When the sun comes

TWENTY

In just a year, their little son, Mark was growing, for them there was no greater joy than to see him, crawling and trying to walk and trying to talk, and calling them Mami and daddo, Aunt Jacinta, had to go back to her home to her kids after spending six months with them,. Ikem decided that it was time to go back home, to the place they came from, it was time for their people to see one of them.

Their families were so happy to see Mark, he was a joyful baby and made people laugh wherever he went,

"This boy is a blessing to the both of you" her father had said, he was still recovering but he couldn't do hard jobs or carry heavy load,

And the down cast face of Ikem stepmother, when she saw Ikem's son but she was quick to hide it behind fake smiles and laughter, Ikem made his son to stay as far away from her as possible, after spending Christmas and New year's with the families, it was time to go back home, they promised to come back home very soon, Ikem was already constructing a bigger house in the village, Mmasi decided to look for a job, Mark was growing fast and she didn't want to be at home Everytime, she submitted her CV to some social organization, she got called to teach biology in a secondary school, so she enrolled Mark in a nursery School near where she worked, so she could pick him up, when it was time to go home, she noticed that, he was a really sharp child, he grasped information easily, he was also very smart,

Meanwhile, she met with Tiwa one day, she informed her that Richardson had been arrested by the police for consuming, selling and carrying of hard drugs, she was devastated, how could Richardson do such a thing, he was always against such, when they were in school, "I guess people change with time.

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Life continued. People came and people left, some people changed, married life is not easy, to achieve a happy marriage is not easy, there is no marriage that is pitch perfect and Rosy, it is all learning process, some times we just have to tolerate the flaws, celebrate together in the good times and support each other in the bad times, remember no one is perfect, all marriages are different, you just have to write your own story, for Mmasi and Ikem, they still have a lot to learn, they are still beginners in this journey, you can never fully understand or know a human, their will still be fights and quarrel and anger and then love and happiness in the journey of their marriage, things would change.

Mmasi got pregnant again after three years, of course it was celebration time again since it was a girl and her husband was quite fond of his daughter, her school best friends were still in the process of exploring life, no one heard from Jessica again.....but is she really gone? Richardson was serving jail terms, her elder sister still stayed with her husband, even when she was advised to leave him because of all the pain he inflicted on her, and finally, Ikem and Mmasi were happy with their family of course, their family is still expanding.

The end

But is it really, after all the end is just the beginning.

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