We were walking home together now. We were almost home and he was still trying his best to make me smile since we left the park. He pulled on my cheeks lightly every now and then but I didn't smile.
"Julie." He called and made me turn to face him.
"What?" I answered with a question.
"Stop it, you know I don't like how your face is right now. You are making me feel bad."
"You should feel bad, you are leaving me."
"We could chat while I'm there."
"No. It's not the same feeling, I can't kiss you over a chat, can I?" I shot him a look feigned with sadness.
"You know you actually could, emojis?"
"No. It's not the same thing."
"Okay, let's do this," He cupped my face with both his palms."How about I give you a kiss now, then you smile for me?" He brought his face next to mine.
"What are you doing?!" I whispered a scream, pushing him away from me.
"What?" He asked like he didn't know what he just did.
"We are not in the park anymore, you can't be that close to me out here." I reminded him.
"Oh, I forgot." He hissed. "Don't blame me, it's hard not to get close to you, especially now that I'm trying to make you smile. You won't even let me do that."
"What can I do to make you happy Julie?" He asked me, putting his hands in his pockets and peering his eyes at me.
"Don't go." He knew that was what could make me happy.
"Something else." He requested.
"Nothing then." I wanted to continue walking but he pulled me back with no difficulty.
"Come on, nothing?" He asked, making me look at him.
"Yeah, nothing."
"Ice cream?" There was an ice cream truck parked nearby so he asked.
"No."
"You don't like ice cream?"
"I do, but I don't want that, not now."
"Then what do you want?"
"You, don't go." He sighed when I repeated the very thing I wanted from him.
"I won't next time if I'm with you, okay?" He told me but I only looked away. He made me look back at him by holding my chin up."I promised my friends I would be there and that I will bring beer, I can't disappoint them."
"And you'll disappoint me?"
"No Julie. Look, I promised them."
"Then break the promise."
"No. I don't break my promises. Please smile for me, you'll spoil my mood if you don't before I leave. Please? We are almost home, please smile?"
I let a dry smile come on my lips after hearing him beg but he didn't seem happy with that.
"I swear I will kiss you right here and right now if you don't smile." He said and I didn't know when I snorted out a laugh. He smiled when I laughed.
"Was that a threat?" I asked still laughing.
"I just wanted to get this reaction from you." He smiled and I rolled my eyes. He had succeeded in not just making me smile but laugh also. We soon continued to walk home.
****
We had gone home and I was now alone at home, Uche had gone to meet with Nick and the others, sigh.
I laughed at myself when I was in bed in my room, it was funny that lately I had forgotten what to do other than think about Uche, how beautiful his smile was and when next he was going to give me a lesson.
I pulled my blanket up to my neck as I snuggled myself under it, I was going to finish a book I had ongoing on my phone, it had just a chapter left to it's ending. Reading was something I did pretty much often during times like these. I didn't have any friends to go to like Uche did so I usually turned to my phone to pass time with reading online.
I was still reading when my phone beeped with a notification. I would ignore it but it was a text from Uche. I could see the message from the notification block:
"What are u doing?" Why was he asking what I was doing.
"Y are u asking?" I replied his text from the notification block.
"Just want to know, are u just pressing ur phone in bed?" He texted again making me smile, his guess was right; I was in bed; pressing my phone. I opened the message on the app now before replying again.
"😂😂"
"Yh, I am."
"U still think keeping a frnd is a bad idea?" He asked but I ignored it to ask my own question.
"Tell me, y are u chatting with me right now, aren't u having fun with ur friends?"
"I miss u around me. M sure u could tell that." I smiled again. I really could tell.
"Y did u go if u know u'd miss me?"
"Cos I had to....."
"Vid chat?" I saw his message and my phone started to vibrate within seconds after he asked. It was an incoming video call from him. I let it ring through till it stopped.
"Whyyyyyyy?" I got his message immediately my phone stopped ringing.
"U didn't wait for my ans b4 calling." I texted while biting my lips excitedly, I was happy about what I was doing to him.
"Oh"
"Sorry then"
"Will u ans if I call again?"
"No." I snorted after I sent my last message because I could see that he had seen the message but wasn't replying immediately, he didn't know what to say now.
"Juliiieee." He finally typed.
"What?"
"Take my call."
"No."
"Y not?"
"U went to be with ur frnds, talk with them...or do whatever it is u guys are doing."
"So that's why huh?"
"Yep." He wasn't texting back immediately again, he didn't know what to say like before.
"Come on... pls?"
"I just wanna see u."
"If u see me through the vid call, then what?" I asked but my phone started to vibrate again.
It was him calling. I decided to hit the green icon on my phone screen and accept his video call.
I saw a smile wash up his face the moment I answered and my face showed on the screen. His eyes looked different and I couldn't see any of his friends around him.
"Where are your friends?"
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