Our Parents Pain Came With Love

Chapter 22

-YANGA BESS
As soon as I spot Kate my eyes immediately slide over to Kyle. I don’t think he knew about her coming today judging by the look on his face. Dad waves his hand and she makes her way to him, I wonder what drama she comes with. The thing about life is that the minute things suddenly tone down someone comes through and everything else falls apart. I return my attention to Mercy’s speech and she leads the way to reveal her paintings with mom by her side and mom’s friend who is hosting. We follow viewing her paintings and I must say her work is admirable, she deserves the opportunity to shine because the world needs to see her work. I nudge my little sister
“Beautiful right?”
She rolls her eyes at me, we walking side by side with Miso who takes a picture of each painting of hers we come across
“If her name is Marcella then why does she call herself Mercy?”
I ask Miso and he shrugs
“You will have to ask her that yourself, all I know is that it's not a middle name”
He says and I nod
“Why are you so interested in her anyway Yanga?”
Aya asks and I shrug
“There's something intriguing about her I guess”
I answer honestly. She has the worst attitude but there is something intriguing about her, there's a certain mystery about her. We make our way through the gallery and then head back to chill while the parents socialise
“Admit it Aya, her work is dope”
Miso says poking our little sister who rolls her eyes
“Fine, her work is aight”
She says and I laugh
“That’s the only term you could come up with? Don’t trip”
I say and just then Kyle walks over to us with his mom
“Hello you guys”
She greets
“Kate hi”
Aya says jumping onto her with a bone crushing hug. We grew up in front of Aunty Kate and she is a pretty cool woman either than her husband, honestly I feel like the guy is pretentious but it's whatever. Love is blind after all.
“When did you get here?”
I ask after she has hugged all of us, Miso slips away from us to probably hang with his friends
“I got here today actually, when your parents were coming to this”
She says and I nod
“You must be happy to see your mom”
Aya says nudging Kyle who smiles uncomfortably
“So how long will you be staying mom?”
Kyle asks and she shrugs
“A week, I’m here for a work thing”
She says and Kyle nods
“Excuse me, I will see you guys later”
She says excusing herself and Aya offers to walk with her
“And that?”
I ask Kyle who shrugs
“I didn’t even know she was coming. She didn’t say anything to me”
He says
“What is she really doing here?”
I ask Kyle and he shrugs his shoulders
“I wish I knew, with the show we haven’t had much time to chit chat. We are however going out for lunch tomorrow and I will find out then what exactly is going on but she seems fine I guess”
He says and I nod slowly
“I hope it's nothing serious. Are your sisters fine?”
I ask and he nods
“They ok”
He says coldly and just then Mercy joins us
“Well done”
I say doing a slow clap and she rolls her eyes at me making us both laugh
“Thank you”
She says sarcastically
“What's the deal with you two anyway?”
Kyle asks looking between her and I, she fringes her eyebrows
“nothing. Your brother is nothing like you and Miso that’s all”
She says and I chuckle
“And what's that? I don’t have some weird crush on you?”
I ask folding my arms in front of my chest and Kyle laughs
“Crush? Wow Yanga! I will leave you 2 to whatever you doing”
He says and leaves us together
“Nice work”
I say and she frowns
“That doesn’t sound genuine”
She says and I shrug
“I underestimated you. Is Mercy like your second name or something?”
I finally ask and she looks down
“I don’t want to talk about it”
She says
“I am sorry to touch a nerve. Miso told me about how you ended up with my parents”
I say and her eyes wander around trying so hard not to look at me
“Yanga we shouldn’t have kissed. I shouldn’t have came to your room the way I did and it won't happen again”
She says and turns to walk away but I grab her arm making her turn to me
“So you regret our kiss?”
I ask with a corked eyebrow and she shrugs
“It shouldn’t have happened, your parents opened up their home to me and as fine as you may be, I can't jeopardize that. Your family has done so much for me to ruin it now”
She says trying to yank her hand away from me
“You think I’m fine?”
I ask with a cocky grin
“You know you fine Yanga but you are off limits”
She says
“now please let go of me”
She says looking at my hand holding her wrist, I rub her pulse with my thumb and it's racing
“Do I make you nervous Macella?”
I ask looking at her pulse, she takes a slow deep breath before responding
“You don’t. Why would you ask me that?”
She says quickly and I chuckle
“We can lie with our mouth’s but you’d have to be a professional liar inorder to control your heartbeat when you lie and your pulse jumped when I asked you that question”
I look at her flushed skin, the blood has completely drained out of her body and she looks like she can't breathe right now. I let go and place my hands in my pants front pockets
“You thinking about the kiss we shared aren’t you? If you bite your lip any harder you might just bleed”
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To Be Continued