YOU CAN MAKE A
GROWN MAN CRY???
(If you ever ever say goodbye?…Never let you go??)
Nnenna’s romance series?
Rated?
?CHAPTER NINETEEN?
(*I won’t let a single breath of De_ra sweep you away from me??..*)
Her mouth fell open. Because they’re friends? That’s why he left his house and came over to hers? Isn’t he even gonna ask how she’s been doing but to tell her about De_ra’s intentions towards him.
“Okay. Tell her that she’s welcome to try.”
“Aren’t you gonna fight back? Or you just gonna let her take me away from you?”
“I don’t fight over men. Not you and not anyone. She’s welcome to do wh@ťěver she wants with you.”
He didn’t want to get angry at her. The emotionless expression on her face was beginning to piss him off.
How can she be so cruel. “Can’t you care a little bit about how I feel about all these? Must you make my heart ache each time you say mean words like that to me.”
Look who’s speaking about mean words? He show up at her place after three weeks she tried getting on with her life and attack her with words so mean that her heart bled. And he’s talking about mean. He’s the one who’s been mean to her!
“Dee, please leave. I’ve been watching the news. Reading articles and it’s all about the both of you. I already wished the both of you luck.”
“What?” he grabbed her hand while she struggled to be free. What will he do with her? Must she always make his heart cry in pain?
“Let me go!” she wriggled away.
“I’m leaving. I pray that in two months, I would’ve stopped crying and yearning for you. Heartless Ɓîtçh!!!” he cursed and stormed out.
HEARTLESS Ɓîtçh got her all choked up. Tears gathered around her eyes. She began to cry. Why is he so mean? Why is he so cruel to her? Why is life not treating her so farely?
She needs to leave this town. She needs to go somewhere very quiet. Her hometown. Seattle. Yes, that’s the only place where she would find peace. She dragged her steps to her room and began to pack her things, ready to flee the city.
*So, before you go…was there something I could’ve said to make your heartbeat better?…if only I did know you had a storm to weather…So, before you go, was there something I could’ve said to make it all stop hurting…*
The plane announced departure and she kissed NYC goodbye. She won’t be back here until she recollects herself and pull herself together. She needs to get ready with wh@ťěver thing that’s coming her way in the future.
She texted Jasmine.
*I’m travelling to Seattle to see my parents* and turned off her phone. She sighed. How empty her heart feels. She closed her eyes and reminiscences of what happened between her and Dee filled her memory.
Every moment so painful and so lovely to cast away. It hurts so much because he’s the only man among all her line of men who made her feel like a real woman.
She recalled his robe. How her eyes burned as she stared at it. She recalled the rise and fall of his Adam’s apple that night.
A tear dropped down from her eyes. Would she really let him go? She asked herself. What if she’s a heartless Ɓîtçh? No, by the time NYC sees her again, she’s a changed full career woman.
She opened her eyes and closed them again. Dee’s smile, his laughter and his feathery kisses on her shoulder filled her head.
It will be hard to forget him. It will be so hard to regret anything. She prayed for sleep but it never came. His menacing figure and angry expression as he spoke to her earlier tormented her.
If only all that didn’t happen. If only she stuck to being his best friend. Things won’t have turned out this way. None of them would’ve gotten hurt.
*
Two days later,
*So, before you go…was there something I could’ve said to make your heartbeat better?…if only I did know you had a storm to weather…So, before you go, was there something I could’ve said to make it all stop hurting…*
He tossed on the bed and sat up. He didn’t get any sleep last night. How pitiful he looks. Only one person has the power to make him this way. The heartless Ɓîtçh.
A text message was plastered on his phone screen. It was from De_ra;
_Good morning love. How was your night? How are you enjoying your saturday? I bought tickets for a movie. Would you want to see a movie with me?_
He grumbled. As if she’s gonna let him be if he says no. He stood up and jumped down from his bed. He went into his bathroom. He stripped off his clothes and went into his prepared bathtub.
How refreshing. The warmness of the water on his body was refreshing but he h@ťěd it because it so much reminded him of her.
He relaxed his mind. But her face was plastered all over his memory. That Ɓîtçh. A woman who can make a man cry. A grown one at that. What’s her reason? Why so rigid with him? Why pushing him away? He checked his phone.
Should he call her? No. He needs to get his mind off her. What he might hear from her might be so displeasing to the ear.
He climbed down from his tub and grabbed his robe. He wore it and whipped the rope around his tiny waist and then strolled into his room.
He headed downstairs to his kitchen. He reached for his refrigerator when his doorbell rang.
It rang desperately that he wondered who might be there at the door. He went to his door and opened it.
His chest tightened and the anger which have been lying low since two days resurfaced again.
“What are you doing here?”
“That robe. Why are you putting it on?”
“What business do you have with my robe?”
“I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the past two days.”
He was confused. She pushed her way in. “Dee, I went to Seattle.” he was silent, only looking at her and getting confused. “And…I realized something. I realized that …”
“Diane, you don’t have to confuse me or…”
“I love you”
He was dumbfounded.”What…what did you just say?”
“I love you and I won’t let anyone take you away from me. Not even De_ra have the rights to.”
“Are you okay?” he managed to mutter. It’s so unreal seeing her confess her feelings to him.
“Yes, going to Seattle made me come to my senses. I love you and I missed you and I won’t let even a single breath of De_ra sweep you away from me.”
TO BE CONTINUED