I said putting an outfit on a hanger, I looked up to see her walk in the room and look around
"Did you need something?"
"I was going to ask if you needed any help but this room looks amazing already." She said
"Thank you Ramonda helped a lot, it was my idea and she made it happen." I said
"It's good that you had her help."
"We've been blessed to have each other, through everything." I said picking up the basket of clothes
"Let me get that." She said taking the basket from me, I rubbed my stomach as I felt a cramp
"I was going to hang those in the closet," I told her and she carried it over to the closet and sat it down, and we quietly began handing up the clothes together. Once we were done she walked around the room
"Oh this is a nice picture." She said picking up the picture of T'Challa and I on our wedding day,
"That was our wedding day, I wanted a part of him to be around them always."
"You looked so beautiful, I saw the pictures in the tabloids but nothing compared to this." She said as I felt another cramp
"That was our big wedding. This was a small ceremony we did a few months before the big one." I said and she took a deep breath
"Ayesha I know I have no right to ask you this but could you ever forgive me?" She asked and I looked at her I never expected this
"I forgave you a long time ago. You see because if I didn't I wouldn't be where I am today. I spent years carrying around anger and resentment for you two, which turned into fear and almost made me lose the love of my life,"
"I am forever grateful that he chose me, and I put him through a lot but he stayed by my side and he loved me through everything." I told her and I blinked away tears
"And he helped me learn to love myself. For the longest time I didn't think I deserved to be loved, because if my parents couldn't."
"Ayesha we have always loved you, we just didn't know how to deal with you. truthfully you scared us."
"Forgive me if I'm having a hard time believing you ever loved me. the only reason you're here now is because of the extraordinary circumstances we're under right now."
"If you just give me a chance to prove it to you."
"You've had 32 years, I literally lived 40 minutes away from you my entire life you never came back, you never called."
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If it isn't Love
FanfictionT'Challa loves Ayesha, but Ayesha is still struggling with her feelings for T'Challa. She knows she cares for him deeply but can't bring herself to say the words 'I love you'. T'Challa has been patient knowing she has been through a lot but can he h...