Chapter 2( You Collapsed)
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“You collapsed and on the park,miss”......
He looked at me and I quickly turned away.
"Thank you very much for being helpful",I said and I turned, slamming the door shut behind me wondering if he was expecting him me to add my name.
“ He had missed it then, I added , making my way out as I swaying my hips.
I left the room and headed straight to my favorite restaurant. Although I loved it, I knew I frequented the place usually because I could afford their offers. Besides, I could eat to my satisfaction without paying much. Back in high school, l loved to eat. My friends called me glutton at my back. They dare not approach me and let their guts out concerning whatever they thought about me .
Mom used to scold me almost always whenever I finished two plates of spaghetti even before she could get her hands off a half plate. Well,regardless,I wanted more. I miss those days I sighed, the waitress brought my favorite
dish and my mouth couldn’t help but to water badly.
My stomach churned while the aroma seeped deep into my breath, the waitress looked at me and she smiled.
She actually wanted to laugh but had to show off some manners. I looked at her only to be met with a pair of empathetic eyes.
I grinned,unable to hide my embarrassment.
“Whatever”,I said,sizing the blonde -haired lady after she had left .
I hated to be looked down upon. I hated it so bad and my colleagues called it pride.I was never going to let my guard down for anything ,I shrugged and gently opened the plate and took my cutlery.
The serenity of the environment could make me sit there for days without an urge of going back to my home.
Sometimes,I felt the place provided more warmth than my home and admitting that was emotional bruise also the times.
I didn’t know I had become too emotional until some tears dropped on the table.
“ Prisca,please put yourself together.You don’t have to be in a mess always and there is no need being bothered about the decisions of others”, I held my breath for a while before wiping the tears which promised to spill if allowed.
I started munching on the food in front of me and the relief I felt by eating just a handful amazed me .
I hadn’t eaten since last night after I took some water and I knew that was the main reason I had collapsed.
I choked on the food so I decided to take my time and eat before something fatal happened. The orange juice beside me was just irresistibly chilled. I took it and gulped all down my throat.
I squirmed in the sit for a while and turned only to uphold a pair of ocean blue eyes looking at me.
“What the hell is he doing here”, I asked and turned back to prey on the the left over. I ate as though I had been famished for weeks indifferent about who and what was staring at me. His gaze was too piercing for my liking and I hated to be stalked.
What! Was he stalking me?”, my eyes popped out.
I ate faster, walked to the counter and cleared my bills.
I had eaten everything, I smiled to congratulate myself and I left the restaurant.
I could feel someone was after me so I increased my pace. The person also followed suit and that scared me.
“I needed to get a taxi”, I declared them stopped abruptly.
I turned to look in the direction of my stalker only to realize he was the one .
Those ocean blue eyes staring at me.
I shot him a dead look but that did nothing.
He waved and started getting closer.
“What does he want, I groaned helplessly my minding racing with several possibilities.”
He was quite fast because he caught up with me in no time.
I looked at him and our gaze locked.
He cleared his throat once more
Why does he has to do that almost everytime, at this point,I hated him.
His husky voice announced,
“Hi”
“Hello” I had to be a lady at this point.
I turned to stop a taxi. I wanted to avoid him so much I didn’t know why.
“I’m Jefferey”, I looked in his direction one more time to be certain that was the name I had heard and that my mind wasn’t playing games with me .
His name made me hate him more.
Jeffery was my childhood sweetheart and ex-lover who left me for another girl in college because he got the nerve to tell me I was too prude.
I had a high time sleeping that day after those mean words from his mouth kept echoing through the room.
I knew s*x was one thing I just wasn’t ready for by we did quite a lot to convince him that I wasn’t a prude and the fact that he saw me that way was just f*****g annoying!
I loved him too much so I kept him against all odds however, seeing him on top of another cold-blooded b***h after paying him a surprise visit made my blood went dry.
And now,another Jeffery!
My inner voice said in seconds.
I’m Prisca and it was nice meeting you”
I entered the taxi which I had managed to stop although we are conversing.
His jaw dropped when I leaped into the taxi without saying a thank you for at least saving me .
I scolded myself for being too selfish and heartless when I wasn’t suppose to and I prayed nothing bad happens to me especially in his presence.
I didn’t want to register his gentlemanliness in my heart neither did I want to think about the warmth I had enjoyed in his hands some few hours earlier. I smiled sheepishly but my thoughts came crushing back when I said, “I will never allow any guy to make a fool out of me. I wasn’t that stupid to fall into that trap and my heart wasn’t something that could be won like an ornamental medal”,I chuckled,my own words sounding a bit too weird in my ears. I burst out laughing so hard and I loved how I felt afterwards.
I hated going back to my family. I wanted an escape so bad. This world of sorrow was something I dread entering again.
I went straight into the balcony thinking about everything that had ensued that day my eyes craving some sleep. I loved flowers so I had learn
to plant different flowers in the small garden adjacent the balcony and I smiled at the rate at which the varieties of flowers had blossomed over a short period.
I walked into my room after spending sometime in the balcony, praising MotherNature;she was a genius. I shut the door like I had shut the sorrows in my life and laid on my bed,embracing it wholeheartedly and tucking my pillow in my mouth.I let out a groan.
My pink diary sat in my wardrobe stirring at me as much as at starred back.
“I miss you”,I said slipping it into my fingers as a opened it .This was the fifth diary I had used in my lifetime but this one captured my experiences in High School and I chuckled as I a flipped through.
I sighed before putting it back into the wardrobe.
Scarcely had I closed my wardrobe when I heard a my phone buzz into reality. My heart skipped a bit and I suddenly had goosebumps on my hands.
Ooops,I had been caught off guard today.
The caller was unknown.
I starred at the screen for a while,hesitant to answer
for some time before I finally did.
“Hey,it’s Jeffery” here,that husky voice finally broke out.
“It’s who”? What the hell is wrong with him and what does he want l from me . How did he even got my contact. I furrowed my brow and hated him more.
“I was thinking if we could have dinner together”
My eyes popped out so bad I had to get it back into the socket. My lips parted for a while.I just couldn’t get over the shock. A stranger wanting to have dinner with me after helping me.
This should be a joke. I wanted to deny the offer but I knew it’s been a while I had some fan besides,home was going to be boring for a long time.
”Okay”,I finally found my voice.
How did you get to me”
“You left your business card”
Liar!
You took it out of my purse.I whispered to myself.
“Do you mind if I come and pick you up”
Sure! I ended the call rudely.
What could I have said when this Jeffery will not let me breathe. He was such a manipulator and I hated them.
Fuck!
It was five already so I took a quick shower and wore a red nylon dress. I applied a light make up to my face and sat anxiously waiting for an annoying Jeffery . I peeped through the window to see an a black SUV screech to a stop outside.
I didn’t want to anticipate that something extraordinary may happen because deep down I didn’t want to go on this date whatsoever.
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