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 day wasn't as dry as the previous days judging by the moisture still present on my lips.

A cool breeze blew the curtains recently hung on the windows, gently, cooling my face. Smiling into my pillow, I adjusted my sleeping position slightly.

Until the memories came flooding back.

"Oh shit, here we go again," I muttered as I pushed myself off the bed and began the short but torturous climb down my bunk bed.

Returning to school three days before the official resumption date was a medium of escape from my own emotions.

It took a lot of lies, persuasion, and coercion to convince my parents to let me resume school early.

I couldn't possibly tell them that Lagos was particularly suffocating to me because my mind was swamped with thoughts of one Yoruba boy.

So, I informed them that medical students from year one were required to resume a few days before the official resumption.

With a heavy heart