Khaluchi_8941

"What happens when a nerdy girl falls for a playboy?"

"They say that pain is a sign of weakness leaving your body but in my case, it's a clamp that refuses to let go of my heart no matter how hard I try."

Chisom has had a complicated life but when she meets him, the world seems brighter and everything feels a thousand times better. 

 Even though Chisom masquerades as the strongest person she knows with nothing being able to move her, deep down, her emotions are as fragile as an egg: easily shattered. Meeting him was one of the best things to happen to her. He was her first love but would he be her last?

Painful Addiction

The whole week he didn't return my texts and calls, making me worried and anxious; the monotonous answers, the ghosting on Christmas Eve, the hesitation to hug me back on cross-over night.

The pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place slowly forming a bigger picture in my mind.

"Repeat what you just said Tobi," I reiterated.

Unable to look me in the eye, he mumbled, "I said I'm back together with my ex-girlfriend."

"Look at me when you speak to me, Tobi. You've never had a problem doing that before, why are you avoiding my gaze now?" I said in a leveled voice, trying to keep my angst at bay.

With a defeated sigh, he finally met my gaze and I almost teared up.

How could such a beautiful person be capable of inflicting such emotional turmoil on another?

"So Michael was right when he said that you had a girlfriend and you didn't even like me. Why the whole pretense then?

Back to the ol' ex-girlfriend