ATTRACTION - CHAPTER 3&4
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{THEIR OUTING}
After unpacking her stuff, Damina went back to the sitting room to find her step mom in the kitchen.
“Need anything?” Miranda asked starring at the Black girl with cute eyes.
“Not really but I….I think I made a mistake earlier” Damina admitted.
” What mistake?” Miranda asked.
“It’s Anthony, I kinda of thought of him as a driver and treated him as one earlier, I would like to apologise” Damina said while Miranda laugh out loud.
“You thought Anthony to be a driver, serves him right” Miranda said still laughing.
“Why do you say that?”
“Due his hot look, girls have been clamouring him making him feel high and mighty, it’s time someone bring down that ego of his” Miranda said and Damina found herself admitting from within that she also thought the same as those girls when she first set eyes on him.
“But if you want to apologise then I know the right way you can, he’s up in his room right?” Miranda asked and Damina nodded.
*****
Damina stood in front of Anthony door knocking severally but when there was no reply, she open the door with one bare hand while she carried Anthony’s special coffee with the other into his room.
“Woah…..it’s gorgeous” she found herself saying when she look around the interior of the room.
“Where is he?” She muttered when there was no sign of him in the room.
Putting the coffee down on a table, she found herself moving towards the collection of video games he had instead of leaving like she’s meant to.
“Is going through someone things your hobby?” He ask suddenly and immediately she turn to see him standing by the bathroom door way and what’s worse he had nothing on except for the towel tied to his waist.
Damina gaze went to his abs and couldn’t help but to swallow down a chunk of spit.
He’s manly, she thought within as she kept starring at his chest hungrily.
She was snapped out of it when he moved towards her to take the video game from her.
“Am sorry if I went through your things…it’s just that I have a thing for video games and……and I brought this as a peace offering” she said going to where she kept the coffee.
“What peace offering?” He asked.
“Earlier, I thought you were the driver and was rude to you” she said standing in front of him with the coffee tray in her hand.
“It doesn’t matter, have forgotten all that” he said unconcern and turn to leave but she quickly obstruct his path.
“But still….am sorry” she said stretching the coffee to him, he let out a sigh before taking the cup from the tray while Damina smiled at him.
“If that is all, you can leave” he said and it was then that realise that he was still in his towel.
She was heading out of the room when he got a video call.
“Dude! What happen to the Nigerian girl?”
On hearing that Damina stop and found herself moving to where he was seated in front of his laptop.
“She’s home” Anthony replied.
“Really? She kept calling me a liar and ran off before I could explain” Raymond said.
“Well I was given a slap, didn’t know her hand could hurt so much” Stephen added.
Unknown to Anthony, he thought Damina left and it wasn’t until she spoke that he realise she’s still there.
“It’s them! The kidnappers I told you about earlier” she said starring at Raymond and Stephen on the laptop.
“It’s her!” Stephen said in excitement while waving at her.
“We weren’t trying to kidnap you miss” Raymond said.
“How on earth do you know them, Tony?” She ask, ignoring Raymond attempt to explain while shortening Anthony’s name, something Anthony notice.
“They are my friends, I ask them to get you since I might get there late, I didn’t know you will think of them as kidnappers” Anthony replied.
“Explain well enough to her Tony cause I h@?? being misjudge” Stephen said.
“Am sorry, I thought you two were going to kidnap me” Damina apologize.
“Wow…..she looks cute even when she’s apologising” Stephen said while Damina and Anthony made a frown at him.
“But seriously you two approached me the wrong way. Your zipper was open which got me thinking of you as a pervert while you even touched my @zz” she said recounting everything that happen earlier but it was the touching her @zz part that got Tony starring at her.
“It was a mistake, if I hadn’t caught you at that moment, you would have fall” Stephen replied.
“Well you should have held somewhere else and not there” she said.
“It’s my fault and am sorry but if I may ask, are all Nigerian girls like you cause I think am beginning to like you very much,can I have your number” Stephen ask bluntly.
“Well I don’t……”
“She’s not giving you her number ” Tony replied hotly.
“But Tony, I really like her” Stephen said starring at her cutely.
“Yea, am sure you’ve said that to ten girls today. I will chat with you two later, gotta go” Tony said ending the call.
“Is he always this straight forward?” Damina ask still standing behind him and he stood up bringing her gaze on his bare chest again.
“He is straight forward and also a playboy, if you want your heart to be broken by him then you are free to give him your number when you see him next” he replied.
“I wasn’t going to give him…..”
“I need to get change or do you want me to do that in front of you?” He asked which got Damina moving to the door way quickly.
“Anyway, thanks for today” she said before leaving his room…..
*****
~ LATER THAT NIGHT ~
Damina was getting ready for her night bathe when she figured that she didn’t have a bathroom slippers.
She left the room wanting to tell Miranda about it when she spotted one in front of a door way.
Liking the design, she dashed towards it and was checking it out when the door to the room open revealing Mary.
“What the hell are you doing with my slippers?” She yelled at Damina who quickly pulled it off.
“Am sorry, it’s just that I…..”
“Arrrrgh!!!” She let out a scream startling Damina into silence.
“Not only do I have to tolerate you living here with us, do I also have to tolerate you using my things?” Mary yelled at her.
