Chapter Twenty three

KELECHI'S POV

  Have you ever lived with your grandma before? I don't mean two days visit o. I am talking about living morning and night, months and years with your grandma. If you have, you will know work can never ever finish!

  There is always a corner that needs sweeping, windows that needs washing. The work never ends till it is bed time.

  I remember one of those times, I had just come back from school. I was singing while I washing the dirty plates. I had already started making peace with the fact that I was going to be stuck with washing the dirty dishes for a long time. Rebelling had not gone the way I wanted.

  I was singing my heart out when mama rushed into the kitchen alarmed. "Kelechi, this is how you will be here and the food will be burning, ehh!" Mama quickly turned off the gas.

  She was right. The food was almost burning. How did I not notice that? Because of that, I decided to mumble the songs to myself. I thought that if I had not been screaming my lungs out, maybe I would have noticed the food burning.

  "What am I even singing sef?" I said to myself when i had started mumbling rubbish since I didn't really know the lyrics.

  "Were you singing?" Mama used her bare hands to carry the pot. I still haven't figured out how she does that. "You sounded like you were in pain." Mama finally said when she saw that I had her attention.

  "Huh!!" I gasped. I definitely did not see that coming. She was close to the truth. I had been in pain. My day had been going all wrong. Ben had gone home without me. We were supposed to come back from school together.

  Don't get me wrong. That was not the entire reason.

  "Shift a little, will you?" I could hear Ben's voice at my back. That was the moment I woke up.

  " Move away, not closer." His voice was husky from sleep. Something warm and solid poked my butt cheek. I felt it before I heard him groan.

  My eyes opened wide. Every trace of sleep disappeared. I had just found out that not only did I sleepwalk in Ben's room again, I had also been sleeping too close to him again.

   " You really don't know how to sleep like a human being." He said fraustrated. As he tried to shift away from me but only ended falling from the bed. Landing with his butt, he glared at me.

  "What?" I tried to act clueless. " It's not my fault you fell."

   "First, you ignore me all day. Now, you won't let me sleep."

  "I didn't do anything. It was you that even woke me up. I should be the one complaining."

  Ben looked at me pointedly. When he stood up, I could see why he was fraustrated. He tried to adjust his pajamas so I wouldn't notice. But it was still obvious. And my shameless self couldn't take my eyes from it.

   "Shift. You're taking more than half of the bed." He said awkwardly. He was right. I had shifted so much in my sleep I was easily close to the edge of the bed.

   I shifted to the other side of the bed. I made myself comfortable as I laid down facing him.

  "Y'know, maybe I should you take you on that deal." Ben had laid down on his back. He faced the ceiling as he talked.

  " What deal?"

  "To change rooms. Maybe, that might work." He shrugged. "I mean, at least we won't be in this kind of situation with me." He pointed his index finger at the both of us to demonstrate what he meant. "You won't be so close and tempting and I won't kiss you. Maybe then, you won't be avoiding me all the time."

"So, you regret the kiss." Something was definitely wrong with me. I had been irked when he said he didn't regret kissing me but now I was sad because I thought he actually regretted kissing me. I was not sure about us working out. But one thing I was sure of was that I loved being with Ben. As wrong as it might seemed, that was what I wanted.

  "I have told you before. And I'll say it again. I don't regret kissing you." Ben turned to face me as he brought his hand to my cheek. "I would do it again if you let me." His gaze on me was intense. His words only added to the warm feeling that was starting to build from my belly.

  I brought my face so close to his like I was going to kiss him. Then I moved passed his lips and buried my face at the nook of his neck.  My fingers traced lightly on his chest as I gave him a kiss on his neck. " Kiss me."

   He brought his lips to my neck, tracing light feather kisses as he made his way to a corner of my lips. My eyes closed in anticipation as my toes curled. He pressed his body hard against mine. His arms around my waist holding me in a firm grip.

   When his lips met mine in a searing kiss, moulding and tasting it. I did the same but he bit my bottom lips before sucking it. "You really don't know what you do to me." His voice deep and rough, he brushed his lips against mine.

Dizzy with desire, my heart thunder against my chest. I could feel his warmth, his solid chest pressed against mine with only our clothes in the way. His hands feeling every side of me. He traced his fingertips on long line at my back that disappeared between my butt cheeks.

    I drew in a sharp breath when I felt his thumb caress the tip of my boobs against the light piece of clothing I had on me. "Ben... Ben... We can't..." It was difficult to say a complete meaningful sentence when he had his hands on me like that.

   "I know love. We are not going to do that." Despite how incoherent my words were, he understood me. "There are many ways to take pleasure...." He said as he traced a line from my lips to the dip between my boobs. ".... without penetration." He covered his lips on that sensitive tip.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Hello hello 👋 I posted a picture of Kelechi on my Instagram Page. It's a digital illustration of her. I'm sure you would like to see the face behind the name. Check out my Instagram Page (@muamary7)