She opened the door, I was standing in front so that I can be the first person she sees, you can tell that she wasn't okay, she was looking down on the floor as the door opened, she sniffed in and was about to act like it was all nothing, but her eyes caught mine. You can tell when a person is surprised or shocked, this time, she's both.
She left the door handle, her hand falling to her side as she was just looking at me speechless, the tears in her eyes which she had cleaned away started running down again, fresh tears, she was just confused and yet happy but couldn't find a way to express the two emotions at once.
I have been a mess to her myself, I never for once thought that auntie Maggie can ever feel this way if she never saw me for a while, I can say she might be worried or conclude that I ran away, but after all I have seen in the past, a can't help but feel pity for her, feeling sorry for all she has been through.
I brought my hand forward, grabbing hers and drawing her outside, which she humbly followed my lead, she's now standing outside with me, then I hugged her, holding her tight in my hold.
“ None of us knew whether you would come back, Williams did told me that we all should have faith, but he himself never knew whether you would be returning or not, I thought I lost you....”.
How come everyone know about this?, I know they did saw me back there, that does explains it, but the fact she never told me about it kind of surprises me too. Would I have believed her if she did?, Would I have even made the move if she did?, If I had decided to proceed based on the insight I got from her, would it have been at the right time?, there's definitely so many reasons why she never told me and I don't have to interrogate her about it now, not when she's still on emotional breakdown.
“ I'm so happy that you made it back, Williams really did believe that you will, none of us knew what took you there and none of us knew whether you would be returning after you left in the middle of the night like Williams said....”.
I turned to look at Ryan, he's the only one who knew how I went there, he's the only one who knew that I jumped in into that river to end it all, he's the reason I also returned back to life after I tried committing suicide, he knows it all, and I know he would never share those information with anyone close to me, because it will break their heart seeing that I was never at peace when I was here.
“ It's all a long story auntie, and I don't want to talk about it..... Here's something I am curious about, how did you end up this way?, You were soo wealthy and rich back there, how did you lost it all?.....”. I questioned her, really curious to know what did happen that affected her status.
“ It feels like a long memory now, really quiet fresh for you, but I can still remember all that happened, my husband is still out there and alive, we weren't actually officially divorced because he disagreed with the divorce I placed on the table for him, he's the one with all the money, I never wanted them, I never wanted any of them, I just wanted my niece to be safe and have a good life. He actually never knew you were my niece, Willy's daughter, had he know, he would have eliminated you. Yes, Williams told me about his filthy business, more reasons I wanted to leave him, because if he's one day taken down, he's going to be dragging me down along with him, knowing all that and also knowing you're not safe living under the same roof with that evil man of a husband, haven rejected my divorce proposal, I decided to take matters into my own hand, I ran away, I ran away with you....”.
I never knew I was already crying until Ryan handed me a handkerchief to clean off my tears, I gladly accepted his offer, trying to clean it all away and try to stay strong in this moment. My Dad wants a strong daughter, as well as my mom, they rely on me to bring justice to their side, and that I will surely do, but with some external helps.
I asked Ryan to take me to the old abandoned van, I still know where it was packed, turns out auntie Maggie was the one in charge of it and has been also paying for it to be guarded there, if not, the scraps would have all been taken away.
Auntie Maggie didn't come with us, but she gave me the authorization to use it, she let those looking after it know that I have full rights over the van. I went in there with Ryan, I checked the locker up the van, opening it and seeing everything my Dad had kept in there, the content are more than they were the last time, I brought them out, seeing all he kept back for me, evidence to use to fight for their justice, I don't know much about all this, but I am taking this stuff back to auntie Maggie's, we will have to put things together and find ways to deal with this.
Ryan made sure that everything was going well, he's well into this than he had to, he also wants to pin whoever ruined my family down, saying that he would give me and auntie Maggie financial stability to find justice on everyone who was involved in the destruction of my family.