Chapter 7: Family Reunion (2)

Chapter 7: Family Reunion (2)

Cole's POV

I looked towards the front entry sharply, she stood there with one hand poised on her waist.

"Anika?" Amy whispered sharply

"Yeah Anika, it's me, you're not the only family you know, I was invited too, in case you forgot I was the one that informed you about it in the first place" Anika sneered.

"Anika, that's rude" the tall woman chided her.

"Yeah Mama, I'm sorry" she said in a tone that suggested she was not sorry at all

"Anyway moms, this is Cole, Amy's... What do you call it?, Lover?" She said and snickered, she walked over to where I was standing.

"Anika!" Amy shouted Sternly

"What?, I'm not lying am I?" 

"Hi there Cole, we meet again I guess" she smiled sweetly

"Oh Cole, that's a nice name, come on sit down, I'll be just a minute, Amy, you come with me, we'll see to the cooking, Anika if you'll just set the table for the time being" Amy's mother smiled at me before going out of the room, Amy in tow.

"I'll just keep Cole's Company really!" Anika moaned.

"Get to it girl, the table won't fix itself" Amy Said on her way out.

"Motherfucker" Anika glared at the back of her head before she went away as well.

I made myself comfortable on the couch  and stared around the room, Wow Nice Setting.

Amy's POV

"Mo-ther, don't you trust me anymore?" I said wearily, this is becoming complicated, how do I explain mine and Cole's relationship?, Do I just tell mother about my plan?, God knows Sooner or later Everyone will know anyway, you can't hide it when you're pregnant, can you?

"Look darling, I'm not against you having a partner but you know you can't just choose anyone especially after what..."

"I know what James did to me Mother, I promise you I'm over it, and Cole has nothing to do with it, honest" I tried to persuade her out of the issue.

"You know, Anika told me what happened in the shop" she said silently.

I was really stunned that I didn't talk for a while then I was suddenly angry,

"What the heck, Can't I have my privacy anymore?, Am I being kept tabs on now?" I asked Angrily.

The nerve of Anika!

"You know that's not it, you know..."

"I don't know anything Ma, is this what this conversation is about?, to persuade me out of having a relationship with him?, or Am I gonna be threatened to leave him just like you guys did with James?"

"What do you want this time uhh?, just for the sake of your greedy daughter's happiness, you're willingly to go that far uhn?" 

"Amy!" Mother gave me a tight slap across the face.

"Oh My God!" Mother released an agonising sob

"You damn well know I didn't threaten you to leave James and your..."

"You didn't, so?, you still supported your husband and..."

"Amy he's your father!, and I didn't support him because I didn't want to see you happy, I did it because James was and is still a loser!" Mom said gasping.

"Oh, but he was good enough for Anika to marry right?" I asked, tears stinging my eyes, not from the pain of her slap but from a much deeper pain seated in my heart.

"No dear, you know that's not what I mean, you know Anika very well, if we had not done what she wanted, she would have killed them and James was already sleeping with her anyway, how could I let you spend the rest of your life with such a miserable loser?" She whispered weakly, I realized how old she was just then, it's no use bringing up the past, I'll just add to her problems.

"Yes mother I understand, I'm sorry if I did upset you, but know this mother, I'm never gonna accept your husband as my father, to me, he'll always be the monster who took my childhood and my kids away, and the man who ruined my life"

 "I don't want to be rude mother but my relationship with Cole is no one's business, and it will be better if you let your daughter know, I don't want her sticking her nose in my business this time around, because if she does anything funny, I'll fight back" I added as the memories of that particular day came rushing back, 

I turned away from my Mother hoping she won't see my tears, it's no use anyway.

"Amy..."

"I'm fine, I'll be back" I told  her as I waljed blindly out of the kitchen and out of the house, I couldn't stop my heart from hurting or aching, I couldn't stop stop the cold hands of pain from squeezing my heart, it felt like...

"Amy!" The deep male's voice broke through the darkness that Wrapped me tightly in it's grasp, it released me slowly and I realized it was getting dark and I was in the middle of the road about to get runned over by a moving truck.

Cole's POV

After two hours, Amy still didn't come back, the whole family except for Anika of course waited for her and didn't take their dinner, talking about the whole family Joe arrived during the course of the Evening, he was a fascinating guy and I learnt he was learning to become a pilot, we talked extensively and I found out more about Amy and her Sister Anika, maybe more than I actually wanted to know, I got to know about their father's death but at the mention of their Father's death, a strange expression crawled into their mother's expression, by the set of her shoulders, one would almost think she was happy he died. 

After about an hour later when Amy still didn't show up, everyone was really worried.

"She has never been this long" her mother said with a pained expression

"I shouldn't have said anything to her, who knows where my poor child is?, if anything happens to her Joe..."

"Relax Mom, nothing's gonna happen" Joe said calmly

"She's always out to get everyone's attention, Bitch, she prolly likes stressing the lot of us, just to make us know she exists" her sister added

"Anika..." Joe said warningly

"What?, I didn't say anything wrong, it's the truth, don't look at me like that Joe, you know that's the way she is" Anika Scowled at him.

"Mother, I'll go look for her" Joe said ignoring his sister's comment

I volunteered and followed him.

"You take her car, I'll take mine" Joe suggested.

"The keys....."

"Here they are, take it, I took it on the table, I knew you'd want to come" he said and handed the keys over to me, I watched him disappear in his car, I entered Amy's car and started the car,

Just so you know Mr, none of this is your freaking business, you don't even like the lady!, I said to my self

Oh really?, you don't?, a little voice whispered in my head.

"Oh okay maybe I do but just a little OK?, now back off" I said out loud

"It's nothing to gloat about, you don't have to......Amy?" Just then I saw her walking in the middle if the road, a truck was heading in her direction and she didn't even see to notice, even though the truck was blaring it's horn, she just kept moving.

"She'll get herself killed!" I yelled and turned off the engine, I got out of the car leaving the keys in the ignition.

"Amy!"  I yelled as I ran towards her, the truck was almost on her before I drew her off the road and we both rolled into the roadside dust.

"Crazy Bitch!" The Truck driver roared as he drove past us.

I lay on top of her until the dust settled, I stood up drawing her with me, I stared at her tears stained face till I though I'd run out of my mind, she gazed at me with those big blue ocean eyes, recognition hitting slowly.

"Cole?, what are you doing here?" She asked weakly

"The question I should be asking is what are you doing here?" I asked suddenly annoyed

"Your family are worried about you, but here you are, interested in getting killed" I took her shoulders and stared at her face.

"I'm not interested in getting killed" she murmured

"Oh right, you're not interested in getting killed, then tell me what the fuck do you think you were doing  walking in the middle of the road?"

"I was..."

"Who do you think you are uhn?, you got everyone worried, do you know how disturbed and upset your mother was?, Joe is still out there this minute combing the streets and searching for you" I said releasing her shoulders, God knows she arouses me and annoys me at the same time.

"Mother is worried?, Joe is back?" She asked in surprise.

"I was only gone for...."

"Have you lost your mind?, yes your mother is worried, why wouldn't she be?, and of course Joe is back and searching for you this very minute" I said sharply

"What do you think of yourself uhn?, what right do you have to think you can take your own life?" I asked bitterly, I wish I could shake her real good, but seeing her hair tousled and her face flushed from the wind,and how sad she looked, I wanted to take her into my arms and just hold her.

"Who do you think you are to say that to me?, you don't know anything about me!, and let me remind you ,you're just here to help me get pregnant, nothing more and nothing less" 

"You definitely have no right to talk to me in that manner when you know absolutely nothing about me" She added Angrily.