We crossed the road and were at the park's open entrance. There weren't many persons there like the other day. Uche lead me past the tree we sat under the first time we cam here together, it made me start to wonder where we were headed to.
"Come on." He urged when I stopped. There was another bridge in the park, it was different from the one he showed me the first time I was here. This bridge actually led somewhere.
"Where is this place?" I had to ask.
"Do you trust me?" He asked me, putting out his hand for me to take. Did I trust him? Fuck yes I did. I took his hands and he helped me through the bridge gently because it had no rails to hold on to while you crossed.
"Wow." I muttered when we had gotten to the other side of the bridge. There were these little shiny rocks, some of them were coloured while some where just plain shiny.
"I know right?"
"Why didn't you show me this place the two times I've been here?" I asked rhetorically. It was beautiful, the whole sight of it.
"I used to pick these stones when I was younger."
"So why did you stop?" I turned to him where he stood next to me, he had his hands in his pockets.
"I don't know, I guess I don't have the time to come here anymore."
"Time?"
"Yeah, I don't come here much this days," he chuckled."I just remembered this place after Nick called."
"Does he know this place?"
"Yeah he does, we used to come here when we were still like eight years old, when we were still friends newly but he didn't like it much."
"Oh. So he stopped coming?"
"Yeahhh, I then started to come here whenever I was sad or angry, to be alone. No one else knows here."
"Now I know where it is, if you ever get sad or angry, I know where to find you." I told him and it made him laugh.
"Julie," he hugged me from behind, tall as he was, my head stopped on his chest so he had to lean in to talk in my ear.
"Yeah?" I loved what he was doing right now, his long arms around my shoulder.
"How do you like the things I like, I mean...we love the same things but we are so different. You are such an indoor person and I'm not."He said with his lips so close to my ears, it made me smile.
"I guess opposite attracts?" I replied and heard him chortle.
"Maybe that." He kissed me on the cheeks. I hope I wasn't red in the face after he did that."Your cheeks are so soft." He whispered this time. My cheeks were surely red now.
He made me turn around and face him. I looked at the ground to avoid having him see how red my face was after he had made me blushed just now. He lifted my face by the chin and looked at me for a while, a smile on his face.
"God, you are pretty." He said making me swallow."So very pretty." he said in a lower voice.
"So are you." I felt like I had to tell him but realized what I said wasn't right."I mean you are handsome, not pretty of course." I tried to correct what I initially said. I was being awkward now and I didn't need to be told that.
He had that still smile on his lips. His lips, my eyes focused on them, they were kissable. I remembered that I wanted to touch his beards earlier when we were in music class.
I caressed his chin and felt the light hairs there. He jerked his head backwards as an initial reaction to what I just did but then let me continue.
"Sorry I did that, I'm not used to someone touching my face like that." He laughed lightly.
"I just wanted to feel them; your beards." He laughed more when I said that.
"I won't call them beards, I mean it's not to be classified as that, yet."
"It's still gonna grow." I shrugged.
"Yeah, someday."
"Did your dad used to have beards?" I asked to know if I could tell whether he would have a thicker beard when he got older because he did look a lot like his dad.
"Yeah, he doesn't like to keep it though."
"See? Yours will grow too." I caressed his cheek more when I saw that he was enjoying what I was doing.
"You like when a guy has beards?" He asked me.
"I mean, I like you so I guess so."
"Come on, give me a good answer." He requested, placing his hands over mine on his face, his palms warming the back of my hands.
"If I like when a guy has beards, then what?" I wanted to know why he was asking.
"Just tell me."
"Are you gonna magically make yours grow thicker?" I chuckled when I asked.
"Maybe." He smiled.
"I don't know. I just know that I like these ones on your chin." I let him know.
"Can I kiss you? I want to kiss you so bad Julie?" He whispered in my right ear.
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