Beneath the starry night sky, on an expressway where vehicles were running on quite a crazy speed to and fro. Just beside the expressway, at the point reserved for the pedestrians. Two people walked majestically while chatting and laughing. These two were Emmanuel and Rebecca, and they were currently on their way home.
Though Mrs Amarachi had given them little tips which she expected them to use and take a tricycle back home and then keep the remaining change, they didn't want to use it like that. This was actually Emmanuel's idea at the beginning, and with a few jokes and shameless talks, he was able to convince Rebecca, thereby gaining a hike partner every time he went home since then.
" Come here " Rebecca said while trying her best to feign a senior sister serious face. She was doing a really bad job in this as Emmanuel just found her face more and more hilarious.
Seeing Emmanuel's behaviour, She just became more furious and immediately stretched out her hands wanting to get hold of Emmanuel. It turned out to be a futile effort as Emmanuel had already picked up his pace. He had already put out a distance between themselves.
Rebecca seeing this immediately picked up her own pace and started chasing after him. With this a peculiar scene was formed. A scene of two adolescent playing catch under the night sky, a peculiar art in did.
" UUuhhh, uhhh, uhhh, uhhh " Rebecca suddenly stopped. She bent her body and then rested her hands on her knees while letting out exclamations, trying to catch her breath. She was obviously very tired.
Emmanuel on noticing this immediately stopped and then ran back towards her. As soon as he got very close to her, Rebecca who was currently catching her breath suddenly spranged up. She stretched out her hands immediately in an attempt to get hold of Emmanuel again.
Suprisingly, she was successful this time. Emmanuel who had no idea of the scheme cooking up in the mind of the young lady went towards her with a worried expression. He was worried that something serious had happened to her.
Though her action came as a surprise, Emmanuel was still able to realise it, and so he tried to make an escape. Alas, this time, things didn't go the way he anticipated. Before he could move far, he felt a string of pain on his face, on his ear to be more precise.
" I thought you knew how to run, run na, go ahead, is there any problem " Rebecca taunted Emmanuel continuously while squeezing his ears. " Please, Please, Please, Am sorry " Emmanuel kept on yelling continuously, the ear squeeze was actually really painful as she actually wasn't holding back.
Suddenly Emmanuel seemed to have noticed something and then he started giving Rebecca signals who in turn still thought he was still pleading, and so choose to ignore him and continue with her taunts. It was until after a short while that she finally accepted Emmanuel's words and then looked around.
She felt really embarrassed as she was currently being stared by the passer-by's and civilians. On noticing the reason, She immediately let Emmanuel ears go and then picked up his hands before dragging him out of there.
After they had walked some meters, and could no longer see where they were previously, Rebecca finally let go of Emmanuel's hands. At this point, her face was all red, but not from blushing but from fury. She suddenly stopped and glared at Emmanuel with an eyes that could spit fire, " Why didn't you talk " . Emmanuel was at a loss of words but soon, he put together these " I did ".
" Ohhhh, You did, how come i didn't hear that " Rebecca said still furious. Emmanuel was quite perplexed that she was saying this as he knew he did warn her but she wasn't getting it.
" Of course I did. Have you forgotten, just now I was trying to warn you but you didn't listen. I tol... " It was at this point he realised. Indeed he said nothing, and was only giving out hand signs tat weren't so understandable.
" Hey, See ice cream " Emmanuel yelled in a not so high tone. Saying that, he immediately ran towards the ice cream cart pusher while leaving behind an even more furious Rebecca who knew she had been played again.
Having no other choice she immediately ran after him while shouting " Better wait for me you annoying brat ".