Missing Him

Chapter 29

"You must be out of your mind, did you know how worried I was? You said I shouldn't have wake you up, you have been sleeping for over four days, without showing no sign of giving up. So if I didn't wake you up, you would still be asleep for the next ten days. You really don't know what you are saying." Peter was surprised that he had been sleeping for the past four days. He thought he had not sleep up to 30 minutes, because when he slept it was around evening and Juliet said she would be going to school tomorrow and would take some weeks before she return. He would never had believed that he had been sleeping for the past four days. He was thinking he had not sleep up to an hour because Juliet was still around and thought she had not left, not knowing that she had left and came back while he was still sleeping.

"I'm really sorry, please forgive my ignorance." He quickly apologized because he didn't want to see the bitter side of her. "You really don't need to apologized. It wasn't totally your fault, I'm also sorry I said some insulting words, you got me angry with your nonchalant attitude." After she remembered that he had to sleep so he could regain his lost strength, and when she thought about the drilled chest, she could only feel sorry for how she had reacted. All he was doing was to regain his strength, why do I have to react this way, or did I really missed him that much. When her thought was heading the wrong way, she patted her head for having such thinking. Peter covered his mouth, trying hard not to laugh. He could guess the situation, just like a child whose head was hit for saying something he/she should not have said. He wanted to help the situation, didn't want her to feel embarrassed but he added to it. The more he tried to stop himself from laughing, the more Juliet blushed.

"Oh! I must have missed many calls." He suddenly remembered, trying to recollect why he put his phone. "So you don't remember you turn your phone off before sleeping, I had tried your number countless times but I couldn't reach you before I called Smallie and dad to check if you are awake or not." Thanks to Juliet reminder, he had forgotten that he turn the phone off before he slept because he didn't want calls to disturb his sleep. He no longer have interest in checking his phone since there would not be any missed call. "Tell me, how was it over there? Did you miss me?" Peter decided to teased her.

"What do you mean by if I miss you? I didn't even remember you throughout my stay over there." It was after she said it that she realized she had contradict herself. She had first mention that she had called him several times, but now, she claims she didn't even remember him, even a kid will be able to detect the lie. "Oh, the hole in your chest is gone." She quickly use that to cover up her nervousness. She had forgotten about the hole in his chest, when she entered she was only thinking about how serious he look when sleeping. Peter had also forgotten about it, if not for her reminder. When he checked, the hole he drilled was no longer there, he was somehow stunned. He believed in the rate of his regeneration, it was when he remembered how long he had been sleeping that he no longer feel surprised. Juliet was still wondering how he was able to heal himself, the place that was drilled appeared like a hole was never there. She kept staring at the young man who always give her surprises.

"You don't have to be surprise, it's really nothing. Like I told you that day, all these was as a result of the changes I went through, it's really no big deal. There are people around that would be able to achieve such end without stress, people who are more formidable than what you are seeing. I'm really nothing compared to some people." Maybe it was because of the dream he had, he was no longer having the arrogant feeling he was having when he got back to Nigeria. He no longer have the feeling that people who could possibly threat to him were limited. He believed that the white robe man he saw in his dream was far more powerful than the person he saw as his grandfather. Although he wasn't sure if they were still alive, he believed that there would be people like them around. Even if he walk pass them, he will not know because he hadn't reach the level yet. He then remembered the feeling he had when he saw his fake self in the dream, he believed he was a little bit more powerful than the white robe man. WDid the person I saw is the future me. He really wish that's the case since the fake him he saw was without injury and was far more powerful than the real him.

A lot of things in the dream wasn't clear to him, the dream also help him to understand more things. In every situation in life, disadvantage would come with advantage and advantage will also come with disadvantage but people might not be able to see the other because one is more obvious than the other. He really wish he knew what Juliet did to him that made her feel guilty to such extent in the dream. "Mister, you haven't eaten not take a bath for the past four days. I can't continue to stay with a stinking being like you, you better go ahead and have a bath before we go upstairs to eat and say hello to dad." After she said that, she covered her nose pretending to be uncomfortable with the odour.