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There was no sound, nobody, why was her door opened, she turned around, what if she had been ambushed. Damilola immediately ran back to her room shutting her room door, she held Peach close and searched for her cellphone. She suddenly remembered that was the reason why she was heading to the sitting room to find her phone. She grabbed Peach tightly and peach let out a soft whine.
Her body began to shake and she gasped for air, memories came flooding in and consuming her like a paper placed in the fire.
"Dami?" She heard a familiar voice call her, Dami raised her head slowly staring at the door, she quickly let go of Peach. "Damilola?" Mrs Adeola called. Dami wiped her eyes and got up.
She slowly opened the door and found June standing outside, she had forgotten how she could enter without having to ring a bell.
"Are you okay?" June asked her, and quickly Mrs Adeola and Emma rushed to her. Dami looked at them and tears gathered in her eyes.
"Why?" she found a young man standing beside Mr Adeola "Who?" she looked at June, she quickly glanced at them and they all stared at her.
"Hey, babe!" Dami remembered him from the last time she and June were fighting for a dress at the mall. Dami looked at June, and from what she had recalled June was going to tell her about it. He had brown hair and looked really good.
"Hey babe" Her worries were all gone and she smiled at June instead of crying.
"Stop it" June whispered, scanning her to check if she was alright.
"Hi, I am Andre" he says, introducing himself.
"Hi, Andre" she says, returning his handsome smile, Emma also had a smile where she stood at the back of her mother Mrs Adeola.
"Come on, let's give the girls some space" Mrs Adeola says, taking Emma by her arms and heading to the sitting room.
"What are you all doing here?" She says, before they could leave.
"It's Emma's birthday today, did you forget?" Mr Adeola says Dami looked at Emma and Emma's smile disappeared, she was hurt she could tell.
"Heeyyy, happy..." Emma brushed her, heading to the sitting room herself, Dami paused with an awkward smile, she looked at Mrs Adeola and smiled.
"I would talk to her, why don't you get some cake" She says, patting her shoulders.
"Sure I would," She smiled, Dami eyes fell with Andre who awkwardly looked around.
"Come on," Mr Adeola pulled him to the sitting room, as soon as they were gone, Dami sighed, she turned around and found June laying on her bed, with her laptop in her hands.
"What are you doi..." Dami remembered her laptop was still on Jason's message. Their eyes met, and June smiled.
"I guess someone has something to say too." She giggled, turning the laptop to her.
"That's different," Dami argued.
"No, it's not," June defended.
"So tell me, how long have you been seeing him?"
"Oh, please don't act like you care about what's going on in my life". June muttered, the room went silent for a while and Dami glanced at her.
That wasn't true, she could argue that over and over but she didn't think June had felt that way.
"Cake, I need to order some cake" Dami turned around, she opened the door and headed to the sitting room where she had dropped her phone.
"Dami!" June ran after her, "Hey I am sorry"
"It's fine, you don't have to apologize" Dami says, breathing loudly.
"No, I do" June darts away from her, her eyes widened.
"What is it?" Dami asked, taking her eyes up.
"Hi" Jason says standing by the door, beside him Emma stood holding the door
Bark!
It was definitely peach time to speak, she ran out of Dami's room heading straight to Jason, he smiled and took her in his arms.
Everyone was silent, staring at him and waiting for an introduction but June and Dami eyes opened wide. Damilola looked confused, Peach was supposed to be barking but she was cuddled up in a stranger's arm.
Today was the craziest day, there were many events and people kept showing up.
"I called" He whispered, smiling awkwardly, with attention on him, he wanted to bury himself.
"How did you?" She was going to talk about her address, but she remembered the flowers.
"The proposal" He giggled.
"Ummm, anyone going to explain what's going on here?" Emma says, slamming the door behind him.
"Oh, Dami, he called," Mrs Adeola says, looking at June who shook her head in disappointment.
"He did?" She reached out to her phone, and unlocked it, Jason had left ten missed calls.
"You know what! Why don't I and Emma get the cake, Mom and dad? You should prepare something right?" June suggested.
"Yeah, sure" Everyone made their way out of the sitting room, June quickly took peach out of his hands and Emma found Dami's ATM, taking it with a smile.
The door shut after them, and Mr and Mrs Adeola were also locked in the kitchen.
Jason smiled, staring at her without blinking.
"Hi," She says, gulping and searching for words.
"I didn't know all this was happening" He looked around, taking steps closer. Dami nodded avoiding his gaze.
"So... you had something to say?" Jason scoffed and his smile vanished.
"Well, I have a lot to say, Dami" He stopped three feet away from her.
"Well..."
"Are you ignoring me? did I do something wrong?" His voice softened, sounding worriedly.
"No, it's not" Dami stepped back, with her hands on her head, she tried to figure out her plan she had made earlier.
"Or was it too early?" She finally cut his gaze, his brown eyes looked pitiful and restless, thoughts must have ran through his head all this while. "Dami, if you don't want me, I won't mind but you keep giving this feeling that you need me close to you," Jason stated.
She wouldn't lie, she needed him, closer as possible but reaching out to make him hers, she wasn't sure about that.
"Those three dates..." She found herself saying, "Do you want to start anytime soon?" she asked. Jason had a big smile on, his cheeks flushed and Dami returned it.
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