Michael

I was invited to this new church in school, I was actually not planning on joining any department in the church until I found interest in the musical aspect, sure I loved music and seeing a way to use my voice for the betterment of the church was something acceptable to me.

But there was this guy who always kept giving me silly gazes, I only got to know him from instrumental lessons, ever since then he would always chat and call me up to know how I was doing, gosh he was so into me, but I didn't really show interest at all, someone else got my attention in church.

But things started to change when this head instrumentalist took me on a date, it was so funny and weird at the date venue.

It was at a beautiful restaurant, the place looked expensive and my mind at that point was..

What exactly does he want from me by bringing me here?

He looks like a playboy, what if I ask for something expensive and later on if I don't agree to any proposal he might want to make, he asks me to return all he has spent on me?

I better take a less expensive thing, I mutter inwardly.

"So tell me, what do you want to take?" His question was music to my ears on one part and on the other was trouble knocking.

"Emm..." I began to stammer as I stared around, moving my eyes over everything they had at the restaurant. Suddenly my eyes caught a less expensive drink. I bought that drink before and it wasn't expensive at all, I asked for it and nothing else.

He stared at me as if I was saying something crazy, I bet he thought I would order the whole world, like some other girls would.

"Is that all you need?" he asked as he looked anxiously at me.

But I stood my ground and responded back to him, "yes, I ate something before coming here, I don't want to waste your money"

"No it's nothing, but since you said you don't need anything else it's fine" he looked around as if he was looking for something, until his gazed rested on the movie everyone was watching on the TV in the restaurant.

"Oh my I think the male lead is going to die" he said as he stared seriously at the movie.

"Like seriously, was this guy joking with me" I said inwardly as I stared at him in anger, wondering if he just brought me here only to leave me at some point and watch a stupid movie which clearly looked less interesting.

I tried getting his attention by asking him what the time was, pretending as if I needed to leave. This action of mine made him uncomfortable to the point he also began checking his time as if he also needed to be somewhere.

"Can we leave now? His body movements and facial expressions clearly showed me that he was leaving because I first gave him that impression that I wasn't comfortable here and had somewhere else to be.

"Emm.. yes sure we can" I said as we both left the restaurant.

"Emm... We will see some other time" he said playfully as he instantly took off, leaving me, to find my way back to the hostel alone, what a gentleman, I said inwardly as I walked away.

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(In the hostel)

"So tell us, how did your date go?" Felicia asked, she's one of the new occupant in my room, who just resumed with Mona.

As soon as I saw Felicia outside washing her clothes, I knew that the question was coming as soon as she sighted me.

Giving her a fake smile which I knew she noticed I immediately muttered, "it was okay anyway" and then quickly went inside the room only to get that same question from the rest of my roommates.

They all consoled my disappointed heart but didn't forget to shout at me for ordering that less expensive drink, they were clearly on the belief that one's a man takes you out, you should get as much as you can, it's his money not yours.

Gosh, they wouldn't want to understand my own reasons. I clearly had reasons for ordering that drink alone. Sure, I was a little weird and scared of ordering something big, but still I wished they understood my point.

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We had church program in the evening, and most certainly Micheal would be there, I wasn't completely okay with him leaving me like that after the date but a part of me longed to see him again, he wasn't that handsome but his bad boy character was something that kept me coming back to him, he was such a bad boy with a seductive voice, little by little I was falling for him.

I sat at the front chair, right after the service, dressed in jeans trousers and a black turtleneck shirt, I could see his eyes staring at me as I pretended to get something from my purse.

Suddenly I stood up, pretending to leave, then he called out at that point

"Katherine" I pretended not to hear that and kept on walking, so he called out again, but still I pretended not to hear, then he had to send someone to call me.

As soon as the messenger passed his message, I began to have double thoughts should I continue going back home or should I answer him, I was feeling a bit nervous, gosh I don't want to look stupid In Front of him, so I decided to avoid him and leave, but before I could leave he caught me.

"Katherine, didn't someone tell you I was calling you?" He calmly held my hand, not minding who was passing by, gosh I was completely shy at that moment.

"What exactly do you want to say, just say it" I said inwardly as I turned my face side by side like a playing kid.

"Why are you turning your face like that?" He asked as he gently drew me back to church, gosh I didn't want to go in there, the gen was off and it's all dark now. Only flashlights were seen inside the church, it was a school environment, so classrooms were used for church activities on days when there was no school.