Chapter 4 - John’s friends

John came out of his room when he heard someone calling his name and the person he saw standing in front of his room door was his cousin Jacob

"You trash, mom said you should go and wash the dishes" Jacob said upon seeing John opening the door. After saying that he turned around and left without waiting for John to reply. John clenched his teeth, but at the end he still went to do the dishes.

When he got to living room, he saw Aunty Clara sending her sister and son off.

In order to avoid being reprimanded again, he quickly fled into the kitchen to wash the dishes.

He came out of the kitchen when he was done with the dishes and didn't see anyone in the living room, so he decided to go to his room to take a nap and rest for while

John was woken up when his phone started ringing and he realized that it was evening already. When he looked at the caller I'd, he realized that is was his friend and school mate Kevin calling.

He answered the phone and heard John shouting "bro where are you?"

"What's wrong?" John did not answer and instead question him back

"Nothing, the guys and I have decided to hang out for a while and we want to know if you are available to join us "

John hesitated for a while and then decided to go "ok I'm coming, just send me the location".

When John received the location, he hung up and decided to go meet his friends.

John stepped out of his room into the living room and the only person he could see in the living room was Aunty Clara watching Tv. She looked up when she heard a sound and upon seeing that it was John, she look at him disdainfully and went back watching her program.

John didn't say anything and just left the house . When he got outside, he took a taxi to where his friends where.

When he got there he saw his friends Joseph, Kevin and Paul standing at the road side waiting for him

"Why do you look like your world is coming to an end? What happened?" Paul asked the moment he saw John walking towards them with a frown on his face.

"Nothing. I'm hungry let's look for somewhere to eat first " John said why putting his hands on his stomach

They started walking along the street while looking for where to eat and came across a food stand that sells chicken legs, wings and other things

Paul stopped them and said "let's go over to that food stand and eat there, I heard that what they sell is delicious "

"Delicious or you want to admire that pretty girl beauty up close?" Kevin teased Paul and exposes his true intention

"Why are you talking as if I'm only one looking and admiring her?" Paul retorted back

That was because the food stand that Paul pointed to the guys, a beautiful girl was there helping her mother to sell.

Amongst their group, Paul was known as the person that loves to admire and talk about girls the most

The other three just laughed and they walked towards the food stand. When they got to the food stand, they sat down and ordered Noodles, chicken legs, chicken wings and pork ribs together with beers

Kevin nudged Paul when he saw Paul constantly staring at the girl in the food's stand that was helping her mother by serving the customers and said "stop staring at her like that, you are creeping her out" and it was true because the girl was beginning to feel uncomfortable under Paul's constant stare

"If you like her why don't you go talk to her" Joseph advice Paul to which

Kevin laugh and said "Forget about Paul, we all know that he admires nearly all beautiful girls that he sees especially at school. Have you seen the way he ogled at all the beautiful girls in School and was even was worse is that he has started attending lectures with the newly admitted junior students so that he could keep staring at new beautiful faces."

The boys just laughed at Paul.

"Was bad is that he doesn't have the courage to approach anyone of them to court her and I don't know why" John said

"You think I'm I have money like Joseph or handsome and intelligent like you John, look I'm the ugliest among the four of us and why do you think any beautiful girl will like me. So just let me to keep admiring them" Paul refuted back after being laughed at by his friends

Among the four of the friends, Joseph family was far better off than then financially while John was the most handsome amongst the group, followed by Kevin, Joseph and Paul

As they were talking and laughing their food and drinks were served, Joseph was the Who paid for the food and drinks.

They started eating while talking, laughing and enjoying themselves.

When Kevin suddenly said "the only one amongst the four of us who is lucky of dating a beautiful girl is John and I'm sure he's head over hills over his girlfriend, that's why he doesn't bother to look at any other girl "

"Hahaha" they all laughed.

John kept on eating and didn't answer back because he was too hungry to say anything. That's because he had been busy since morning and haven't had a decent meal

When they saw that John didn't say anything, they all went back eating their food when Paul Suddenly shouted "Holy shit"

"What's wrong?" Joseph asked him after being startled. Paul hesitated and Pointed towards a direction.

Both Joseph and Kevin followed his direction and both of them shouted "holy shit" at the same time.

John who was busy eating because he was too hungry, stopped and looked at their faces and then looked at where they were looking at. After seeing it for himself, he stood there shocked as if he had been electrocuted and his hands were trembling