Caught Between Two

03

After the little date with Dante that night we had become closer by the day. He was now my go to person whenever I was at home bored and wanted to drive out and enjoy myself, even my mother grew fond of him and told me that she envisioned someone as humble and caring as him to be her son in law. My mada think seh she smart enu, from mi and Dante tun fren she nu stop try hint to me seh a him she wah me fih deh wid. My mother and Dante had developed a close relationship to the point where he was openly welcomed to join my family for dinner whenever he liked. I was glad that my mother was fond of him because I was slowly starting to enjoy his company and I was always happy whenever I get to see him or see a notification from him.

*Andrews Hospital*
December 22 4:30 pm

Dante: Hey beautiful, doing anything today?🤩

I started to smile as I read the message I received from Dante. I quickly responded back letting home know that I was about to leave work and try to get something to eat. As usual he offered to drop me home and I accepted. He told me that he would let me know when he is near my office as he was doing a trip at the moment so once he was finished he would come for me. I replied to him and started to do some more additional checks on my patients and finish some paperwork when suddenly I saw a familiar face running down the corridor and stopping at the front desk. "Could this day get any worse" I said as I realized that Jay was now standing in front of me with no other than Rachel in his arms.

She looked over to where I was standing and as soon as she recognized that I was present she began to caress his chest and snuggle into his neck. Seeing my disgusted reaction she held him tightly to which he began to cry in pain. I knew that she was doing this to get under my skin so I hissed my teeth and took my stuff and went into my office but still curious to know why they were at the hospital I left my office door open. After some time one of my colleagues came to my office to call me as she wanted my help in assigning a room for Rachel to stay. Turns out that Rachel was pregnant and hadn't known so she went out to have a drink at the bar and drank alcohol which was not good for the fetus in her stomach which resulted her in some aching pain.

Although I didn't like Rachel I still went ahead and offered my help as this was my job right? After she settled in her room I stormed out leaving her and Jay inside the room or so I thought. He quickly bolted out into the hallway trying to catch up with me. He began apologizing to me as if he knew exactly what I was thinking. "Shy please .. mi swr right yasso seh mi neva a fool roun Rachel.. she jus call mi and a seh she ina pain and need fi gaah doctor and a dat mi do.. mi bring har guh up a eh doctor and dem send we dung ya .. swr mi neva knw she pregnant and to how it look she neva know dat eeda" As I was about to respond to him I was alerted by the ringing of my phone and picked it up to which Dante told that he was outside waiting for me. I began walking away without responding to Jay which led him to say "Yuh really nu blv mi shy? Yuh rly think mi and Rachel deh? jah jah dwq" I shook my head while looking at him and walked away silently.

As I entered the car Dante could see that u was upset and he asked me if everything was ok to which I lied saying I just had a stressful day and wanted to get away. Given that it was a Friday and I didn't work on weekends Dante offered to bring me to a villa to ease and relax my mind. At first I was hesitant but I reluctantly agreed. I went home and informed my mother of my plans for the upcoming weekend and packed my bag and left my house with the expectations that I was going to have a relaxing weekend.

*At the villa*
6:30 pm

Dante pulled up in front of a beautiful villa. I was puzzled as to how he had known about such a beautiful place to relax and go forget about the world for once. That's when Dante told me about his family's background. I then got to understand that his grandfather was in the parliament and he had willed all of his inheritance to Dante. Dante explained that even though he had enough riches to get by quite okay he still wanted to work on his own and not take it for granted that he had money. I was touched about how he viewed life and it brought me back to how I grew up as a child.