When they got home, they saw Cynthia and Jayden already waiting for them outside the house. Sophia led a mute Alex to the house. They all went into the house together. Sophia signalled Jayden and Cynthia to wait for them in the sitting room. She tugged Alex upstairs to his room so that he would have his bath since he ran off before taking a shower. When they got upstairs, Alex silently entered his inbuilt bathroom without saying a word to Sophia. He turned on the shower and stood under it with his pyjamas on. He stood under the water for quite some time without making any move to undress himself and have a proper bath.On the other side of the door, Sophia was so worried about the way her boyfriend was behaving. She placed her ear on the door of the bathroom trying to know if she could decipher what he was doing. All she could hear was the sound of the rushing shower. When she waited for him to come out after almost one hour but to no avail, She knocked on the door. She kept knocking

It's been up to 3 days since the death of Mr Christopher Columbus, Alex's foster father. And today is the burial. Alex, his girlfriend, his other friends and the staff were all dressed in black. They were all on their way to the cemetery.Over the past few days, some of the C-Square Associate members came to his house to pay a condolence visit, but Alex refused to see them. It was Sophia, Jayden and Cynthia who later ended up attending to them.They made it to the cemetery even before the ambulance service brought in the deceased body of the late Mr Christopher Columbus. A few minutes after the corpse arrived, the officiating minister started the burial service.The sermon by the officiating minister went this way, “We want to use this opportunity to honour the late Mr Christopher Columbus who lived an exemplary life when he was with us. He was a father to many and also a mentor to many others. The first time I was lucky to come across Mr Christopher was when I was having some issues

Jayden got to the Columbus estate about 15 minutes later. Alex kept whining and sulking like a child. Jayden knew that Sophia would be so disappointed to hear of everything that went down tonight. It was already a few minutes past eight pm when they got home. Jayden dragged him out of the car and they made their way into the house.“Why are you draaagging me against my wish? Why are you treating me like a child? Can't I make decisions for myself anymore?” Alex slurred but Jayden paid him no listening ears. He was past the stage of caring that it was his boss he was dragging like that. He was wondering what would have happened if he didn't go out with him. Maybe his face would be all over the internet as the Casanova CEO who went clubbing with different girls the day his foster father was buried. Some of the bloggers might even twist it by saying that he probably murdered his father just to have everything to himself. Those types of headlines might destroy his career and he wasn't goin

“Stop crying, please. It hurts me to see you cry.” Alex wipes the tears running down Sophia's face. He pecked her forehead and her nose. “I'm very sorry that I've only caused you nothing but heartache these past few days. I promise to do better.” Alex apologized, still holding on to Sophia's body that was on top of him. He rubbed soothing circles on her back.Sophia dabs her tears with her pyjamas top but the tears won't just stop falling. Contrary to what Alex thinks, this is not the tears of hurt or heartache. These are tears of joy and relief. She now has her man back and she is very happy. She was determined not to let him off the hook again and to do better by him too cos it seems like she didn't do enough to help him in his grief and maybe that's why he drifted away.“It's fine. The most important thing right now is that you are here and you have realised your mistakes. I'm so happy that you are done guilt-tripping yourself over your father's death. Like I said earlier, it wasn'

Jayden clears his throat and also takes a deep breath. “I used to live with my father's sister, who is my aunt. My grandma gave birth to three children– two boys and one girl. The first son was my late father, the second son is the one that my grandma went to see with his wife and the third child is my aunt whom I lived with– she has been behind bars for over one decade now.” Jayden paused when he heard the gasps from his friends. He knew that they were wondering what his aunt must have done to warrant such a long jail term, but that was what he was about to tell them if they let him.“We are so sorry for making a sound and thereby distracting you. We will try our best to listen attentively, as quietly as possible.” Cynthia chipped in almost immediately after he stopped talking abruptly after their shocked gasps.Jayden nodded and continued, “As I said earlier, I used to live with my aunt, her name is Sally Bartels. I was taken to her place by my uncle when my parents died in a plane