Rain

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Her aunt had apologized to her with every opportunity she got, since Fred told her that Rain knew everything. Right now, Rain was beginning to think the woman had gone a step too far by inviting Nessa to apologize.

“She sent you here to apologize?” Rain said arms folded, she had just woken up and met the surprise of her cousin in her room.  “If so I don’t want to hear it and how did you even enter my room?”

“Your door was unlocked”

“That doesn’t say....”

“I should come in, I know and I’m sorry” she completed

She blinked; Nessa just said the word sorry, “What are you doing here? Do you want my bedroom too?”
“I came to tell you that I’m sorry for everything. The truth is that I’ve always been jealous of you and everything you had”

Rain reserved the strong urge to roll her eyes, “That’s nothing new; I knew you were even before we hit double digits in years”

She nodded playing with the hem of her shirt, “But Fred made me see I was wrong...”

“What does Fred have to do with this?” she asked suspicious of the answer she would get.

“He came by few days ago; it’s not what you are thinking. Fred loves you and is committed to you” She chose not to comment “He made me see that all you’ve ever done is for my happiness and that I’ve been too blind to see it. Like how you doted on me like the big sister I never had”

She yawned, not to mock her, it came involuntarily, “Yes good old days, so now what?”

“Forgive me Rain, it may seem to you that I’m being insincere but I truly mean it” At the moment, Nessa looked nothing but sincere, she knew without a doubt she meant it too. “I shouldn’t have done all those things to get to you including using Fred and I shouldn’t have all those things to get to you including using Fred and I shouldn’t have pretended to be pregnant to break you and Fred’s relationship”

“So what do you want me to do now?”

“I was hoping you would forgive me?”

Rain shook her head, “That won’t be possible Nessa”

Nessa stood quietly after a minute and nodded, tear filling her eyes, “Okay” her voice was small.

She stood up pulling the crying mess into an embrace. “I already forgave you, how can I forgive you again?”

Nessa’s sobs got louder, “I’m sorry” as her tears got her pajamas wet.

“There, is all good, dear, let it go okay”

“I would never forgive me; you know why would you forgive so easily?

“Well I know behind your spoilt self, you are a total different person than you choose to portray else you won’t be the Vanessa Mills people you know. But I know the real you. And who said it was easy to forgive you?” Rain said looking at her wardrobe over Nessa’s shoulder, “Even though I still don’t know how I will manage the knowledge of you having being with Fred at some point.”

She sniffed making Rain release her, “I’m so sorry. Honestly I do not have feelings for Fred, please believe me Rain”

Rain looked at her cousin whose eyes were red from tears and some still finding their way down her face and nodded, “But I’m willing to overlook that and work on us being sisters again, no man coming in between us. Love does triumph in the end right?” she smiled but just got more sniffing from Nessa and a small yeah.

“It’s okay, now I’ve got to go bath” a small laugh came from Nessa as she nodded, “I will wait for you”

“You sure I’ve got to go to the workplace”

“Oh” Nessa looked down. “I’ll stay back for you then”

“Tell you what. Why don’t you come with me and during lunch we can talk over things” she paused in her stride to her bathroom to look at Nessa.

“Okay I’ll like that” she smiled.

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Daniel was in his garage when a man walked into his shop. Dressed in an African print top and black trouser, he did nothing but stare around with no look of judgment whatsoever, just a blank look. He stood tall in a sturdy frame; his hair was quite dark for a man around his age, not a single existence of a grey hair.

“You must be Daniel” the man said finally resting his gaze on him after looking him over. Being a weekday, he was all alone as the boys were in school.

He straightened up from the car he was working on, “Yes and may I know who’s asking?”

“Of course, I’m Rain’s uncle” he said sitting down on a chair available

Daniel stared, “Her uncle?” How did he find him? Had he done something wrong?
“Yes and you must be Daniel right?”

“Yes Sir” he responded immediately, “Is there a problem?” Scenarios went through his head, had something happened to Rain. “Is Rain okay, she’s not hurt is she?”

The man looked at him, “Not at all. I just came to say thank you for taking care of my niece over these months I actually went to your house but your mom wasn’t around and so here I am in your….” he paused looking around, “garage”

Daniel looked at the car he came in, “Did she bring you here?”

“No I came by myself; she doesn’t even know I’m here”

The next question he wanted to ask had to do with how he found his workplace but stopped considering that a man such as him would undeniably have his ways of locating him. After all he had already been to his house and probably had information about his family. He even knew about his mother now

“I think no thanks is needed sir”

“On the contrary, I do think it’s necessary. And that’s not the only reason why I came; I came to invite you for dinner”

He was what? That was it, dinner? He had reason to believe the man had an ulterior motive besides dinner. What if he knew Daniel knocked down Rain and wanted to have a form of revenge.

“Huh? Mr.” he scratched his head before burying one hand in his pocket, “I can’t.....I can’t Mr.....”

“Mills, and I’m not taking no for an answer. So I insist on you coming Mr. Asamoah. See it as a request of my gratitude to you” Mr. Mills stood up and Daniel could actually see how the man was intimidating at his height. He looked up at the man giving an uneasy smile.

Guess he was going then.

A/N
Hello,  so sorry for the long wait.  A lot of things happened. To put it short,  my laptop decided to go crazy and I lost all my documents😢. But thank God for Google Drive. I got some of my works back but not all of it but it's all good.

Moving on! Here is Chapter 21. So it seems Rain and Nessa are patching up some tears in their cousin cloth.

Okay I will end it now. Thanks to you all for the support from the very beginning to this far. I'm grateful.

Edit:
Up in the media section is what an African print shirt looks like.

Ko si se me te monka...... Stay blessed 😊