THE MESSIAH'S REVENGE.

Chapter 41.

"Come on right in dear" My nena says.

"What is going on here?" it is better to cut to the chase, petty greetings prolong the inevitable anyway.

Alvaro walks in and he stops in his tracks and then he gives me a confused look and I return the gesture.

"Oh I assumed you met your father already dear"
So nena and Frank know what is cooking in the kitchen? I am not really concerned about Frank, why the hell is Jerry and Diana playing cupids relatives in my living room!?

"Oh I've met him, I just didn't know that you have"

"Well I have dear...this is his nephew Jerry"

"Hi, nice to meet you" Jerry says as he smiles awkwardly. It is either someone knocked his head and he forgot that he knows me, or I am dreaming and no one wants to wake me up.

"Oh is it?" I ask.

"Oh and Jerry is my fiancé" Diana adds on, okay so you meet for what? Three? Four months and you decide that you are getting married?

Mankind never ceases to amaze me but that's cool.

"Uhmmm Layler, I will call you later, take care" Alvaro says as he exits, great leave me in this daydream that is cool. Thumbs up.

"I didn't know that people spend a couple of months then deci-"

"It has been two years now" Diana adds while Jerry shifts awkwardly in his seat.

"Oh, that is great...Have y’all seen Alex?" I really have no energy for what just happened.

It doesn't happen much that one gets home and their baby daddy announces that he is engaged to your cousin, hell that has never happened, I am yet to see things in this life.

"He is in his studio" Kate informs me and I head outside, I walk into my nena's greenhouse and it looks better than it did before.

I walk around for a few minutes when I hear the door open up.

"Layler" I turn around to find a nervous Jerry looking at me.

"Oh uhmmm Jerry right?"

"Stop!"

"Oh I thought you are still in character"

"Huh?"

"You do not know me anymore, and I do not know you right? As far as everyone is concerned you are my cousin, and you are engaged to my other cousin...so hey cuzzie how's life? Make anyone pregnant thus far? Lie much?"

"I can explain"

"What? That I was a one night stand then you told me that you love me...while you are engaged to my cousin and then you got me pregnant? I already know the plot...moving on" I say as I start to walk around again.

"I love her"

"Good for you mate" I say in a Texas accent.

"Do not tell her please, can we act like we never-"

"Met? Right ahead of you cuzzie, go back inside...your fiancé wants to play cupids victims with you...hurry along now"
He shrugs and then he walks out of the greenhouse.

One of these days we will all choke on the things we say. Well the whole situation with Jerry doesn't hit far, I might have liked him but clearly he was having fun. What kills me is the whole Bauti thing.

Not so long ago he practically worshipped me then he goes to rehab and decides that I am not worth being part of his life.

I've known Bauti for as long as I can remember and for him to go as far as basically signing off in my world speaks volumes.

It's okay though, good things happen to bad people so I will wait my turn, love is overrated anyway.

"Are you okay" Frank asks, when did he even get in here? I wipe the tears from my eyes.

"What do you want? Why did you come to my house?"

"Millicent, I want-"

"What did you just call me?"

"Your mother gave you that name, that was my late mother's name and I-"

"Wow a legacy of names anyway, what do you want from me?"

"I've been denied being your father and now I feel like the chance has been given to me, please-"

"Your speech has a typical ending, so I will save us the boredom, listen...I have truck loads against you because if you didn't leave aunt Quela-my mother, then we would have been a family...I could have grown up to own my big company without being forced to be a drug lord and a pivot in killings, I wouldn't have been stuck playing mother at 17!"

"I know and I am"

"Go back to Britain, take your useless nephews with you"

"Plea-"

"Get out or I will do something to you that makes seeing me feel like a trip to hell, do not try me Mr Mercy" I say and he laughs, okay that's not something that usually happens when you threaten someone.

"Father? Is that what you want me to call you? Okay old man" I hiss.

"One day" He says and then he walks right out.

I need to get out of this greenhouse before another Mercy walks in with his joke of a threat, speaking of Caleb...he won't know what hit him, I almost feel sorry for him...oh well almost.