Chapter 3 Emotional Morning

I FELL FOR MY BOSS

Chapter 3: Emotional Morning

It was as early as 4:am, Stella felt someone pulling her legs but it felt distant. She tried ignoring it, but it continued harder and harder. Then it dawned on her that it was reality.

She opened her eyes to picture a strange woman still dragging her to wake up.

" Go away" she grunted still fighting the sleep in her eyes.

"Won't you get up?" a familiar voice asked still sounding distant.

"You had better start getting ready". It came again.

She opened her eyes, blinking it severally because of the reflection from the torchlight. Then, she fully opened her eyes to see her mum squatting right in front of her.

"Go and have your bath my daughter, the woman will be here soon." Her mood changed instantly, when she remembered that today, she have to leave her home for the first time in her life. Nevertheless, it was for her father.

She stretched for sometime, before sluggishly getting out. She knelt on the foam and said her prayers. When she was done, she got on her feet and looked at her mom for sometime, and then she walked past her without saying anything.

She walked out of the room and headed straight for the bathroom. In no time she was done bathing, and she came out. When she walked into the room, she saw her mom packing her stuffs and putting them into her most treasured bag. Just then she remembered that she had not even put any of her things together for the journey. She was too sad to do that.

She saw the sadness in the eyes of her mother, she knew that she never wanted her to go, she knew she never wanted any of this. But on the other hand, she couldn't just let her dad die. He is the pillar of strength in their family.

"Come dear" her mum called. "I have already picked out some good clothes for you. You're going to the city, so you need to look good. Look, I got you a new dress" she said faking a smile.

"I selected your good clothes, even though they are few. I don't want you to wear rags over there" Stella looked at her mom and sighed, before walking close to where she sat.

"Mum, are you happy, do you really want me to go?" Stella asked kneeling beside her mom.

"Happy?....yes...yes I am happy, I am happy" she stuttered with tears in her eyes. Then, she could see the pain a mother should feel coming directly from her eyes. She drew her mum close and hugged her, and her mum bursted into tears.

"Why me? Why us mum, why?" She asked as she joined her mother in tears.

"My daughter, I know you've heard the things that happened to the people that went to the city, and that is probably why you're scared. But my prayer is for nothing to happen to you my dear. Believe, and who knows, you might even prefer there to your home.... When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I am too my darling. I weep always coz I don't know where they'll be taking you, and I do not know who you're going to be with over there. I will not even see my own daughter for a year" her mother was crying bitterly now.

"I gave this a serious thought. But there is your father, that man is dying, he needs help. If he was to be healthy and strong, do you even think he will let the child he has loved and protected for nineteen years go? He would rather die. I'm the victim here, I'm the one suffering here, I can't let my husband die, I have to do something. I feel like I'm loosing both my husband and daughter at the same time." She sobbed badly.

Stella drew closer, and cleaned the tears off her mother's eye.

"Don't worry mom, in a blink of an eye a year will be completed and I will be home with all of you again, and by that time father would have been okay and strong. And we would be one big happy family again as we used to be. I am ready to bear the unbearable for dad's sake." She said smiling amidst tears and her mom hugged her tightly again.

Just then, they noticed Grace has been awake all this while, and she was sober. Stella walked up to her and engaged her in a bear hug, and she bursted into tears.

" I'm gonna miss you big sis" Grace cried "I'll miss you more" Stella said hugging her tighter.

"Enough, go get dressed now" her mum said pulling them apart with teary eyes. It indeed hurt Stella to see them in that way.

She reluctantly took the new blue gown her mom got her, and looked at it with teary eyes. This was the first time her mom bought her a new dress in two years. She had a flashback of the happy moments they had together as a family. The discussions, jokes, laughter, and all that. She could not hold back the tears that poured freely from her eyes, she was weeping bitterly.

"Ah, clean up your tears" someone said rushing from behind and wiping her tears with the back of her palm, she looked up and saw that it was Dorris. Her boobs was the first thing Stella saw as she looked at her, they were outstanding. She was holding a big bag in her left hand as though she was going on a vacation.

She tossed the bag on the floor, causing it to make a small thud sound. And she began wiping Stella's tears again.

"Dorris, what are you doing here so early?" Stella asked looking surprised.

"I can't just let my best friend go like that. At least, I should be here to give you a hug or even see you one last time before you go. Don't you think?" Dorris chuckled softly, an obviously pained one. Stella looked at her and also let out a pained laugh. This is not happening to her.

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TBC....