"What do you mean she has a role to play, are you saying it's her fault?!!" I couldn't let him say that. It wasn't her fault from what he just told me.
"The way she turned him down, it was overly mean, I mean...."
"It's still not her fault."
"It is, she actually went ahead and let him still use her, after rejecting him in public."
"What?"
"I don't know if she was trying to fix the whole thing back then but after she said no to Nick, a video went viral on the school blog, someone anonymous posted a video of them both making out, I don't know why she'd let him get that close to her if she didn't like him."
"Wait, hold on....I don't get, what are you saying?"
"There's this video, it made everything worse. I don't know who posted it, no one does. It made things worse for her, she let Nick....you know....Casey fucked up. I don't even know who to blame Julie, some people said it was Nick who posted the video to get revenge on her but Nick swears he didn't do it, so I'm guessing it's probably another girl who got jealous that Nick asked Casey out."
"....." I didn't know what to say at this point. Maybe Casey had a fault here, I wanted to defend her but after listening to what Uche just said about her making out with Nick in a video after rejecting him in public, I wasn't sure I could.
"Do you have the video?" I asked before putting the last fork of noodles in my mouth.
"No, it's been pretty long but I think it's still in the school blog page, nothing that ever goes there get deleted." He got up and picked my plate, taking it and his to the sink. He got a glass and poured out some fruit juice for me from the fridge in the kitchen.
"Thanks." I took the glass from him when he returned to where I sat.
"Forget about it, it's all in the past." He started."It's just funny how Nick acts sometimes, he didn't even make an effort to fix the situation, after she gave herself to him." Uche looked like he was trying not to get pissed by remembering it.
He sighed before shifting his stool closer to me than it was. He cupped my cheeks and said;
"You have no idea how happy I am that you didn't say no Julie, if you had rejected then I'm very sure I would never be able to face any other girl."
He started to rub my lips like today at school after he applied the lip balm for me. I saw his Adam apple go up and down as he swallowed. Was he going to kiss me? I wanted him to. Now we weren't in school and there wasn't anyone here so he could kiss me.
He leaned in, yesss. Bringing his lips to mine, I felt his lips touch mine but he didn't kiss me just yet like I was yearning for. I closed my eyes expecting his kiss any moment but his phone rang.
'Please don't take it. please don't take it.'
He took it. Urggghhh! I opened my eyes when I couldn't feel his warm breath close to my face anymore.
"Yeah, I think she's okay." I heard him say over the phone.
"Is it Nick?" I asked him and he nodded, he put the phone on loudspeaker.
"Did you go over there?" I heard Nick ask.
"Yeah."
"She opened the door when you knocked?"
"Yeah."
"Can you help me ask her to eat something, I forgot about that before I left. I plan to tell my mum that I made sure she had something to eat before coming to give her the cupcakes. If I decide to call her phone, she probably wouldn't pick up."
"I think she already did." Uche told him.
"How would you know?"
"Well, when I went to check on her the first time, she was drying her hands with a kitchen towel, I think she was cooking."
"Oh, thankfully. Thanks man."
"Yeah sure." Nick hung up after Uche said that.
I couldn't be more annoyed about Nick right now. Why did he have to call, right when Uche was about to kiss me. I didn't know if I would be demanding if I asked him to kiss me now. I don't know how this relationship thing works but I wanted his lips on mine, very badly.
"Finish your juice, I wanna take you somewhere." He told me and put his phone in one of his pockets.
"We are going somewhere?"
"You don't want to?"
"I do." I finished the fruit juice and handed him the glass.
He returned the empty glass to the sink and came to me, taking my right hand and leading me out of the house.
"Where are we going?" I asked as he locked his front door.
"To the park."
"The park? Why?"
"I wanna show you something, somewhere actually."
"Somewhere?" I asked him. He looked pretty excited to show this place to me.
"Yeah, it's in the park." He explained."Your house keys, are you still with them?" He asked and I immediately checked my fingers, the key bunch was still around my pinky finger like a ring so I waved it in front of him.
"Can you hold it safe?"
"Yeah. What am I baby?"
"I just wanted to know if I should maybe hold it for you till we return." He explained that he didn't mean it in that sense.
"Okay." I took it off my pinky and gave it to him.
As we walked to the park, I would occasionally turn to him while we held hands and there would be this glim of happiness written all over his face.
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 came here together, it made me start to wonder where we were headed to.
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