CHAPTER 14

Douglas Lee (POV)

Nervousness was all I was sensing as she walked right by my side. Her perfume filled my nostrils and the way her body was swaying, brushing my body as she did, I couldn’t even say a damn word.

I felt like a coward, and yet, at the same time, I was very happy.

Although I was too nervous to say a single word to her, the fact that she was walking by my side, talking, laughing, and smiling was enough to keep my heart in an array and keep me awake for days.

“So, young man, where do you live?” all of a sudden, a question was suddenly thrown at me.

And I could feel her body turned towards me and that body fragrance making its way further into my nose.

Seeing that I wasn’t responding, my crush who had just asked me patted me on my shoulder, making my body shudder and that naughty part of mine react badly that I felt so embarrassed I couldn’t even look at myself down there.

Raising my head so that I could face her, though she was shorter than me by a great height since I was looking down, I gathered my courage and answered her although my body was shaking and heart racing.

“I am Lucy’s neighbor,” I answered her.

Hearing that, she looked at me with a kind smile and said, “It’s nice meeting you, Douglas. So, what do you do? Are you in school or working?” before asking.

Seeing her kind smile as she talked to me, I found myself falling for her deeper and deeper. And since she was willing to talk to me, I decided to be a man and talk like one.

“No, I am still a freshman at Edgewood University and twenty years old,” I answered truthfully.

I felt like there was no need for me to hide such things. After all, as we get to know each other in the future, the truth will be revealed.

And for people like her, as long as they wanted to know something, it was quite easy for them and I didn’t want to make things difficult for myself.

As we walked more, she would ask me some questions and I would answer more relaxedly than I was when we first met.

After walking for some time, I started to become more upset, for we were going to separate and go different ways.

However, whenever I thought of how I was able to know her and talk to her on this day, all my sadness was washed away within an instant and I felt as if I had achieved something great in my short twenty years old.

“Okay, Douglas, I will meet you another day,” she smilingly said to me before looking at Lucy and saying, “I will see you at school, and don’t lead your brother astray,” teasing the young and naughty girl who seemed to love trouble more than anything else.

Lucy stuck out her tongue at my crush, my woman whom I have yet to win and will be fighting with my all to have, even if it’s just for a moment making the other chuckle.

“I won’t do something like that. It was hard for me to finally get a brother and I won’t be foolish to chase him away,” Lucy mischievously said.

I watched as my woman chuckled more, as she listened to how funny Lucy was being.

“Okay, okay, I believe you,” she conceded to the younger girl before turning to me, “I will be seeing you, young man.”

I smiled at her as she said this and said to her respectfully, “It was nice meeting you, ma’am. I hope to be seeing you too,” before saying this shamelessly.

She looked at me with a side eye and waved her hand at us before walking away.

“Isn’t she just awesome?” Lucy asked excitedly as we both watched her go away.

Smiling ear to ear, obviously very happy with everything that had just happened, I answered the little sister I now accepted wholeheartedly, “Hmmm, she is the epitome of what a woman should be!”

Lucy cooed hearing this and teasingly asked me, “Are you interested in her?” in a joking tone hearing how she was doing.

And since I knew that she was just teasing me and wouldn’t be expecting me to answer seriously, I decided to tease her while at the same time being honest about my feelings.

So, I daringly answered, “Hmm, I am. She is a nice woman and if she wasn’t married, I would be honored to pursue such a woman.”

“Hahaha, that’s my brother!” Lucy laughed out loud, painfully slapping my shoulder as tears threatened to come out of her eyes.

Seeing her acting like this and in an unexpected manner that I honestly wasn’t expecting, I was baffled and very much perplexed by what was going on in her mind.

“What’s wrong with you?” I asked, seeing how much she was enjoying this.

And through her tears, Lucy answered me as she tried her best to calm herself down, “You are bold and I like it. You aren’t the first, but many would dodge the question and try to act like saints.”

Hearing this, I felt relieved, for it looked like Lucy didn’t really get the real meaning behind my words.

“Only cowards would cower and say what they don’t mean,” I spoke confidently after hearing this.

I wasn’t going to become a coward anymore and now that I have found a way to talk to her; I was going to work my butt off no matter what.

“Okay, brother. Let’s go home before my mother starts to look for me!” Lucy urged, seeing how dark it had become.

Following that, the two of us began to walk a bit much faster as we laughed and talked about many things. Too bad Lucy didn’t breach the topic about my woman, otherwise things would have been more perfect.

And since Lucy’s house was the first one before mine. I watched intently the other entering the gate as she waved intensely at me before I started walking away with a smile on my face.

Although there wasn’t anyone at home, the house didn’t seem to be as huge as it was before I left earlier.

With so many wonderful thoughts about my woman, I entered the gate with a smile on my face.

“Alisha Chuma, what a wonderful name! It would even be better without the Chuma in it. Let’s work hard and remove that name from that name. Alisha Lee would sound much better in my view,” with a delusional mind, I talked to myself as I walked towards the house.

The future was always uncertain and until we reach that day, we all wouldn’t know what would happen.

Just as how couples get together, get married, and start families. They also would get tired of each other, divorce, and start new relationships.

I was aiming for that and even if I were to fail; I wasn’t going to mind bearing the villain title. For my happiness and peace of mind and heart, I was going to go all the way.

Thinking of this, a certain person facing a similar situation as mine couldn’t help but pop up in my head.

Did he manage to take a step towards his happiness or he was still cowering the way I was before today?

I was curious and dying to know.