Gboyega sits on a dinning chair facing his teenage step daughter Linda, they both hadn't really said anything to each other except for the appropriate greeting, Gboyega had no idea what he wanted to say to her.
"So what's your job?" Linda asked.
"I sell cars, what about you?" Gboyega responded, he quickly realized that he asked a stupid question what could possibly be the job of a sixteen years old.
"I'm a student, I mentioned that earlier." Linda says, she wasn't enjoying her stay. She thought her step father was going to be a wild and fun person.
"Sorry, I'm not really good with people socially." Gboyega says.
"I see that." Linda responds, she stands up from her chair. "I'll be going outside." Linda runs off.
"What do I do?" Gboyega said to himself, he thought of just leaving her to be by herself but knew it was stupid, he had promised to Gbemi that whenever Linda was coming that he was going to be a good father to her. He runs off to Papa office to see if he could find anything that could help him.
"I'm messing up." Gboyega says to himself, he sees a children book and without hesitation grabs it at first he wondered what a children book was doing in Papa's office but what was written in the book was good, it had different methods on helping parents to interact with their supernatural children, Gboyega drags a chair and sits, he quickly goes through the chapters.
"I got this." Gboyega breathes out as he leaves the house, he moves toward Linda who's sitting on the grass all by herself, he sits beside her.
"I'm sorry for what happened." Ayo says, he had memorized everything written in the book and one of the rules was to apologize.
"Yeah." Linda responds quietly.
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