I want you back

Dave was happy when he got a call from the hospital nurse telling him that Goodluck was gone, he came back immediately before he would resurface again, he had told a nurse to look out for him, it was indeed easy to get a nurse to do about anything as long as it has to do with additional pay, he had given her a huge some to give him the information he needed and it wasn't such a hard job to do.

Nurses always want to know things and hear stories about people, and since they had been on the news recently, she would love to be the first person, with the right information about the family.

After all, she knew Amanda used to be his wife, then they all heard she cheated, and he asked her to leave, then he brought home the daughter of Desmond, who also just died.

Even while he was coming back and forth to the hospital, images of him, were being taken, and so many things was said about him, but he didn't seem to care, he was fighting for what he wants, and he didn't look like he would relent anytime soon.

Amanda was shocked to see Dave coming back inside, Goodluck had just left and she really didn't want to see Dave since Goodluck didn't want her to, she wasn't pleased to see him, but she could only hide her feelings and not let him see it, but it seemed he saw it and so he started explaining.

"I came earlier you were fast asleep, your boyfriend told me to go, but I couldn't, I needed to see you, mother told me you could be in labor, so I came as soon as I could"

When he didn't get any response, she just stared at him like he was some ghost from her past. He added.

"If you don't want me to stay I would understand, you have every right not to want me here, I think I should just go away"

As he said that Amanda realised she hadn't said anything since he walked in, and the fact that he looked so lost, made her think that, maybe she is being too harsh on him.

But that was not all, Goodluck is involved, and he would be very angry to see him.

She placed her head on her forehead, as she started feeling sick all of a sudden.

she was just not in her right mind, she wondered what her explanation to Goodluck would be if he walked in and saw Dave, but she decided not to think about it.

"No, don't say that, you can come in". She says, but even she could see that her looks didn't look real, so she decided to add to it, she smiled at him and apologized for her actions by waving her hand in the air like a baby.

That made Dave smile back. She looks as innocent as he remembers, she is always that playful, they used to be really playful, where did they ever get it wrong.

"I am sorry, I didn't mean for you to misunderstand me, I was just surprised to see you" She lied, but Dave's heart races back to when she was his wife. She was his perfect wife, and she had no fault, now she is pregnant, with a child, she still doesn't know how she got, and when she was telling him that she didn't know, he didn't believe her, he pushed her away into the arms of another man.

Dave took the seat close to her, the same one Goodluck had been sitting on before he got angry and left, he held her hand and spoke softly.

"It's okay, but I will still understand if I am not needed here, it's just that, I miss you, I miss us, I regret everything". He wanted to go further, but he lost his voice along the way, as he didn't know what else to say.

He looked down for a long while, acting like he would break down in tears, but when he looked back up, he braced himself and smiles.

Have this".

He said as he handed her the rose he came in with, she smiled at him, but the rose had his best color not hers and the fragrance was related to him not her, she smiled but said nothing.

"Thank you so much, but you need not worry about me, I am fine, it was a false labour again" She says, as if she had told him about the first false labor she had. Dave been confused about the information asked in shock.

"Again?

Not understanding what she was saying. Had she been in labor before?

Amanda also realized, she didn't send the message well, so she went further to explain, what she meant.

"Yes I have had this sort of alert before and Goody rushed me to the hospital but it was false" She was smiling, as she expressed herself freely to him.

She didn't even know when she called him Goody, but she also didn't think it mattered until she saw Dave's dark face.

"Are you okay?

She asked, as she remembered the reason she was staring long at him, he looked pale and sick, he wasn't looking anything close to the Dave that she married, he looked like he was suffering too much.

"You look sick, are you eating at all?

She added as she watch his face change from darkness to calmness.

Dave thought that since she is not going to understand that he misses her, and maybe give him a chance, he might lie, to blackmail her emotionally, then, maybe she would come back to him.

"I am not happy Amanda, I am sick, I am dieing, my world is turning upside down".

He said a lot of things at once that Amanda couldn't relate to any, she thought he probably wanted to go back to telling her how he misses her and all that, she didn't know if he was using sick figuratively or he was really sick as in health wise, she waited patiently for him to add more meaning to what he just said, but his next statement opened her eye.

"I want you back Amanda"