Forty two

"Can I kiss you? I want to kiss you so bad Julie?" He whispered in my right ear.

'Yessss! Yes, Uche, yes! Don't ask, just kiss me.' I screamed in my thoughts when he asked that but really didn't give him an answer.

He didn't seem like he was waiting for my answer because he put his hands to the back of my neck, pulling my face closer to his.

He made our lips touch and I closed my eyes. I felt his lips take mine, gently parting my upper lip from my lower lip. He sucked on my lower lips now, taking his time. I felt his tongue when it thrusted into my mouth and touched mine. He gave me a tongue kiss. It wasn't the way I always saw it in the movies; all rough and wild, no, Uche was gentle with his tongue kiss. He wasn't just kissing me now, he was sucking my consciousness out of me. I was on another planet with his kiss.

His lips left mine and I opened my eyes. He didn't let go of me, he still had me close to him as ever, he was looking into my eyes with a smile on his lips.

"What?" I asked him and he shook his head slightly.

"Nothing really, it's just that your eyes seems to have gotten more charming than they were."

"Really, because of the kiss?" I bit my lips as I chuckled. He didn't answer that so I went on to say what I wanted to say next;

"You lied." I told him.

"Hmmn?" His face had a surprised look."What did I lie about?"

"You said you were a bad kisser." I heard him sigh with relief when I said that and I laughed at how worried he looked just now.

"No, I didn't. I told you that I couldn't tell if I was or not. It's you to tell me now if I am or not."

"I can't tell yet. Kiss me again and I'll know." I put my hands on his shoulders to keep my balance as I reached for his lips to try and kiss him but he beat me to it. He leaned in and gave his lips to me.

I closed my eyes again, enjoying how his lips were exploring mine passionately. I put my hands around his neck and kissed him back. I think I was getting the hang of it.

I didn't want to stop even if he was taking my breath away, I loved the way I was feeling at that moment, I was kissing Uche, finally, I was actually kissing him and it felt so good.

I parted our lips when I couldn't go breathless anymore, inhaling automatically the moment my lips left his.

"So?" He asked me.

"You are good Uche," I let him know,"You are so good, don't ever kiss any other girl, you hear me?" He laughed when I said that, it was a short laughed.

"I'm serious." I told him.

"I don't plan to." He pecked me on the lips after saying that.

"You promise?"

"I promise." He smiled.

"Wow, you really agree to making that promise? What if we break up?" I don't know how but those words just fell out.

"We are not gonna break up." He replied immediately like he was in charge of who got to break up or not. It made me smile, how fast he said it made me smile.

"Do you think Nick will be on his way back by now?" I asked when we didn't say anything more for a while. He was caressing my hair which the breeze had disturbed backwards, strand by strand.

"Yeah, he should be." He replied.

"Then we should be heading back too."

"No."

"No?"

"He's not going back home now."

"Did he say that?"

"He will be going to where our friends are after he leaves his mum's workplace." Uche sounded certain.

"What about you? Will you go too?" I didn't want him to go.

"Maybe."

"Maybe? Where is that? Can I come too?" I was willing to go with him, I pretty much knew there was nothing to do if I got home.

"I don't know, it's just me and the other guys there."

"So?"

"I'm not sure you would like to be the only girl there."

"Where is that? What do you guys do there?" I expected an immediate answer but didn't get one because he phone rang.

"You already gave it to her?" Uche said to the person on the other side of the call.

"Why are you asking?" He said again to the person.

"Oh, just go there directly, I'll come now."

"Who?" I decided to ask when he told the person he was coming now.

"Nick." he took the phone off his ear to reply me."Don't come home to meet me, I already left." He said to Nick over the phone before hanging up.

"Are you going now?" I asked pouting,"I don't want you to go."

"Julie." He cupped my face."Don't make that face, come on."

"I can't come with?" He shook his head when I asked. "Why not?"

"You see, this is why I didn't want us to be a secret. If Nick and others knew we were dating then I could take you with me because sure they will probably get mad that I brought you along but it won't matter because they know I'm trying to make you happy by bringing you along but now.....you get what I mean?"

I did understand what he meant but I still didn't want him to leave.

"Can you not go? Must you go?"

"They are expecting me to be there with a pack of beer, I have to."

"Beer?"

"Yeah. I'll walk with you back home then I'll get it before I join them, okay?" I didn't say anything now, I just turned and started towards the bridge we crossed through to get here.

"Julie?" I heard him call but didn't stop.

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