Baby Mama

XLIII

Osas was boiling the whole weekend. Ivie wasn't even talking to her and it made her look like the bad guy.

So by Monday morning osas was fuming with anger when Joyce came to see her after Ivie left for school

"Ivie has never gone this long without talking to me, last night when I went to her bed to wish her goodnight she was pretending to fall asleep. Can you imagine that? Is like my daughter is a different person"

"So she's angry you didn't let her go with her dad's wife". Joyce was trying to catch up with the story
"But why didn't you?"

"What do you mean...., I should just allow them walk in here and take my daughter"

"Well you didn't have a problem with that before why now....."

"He always calls before coming here besides we have an agreement"

"Is that not supposed to be every Saturday "

"Yeah well that's what I thought before he went behind my back to start chatting with her using mail"

"Well teenagers are quite innovative these days, they just find a means to communicate "

"She's not even a teenager yet, she turns twelve in April and she's already giving me attitude"

"Look, my youngest sibling is 14years old and he is a thug of war you can't even keep him off social media so what we do is find common ground to try and contain his rebellion "

"And what would that be"

"A bargain..., sometimes you make her do things your way in return you let her do what she wants once in awhile "

"Ivie is very smart she would hold that against you for as long as possible pls I can't start making promises I don't intend to keep"

Joyce sighed heavily
"If you have a problem with her dad why not just talk to him about it"

"The fact that he hasn't called me till now shows how much of a coward he is"

"What really happened osas, I thought you guys were doing fine., or is the wedding that is making you act up"

"Am not acting up because of their stupid wedding, I just demand respect. You need to see the way that toothpick legs stormed in here, they think they can mess with me .....Haha! They don't know me"

"Then tell him that his business is with you and not his wife, you don't want to relate with her at all and he shouldn't use her as his middle man"

"Frankly! I don't think he has the balls to tell her anything "

"So you guys are fighting over a man without balls" she scoffs

"We are not fighting over anything, if she chooses to display madness I want them to know that I am willing to meet that madness with equal force. Am just angry that they managed to manipulate my daughter in their silly schemes, why will he be secreting emailing her when he can call me and ask to speak with her"

"Osas! Calm down......Looks like you're angry that you are out of the setting. You have to cut Ivie some slack she deserves to be loved and pampered by both parents and in her defense she hasn't seen her dad in awhile she misses him. Besides daughters are always attached to her fathers. When my dad died it was pretty tough for me coz we were so close I would give anything to relive those moments with him. So just because he is married doesn't mean he is less qualified to be her father anyone that hears this now will think you're jealous "

"This is not about jealousy Joyce.... It's more complicated, I don't want Ivie hating me because of this "

"You want her on your team"