Forgive Me

Patrick sat down beside Mama-Tina's shade and was staring at little Godsent whom was busy playing on the floor besides Mama-Tina's table.

It was already noon and schools were already closing with some few students passing by, and Patrick still sat down on the chair Mama-Tina offered to him earlier as he was waiting for Jude to returned.

When Jude returned, Mama-Tina told him, "Take that young man to Tina's workplace and make sure to return back here before going home."

"Okay" Jude replied, and as he wanted to complained, he stared and remembered he had seen Patrick's face before as the one whom had dashed him money, so he kept mute and followed Patrick in his Jeep, while Patrick drove off to his direction.

As they got closer to the Tailoring workshop Tina stayed, Patrick parked on the opposite while he thanked Jude and gave him some money to transport himself back since the tailor's place was a bit far from the market where Mama-Tina's shade was. and Jude thanked him and left.

Inside the Tailoring shop, some of the other apprentice were peeping out, wondering whom had parked such expensive Jeep ride across and opposite to their place.

The girls were gossiping as their madam was inside doing some other designs cut and sew. When Patrick came out the girl's went wide,

Girl one, "Wow!, He's so handsome."

Girl two, "Wow, seems like I had seen him on the news before."

Girl three, "Yes is true, I have seen him too, trending on social media pages in my phone, with that Actress whose father is a billionaire."

Girl four, "He's so cute!, Seems he's coming here, oh my God, am about to faint.."

"Shut up your mouth!" Their seamstress shouted at them as she stepped out. She was previously teaching the girls inside how to cut different styles and sew them neatly.

Patrick approached their shop and their seamstress nearly choked on her words as Patrick greeted her politely..

"Good afternoon ma.."

But before Patrick arrived closer, Tina was also inside, beside her madam, watching how she cuts and sew.

Tina was oblivious of what was happening outside, in the front of her madam's shop, but she clearly heard when the girls were gushing over the man whom they had seen, but she was less interested to find out whom her colleagues were gushing over at.

Tina laughed when she heard the girl four said, "oh my God!. am about to faint!," And that was when their madam couldn't take the girls noise anymore and decided to stepped out to her frontage, to warn them only to got struck by the young man's handsomeness standing in front of her.

She gulped severally before she responded to his greetings, "Yes, good evening. How may we help you?."

"Good evening ma'am, sorry for the inconveniences. Am actually looking for someone" Patrick replied, frowning a little, as he had stared among the girls smiling at him faces and he didn't saw Tina amongst them and he wondered if her brother took him to the wrong shop.

Tina's madam was a matured lady and not yet married. She immediately admired Patrick standing in front of her, and she calculated from his looks that he must be a wealthy guy and she smiled at him sweetly and asked, "Sorry, but who's the person you are looking for?. Haven't you looked around to see if you can see the person?."

"No.." Patrick stared around and still didn't saw Tina. And as he wanted to leave, feeling a bit sad, he turned back to Tina's madam and said, "but her mother directed me here and her brother also brought me here too."

"Whose the person, and what's the person name?" Tina's madam asked, but before Patrick could answered, Tina stepped out and their eyes meet.

Tina gulped and regretted why she stepped out to find out what was going on outside their frontage. She kept her face downward, as she obviously recognized his face immediately.

Patrick really looked like her son truly, and just the thought of him looking like her son made her frowned.

Patrick didn't took his eyes off Tina, and he didn't also responded back to Tina's madam questioned, making Tina's madam to assumed he had seen whom he was searching for as Patrick didn't took his eyes off Tina.

Tina frowned looking embarrassed because the other girls and her madam were already staring at her with questioning gazed as if she knew the handsome man standing in front of them.

But before any of them could asked her, Tina asked him, "What are you doing here?," Staring at him angrily.

Patrick smiled as she had changed. She looked more beautiful than before, her face more charming and tempting, her breast more bigger and she obviously added in size as she looked more mature now than the last time he had seen her, she was very beautiful now.

Noticing Patrick was busy scanning her from head to toe, and didn't answered her, Tina felt awkward and more embarrassed and she turned to went back inside but just then did Patrick's handsome deep voice caught her in her steps.

"You have changed a lot, don't you miss me?."

Tina gulped hearing his handsome voice but her madam spoked to Patrick next, "I see you have seen whom you are looking for, let me excuse you both."

Tina's madam went back inside to continued with what she was sewing and teaching some of her girls.

Tina couldn't went back inside again, so she stepped out completely, and came down from her Madam's shop, facing Patrick.

This will be the first time Tina was examining his face, as she didn't properly stared at his face before, but she could still recognized him, that he was the one whom slept with her, because she had stolen glances from staring at his face before.

Tina bited on her lower lips, and Patrick couldn't helped but admiring her. He wanted to took her hands for them to walked away and shifted a little from her Madam's shop, but Tina shook his hands away from touching hers.

Patrick smiled at her and walked up a little, shifting away from her madam's shop while Tina walked slowly behind him. Tina couldn't believed this was the man whom forced himself on her, looking so calm, godly, handsome and innocent yet he did such ugly and dirty thing to her.

Tina bited on her lower lips softly thinking and fuming in annoyance but still following Patrick a little from behind, till they had shifted farther away from her Madam's shop and Patrick stopped and waited for her.

Though some passerby kept staring at Patrick as he was handsome, huge, and a big guy in the city.

His dress code, hair cut, and fashion style showed he was a rich man, but Tina didn't cared about all that as she hated him and he should told her what he was doing there, visiting her in her madam's work place other than waste a minute more of her precious time.

Tina spoked first, "Why did you come here, what do you want?," And Patrick turned to her smiling at her as he always felt magnetized to her and he didn't know why?.

Even Anita never magnetized him the way Tina did, making him to want to touch her or kiss her, probably that was why he couldn't restricted himself from sleeping with her.

Patrick smiled walking closer to her and Tina gulped and took two steps backwards, telling him, "Don't you dare to come close to me."

"Why?" Patrick smiled and he didn't went closer to her again, and he stopped, facing her and spoked to her.

"I really miss you, honestly you have grown so beautiful" he paused and continued.

"I know you might already hate me, but am truly sorry for what I did, I know my words cannot change anything but am willing to make amends for my past mistake."

Patrick stared at her face, then he said, "I still love you, I still want you, and that's why I came back. I never knew you were pregnant as a result of that night, I never knew you had a son for me, your mom never told me, well I cannot blame her because she doesn't know me, neither does she know I was the one, responsible."

Patrick paused for the last time then finally spoked, "Please Tina, forgive me and give me a chance to love you better and prove my love to you, please."

Tina didn't said anything as she only bited on her lower lips and threw her face away, not wanting to stared to his handsome face.