Wing Of Change
Chapter 69

The next day showed up sooner than she had expected as she woke up to someone knocking on her front door repeatedly. She seat up with a g***n and reached over for her glasses before checking her table clock, it was just 8am causing her to g***n even more in annoyance.

She pulled the covers over and placed her feet into her bedroom slippers before dragging herself to the living room with a lazy yawn.

She pulled the door open and came in face to face with Henry who stood with two large black bags in both hands.

“Good morning sleepy head” he chirped happily.

“Good morning. What are you doing with those in your hands” Aria had asked with a raised brow.

Henry only bypass her by the door as he head inside her apartment and went straight to the kitchen.

“Why don’t you come in and replace out for yourself” he called back at her.

Aria let the door close as she turned and hurried back to the kitchen and stood beside the kitchen counter with Henry on the other side while he began to dispatch the content of his bags.

Aria stood with wide eyes not knowing what to say.

“But how? I mean_ Why did you go through such trouble to get all these?_am not even your responsibility Henry”

He gave a careless shrug.

“Well, that’s where you are wrong because you are my responsibility”

Aria was shocked at his response as she had both hands resting against her waist with a raised brow to go with.

“And how am I your responsibility exactly?”

“Well, you see?_I’d promised the doctor that I’d take care of you if he let me take you home last night so am just keeping my own end of the bargain by taking care of you”

“But Henry_you don’t have to do all these. I mean, I can very well take care of myself” Aria had tried to reason.

“Of course I know you can very well take care of yourself but I want to help too”

Aria was hesitant for a moment as her eye continued to scanned all the items over. Everything was exactly what she wanted to go out and get later in the day and now he got everything for her.

“I don’t know what to say other than thank you for this Henry. This is just too much”

“It’s nothing…” Waving her off

” Now tell me_what do you want to have for breakfast” he asked.

“What?_please don’t tell me you want to cook me breakfast as well because that would be taking too much responsibility”

“Not just you. Am hungry too”

Aria could only shake her head at him before giving in. She was hungry no doubt.

“Alright. You can boil the noodles let me go freshen up”

“But that’s not healthy for the baby ma’am” he answered with a thoughtful glare.

“Oh no?_okay what do you recommend I eat?”

“Go freshen up and I will cook something”

“Okay but make sure it’s eatable”

“You bet it will be”.

**

Forty five minutes later. Aria was dressed in blue sweater shirt and paired with a white jogger pant as she walked into the kitchen to replace that_Henry was still busy with the dish and didnt even noticed when she round the kitchen counter and leaned against it.

“smells good” she said sheepishly with a smile.

“It taste good too” he jested.

“I hope so”

They were both silent for a while before Aria had asked the next question which kinda caught him off guard.

“Why are you doing this?_I mean aside from the doctor and everything. Why are you helping me when you have absolutely no reason to do so and please don’t blame it on what you had promised the doctor. That doesn’t count”

Henry had wrapped both hands across his chest with a thoughtful look in his eyes for a moment before giving a curt nod.

“You do have a point there. I have no reason to be nice to you. In fact we should be enemies because that’s the best thing to do right?”

Aria could see the playful tone in his voice and wished he could just drop it because she was being absolutely serious right there.

“C’mon Henry. You know that’s not what I meant. Am just curious to know why even after everything that happened?”

“I like you for real and even though you don’t like me that much_at least we can still be friends”

“I’m pregnant Henry! Doesn’t that mean anything to you?”

“Of course it does Aria. It means you need help now more than ever”

“Look Henry, I appreciate all you have done and still doing for me but…”

“…no but! Just stop worrying about all these things and go seat over there let me serve you breakfast because it’s ready”

“Henry? I’m serious”

“Yes I know. Now go seat over there okay?”

Realizing that he won’t budge, she sigh in exhaustion.

“Okay but we will talk about this later_after breakfast”

“Yeah sure”.

**

After breakfast was over_Aria decided to go out and get more supplies for her upkeep and some toiletries as well.

The sooner she got used to her new status, the better as she grabbed her car keys and purse off the table and head towards the door.

She didn’t even bother to check her phone for missed calls from Frank or anyone else as she rather keep her mind busy and away from hurtful thoughts.

The thought of Frank walking out on her back at the hospital kept flooding her mind still even though she has made up her mind not to dwell on it.

Thoughts like that would only make her anxious which is not good for the baby.

If he has decided to walk out of her life right when she needed him the most then_it’s possible that he never really loved her to begin with. But whatever his feelings were, it no longer interest her as it has become more of a bother than comforting.

She pulled the door open and was about to step out when she almost collided with Frank by the door way; with his fist raised and ready to give a hard knock against the door frame but stopped when he saw her walking through.

His hand fell back to his side as he took a step back and just stood staring at Aria with a deserted expression.

He looked like he has had a rough day_dressed in a forest green T-shirt and Jean. Aria knew from his appearance that,he must have gone to the hospital only to realized she has been discharged_hence his reason for being there.

“You left the hospital last night?” he asked.

Aria said nothing as she stood staring at him with her lips forming a thin red line in anger.