Grace
Grace, after all you did, after everything, this is what you get. Thane called me crazy. Did I seem crazy? All I was doing was using the woman to vent out my anger.
Why should peace come back and make my life miserable again? What wrong did I do to anyone in my past life to deserve this, was I this unfortunate? Did I ask for much? I just wanted thane to myself. He is mine, she is the third wheel.
I found out from a female employee at Get it that Peace was now a co-CEO. How could that possibly happen.
I took the picture that Thane had in the sitting room of him and Peace in his wedding gown and I shattered it.
" Old lady, you'd better stop making a racket down there." Grandma was getting older and deafer with age. She didn't understand that I was simply angry. My language of distress was alien to everyone; Just like thane. None of them cares about me.
My mother, Grandma, Thane, no one! And it was all because of Peace. Tears whirled up in my eyes as I widened my mouth
" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
I held my head and fell down on the chair. I am ruined, I had already told my friends that I would be getting married to my cousin this year. Why was peace so shameless, even after being expelled from the house because she committed adultery. Why did she show up. Couldn't she have died somewhere, or gotten married and flown out. I should have known, why would Thane have come to Abuja? It was all to meet up with the whore. I could not just put my hands on the whole truth but I was certain that I had to figure out a way to destroy her. To make sure that there is no hope for survival. She couldn't decode the war messages initially? Fine. I will just do it again till she becomes the mad one. The laughing stock of society, the one who would be called the woman who needs to be checked in a mental asylum is goint to be peace, Peace you asked for war.
Thane
I got home tired from everything that had occurred. I saw the look in Peace's eyes. I could tell when she is holding her real feelings back. I guess everything that I had done five years ago truly shattered our foundation. Mere apologies as important as it was ; wasn't going to solve the entire problem. I have to prove to her that I can be trusted. I met grandma as I walked towards the sitting room and she walked with her walking stick towards me.
" Hello sonny." I bowed down because she was almost half my height and she kissed my cheek like she always did.
" Good evening grandma."
" Please go and check what is wrong with you cousinsh. She was just screaming and shoutingsh when she got back home. That ladysh is turning into something everydaysh." Her flabby cheeks flapped up nd down and I felt droplets of spit splurting out even as she struggled to speak.
" I think I know why. I will go talk to her."
" All right please, do. Whensh you come down I want to speak with you, it has been long sincesh we had a grandma to grandson conversationsh."
" All right grandma I will be right back."
I went up the stairs and I wondered why grace was behaving so erratic. I had decided to seat her down and have a true pep talk about when all her feelings for me started to brew. But because of work, it always skipped my mind.
I opened her door and I found her at a corner crying. I wish grace would just grow up and accept the fact that I am incapable of showing her the love she fantasizes about each time she comes to my room to have conversations.
She raised up her heads and put it back down" Go away."
I continued walking, I knew that I had to break the ice as I sat down next to her.
" Grace, I really love you as a sister but you really shouldn't have slapped that old woman like that."
" I am sorry." She hugged me and placed her face on my chest, I could feel her massaging my arms subtly. I held her arms and I put it on her body.
" Are you a piece of wood, would it pain you to just have one good look at me. You see this?" she pointed towards what seemed to be her chest. I really couldn't tell because the room lights were off and it was only a night lamp that was turned on at the moment.
" I took a plastic surgery to enlarge here. Did you notice it Thane? Exactly the same size as Peace's . I spent half of my lifetime savings to get it done . Yes!!!!I tried to copy Peace but it seems like I wasn't worthy of your gaze. Not once did you comment about it."
" Grace first of all, I have no business with your chest, secondly, why would you want to be like Peace. I love you just the way you are and lastly I don't see any reason why me being happy with my wife should bother you so much. I mean Peace was your number one cheer leader. When did you start developing this feelings in the first place?
" You don't need to know, I am not interested in speaking with you." She wrapped her legs in a fold and she looked up at her window, turning away from me. I could see her cheek lines, I saw them vibrate and a blue salient tear raced down her cheeks.
For a moment, the thought of grace just holding me and chatting with me, when we would play hide and seek whenever we were back from school or how we would take care of the ant farm we had, naming and dabbing little paints and marks on them so that they would easily be identifiable. The thoughts of When we were younger flashed before my eyes transiently. I didn't mean to have a tirade with her, I just wanted to talk with my little sister. I just wanted to find her this night.
I got up and walked to the door, I wasn't able to resolve anything. Maybe next time.
" I will stop what you call petty behavior on one condition, brother Thane."I turned back and I was bemused to hear her use 'brother' something I hadn't heard her use for over a decade.
" I want to work in your company."