Him and I

"I don't think I want to go inside, I have a meeting at the hostel" I only said that to get rid of him, there was no meeting at all, my eyes widened as I saw the nonchalant attitude on him, nothing was ever going to let him let me go.

"Your meeting can wait a little please" he said with a smile, honestly a part of me wanted to spend not just a few minutes with him, if it took up to hours, I sure won't mind much.

We sat on one of the chairs in the hall as the rest of the people around, focused on packing out the church materials and instruments. While seated he put on his flight light and dropped it on the desk, moving the phone closer to my face to get a clearer view of me.

"What's his problem, why is he staring at me like a statue?" I said inwardly as I stared at Michael who's eyes were just fixed at me, people around who knew us would look and whisper, "gosh I wonder what they are talking about" I said calmly.

"What did you say?" He asked as he moved his left hand towards mine, patting mine as if he was trying to make a little kid go to bed.

Gosh I got the weirdest feeling when he did that, I couldn't move at all, all I did was stare at the floor, I was so nervous.

He smiled "Katherine" I turned and looked at him without a word as he kept on smiling this made me so uncomfortable, "I think I should..." Before I could finish what I wanted to say he caught in, putting more energy on his grip as he stared at my facial expression.

"I heard you love singing?" I nodded, what exactly is he driving at?But knowing he was the head instrumentalist in church, I had other thoughts about him. I wondered if he could play the instrument sometime for me to sing.

"Can you sing for me?" My eyes widened as my gaze averted his, "I'm not with my music book " I responded as I stared at the board In Front of me.

He shaked his head and looked around, "I didn't know you write, I'll would love to hear your real song's, those written by you, I've heard you sing once and honestly I've never heard angel's voice until that day"

His words were sweat sounds to my ears, he was such a flatterer, every inch of my body at that moment wanted to hold his hands the way he held mine calmly, I wanted to give him those assuring eyes that I feel the same about him, but I couldn't, I was just getting to know him, what if he was actually a playboy for real, I couldn't bare being amongst the heartbroken teenage girls.

"Thanks for the compliment" I said as we both stared at each other.

"Let's gently walk back to your hostel, I think Dan wants to lock the hall" a guy stood afar waving at Michael, which I simply understand, "I guess he's about to close the hall?" I asked.

"Yes, let's go"...

"So you'll send me a record of your song?" He asked as we walked, I could sense the seriousness in his voice as it seemed demanding.

Dan calls out to Michael far off "aren't you heading out of camp?" Because clearly Michael was taking me home, which was unknown to Dan.

"I'll be there" Michael said as we kept on walking, his weird smiles would always keep me thinking, was he thinking of something nasty or was he trying to act all charming.

I loved his voice and how he stammers when he tries to say something at times, there was this time at church when we had rehearsals, he quarreled a lady for coming late, but all the girl could do at that moment was stare and smile at him, I guess I wasn't the only one that saw his stammering charming and funny.

"We are almost close to my hostel, it's getting late, I can head back from here, you should get going" I said as I turned to walk away but he held me back and gave me an unexpected hug, which I resisted immediately, pulling away from his grip as fast as I could.

"I don't understand, what was that for?" I asked angrily as I waited for an explanation.

"I'm sorry Katherine, I just thought of doing that, I had no bad intentions in mind please" he said as he gave a fake smile, I could tell my tone really got him embarrassed, but he deserved it, we haven't even gotten closer for that.

"Just please, don't do that again, I don't like it and I'm not comfortable with it" he smiled and turned away.

I shaked my head, trying to shake the stain of guilt which seemed to be creeping in. I did nothing wrong so I have no reason to feel guilty for anything, I muttered inwardly as I walked back to my hostel.

Few minutes after I came back, I got a message while laying on my bed, just as I wanted to plug my earphones in.

(Message from Michael on whatsapp)

"Katherine I'm sorry about tonight, please don't think of it, it would never happen again"

I texted back to clearly state I had forgiven him, "it's fine, we cool alright"

This statement made him send a happy sticker, I smiled, he was such a sweet guy but I'm not just ready for anything.

"Hope you got to your hostel safely?"

"Yeah, I'm inside now, about to go to bed"

"Alright, I should let you rest, chat you some other time "

"No... No it's alright if you want to keep on chatting, I'm not sleepy yet"

"Okay " he texted.

"Hope you are back safe?" I asked with a plushing sticker.

"Yes I'm in my room "

"Alright " I texted, waiting anxiously for his next text.

"Can I be free to ask questions?" He asked as I wondered if he had nasty questions for me, this made my body shrink as I felt the cold breeze calmly resting on my skin.

"Sure, ask whatever " I texted back in anticipation.

"Okay".. "have you gone out on a date with someone before?"