I was washed in fervid tiredness. I decided to just calm my head with everything that was going on with a some tea. I got to my bed and I sat upright and I let the steam from the cup smother over my face. I spilled some tea on the ground and I saw an ant at the spot. Looks like this little fella has his life easy, I thought. I tossed my head to and fro and I brought my legs to the bed with my shoes on.
I saw a notification that was impertinently interrupting my quiet time with myself. I took up the phone and I really wanted to hear those three voices. i have been hesitant too ever since I realized that they were Peace's children. Yes, they were her children, but who was their father? When I had asked her about her ring, I felt her distracted or lost in thought, she just stared into nothingness for a while. Could she be hiding the fact that she had another man she eloped with after our separation. I tossed my head side to side and massaged my temples. I felt the holy spirit move and I heard him bring his word to my remembrance.
whatever is true, just, praiseworthy, and honorable, think upon these things. closed my eyes because his presence calmed my thoughts and I breathed in and out.
" phillipians 4 verse 8" I said out loud and I opened my eyes, I went to my call log and dialed the number that they had told me to be using instead to call them.
I wasn't going to care whether they were My children or not mine. What I know was that by God's grace. I will get my family back and it included the children too. I know it wasn't going to be easy accepting someone else's children; I could not phantom it but if accepting beautiful and wonderful children as my own so that I could spend the rest of my days with peace was what I had to do. I would not hesitate for a moment.
" Hello." I was glad they had picked the call.
" heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy,"
" Mr T."
" Mister." They answered at the first ring, one would think they carried the phone everywhere and had been standing standby like soldiers; taking turns waiting for the phone to ring 'beep' with my number on the screen.
" How have you three been? I have really missed you guys."
" Oh Mr. T you should have seen the way we had been taking turns watching and monitoring the phone ever since that day so that we could receive your call."
" Y-Yes-yes it is true mister."
" You are Nathan right? How have you been handling or managing your stutter?"
" Not-ntt- nothing much sir"
" He doesn't stammer like this all the time. he only does it when he is… a term he calls ' mental overload'." The little girl had added.
" oh I see, a fancy word for shyness, are you shy Jonathan?"
" Jonathan? No no no Mr. Thane, he is Nathan , I am nancy and my other younger brother is Nelson. Please, I just need you to ge it right so that my mother can approve of you sir." They wanted me to meet their mother, I wonder if it would do them any good if I told them I had met their mother. It might help to deepen the bond between them and I.
" Your mother and I are business buddies."
" WHattttttttttttttttttttt! Mr Thane are you serious, you have met our mom?????????????"
I heard loud pantings from Nancy, like she was having a panic attack. " Are you okay? Nancy." I thought that maybe she would calm down a bit if I mentioned her name.
" Oh si-sir, she is okay sir-emmm"
" You don't want me to meet your mom"
" No!! No!! Mr Thane, we do want you to meet her, you don't know how much the three of us had been praying about it since the very day we met you. Thank you jesus."
" What do you think about her, Mr T."
They seriously were the most ascribable children when it came to being the most engaging in conversations. I think so much about Peace, it was something that I know that I could spend 1 hour talking about. I know that, that they would be up past their bed time. I decided to say only a sentence.
" I knew your mother a long time ago but she is a different person now, a stronger woman now."
" Really? You knew our mother before si-sirm?"
"I could hear expectation in their ears, I knew I could not stop their curiousity flood over through questions.
" She is the most beautiful woman I have ever met in my life, a decade ago, I lost my younger sister in a car accident. I was on the verge of death when she had met me. Her innocence and empathy helped me see during that period. She had never even met me and I did not understand why till date, why a person would be so bothered about a stranger crying. It was then, at that moment right there; I could see again. You see Jesus you mentioned a minute ago Nancy? She was the one who led me to him. I received a new life at the verge of committing suicide. It was amazing, the experience was simply heavenly." I smiled and shut my eyes. " just like heaven." I repeated.
" I could hear wailing sounds from the background. From Nahan and Nancy, if I was discerning properly.
" It is sad, very much touching. But you guys should hold your tears for after the call, we must enjoy every moment with him." I heard sniffing and I heard blowing of snots from my end of the phone. Were they really crying? I had not even said everything I had wanted to say about their mother.
" Oh Mr Thane, please be our daddy." I heard Nancy wail, in a low note. Her voice seemed indefinably morose.
A part in me wanted to say 'I want to'. But I heaved a sigh of relief. For them to say such, it probably means that thye don't have a father or Peace was keeping it a secret from them. It felt like I taken a cup of lemonade after runny a marathon in the dry season.
"Oh no, we would have to cu.." I heard Nelson speak before I heard some rumblings and cacophony at the line.
" Who are you?"
" Hello Peace?"
" How did you get access to my children Thane?"
" I was the one who took Jason to the station that day"
" Please do your best sir to stay away from them. They have nothing to do with work."
" But they have something to do with you Peace."
" Don't try calling this number ever again, the telephone has been seized." I did not understand why Peace sounded so defensive.
Could they be….?" Are they…are they my, our..are they our children?
Beeeeeeeeemmmmmmmmm'