The Girl.

Having Huria and Adriana back.

For almost a year without any call, no email or a text to check on her daughter . Adriana decided to come back to Bogota from her trip to Ecuador , she called a girlfriend of hers who was still working and living at St Mary's Orphanage , her friend was excited to hear from her again , asked her where she was , told her she was staying in a hotel but planning to go back to Ecuador , her friend asked whether she had talked to Manuel . Adriana wanted it to be a surprise ,begged her friend not to let Manuel know about her presence in Bogota .

It took her a day to decide to drop by at Manuel's apartment , she went and knocked on his door , luckily enough Manuel was home , came and opened the door , on seeing her standing in a door way in her shirtwaist dark blue dress with black high heels , her eyes crinkling , the corners of her mouths upturned , though she looked so elegant and totally changed , her presence reminded him the day he gave her his email to contact him whenever she wanted to check on her daughter but since then , he never heard anything from her .

"What do you want?" Were the only words that could come out of his mouth at a moment .

"Am not here to see you ." She replied . " I know you're still angry with me for having not made a single call or emailed you to ask you about our daughter but right now am here to see her."

"You're crazy , after ten months , you're now coming back to check on your daughter , what kind of a mother are you?"

"Manuel . I've been through a rough time . I couldn't get time to come and see my daughter , remember the guy who took me to work in Ecuador , it was all a lie , these guys were traffickers , they were gathering girls for prostitution but what they didn't know is that I lived with former guerrillas at St Mary's and I knew how to defend myself . I managed to escape from the place where they were keeping us , wandered throughout the streets of Quito for days till I met a guy , a wonderful guy , who sheltered me , we fell in love and right now am with him , by the way he's a baker like you."

"Good for you , so are you here to take the child and start living with him?" He asked . " You know I love Isabella . I can not let you take her away from me."

"Am not here to take her , the truth is, I never wanted to be a mother in first place , but I had to give birth to her and because she's my child , hope you understand that it's my right to check on her and see how she's doing ."

"It doesn't make any sense to me Adriana."

"Manuel , to you I may sound like a bad mother but please don't judge me . I love my daughter . I love her like anyone loves her sister , a neighbour or a friend ."

"I can see ,it's not a motherly love ,anyway am not going to stop you from seeing your daughter but you're not going to take her anywhere ."

Manuel allowed her inside the house , went and saw her daughter in her crib , she was asleep , lifted her out , held her in her arms , she asked Manuel for a photo of her , she could frame it and have a look at her whenever she felt like . Manuel looked through the drawers and got her picture of Isabella . Adriana took the photo and had the girl back in her crib to sleep , then headed to the doorway , asked Manuel to allow her see the girl whenever she felt like . Manuel agreed to her suggestion .

"Let me hope that it's going on well between you and Fiona now !"

"Just call me whenever you want to see you daughter , what's going on between me and Fiona it's none of your business ."

Manuel avoided the topic because what was going on between him and Fiona wasn't clear to him. Fiona had gone back to living with her family , though Manuel was there for her during the time when she was ill . Fiona continued taking her medical studies before anything else.