Return, Return to the past

The Following Day

"What do you plan to do now? I'm sure you won't want to stay here long right?" Mrs Pamela asked Adrianna٫ she's Hilda's friend. The old woman grab her hand٫ "Things are getting difficult day by day and I would have loved to help you but you know the things am facing as well٫" She added and Adrianna nod.

"I understand you very well ma'am٫ Grandma told me about your son. He has been at the hospital for the past few months٫ I hope he's doing okay?" Adrianna asked and the old woman nod with a smile.

"He's barely just recovering٫ thanks for understanding me but what are you gonna do now in this situation?" She asked and Adrianna face fell.

"I...I don't know٫ I don't know what to tell my kids when next they ask me about school٫" She lamented while Mrs Pamela pat her shoulder softly then she fell into her arms as her tears dropped continuously.

"Hushhh٫ IIt's going to be fine٫"The woman whispered.

After some minutes٫She pulled away from the woman. "Thanks٫" She muttered wiping her tears.

"I have a suggestion٫ why don't you go back to the city? You're well learned and you still have your documents٫ I'd suggest you go back with your kids٫ get a job that suits you and live a better life٫ what do you you think?" The woman asked and Adrianna give it a long thought.

She hasn't thought of that٫ It has never crossed her mind before but the city holds her past. She’s gone through shits down there and doesn’t want to go back there.

“I…don’t want to go back there ma’am, the city holds lot of my past, I don’t want to go back to my past like this, I mean in this terrible situation,” She mumbled and the woman breathed in.

“Adrianna?” The woman called not expecting a reply, “Are you moving forward or backwards?” The woman asked and Adrianna shook her head.

“No, why did you say that?”

“A successful person don’t look at his mistakes, he learns from his mistake so he wouldn’t make the same mistake. He doesn’t live in his past, he hopes for a better future,” Mrs Pamela told her profoundly while rubbing her cheeks in the process. “Don’t live or dwell in your past,” She added.

“I will think about what you’ve just said, I will try not to think about my past, Thank you ma’am,” Adrianna muttered frailty.

They both of them smiled at each other warmly.

** *** **

Adrianna kept scrolling up on her phone, looking for nearby jobs she could apply for but none was available. Then she came across a receptionist job with huge payment, “MFR Company?” She muttered happily but her face dropped when she saw the location, “it’s in Gwen city? my hometown?”

“Mummy? When are we going back to school?” Scarlett, her little kid interrupted her, she forced herself to smile.

“Very soon sweetie,” She muttered but the little girl wasn’t satisfied with the reply, she grumbled.

“We miss all our class mates, David, Johana, Ethan…” Scott chip in as his face dropped “I miss the school playing ground,” He added.

“We don’t know if daddy will come anytime soon, we don’t if we will be going back to school, mummy, please do something,” Skyler snapped with a loud cry.

This breaks Adrianna’s heart, she doesn’t want to break down in front of her kids so she kept on smiling, holding back her tears.

Then her eyes fell back to her phone, to the receptionist job she saw online, She stare at it for a while deciding what to do, “I won’t live in my past, I’m doing this for my kids,”She said and with that she finally click on the apply icon.

{GWEN CITY}

(MFR Group & Company headquarters)

Looking out through the transparent glass in his office he could visibly see what’s going on the streets, the people struggling to survive, cars going to and fro, he enjoyed the view and that made him feel like he was on top of the world, what more could he ask for? He’s rich, handsome and owns one of the largest company. He’s Miguel Fernandez Robert.

He smiled softly as he sip his coffee slowly then his watch beeped. “Come in,” He muttered in his deep voice.

No one need to tell him who it was, his personal assistant, Mr. Willow.

“Sir, here are the people that applied online,” Mr Willow reported as he got closer to him showing him the tab that filled with people that applied for the receptionist post.

He briefly looked at him, “pick anyone, that’s your job.”

“Okay sir, I intend to pick this lady, Mrs Adrianna Georgia. She applied few minutes ago and she’s a single mother, wow…”

“Don’t tell me stories, I don’t think I have time for that, if you think she’s capable of the post then choose her,” He snapped not sparing him a glance as he kept staring at the atmosphere.

“Okay, I’m sorry about that-“

“Miguel!” Someone screamed from the entrance interrupting the two of them. “Look who’s back?”

Miguel smiled, “Really Gilbert? Do you have to shout?” He questioned then signal Mr Willow to leave which did.

“Is that the way to greet your best friend?” Gilbert teased landing his butt on one of the couch in the office while Miguel joined.

He rolled his eyes, “Thought you’re leaving today?” Miguel asked and Gilbert nod.

“Yes but they’re lot of bitches I have to bid goodbye before I leave or they might attack you,” He said and they both laughed.

“Now I see why your wedding got called off five years ago, you were the one that caused it right?”

“Let’s not talk about that shit anymore, it’s been five years and you had no intention attending though.”

“Because I knew it was gonna end that way, i made the right choice back then,” Miguel muttered while Gilbert rolled his eyes. “Have you seen her since then?”

“Who?”

“The lady you were supposed to marry? You should have apologized,”

“No, She left the town five years ago, Could you believe she was actually pregnant? Found out from her foster mom,” Gilbert bluntly said and Miguel gasps.

“Pregnant? That’s even worse! You made the right choice calling the wedding off, She’s indeed slut,”

“Slut indeed,” Gilbert smirked “And you, the lady you slept with that day, five years back in the club house, did you get to find her?” He asked and Miguel shook his head.

“She’s a slut as well, she vanished after that night,” He concluded taking a sip from his coffee, Gilbert laughed.