In His Room (II)

Heading to his room, Peter could not but glanced at the beauty beside him from time to time. Since he got back to his beloved country, although he had no relative or perhaps he wasn't aware of who they are, he had even forget his family identity. Mr Ralph and Juliet have been the one looking after him, they cared for him as if they were blood related, especially Juliet. The feelings she expressed was more of an intimate friend, it was as if they had known each other for a very long time and the link between them was growing stronger like that of couple. He knew the feelings she had towards him was like that of love but he can't say if it would be a blessing to her or not. He didon't want to bring harm to her or hurt her because he knew his life vitality wasn't as good as before. If he was to died soon, he thought of the pain she would go through, he hope tlhings were not as serious as he thinks. Thinking about the feelings he had for her, he wasn't sure of it. He hadn't fell in love with anyone before so he was unaware of how one would feel. All he knew was that he cared about her and he would do anything for her even if it was to put his hanging life on the line. He didn't know if that could be counted as being in love. When he left Rwanda, he thought that after he had settled down in Nigeria the next thing would be him having his lust thirst sated. But after the incident with Juliet where she acted up because he was staring at another lady, he had put that aside since he didn't want to see her that way again. He remembered one of his mother's teachings when they got to Rwanda, during the two years they were able to spend together. His mom once told him that there would be a moment in one's life, where it would appear as if one had lost everything which one won't have any reason to continue living, all what one have to do is to look for that thing that would make one see hope. When one have many reasons to give up, one should look for one reason to continue. He came back hoping to find that one thing. He hoped Juliet would be the reason he would want to fight against fate.

Juliet on the other was on the thought of why she was unable to get him out of her mind. She thinks of him times without numbers, the time she thinks of him was even more than the time she thinks about herself. The first time she saw him, she was only lieing when she said she wasn't attracted to him. The reason she felt he was disgusting then was because she knew he would be a shameless being. She was disappointed in herself for not having good impression of him the very first they met. It had been about 8 years when her parents were killed, although a long time had passed, yet she still thinks about them time to time. But after she met Peter, she hardly think of them. After his parents were killed, there corpses were also taken away, buried somewhere unknown to her or anybody close to her. She had wanted to know where her parents were buried so as to pay them respect but Mr Ralph wasn't capable enough to question those behind her parents death. The man responsible for her parents death took their corpse so as to threaten her to marry his son. She didn't succumbed to it because of Mr Ralph backing, because of that, Mr Ralph would soon face a calamity. Mr Ralph had told her that Peter would be her way out, she could also feel it that with him beside her, no harm would come to her. The hope of knowing where her parents were buried will get higher with Peter's involvement.

They soon arrived at Peter's room, "You really don't have to be here, I have something I want to do that you might not like to see." Peter said as he entered his room with Juliet. "What is it that you want to do that I won't like to see? Or you don't want me to be near you?" Juliet asked sadly, Peter sounded like he didn't want her around. "Don't get me wrong, who would not want someone like you to be around him. Since you insist you want to stay then I won't convince you not to." Peter explained. Juliet had her mood lightened up with his words, she sat on the bed while Peter remain standing trying to take off his cloth. He was unable to take it off because he was feeling pain whenever he tried to lift his left hand, he knew it was as a result of the stress he had forced himself to pass through. He knew he should not have done all he did but he could not live on with such humiliation. It wasn't that he was regretting his actions, he was worried that his life vitality would be depleted. He also didn't want to disappoint those who were looking up to him.

"Can you please help me with loosen up the buttons?" Facing Juliet, Peter braced himself to ask for such request. Juliet was stunned to hear such, she didn't know why he asked her for such help but she chose not to ask. She hesitated before she stood up to him to loose the button. While loosing the button, Peter was staring at her, she was unable to raise her head up because she doesn't want to look him in the eye. Her heart was beating fast, the sounds was audible enough for anyone closer to hear. "Why is your heart beating so fast?" Peter asked, Juliet reacted with a blushing face, she then buried her face in his chest. "You were the cause of it all so don't asked me such question." Juliet replied after some seconds.

After she helped him remove his shirt, she could not help but stare at the stitched chest, she really wanted to know what happened that resulted to his chest been stitched. She had asked once but he didn't give her the answer she was hoping for. "Please can you get me a bowl?" Peter interrupted her train of thought. She nodded and left to get the bowl for him. After she left, Peter removed his trouser replaced it with a short and sat on the marble floor because what he was about to do request for it.