Chapter Ten: Why Are You Creeping?

"Hey" i felt my face flush in her presence. For some reason it felt like i had just been caught with my fingers in the chicken pot.

"Are you avoiding me?" She quizzed angrily.

"Me? No? Most certainly not? What would make you think that?" i mumbled feeling a little flustered.

"Well I have been calling you all the way back there you just kept ignoring me"

"Oh, my bad, i had these on" I pointed to my headsets

"How long have you been following me?"

"Not very long but am I got you now" she replied.

"Yeah am all yours, what now?" i tried to find out if she had something in mind.

"I want a lollipop will you buy me one?" I immediately realized that it was just a rhetorical question and either way was expected to deliver.

Her cute puppy face did not give me much of a choice either.

I smiled as i fumbled through my pockets looking for some change, lucky enough i had five-hundred-kwacha change.

"Okay let's go"

"Yeah! " she jumps as she keenly pulled my hand leading the way as we head off down to the main gate.

The shops are located outside of the campus.

"You are such a baby" i say to her as we walk down the corridor, in return she smiled and whispered.

"but am your baby."

That form of sweetness was one of the causes for my limbo, it always brought all kinds of confusion and unnecessary excitement in my head. I have no response for her so i just choked on my words and smiled in return.

She told me all about her weekend as we progressed much slower than usual to our destination. I could tell from her tone she had just had some of the most dreadful few days. I listened attentively as i tried to steal a few side glances of her, the fact was that I was still terrified of making eye contact with her despite the astonishingly long time that we had been acquainted.

She was aware of all my soft spots and made it her atmost goal to exploit them. In a way, i was grateful that she did, it was the only way i would be able to stay relevant and be a part of her beautifully complicated life.

We finally made it to the nearest Kiosk several minutes later. Anna quickly asked for her lollipop which was about fifty Kwacha.

"Is that all you are getting?" I asked.

"Yap, this is it"

I could hear my brain scream 'we came all this way at this time of the day just for that?'

I therefore made use of the opportunity by asking for two sticks of bubble-gum and also got myself a Vanilla flavoured lollipop and we were on our way back.

The dark had then settled in and the air had gotten colder. I noticed Anna trying to get some warmth by pulling tighter on my arm.

"Why didn't you put on a top or something warm" i asked.

"I had no idea I was going to be out this late" she said as she smiled up at me and suddenly a certain warmth washed over me, i then found myself boiling in my hoodie.

Innately, i took off my then flaming hot hoodie and pulled it over her shivering body. She had no idea what was happening till the hoodie was over her beautiful head.

I could tell she was astonished by my never-ending acts of chivalry or maybe it was i just a mad man's attempts to find the One.

The walk back was even longer than the one before, thanks to the tight security around the area we were in no hurry to get back.

The whole time i watched her as she gently sucked on her vanilla flavoured pop. How she managed to make even the act of sucking on a piece of stick sexy still puzzles me.

Then suddenly, she bursted out "I don't think i like how mine tastes, let me try yours"

"What?" i could not believe my ears and before i could even table my protest she pulled my lollipop from my mouth, i just froze in my shoes.

In those nanoseconds i could see as she slowly pushed my lollipop between her beautiful red lips and just like that, it was in her mouth. She did not seem to mind that i had just had it in my mouth and frankly speaking i would have done the same thing to her if I had the balls for it.

I watched on as she sucked on my sweet with passion it was like I had just fallen into one of my fantasies and at that moment something in me just clicked, the caged beast in me was set loose and it had just had enough of all the teasing and tension.

Hands shaking and my body trembling i wrapped my arms around her ample waist, pulled her close and not once breaking contact with her in the eyes. I pulled the sweet from her mouth and before she could even come to her wit's planted my lips on hers.

I expected her to violently shove me into the lamppost behind me but to my surprise she did not resist, instead she kissed me back. Her lips were a fatal combination tasted of vanilla from the tenderness and sweetness from the sweets we had just been having, It all felt like a dream, my long-time fantasy coming true.

Under that streetlight all one could see was a chemistry explosion of passion and all other emotions. I imagine sparks flew from the contact or maybe it was just my hyper active imagination in a moment of ecstasy.

The stars bore witness to the prospect of a budding romance that fateful evening.

We were both out of words after that explosive encounter, she leaned on my shoulder and we quietly matched to our destination.

I went to bed that night after dropping her off, questions lingered in my head i could not believe what had just happened.

What now? Was this it? The start of the life I had dreamt of all along.

My thoughts were clouded with a million questions and i could not stop smiling to myself as i drifted to sleep with Anna's beautiful smile spread wide in my view.

This had been one of the most eventful nights in my memory. I was sure this was the start of a new exciting chapter in my life and i could hardly wait for what life had to laid out for me for the following day.

If only I knew.