THE ILLITERATE BABYSITTER - CHAPTER 21&22
[ Confession ]
**BEWARE OF ERRORS**
Noah was the last person to walk in among them.
“Just hearing the news buddy”Xavier said as they bumped fist.
“You won’t believe my mom and dad could set me up with her”he said as he glanced at Mimi who was doing same.
“Well… you both are good together”he said and Noah scoffed.
“No we aren’t”he said and Mimi stood up from her seat.
“Come on Noah, i should be the one complaining not you”she said and he chuckled.
“Off course I should be the one complaining cause you don’t have what I need in a girl”he said and she laughed.
“What do you want in a girl?”
“You won’t wanna know”he said and she laughed.
“Cause you don’t even know what you want in a girl. Let’s just only pretend in front of our parents and nothing more”she walked back to her seat.
“I don’t like her guts”
“Time will tell”Xavier said and he sat down.
“Don’t tell me you’ve fallen?”Noah smirked.
“Fallen for??”he made an innocent face.
“Where’s June though?”
“She went to use the restroom”he said.
“Whisper it, I won’t tell anyone, is she the one?”Noah moved closer and he hit his head.
“Mimi!!! We were right!”he ran to her.
“What?”
“He likes June”he whispered and she gasped.
“Really Xavier!!”she ran to Xavier.
“I don’t wanna talk about it”he muttered.
“He’s acting like a girl right now, blushing all red”Mimi giggled.
“I’m not”
“He just denied!”she said and they laughed.
“When is the wedding?”she sat beside him and he stood up.
“Seriously Mimi!”
“Come on, I wanna attend a wedding badly”she pouted.
“Then you can just have yours with Noah!”he said and she eyed Noah which he returned.
“Never!”they chorused.
“Let’s bet on it, if you peradventure fall for each other, I get a car each!”Xavier said.
“I’m in!”they both shouted.
“Can’t wait!”he giggled and walked out while Noah and Mimi sat separately from each other as if they weren’t the one who just talked to each other.
**
Xavier walked out only to see June and Finch together, talking. He didn’t go to them, instead he walk back to class.
“Sorry say I no call you for night, I sleep fast”June said and Finch forced a smile.
“It’s okay, I didn’t wait for it though”he lied cause he surely waited for her call till he fell asleep.
“How you dey?”she smiled.
“Very fine”he lied again.
“You no wan teach me again?”she asked and he forced yet another smile.
“Don’t want Xavier to be angry”he said.
“No worry, I don follow am talk”she said.
“We can start again tomorrow”he said and she nodded.
“And again, my mom planned a dinner for my friends tonight but I don’t even have friends….so would you tell Xavier and the others if they can come?”he asked.
“I go tell them, we go come”she said and he smiled.
“See you then”he said and walked away.
Right now, he missed the times they both spent but he knows those times are gone already. Missed the funny times, the times he taught her how to speak like them and how she also taught him but hearing her say she only likes him not in the way he does hurts.
Maybe falling for her was a mistake but he surely can’t stop it.
**
* CAFETERIA
“You didn’t even allow me tell you what I wanted to say yesterday”Diamond held Xavier as he was about sitting with the others.
“Just say it here”he tried pulling his hand but she isn’t letting go.
“I don’t want to”she said.
“Fine, I’ll follow you, let go of my hand”he said and she let go of his hand while he followed her.
They got out of the cafeteria.
“What do you want?”he asked.
“You’ve been acting weird lately, a week ago, we were good but all of a sudden you changed, what’s wrong?”she said.
“I’ve always been like that, you just didn’t notice”he said.
“Don’t you know Xavier or you want me to say it out loud?”she asked.
“I don’t know and you can say it if you want”he said and she sighed.
“I love you Xavier, I’ve always looked at you for long, hoping you’d see me the way I do but you don’t, I love you badly, I think about you….”
“Stop”he said.
“Uhn?”
“It can’t work”he said.
“Why?”
“Cause I don’t love you, I don’t think about you, I don’t look at you the way you do and I don’t want to neither will I be doing it anytime soon”he said.