“I was just in need of bathroom slippers and found it alluring that it…..”
“Save me your petty explanation and stay the hell away from me!” Mary yelled at her.
“What’s going on here?” Miranda ask joining them.
“Look mom, I agreed to her living here with us but I won’t accept it if she touch my things, so tell her to stay away from things that belong to me!” Mary yelled before going into her room.
“I didn’t mean to go near her stuff, I was about coming to you to see if I get an extra bathroom slippers when I spotted hers and found it pretty, I didn’t mean to cause problem” Damina apologize.
“It’s okay. Mary tends to act this way when it comes to her possession, she some time get angry at me for using her things without permission. So don’t let it bother you and once tomorrow comes, you and Tony will go get the things you need at the mall” Miranda said.
“Tony? I really don’t want to bother him,I can go on my….”
“You just arrived today and it would be hard for you to come to terms with everything and am sure it’s not going to be a bother for Tony, it sure wont be a bother right?” Miranda asked starring after her and that got Damina looking back to see Tony standing by the door way.
Since when has he been there, she thought.
“It won’t” he answered.
“See! Tomorrow you will go with him to the mall but let me give you an extra slippers of mine” Miranda said as she began to walk Damina to her room but Damina gaze went back to Tony and she was surprise to find still standing by the door way starring at her.
*****
~ THE NEXT DAY~
Damina walked out of the house dressed in a balenciaga green top which match perfectly with black jeans, a jean which emphasize the shape of her legs.
She had taken extra care at getting dressed and she didn’t even know why.
She got to the car where Tony had told her to wait for her and began to check her hair.
“Gosh! I will have to plait another hair” she muttered touching her braided hair.
“If you continue checking yourself out, we will get to the mall when everyone have bought the better goods” Tony said startling her again.
She turned to stare at him and she couldn’t deny that he look so hot in his get up.
He pulled off the cap on his head and rake his fingers through his hair and Damina found her gaze following his every move.
She was still starring with her mouth slightly open when he spoke.
“Get in to the car or I won’t take you again”
Quickly she got in and he drove them to the nearest mall.
Damina found herself moving from one stand to the next while she bought the necessary things she need and while she was doing all this, Tony followed her.
She got to the slippers stand and immediately spot the same kind of Mary slipper.
She was about taking it when Tony took it placing on a higher rack, somewhere Damina hands wouldn’t be able to reach.
“What was that for?” She asked.
“Buying the same slippers as Mary will only lead to more fights, so if you don’t want a repeat performance of what happen last night, I suggest you take another one” he told her.
“I wasn’t going to take it, I only wanted to stare at it” she lied knowing she had been intending to take it but Tony has a point.
If she ends up buying the slippers, she will only be giving Mary a reason to attack her and that’s the last thing she needs.
Picking another slipper she went off to the counter while Tony followed suit.
“Sulking won’t get you anywhere” he said beside her.
“Am not sulking and will you stop patronizing me, you are becoming annoying” she said sending a glare his way.
“Annoying? Your the first girl who will call me that” he said.
“Well get used to it cause I won’t be amongst those girls who drool over you” she said while he pay the cashier.
They were both heading out when someone called from behind.
“I knew it’s you. Oh my! You are more handsome as each day goes by” The american girl who called him said as she gush over him.
“How have you been Cynthia?” He ask while the girl gave a reply, oblivious to Damina presence, infact Damina knew that the girl intentionally ignored her.
“Well am having a party this weekend and I hope you can make it” Cynthia said.
“Am sorry Cynthia, I can’t make it” he replied.
“Why? Is it because of her cause if I doubt if she’s your type at all” Cynthia said glaring at Damina.
Damina was about to give a reply when she felt Tony arms around her waist, pulling her towards him.
“Wrong! She’s my exact type, my girlfriend in fact” Tony said starring down at her while she glared up at him.
“You must be joking right?” Cynthia ask eyeing the both of them.
“Do I have to kiss her in front of you to get you to know that am not joking?” He ask.
“You don’t have to, I get the message ” Cynthia said before walking off.
“What was that about?” Damina ask as she pulled out of his arms.
“Trying to get her off my back, she’s going to become a future leech and I h@?? leeches” he admitted.
Scoffing at him, she walked off while he followed suit.
They were heading back to the underground park when she felt people eyes on her.
It made her realise how different she was in colour to everyone of them and even though Tony’s colour was the same as her since he’s a black American it still made her feel different.
“What’s wrong?” Tony question jolt her to the present.
“Uh?”
“You look like someone is about to swallow you and make you disappear from the earth” he said.
“It’s just people keeps starring at me, maybe it’s because am very dark in colour, it’s making me feel self conscious, I h@?? it when things like this happen” she replied slowly.
“So? What will you do about it?” He asked.
“I will just run down to where the car is, you can meet me there when you’ve finish your stroll” she said turning to run off but he took hold of her hand,preventing her from running off.
“That’s a suggestion I detest” he said pulling off his face cap and putting it on her head.
“With that on,you won’t get to see the faces of people starring at you right?” He added before walking off.
Damina stood touching his cap on her forehead and slowly a smile spread on her lovely face before she went after him……..
To be continued ✌️✌️✌️