"Is he okay?" I asked worriedly.
"Kinda." I heard Uche, he was still trying to get Uche through the stairs.
"Kinda?"
"Come help me out, if his mum sees him like this...."
"She is going to see him, she's going to come home soon." I cut him short.
"Exactly why he needs to be in his room, he drank too much with Kim and others and now he's wasted."
"Oh." I muttered.
"Come on, Nick." He said still trying to get him up the last two steps.
When they were both finally on the top base of the step, I joined them while he took Nick to his room. He let Nick fall to the bed and sighed heavily, sitting on the bed too. I just stood there staring at him.
"So what now?" I thought I should ask.
"He is going to be better and sober by tommorow morning, hopefully." He was panting through his breath.
"What do I tell my aunt?"
"Nothing." He replied immediately, getting up from the bed.
"Nothing?" I asked watching him walk towards me.
"Yeah, let's go." He said and we left Nick's room, closing the door behind us.
"She's going find out, you do know we have dinner together every night, she will know."
"Nick said she called, she plans on staying longer at her office, she actually asked him to go back home if he was outside by any chance but Nick stupidly decided to stay with the boys longer and get wasted." He said walking back down the stairs while I followed behind. "So yeah, I don't think they should be a problem, because if she gets back she expects that you both are probably in bed."
"So you went back to where they were at?"
"Yeah."
"Oh." I said wondering if that was why he didn't reply to my text but I wasn't going to bring that up.
"Nick doesn't listen, does stupid shit lately, I told him not to have that too many cups of the whiskey." I think that was the first time I've heard him curse.?
"He had whiskey?"
"Yeah, Kim brought a bottle of whiskey." We were both just standing In the sitting room, near the window.
"And you think he'll be okay by tomorrow?"
"He should be, and tommorow is Saturday, if he wakes up late there's a good reason; it's weekend right?" He said and I nodded.
"Are we still hanging out tomorrow?" I asked. "I mean for you to help me with the math lesson." I added quickly and got a smile from him.
"Surely."
"Are you leaving?" I asked hoping there wasn't any trace of sadness in my voice.
"Mmn." He nodded."Wait, have you eaten?"
"No." I shook my head.
"Why not?"
"I didn't feel like it earlier but now I'm just gonna make cereal..."
"Cereal?"
"Yeah."
"Is that your favorite thing to eat?"
"What? No." I laughed, my palms getting a little sweaty.
"I was going to say...." He paused. "Never mind."
"No, tell me." I urged.
"Well, if you had said yes to cereal being your favorite food to eat, I would have said; that explains why your collarbone looks so skinny."My eyes widened when he said that.
"So, I'm skinny?"
"I didn't say that. I mean it's just around your neck that's kinda skinny."
"I'm not skinny. I know some girls would take that as a compliment but not me." I let him know.
"No, you are not. You are not skinny, trust me, your cheeks are puffy even."
"My cheeks are puffy? How would you know that? Have you felt them before?" I chuckled with an accompanying smile.
"Can I feel them now?" He asked and before I could answer, he was closer to me. I felt his palms warm up my face when he cupped my face with both his hands.
"I was right, they are soft and puffy." He said taking his hands away. I just smiled, a little shyly to my surprise. When was I ever this shy? It was him, it was Uche making me shy.
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It was Saturday morning, 6:30, but I wasn't getting out of bed. I planned not to get out of bed till it was at least nine.
We were definitely doing laundry today and I didn't want to start that early so I laid back and decided to just scroll through social media.
I went on to search for Uche's account on Instagram. A little surprised that he had actually opened his account with his real name, it was easy to find. He had 679 followers, he was pretty famous at school so he ought have that much followers. His profile picture was one with him and Nick making funny faces, mannnn did he look so cute. I quickly saved the picture after I reacted to it.
I checked on his other pictures they were just three of them. One looked really cute, he was wearing a blue suit, his hair was shorter in this picture and he had posed with his hands in his pocket, looking all handsome. I guessed it to be junior prom, he did look younger and he had that smile that was to die for.
I took in a deep breath, before exhaling with a wide grin on my face, I wished I could kiss those lips right now. I remembered that he hadn't replied my text from yesterday and I stopped smiling and daydreaming. I did what I did with his profile picture, I liked and saved it after I was done staring at it. The other pictures there were just one of he and Nick again and one were their other friends were in it.
"Julie?!" I heard my aunt call before she knocked. I planned on not answering my name at first and just pretending to be asleep but she called again and cursed inwards.
I knew I had to do my laundry but it could wait,I could definitely do it later, why the rush?
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