“Xavier…..”
“You should just stop feeling what you have for me, it won’t work”he said and walked back to the cafeteria.
Diamond stood there shockingly.
He rejected……
**
*GARDEN
Finch sat down along as he kept counting the uncountable flowers.
“You don’t seem to like them”a voice said and he turned to see Gold. Seems she had been there before he came.
“Didn’t see you there”he said and she stood up, walking to him.
“Yeah, something wrong?”she asked.
“Maybe”
“You shouldn’t blame the flowers for it”she said and he smiled.
“But I’m not blaming them”he said.
“I saw you”she said.
“I give up”he said and she chuckled.
“Ready for the upcoming exam?”she said and he nodded.
“Not as ready as you are, things don’t seem to get in my head”she said.
“Thinking much?”
“Just about one thing”he said and he nodded.
“Mom is planning a dinner for my friends but I don’t seem to have, wanna come?”he said.
“Thought you won’t ask”she smiled.
“Hmm?”
“Your mom already told me about it”she said.
“I’ll be happy if you come”he said.
“Really!?”
“Yes”he smiled and she smiled.
“Help me study, just for today”she held his hand and he smiled which made her drag him to her spot. And now he just wished June could speak like this to him.
**
The dinning table is filled up with different dishes already. He told his mom about June, so Nigerian dish is part of it.
Gold came quite early to help.
Mimi and June were the first to come since Mimi brought up the idea of taking June home with her to help with her dress and makeup.
“Hiii”Mimi waved as Finch opened the door. His eyes fell on June and it didn’t wanna leave.
“She looks…..”Mimi trailed.
“Beautiful”he completed.
“My handy work, bring her in when you’re done”she said and walked him, leaving him and June.
“You’re beautiful”he said.
“Thanks”she smiled. She’d be saying thank you very much but Mimi told her to say this, she also told her some other lines in case she’s asked a question.
“Come in”he finally said after couples of minutes.
“Beautiful house”she said as she walked in and he gasped but didn’t ask a question.
“Good evening ma’am”she said as they got to the dinning in which is mom was there.
“She’s a beaut, didn’t know African are this beautiful”his mom hugged her.
“I like her already”she smiled and Gold finally walked out of the kitchen.
“Are they just the ones?”she asked as they finally sat down.
“No, two more”Finch said and the door bell rang.
“Good evening ma’am!”Noah and Xavier said as they walked in and she smiled.
“Come seat”she smiled and they went. Xavier sat beside June while Noah beside finch’s mom.
“I’m very happy to see you all”she said and they smiled.
“You should eat while having a chit chat”she said and stood up, leaving them alone.
“Won’t think you’d invite Xavier”Mimi said and Finch and Xavier looked at each other.
“He wouldn’t have allowed June to be here”Finch looked away.
“Let’s just make tonight better, wouldn’t want your mom to feel sad”Xavier said.
“You didn’t come along with Diamond?”
“She didn’t want to”Gold said.
“You’re pretty”Xavier whispered to June and she looked at him while he smiled. He could hear his own heart beat right now.
“Thanks”she smiled and he blushed.
“We should all just be friends like this”Noah said.
“No!”Xavier and Finch said at once.
“Oh!”
“Let’s just eat”Finch said and they started eating.
Xavier hands went under the table, searching for June’s other hand which he finally found and he held it. Due to the shock, she the juice she was having spilled on her dress.
“Sorry!”
“I’ll take her to the bathroom”Gold said and took her away.
Finch glanced at Xavier who returned it.
“I’ll be right back”Xavier stood up and walked away, taking the route Gold took.
He saw a room opened and he walked in, meeting Gold.
“I’ll bring her”he said and she walked out.
“Few minutes later, June walked out.
“Zavier”she said, shocked to see him there.
“I can’t keep holding it in June”he said as he walked to her, staring deeply in her eyes while she did same.
“You’re just too pretty tonight and my heart keep beating”he said and raised her right hand to his heart.
“I love you”he said.
Finch stopped immediately he heard it. He was about walking in.
TBC