Nick went upstairs to keep his bags when we went inside. Uche was in the living room with me.
"You are not going with him, are you?" I had to ask because I saw them talking before I started to look for the keys, maybe Nick convinced him to come with.
"Nahh."
"So I get to know about Casey's story when he leaves?"
"Yeah." Nick came back downstairs. He had changed into a different shirt. He went to the kitchen to get the cupcakes.
Uche walked out with him after that. I stood by the window near the door and they were talking.
"Help me look out for her." Nick told him. Wait s minute....was I her? Look out for me? I didn't need looking out for, I was as old as he was for crying out loud!
"You think she needs that?" Thank you Uche!! Please ask him that.
"She acts like a baby sometimes, I don't know, I just don't want anymore issue with my mum, you get what I mean?"
"Yeah."
"She might not answer the door if you knock so don't bother, just....I don't know, she might need help or something..."
"I understand."
"Thanks man." Uche shook his hands before they did their usual hug with a pat on each other's back.
After that, Uche walked with him till they both left the yard. Was Uche leaving too? I thought he would turn back around and come back to be with me.
Well, he couldn't just turn back around immediately. Maybe he would walk with him for some more distance. I decided to go shower instead of just standing there behind the window and waiting.
Using my aunt's hair dryer, I blew some hot air into my hair, I couldn't wait to dry it out myself, I wasn't that patient today.
I put on one of my shorts and a plain top and after making my hair into a bun, I hurried downstairs to know if he had come back.
Standing in front of the house, I waited for some seconds before going out front of the yard to check in the direction he went with Nick. I didn't see him, did he go with Nick? but he said he wouldn't go.
I almost got sad when it occurred to me that he might have gone to his house. He must have. I went over to his yard and when I got to the front door, I knocked gently.
No answer came so I knocked louder the second time, still no answer came. I couldn't tell if he was home or not.
'Maybe I should have checked through his window before I left the house.' I thought.
I didn't want to just assume he wasn't there so I knocked louder with both hands, I was basically banging on the door now and it opened all of a sudden.
It was Uche who opened the door, he was shirtless, more than shirtless, he had just a towel around his waist and his hair was dripping wet.
"Uche, I thought you went with Nick?" I said trying to look at his face but my eyes shifted to his wet torso every now and then.
"No,I thought I should shower first before I came over."
"Oh." I said lost in his body, he flipped the wet hair that was in his fair backwards and I swallowed.
"Did you lock the door?" I heard him ask.
"Huh?"
"Did you lock the front door after you left?"
"No." I shook my head. No! Shit, I left the door unlocked. "I'll be back, let me go lock it."
"Okay, when you get back, you can just come in, I'll leave the door open."
"Okay." I replied, hurrying to go lock the door that I had left unlocked.
After locking the door, I wore the key's holder on my pinky finger like a ring so I didn't lose it like before.
When I got to Uche's door, I took in a deep breath before opening the door to prepare myself just in case he still had a towel on and I had to face him.
He wasn't in the living room when I entered. I stood for some seconds then decided to sit on one of the sofas. Playing with the keys in my hand, I thought he would be down by now but he wasn't.....oh here he was, he was coming down the stairs now. I smiled when he came down, it was a sort of automatic smile, I guess I was just naturally happy to see him.
His hair still looked wet but it wasn't dripping water anymore, he had dried it. He came and squatted in front of me.
"Are you hungry?" He asked me.
"Yeah, I am. I forgot to bring some chips with me." I slapped my forehead, I can't believe I forgot to bring chips to eat when I was rushing back here."You guys have chips? Not chips specifically though, but something like that."
"Yeah we do, you could eat that or I could make us noodles. What do you say?"
"Yes!" I nodded, I wanted to taste something he cooked.
"Let's do that then." He got up from his squatting position and went to the kitchen, I immediately followed.
Standing behind the table island in the kitchen, I watched him take out some waxed noodle packs from a top cabinet. He didn't even have to use a stool like I had to whenever I wanted something and it was that high.
"Can I help with anything?" I asked after he put the noodles in a pot.
"There's really nothing much to do, just to cut the vegetables, I can do that. Just sit." He winked at me and I laughed.
I sat on one of the tall kitchen stools there, watching him as he diced some vegetables after washing them in the tap.
"You want one?" He asked when he was washing some tomatoes and I nodded. He came to me with one of the tomatoes. I smiled, taking it from him and piercing my incisors first into the round fruit.
I ate the tomato and watched as he easily sliced the tomatoes and after that, sieved the noodles from the pot using a sift.
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