I didn't do it on purpose

A minute later, his big hand threaded through her hair to cradle the back of her head.

Still kissing her

Both of them where not used to kissing, so they ran out of breath pretty quickly.

" I feel like if we continue on like this, I will want to sleep here."

" Well you can." Samantha told him, her hands flat on his chest.

She didn't understand what he meant.

" No, I'll be sleeping in my own house but I'll be visiting you everyday."

" So much for a good boyfriend." Samantha said sarcastically.

Nigel looked at her now sad face.

" We just started dating and already we are in disagreement.

"Frankly, i don't have much experience with women. So I hope, you would understand my slowness to things, i should otherwise know at my age."

" Really?"Samantha was genuinely surprised.

" We will take things slowly, am not in a hurry."

" You know of my condition, I don't know who I might wake up to be or ' my ' intention. So I keep away from people. To me that's how I protect them."

Samantha understood, she had met two of his personalities, although she felt both where not a threat to her, she was going to respect Nigel's decision and besides,who was she to hold him here? they had been dating only less than three hours.

" It's ok. So how many personalities do have?"

He was taken aback by her question, he didn't know whether she asked​ because she was scared or if she just wanted to know, her face showed no apparent emotion.

" My ex wife was my doctor, she said I had twelve personalities and counting."

Samantha jaw slacked open, until she felt his eyes on her face."

She instinctively cleared her throat

" Uhmmm"

"Oh, so i have more of you to met hey?" she said jokingly.

"When is he going to stop calling his sister, his ex... it sounds weird now that i know he was never really married and it is his blood sister he refers to."

I promise, I'll never hurt you, I'll make sure of that. He didn't know if his promise would stand the test of his mental issues but just wanted to assure her that it will be his priority.

" I know..." Samantha said, but didn't really believe him. She wasn't one to give her all and trust fully especially when it came to her life. She had promised people,she had their back in the army but she had also seen them blown up to bits and wondered whether they really did trust her with their lives and from there, she stopped giving impossible promises.

She didn't trust Nigel with her life and neither did she with her heart. It was true she liked the man, he made her feel things, she had felt in a long time and that's why she was going to try things out with him.

" Sam..." Lisa knocked on the door, knowing, she wasn't alone in the room like always.

" Marcus brought back Petunia from the pet spa..."

" Come in Lisa..." She said shyly. Lisa knocking made her feel guilty, like she was doing something wrong.

Lisa placed the little puppy between them and walked out.

" Am going to call you for dinner in about ten minutes." she shouted from outside.

At the dinner table, Samantha picked at her food, Lisa had gotten used to her luck of appetite but it didn't sit well with Nigel because he had seen her pick at her food that afternoon too.

" You are not eating?" he asked Samantha.

" I am, but I don't have much of an appetite." she said.

" It's ok, if you don't want to eat but you are not alone anymore Samantha."

" What do I do if I don't feel like eating? stop acting like my Mum, it's not pleasing."

" Am not saying it to please you, am telling you the truth... Am a doctor before being your boyfriend, If I don't tell you this then am not doing my job."

Lisa looked at Nigel and then at Samantha...They talked to each other like an old married couple.

" Don't force me..." she said guiltily, she has been hurting her child unknowingly.

" I won't if you do it yourself..."

Samantha picked her folk and twirled on her sparghetti and forcefully put a forkful of it in her mouth. Her nose flared up at the amount of food in her mouth.

Lisa smiled knowing someone can tell Samantha something and she would actually do if even if she hated it.

Nigel watched her eat and felt a sense of responsibility towards her and his baby.

She had managed to stuff four folkfuls of the sparghetti in her mouth when she felt the nausea sensation that vomiting may occur.She started gagging, the mouth filling with saliva, she clasped her hand on her mouth and stood up to go to the bathroom but it was too late. The sparghetti dinner was on the floor.

" I didn't do it on purpose..Am sorry" she said to Nigel who held her down dispite her want to vomit somewhere else.

" I really did want to eat..."

" It ok Samantha...just finish here, we will clean up for you."

"Am sorry" Samantha continued to say still gagging.

When Lisa came with a bucket and mop.

Nigel told her to take Samantha upstairs.

" I'll clean up here."

Lisa nodded and took the pale looking Samantha to her room upstairs.

Nigel cleaned up and washed​ the dishes before going upstairs.

When he knocked on the door Lisa answered and he opened the door, but before he went inside, Lisa urged him with her head to go back outside the room with him.