Delaney and Odell are the perfect match , they compliment each other. He silences her demons , and she makes him a better man. There's no such thing as perfect though is there ?
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" So everything you ever told me about my father, and the way he felt about me was a lie?"
It was going to get very uncomfortable in a second, maybe I need to change the subject.
" What was Emeli like when she was a baby? Is Ayanna like her?"
" No Buggie don't change the subject, mom answer my question. Did you ever stop and think that maybe just maybe, if you had let him have a relationship with me or my sister, that he may still be here, and that Delaney would have both of her parents?"
Ouch, that's not fair she can't blame her mother for what my dad did she had nothing to do with that. Em was fuming I could tell, she was fighting her tears. I looked at Q who really didn't know if he should step in or not, I stood up and excused myself grabbing Emeli's hand.
" Em come on let's get some air, don't upset Ayanna." she stood not breaking eye contact with her mother.
" This conversation isn't over." She walked with me out into the front of the restaurant
" How could she be such a liar Buggie. He never hurt you, you told me that yourself, so how could she be so selfish as to keep him away from me! He was my dad that was never her choice. Did anyone ever stop and asking him what he was so angry about? What if we could have saved him how can I ever forgive her knowing she's been lying to me for so many years."
" Em calm down, I'm sure she did what she thought was best for you. We can't blame her for the man that our father was."
" Yes we can, because I know what kind of woman she is. That whole BS story about how she only met your mother when they were finally done? Yeah right, my mother was MARRIED when she met Daddy, that is the real reason why she didn't want me around , she wanted the man she was married too, to believe that I was his daughter so that he wouldn't know his wife was a whore."
She was livid, she was almost screaming and she was pacing back and forth, the tears that had threatened to fall from her eyes before, were now cascading down her cheeks. I have never seen Emeli so upset. Was this true? Was my father the other man? If so maybe that's why he started lashing out, he was upset because he wanted his family?
" Em don't say that how do you know that? We have Daddy's last name, how would another man be okay with his daughter having someone else's last name?"
" Because she's an amazing Liar Buggie, she probably made him believe that her last name was Delrio! I can't even look at her right now, I just want to go home. Tell Q to bring Yanna we are leaving."
" Em can we talk about this?"
" Please buggie just go!"
I bit the inside of my cheek and walked back to the table. Odell and Q both looked at me with questioning eyes.
" Q, Emeli is ready to go, she doesn't want to continue the breakfast." he nodded and stood up picking up Ayanna.
" Daddy no I want to finish my pancakes! Pwease Daddy."
" Baby Mommy's not feeling good we have to go."
" NO NO NO !!!" She started crying, I hated to see her cry
" Q it's okay me and Dell will bring her when she's finished."
" Thank You Laney. I am going to go ahead and Take Emeli home. Ma I'm really sorry about all of this."
" Q it's okay just tell my daughter i love her, even if she hates me right now."
He nodded and walked out to get Emeli, I sat down on the opposite side of Noonie, leaving her between me and Odell. I looked over at him and reassured him that I was okay.
" Delaney and Odell I am really very sorry, about how this meal turned out."
" You don't have to apologize to us, this wasn't about us this is between you and Emeli. I just want to know one thing. Do you know why my father was so angry?"
" When things didn't go the way your father intended for them to go he lashed out. It just so happened that no matter the situation, he would lash out on the person he loved the most. I hurt your father, just as much as he hurt me but there is nothing I can do about that now."
" When you say you hurt him, how ? How could you have hurt such an evil man."
" He wasn't always evil Delaney, when I met him he was one of the sweetest people I had ever met. We met at a mutual friends birthday party, I was seeing someone at the time, so it was only a friendly conversation, but from that night on we spoke almost every single day. I started to develop an attachment to your father, even though I was in a relationship Rodrigo was one of my best friends. I fell in love with him and eventually got pregnant, I am not proud of how it happened but it happened. When i found out i was having a baby I was so happy, I knew it wasn't my husbands baby because we barely had sex. Rodrigo wanted right away for me to divorce my husband and start a family with him, I knew I couldn't do that because Rodrigo was in no place to raise a child, his business was just getting started he didn't have the money. I told him I wasn't leaving my husband that is when the abuse started."
Emeli was right, her mother is the reason my father was so angry, she took his family away from him.
" I've heard enough thank you. Ayanna let's take your pancakes and go check on mommy how does that sound?"
" I'm going to bring mommy some of my food so she can feel better."
" Sounds good to me Noonie. Esme it was a pleasure. I'm sure you can cover the bill right? Seeing as how you have a rich husband."
I grabbed my jacket and the box with Ayanna's food, Odell grabbed Noonie and we left.
" Babe. Should I go back and pay for our food?"
" No she has a husband, a rich one at that she doesn't need our money."
" I don't think she meant that the way it sounded baby, maybe she was just doing what was best for her and Emeli."
" By not allowing my father to be a father when he wanted to be? I don't think that's the best thing for anybody."
He left the conversation alone, it was a battle that he wouldn't win anyway. I didn't know how things were going to turn out between Emeli and her mother. But I do know that a lot of my father's anger stems from her mother, and for some reason that doesn't sit well with me. I know she's not the one who beat my mother, but she's a part of the reason my father pulled the trigger.
