Goddess Of Loneliness

chapter five

I woke up the next morning with aches all over my body, I had a broken lips and a big tear by my shoulders. I pushed myself up and quickly boiled water which I used on every part of me that I felt pains, after which I brushed my teeth and strolled out to the nearest pharmacy to purchase some pain relief drugs.

As I walked in, I caught a glimpse of peace with another cute girl paying for what ever they got. As soon as she saw me, she whispered something to the lady she was with before leaving her and walking over to me

"Nathan, what happened to you, why is ur face filled with bruises", she asked with concern as soon as she saw my face clearly. I had to eye her so she could lower her voice cos it seemed she didn't notice that she was shouting

"Nothing really, I just ran into some bad guys yesterday", I replied

"Buh I've always known u to be a calm guy. Since wen did u turn into a street fighter", she asked using her hands to feel the c***k on my lips

"I never said I was street fighting, what I meant was that I was attacked yesterday by some street guys yesterday", I explained

"Where and when was this", she asked a bit angrily. As the street girl she was, I knew she was connected and knew almost every street bad boy. I wasn't ready for any confrontation that will lead to further attacks and I didn't even want her to get involved

"You don't have to get yourself involved, it was partly my fault please", I begged

"Oh, I guess this has something to with Florence", her face immediately changed as she mentioned her name. I looked at it and quickly looked away so my face won't give me away. She sighed before patting me on the back softly

"Wait for me". She walked back to her friend and said something to the attendance who looked around before picking out some drugs and placed it before her. She examined them careful and after a few minutes discussion, she paid for it before it was packaged for her and she brought it to me with her friend following her closely behide.

"Shanny meet Nathaniel, that guy I've been telling you about", she looked towards her friend as the stood before me

"What's wrong with the dude's face", she asked smiling

"I think he ran into some rude guys, let's take him home", peace still had a bit of anger in her voice

"And home means my place I assume, cos I still need to eat and do some personal chores", I stared from one face to another

"Relax dude. We ain't dangerous joor", shanny laughed as they both pushed me outside. I followed them to their place and peace quickly fixed up something for me to eat, I took my drugs too before resting on the bed. Peace laid close to me, placing her head on my chest and in no time we both slept off.

There I was close to the bank, Shakira was dere too, all alone as she always was. She seemed to be crying and noticed that as I tried to get closer to her some sharp spikey thorns grew so quickly preventing me from getting any closer to her

"I'm that one friend you shouldn't have, don't be like Mark. For once human, be wise.", She cried

"You're crying. Believe me I don't mean any harm, I only want to help", I assured

"You can't help me, you shouldn't even try. Try more to help yourself than me. Don't sympathize with sympathy, don't agonize with agony, don't mourn for tears", she seemed to be pleading

"You speak in riddles, I don't think I understand anything you just said", I confessed

"I can't spell out everything to you human. The more time you spend with me, the more you want to spend. With me time doesn't tick away, it flies. And the last time I checked, you humans don't even have much of it. I tried to warn Mark too", she cried even more

"Who exactly is Mark", I asked curiously

"Someone that should have listened", she quickly replied

"Well I'm not like Mark",

She immediately turned and looked at me, her eyes were red, her hair raised as if some sort of angry wind blew, she hissed and I saw her tongue that looked like that of a snake and I immediately knew she was angry

"You're worse than him", she thundered angrily

I woke up sweating, I checked around to be sure of where I was. Shanny just stood dere staring at me as if I had done something really bad buh peace who had rolled away from me was still sleeping

"Oga who is Mark, and who were you talking to in your dream", she asked suspiciously. I looked at her trying to fake a confused face, she didn't seem to be buying my tricks and she just continued staring at me with a face which seem to say "hello, I'm still waiting for an answer",

"Where did you get that name from", I asked

"Well out of everything you've said since you started talking in your dream, that's the only name you mentioned",

"How long have I been asleep", I tried to avoid the question

"It shouldn't be up to an hour", she answered still waiting

"I need to get going", I stood up before tapping peace. It took few seconds before she woke up and another few seconds before she could realize herself

"I need to be going", I announced immediately she was conscious enough

"No pls, let's go have our bath at the stream first", she begged

"Which stream? Not me and you o", I didn't even realize I had just shouted. They both looked at me totally stunned

To be continued