Chapter 15

Ese's POV I ended my last class for today an hour ago. It's 12 in the afternoon and I'm currently in an isolated sitting area in my school, feeling the fresh breeze the dancing trees and vegetations around me brings. I found this place in my first week of uni and this is the first time I'm staying for this long. I have always loved nature, it allows me think in peace and this place is doing exactly that for me. It has been two days since the incident,Eni has gone back to pretending that everything is okay, she keeps on saying "I don't care about Tobi anymore,I really don't care" And It feels like she's just trying to convince herself and not even me. It's annoying that she doesn't want to face it, but I don't really know what else to do. I have also been thinking about Seyi non stop. I hate what happened that day, it's obvious it affected him, from the way he left and acted.Plus we haven't even talked ever since. I have sent texts,called severally.But nothing. Radio silence. I want to be there for him,like he was for me,but he obviously doesn't want that. I get that he is going through something,but I feel like we are close enough for me to be part of his sad times. I feel so unimportant,he didn't even bother to text back! To be honest I'm more worried about him that angry. I just hope he is okay. My mind wandered to the kiss we shared in the kitchen before all hell broke losse,I thought of the way he looked at me with so much longing and intensity,how it made my heart race with anticipation,how he looked hesitant as well, it was like he wanted to stop himself,I wanted to feel his lips so badly that I didn't think,I just went ahead and pressed my lips on his,he didn't waste any time before he kissed me back with so much intensity,the way he moved his lips on mine made me know his hesitation at first wasn't because he didn't want to,he kissed me like he was dying to,it was like he was scared I'll disappear after. I was so engrossed in the kiss that I didn't care when his hands traced through my body,we only stopped when the commotion started. I touched my lips again,as the memory of his warm lips on mine lurked my head. Still thinking about Seyi and all that happened,I felt someone's presence behind me. I quickly looked behind me and was met with my favourite set of Brown eyes staring right back at me. He looked sad,he usually has this playfulness in his eyes but right now it was void of anything playful. "Hi E" Seyi said and sat down next to me. "Hey" I said while staring into his eyes,confirming that he did look sad, my eyes went back to the trees. "I'm sorry for not picking up your calls and not replying your messages, I didn't want to bother you with my issues" He said with his eyes staring at the tress like they were the most fascinating thing he had ever seen. "You will never be a bother to me, I thought you knew that much" I said looking at him with intensity. "Right..." Seyi said laced with sarcasm. "Hey look at me" I said He turned to me and gave me an obviously fake smile. "Seyi it's the truth, in less than a weak you became that important to me" I said hoping he got what I was trying to say. He just gave a nod and went back to staring at the trees. I tried not to feel hurt by his nonchalance. "If I wasn't born,then maybe my dad won't have been forced to leave my mom,maybe they'll be happy,maybe Tobi was right, I was born to bring trouble" "You know that's not true, you are a blessing to your parents,from what I heard that day,they should have fought for their love but they didn't,if you weren't born they won't even be in each other's lives right now,you kept them together" I said honestly "That's not true" He said "You don't know that" I said "Touche" He said with a shaky smile He opened his mouth to say something, but he was interrupted by the sound of a message notification. He looked at his phone,gave a warm smile for the first time since he got here and gave me a look I couldn't understand. He rubbed the back of his hair with his hands, like he usually does when he's nervous. "Em,I was wondering,no--, em I want to ask.., shit I don't know how to say this" He said while stuttering I let out a laugh and said "just spit it out" "Right..., so I know it's kind of late,but I still want to ask you, well my department is hosting a dinner party tomorrow and I'll really love it if you'll accompany me" He said "Accompany you? " I said hoping he would say what I wanted to hear "Yea.., like em a date" He said with a low voice He was being so cute right now,I can't believe he didn't know that if he asks me to be his girlfriend right now,I'll say yes. Play it cool Ese,don't seem desperate.I said to myself . "Oh like a date..,sure " I said hoping it didn't come out as desperate or worse nonchalant "Wasn't expecting this to be this easy, I actually thought you'll say it's too close and that you don't have time to prepare and all that,you know,be a total girl about it before saying yes" He smirked I chuckled and said " I think you should know by now that I'm not that much of a girly girly, I don't really have to do much but I do need a dress though " "Of course you don't,you already look amazing.., so yea the dress,I can help with that" He said Awwn, he said I look amazing,okay Ese focus,you have to reply him,what did he say again?. "How can you help? " I said "Let's go shopping!!" He said in very high pitch tone "Oh my goodness, what did you just do?,you sounded horrible" I said in between laughs "That's how you girls sound when you talk about shopping" He said with a smirk "Stereotyping much" I said giving him a look. "Fine fine,I guess not all girls" He said "Good,so let's go? " I said "Sure" He said and stood up. I followed behind. While walking towards the parking lot,I realized I didn't know how Seyi found me. "Em Ese you do realize you just stopped walking all of a sudden.It's weird" Seyi said while smirking at me "Oh yeah,I just realized.., how did you find me? " I said "Eni" He said "Of course" I said and face palmed internally "You are so weird" He said laughing " Hey,I'm not" I said while speeding up. "Hey!!!, wait up" He shouted from behind.