Chapter 6

Phil had called me one morning and told me that he was thinking of quiting his current job and focusing on his business. He asked me what I thought about it and I told him to say he could quit and focus on his business since his current job was overusing him with little pay while his business brought him more money than his job. It was already 3 three months of us dating and the relationship was was beautiful. It had its ups and downs. Phil would sometimes go quiet for two or three days due to his busy schedule. This was getting really frustrating for me cause it made me start to feel less priorized. I talked about it with him. He apologized and promised to do better. He got better at communicating frequently. Phil was so caring. One day we had written a class assessment and it was so hard for me. The questions were so twisted. I got back home after the assessment and turned on my data. I found messages from Phil. I responded to them and complained about the test I had written and how hard it was. He called me immediately and began to encourage me. He told me a funny story about one of his friends and it cheered me up. He later told me a story about himself. So one time, his afternoon classes happened to be cancelled and he wasn't aware as he was offline WhatsApp. When it was time for the supposed class, he walked to the lecture theater and saw unfamiliar faces and when he got to the class, he realized he was in the wrong class. I laughed so hard. He later recommended a movie he had watched that got him emotional. He narrated the whole movie to me and asked me to watch it when I found time. Later that evening, I decided to download the movie and it was titled 'Nowhere'. That movie was one of the nicest movies I had ever seen. It was emotional too. I cried when the woman had to eat her own placenta. That woman really had a beautiful relationship with her husband before they were separated. She went through a lot on her own while carrying that pregnancy. What was sad was that the husband ended up dying in the end.

After I finished watching the movie, I slept off. I had a terrible nightmare that night and it was so scary. I saw zombies and they were saw huge. I started running away until I woke up. I woke up sweating. I got up from the bed and went to the fridge and got a bottle of water to calm down. Few minutes later, I felt better and went back to sleep. I woke up quite early the next morning and went to prepare myself breakfast. I prepared spaghetti and made sauce for it. It was a meal I hadn't had in a long time. I enjoyed it so much. I called my Besty and did some catching up with her. She told me her little boy had started to learn how to walk now and was able to pronounce a few words. I was so excited and couldn't wait to visit them. We lived in the same city but quite far from each other. I planned to go visit her that weekend. After the call ended I got ready for class and left. The lecture wasn't long so we were done learning an hour earlier. I decided to use the other hour to catch up on some school work. The next lecture started and this one took longer than usual. By the time we were knocking off, it was past 4pm. I started to walk home while listening to some music. I went to a cafe to buy some coffee and just have some quiet time in the midst of people. While sitting there, I noticed a man entering the cafe and he looked really familiar. He was tall about 6'2" and had blue eyes.

He walked to a sit that was isolated and sat there. He seemed to be very busy on his phone. I looked away from him and kept wondering where I had seen him. Finally, I remembered he was the guy wearing a purple shirt from the restaurant months ago. I was enjoying my coffee when I began to feel someone staring at me. I looked up only to lock eyes with 'blue eyes' . He looked quite serious and I quickly averted my eyes and continued to look at nothing in particular. It was already getting dark outside so I decided to leave. I found people heading in my direction and I decided to walk close to them. I was afraid. I felt "blue eyes" was a kidnapper because of the way he kept staring at me each time we crossed paths. I couldn't wait to get home and sleep. Phil had been offline again for days and this got me worried because I didn't know how he was or if anything bad had happened. I got home and decided to text him again and this time, he responded to my messages. He explained that the network in his country was quite bad nowonder he wasn't able to call or get online the past few days. He sent me forwarded messages from his network providers who were apologizing for the network disruption. I felt relieved he was okay. He told me as soon as network got stable, he was going to call me. I just hopped that it would get better soon cause distance relationships require a lot of effort than the relationships were people see each other almost everyday.

I got home that evening and prepared myself a hot bath as the weather wasn't so friendly. It looked like it would rain any minute. I managed to bath within a few minutes and tucked myself into bed. I slept off and had a strange dream about "blue eyes". In the dream, I was in the same cafe where I saw him. He came to where I was sitted and smiled without saying a word. He received a phone call and had to leave. He told me he would be back soon so he can take me home. I woke up from that dream feeling confused. I decided to brush it off cause it didn't make any sense to me. I got out of bed and starting preparing to go to my Bestfriend's house for the weekend. I hadn't visited her in months and was planning to pay her a surprise visit. I got on the first bus and the journey was going to last for two hours. I just sat close to the window looking at the beautiful trees along the way. I loved sitting close to windows on buses as they had this feeling of warmth. Nature just had this way of making one feel at ease and forget about all their problems for once. Two hours later, I was getting off the bus with my backpack. I decided to get on a taxi to take me to my friends's place. I called her when I got to her doorstep. "Susie, please get to you door I've sent you a package" I told her on call. "Bestfriend wow thank you, let me go check it out." Came her response . I saw the door knob moving while I was standing outside. I held my mouth as I didn't want to start screaming already. She opened the door with her mouth wide open. She screamed and hugged me. "What a pleasant surprise Laila. I've missed you . My husband travelled and I'm home with my little boy. I'm so glad you came" she told me " I missed you too my friend. I wanted to give you a surprise and I got you for a second right" I said with a smile. "Let me help you with your backpack" she told me. Little Daniel was sleeping when I arrived . My friend began to inquire about how everything was going at my school and my work place. Finally, she asked after Phil and I told her how things had been going.