The Undecided Love

"A JOB WELL DONE AGAIN"

“Grey, you know that it is your turn today to do the dishes. Right?” I threw a slipper at his head when I opened the door to his room. Why shouldn’t I? The plates were piled up in the kitchen and the sight gave me a sense of disgust.

“Not now, Dee. Give me 5 more minutes to finish up here.” He threw the slipper back and I ducked to avoid it hitting me square in the face. There was no way I was giving him extra time. His movie could wait, but the dirty dishes couldn't.

“Go do it now!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, “Or you'll be kicked out of this house.”

“A nice way to pull the landlady card.” I heard Ovie say from behind me and I kicked his legs, making him let out a grunt of pain.

I turned back to the tenant. I was still trying to make him do his part of the chores and cracked my fingers. He looked up from his laptop and raised his eyebrows as I reached for the belt that was holding my trousers to my waist.

“If you want s*x, there are better ways to ask for it.” He smiled at me and Ovie gave an awkward cough in return. I only smiled as I successfully removed my belt and pounced on him, giving him three whips on his legs and he stood up in return.

“Ow!!!” He yelled and I raised my arm again to give him more of what he deserved, but he ran out of the room yelling curse words at me and how mean I was. I didn't care, I just wanted everywhere to be tidy, at least, and if it meant being violent, then I would be violent.

“A job well done again, Adeola.” I muttered, mentally giving myself a pat on the back and turned to leave until I came face to face with Ovie. He backed me up against the wall and I felt my heart race before glancing around to ensure Grey wasn't witnessing the moment between us.

“Stop, I don’t want him to see all this between us.” I whispered, but he only smiled and leaned in to leave wet kisses on my neck. To be honest, it felt good, but I didn’t want Grey to see us being intimate against his room wall, especially when he thinks I’m still ignoring Ovie.

“So I’m going to be the dirty little secret?” He paused and looked me in my eye. I didn’t want him to be, but right now, it felt like the right thing to do.

“Don’t get me wrong, but I’m not yet settled with all this. And we know how Grey is. He’d happily cook up a story and tell the rest that something is up and you’d have to face not one, but three guys.”

He only sighed, letting me go, and I rubbed his arms as a way to comfort him, “Fine.”

I was already liking Ovie a lot and it had been a month since the whole drama happened. But in the span of that one month, I had fallen deeply for him and was scared of even letting him know that I loved him. It was growing pretty strong, even stronger than what I had for Grey and that was why I decided to give it a go, but I also felt weird suddenly expressing it, so I suggested we keep it on low from my friends.

According to them, it wasn't in my plan to fall in love with any guy, let alone Ovie.

Wow, I used the word ‘love’.

How couldn’t I? His personality was what I hadn’t seen in guys I’ve dated or random guys I’d kiss. He was different; always showing concern about my mental health or my health generally. Despite him going for classes almost every day and me going to work, he’d still try to spend time with me till late at night just having random conversations and these little actions were reaching my heart.

I walked into my room and sent Andrew and Junior a text, asking them when they were going to be here. We had planned to go out for a movie and, from there, I’d go for my night shift at the bar since it was my turn this week. When I got a reply from Andrew, I decided it was time for me to take a shower and get ready.

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We decided to grab snacks after the movie and I gladly supported the idea. I couldn’t eat because Grey hadn’t even started on the plates when I was done with my shower and I was this close to breaking his head.

I didn’t have time to deal with him because I was already running late, so I just wore clothes and ran out of the house. I didn’t even have time to tell Ovie goodbye, which I felt bad about, so I decided to send him a text when I was on the bus.

“So how has work been?” Junior started off with small talk, which was weird because normally, it’s Andrew that does the conversation thing as he always has something to talk about, especially gossip from campus.

“Good, I guess. I had collected my first salary and he gave me a raise of 5000 because he felt I had overworked myself.” I beamed as I remembered when I saw the credit alert on my phone.

“That’s nice. Do you think maybe Ovie convinced his dad to do that for you?” Junior asked me and I shook my head.

“Won’t that make his dad think something is going on between us?”

“Well, is there something going on?” Andrew dropped his smoothie on the table and folded his arms across his chest and I definitely knew something was up.

“What makes you say that?” I asked them and they both looked at each other before Junior decided to answer.

“We know you and Ovie are a secret couple.”

“What?”

“Grey told us he almost walked in on both of you making out in the kitchen.”

“And apparently, you confessed to liking Ovie a month ago when you and Grey got drunk,” Andrew added.

I didn’t know what to say at the moment as a lot of things were going through my head. So Grey already knew that I wasn’t avoiding Ovie anymore and he even told the guys behind me. So all my ‘trying to play things cool’ was not even necessary.

“Look, I was planning on telling you guys today. I didn’t want to mention anything until I was sure of what I actually felt.” I whispered. “It has been killing me to not be able to tell you.”

They both stayed silent and I thought they were going to be mad at me until Andrew said I should tell them everything.

So I did. I should say, I really tried not to sound like a lovesick girl, but that wasn’t how the guys saw it.

“Oooh, Ovie and Deola kissing in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.” Andrew laughed at me while Junior was trying to hold his chuckles.

“Not fair.” I whined while pouting.

“Jokes apart, I've said it before and like I always say, I hope you know what you’re doing.” Junior leaned forward and I sighed.

“To be honest, I don’t want to put all my mind on it. I am just going with the flow.”

“And what if it’s just going to be like that, the flow. Maybe he’s enjoying the feeling and doesn’t want it to be more than that.”

“And your words confirmed that you’re cool with not wanting it to be more than whatever is going on.” Andrew added, and I groaned.

“I know. But I don’t know if he loves me or just likes me. And if I come clean about me loving him already, maybe he’s going to flip.”

“Well, I don’t know how to answer that for you. Maybe you should just see how it plays out for now.” Andrew rubbed my head and smiled at me while I nodded. He’s right, it’s still way too early to be thinking about things that may not even happen.

“Should we go now? You wouldn’t want to be late for your shift.” Junior stood up and reached his hands out for me to grab them.

“Awwn," I pouted, "You guys are going back to campus already?”

“Well, not exactly. We’re following you to work,” he said. “And I still have stories to tell you.”

“About what if I may ask?”

He smirked and added, “Andrew and his love life.”