Jap looks totally different. He's not like the one I lived with for years. He's just too different from the Jap I know.
Dressed in a designer's jean trouser, he pairs it off with a blue shirt, his hair a bit longer than it was when I lived with him, is slicked to the side.
Seeing Jap makes me recall the last day I spent with him. The day he unceremoniously confessed his feelings to me.
"Lat." He fast walk towards me, his face showing his concern. "What happened to you?"
"It's a long story." I sigh.
"I can still understand should you care to enlighten me more on things." He sits on the chair near the bed, and. takes my hand in his.
I really had to endure having my hand on his, if not I would have removed my hand from his.
I don't want to give him any reason to think am getting comfortable with the idea of him.
"I was shot last night."
"What?" He suddenly sits up. "What happened?"
"I really can't recall."
Not that I can't recall, I can do that, but I don't want to remember things.
" It's okay. " He place his hand on my head. " If you can't recall on you own, you don't have to force yourself to do so. "
" How did know am here?"' I raise a brow at him. A narrowed expression on my face as I try thinking on how he got to know where I am. It's not like I called him to tell him that.
" Eh. I..." He nervously smiles. "I came for a monthly check up, and that's when I saw that boy leaving." He continues petting my hair as he talks.
"You saw Mate?"
"Of course I did. That was the reason why I knew you're here."
"Okay."
I don't want to show him am still doubtful about his words. The Jap I knew, or thought I knew doesn't have any health issues.
"How have you being?"
"Am fine."
Infact, am more than fine. Spending time with Mate is more than I can ever wish for, it's more like a dream come true kind of thing.
"I can see that." He gives me a look. "For this almost two years you've being with me, you've incurred no wounds on you at all, but look, you've not being with him for up to a week, and you've already gotten shot." He gives me a disapproving look as if am the cause of my misfortune.
" It's not his fault. Had I stayed in there like he requested from me, I wouldn't have gotten shot."
Mate would have being the one in this predicament as I am.
Just thinking on that makes me glad I took the bullet for him.
"It's not his fault?" Jap slowly nods. "I can see that it's not his fault."
" It's the fault of those stupid men and whoever might have sent them."
Should I get my hands on them, I'll show them pepper. I'll make sure they know not to mess with a person like me, most especially my love.
You can mess with me, and go Scott free, but the same can't be said for anyone who dares mess with my love. They'll have to answer to me.
"Your eyes." He points at them. "Why are you still wearing contacts in your sick bed?"
"Contacts? Am wearing no contact. That's my eye colour." I Frown at him, totally forgetting all I said to him when he asked about the violet eyes.
"Your main eye colour?" He raise a brow at me.
"That's not it. I love this eyes colour because you said you like it. Mate days it makes my face light up a bit." I expertly lie as I pray for him not to notice anything at all.
I really don't have the strength to explain everything. I don't want Jap to feel like I somehow betrayed him all because I didn't tell him the exact colours of my eyes.
"I see." He lightly touch my hair. "What do you say, we go home?"
"Home?" I blink up at him.
He nods. "The house haven't being the same without you. I really miss your presence more than life itself Laty. Please return with me." He pleads. Letting go of his touch on my head, he link my hands with his.
" Am sorry."
I can never go anywhere now that I've seen my Mate. With him close by, I have absolutely no reason at all to go live with another. It's Mate and I.
"You're not willing to go back because of him right?" He angrily frown at me.
" Am sorry."
"You know i love you Laty. Please don't do this to me." He pleads.
"Stop crying Jap, it makes me want to cry with you." I touch his head. "Just don't cry okay?"
Should he cry from now till thy kingdom come, it won't change my resolution at all. It's Mate for me.
Whenever Mate shows up, other boys becomes irrelevant.
"Follow me home then? That's the only thing that's capable of making me happy." He says in a light voice.
" Am Sorry, I can't do that. Am sorry, I can't ever return back there."
" Is it the money? You're with him for the money? Of that's the case, I'll have a palace build for you."
" Are you trying to call me a gold digger? Is that what you see in me?"
" No, of course not." He rush to add. " Am just trying to let you know am more than capable of taking care if you."
" I know you do. You've looked after me for a long time."
" But..."
The door opens to reveal Mate whose happy expression turned dark the moment his eyes landed on Jap.
Seeing Mate, Jap stands from the chair he's sitting on.
"What are you doing here?" Mate growls in anger as he slowly advance towards us, a glare leveled at Jap who's looking too smug for my liking.