OLIVIA
I was busy with the kids when the security informed me that I had a guest. Which got me curious as I knew no one who would visit my home. All the people who visited my home, I knew them and could count them in one hand. I went and checked, and I almost got a heart attack when I saw who it was.
“Hello Olivia.” Lupita, that was the same person who ignored me as if she couldn’t see me only a week ago. What was she doing there? “Can I come in?” I snapped out of it and moved aside for her to enter.
I stood there watching her walk to the lounge until she disappeared from my sight. I didn’t know what to think or how to feel. She ignored me, like I didn’t exist. Yes, she asked for time, but I didn’t think that meant ignoring each other on the road.
She and I came a long way and had been through hell and back together. I understood when she told me her issues and gave her the time she needed. But I thought when we needed each other we would be there for one another.
I sighed following her to the lounge, she was sitting like a guest, like someone who had not set foot in my place before. That alone got me pissed off, I might have done things that led to our relationship being strained like that, but I was human too.
I had feelings and they did get hurt sometimes. “What brings you here?” I had to ask as she was not saying anything. I wanted to know why she was there, was she feeling guilty or what. “I don’t know.”
I frowned, she didn’t know. That to me didn’t make any sense. She came all the way from wherever she was coming from for no reason? I doubted it.
“Nick came to see me.” she continued, I wondered what that had to do with her being in my house. “He made me understand somethings I may have overlooked. No, I didn’t overlook them I just didn’t want to see them.”
Still, I had nothing to say. What was there to say about that? nothing if you asked me. to me, it was like she was venting.
“He reminded me that you were not at fault on some of the things I blamed you for.” she told me she was starting to resent me because of what Nick did. That people treated me differently because of how others treated them because of me.
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