Love lies in him CHAPTER 4 - by Chijioke Emmanuel

Hello everyone. Sorry for the long wait. Had some series of writers block and also some serious issues to solve but here's a continuation of my book 😇 ************ALEXA’S POV I heard her footsteps receding, but I couldn’t just turn around to look at her and I hated that feeling because I told or should I say made a promise to her and I knew that down there in my guts I wasn’t going to fulfil whatever promise I made to her. But wait a minute, why do I actually care how she feels or what they think, I have my life and they do but liking someone or accommodating someone in their own words was nice, but what if....... all these thoughts kept on ringing in my mind until I became sick of hearing my own inner voice speak. I went towards the tap close by and bent over to wash my face, I needed to clear my head like real bad. I brought out a napkin from my purse and once I set my eyes on it, the first thing I saw was the embroidery pattern on it that said: "I + A", and that was it, immediately I broke down, not understanding how I felt but the tears just came pouring out and I couldn’t explain the feeling of why I was crying but it wasn’t stopping. I lost count of how long I was there crying but I finally gathered myself together, wore this nothing ever happened look on my face, I walked out of the place I was in but it seemed like the entire school was oddly quite and even my class which was usually loudest was completely silent. I just hastened my footsteps and finally got to class to see my P.E teacher in front of the class, his gaze shifted to me, I saw his mouth moving but I didn’t hear a single word he said. I walked gently to my seat as everyone’s eyes followed me to my destination then the teacher finished his speech and walked out. As swift as possible, I laid my head to avoid conversing with anyone. My peace was finally cut short when I felt a hand on my shoulder and no one has ever touched my shoulder except my mom. , Ireti and Ireti's mom, but the hand that touched me felt like non of the people I just described, so i quickly raised my head when it felt like the person’s breathing was at close proximity. I shifted my gaze to that direction only for my eyes to come in contact with Tolu’s eyes. I felt this quick rush of irritation and anger all at once but I tried to suppress it and play the accommodating role they wanted, so I wore this fake smile on my face but he held this solid frown on his face (omg, at this point i was the only one allowed to frown my face but I can’t seem to understand why it was him that wore that expression on his face?). I then opened my mouth to speak to him but at that point he was the first to speak to me; “ Hello, I am Tolu” “ I know who you are, so quit the whole introduction and get straight to the point, why did you touch me” I snared back at him. He wore this calm look on his face and replied; “ I’ve been trying to converse with you but you seemed to make it hard for me. If i may ask, did i by chance hurt you in any way or manner at all?” he still maintained that calm look and it was taking me off the edge, so i just slightly nodded my head like I was going to laugh but nothing was coming out at all, not even a fake giggle. So I responded with a body movement of firstly removing his hand of my shoulder and then looked him directly in the eyes with this dead f$*k off stare but i saw my mouth move involuntarily and I said; “ Not at all, I just need my space that is why I am avoiding your conversation whatsoever, but if you wanna talk to me, fine, what do you want to ask me or know”. That was the lottery statement for him because instantly his face began to glow and I regretted the fact that statement came out of my mouth but it’s just a matte of time, at least if I answer his questions, he might not want to talk the next day or days to come. I shifted my glance to my smartwatch which showed that it was only 10 minutes left until the end of the school and I shifted my gaze back on him. I was expecting to hear questions like “ are you single”, “ how old are you” or something like th that or even the a false compliment like “ you look beautiful” “ you have beautiful voices/eyes” but none of that was his first word instead he asked me how I was coping in our class and probably, if I could help him catch up with all he has missed. I was intrigued by that question but I gave him this dead stare and told him one single word or statement; “ I just survived and for the catching up part, maybe you could find someone else who could help you with that”. He wore this disappointed look for a second and back to a smile and then looked away from me. When he was about to turn around, the school bell went off and that was my cue to leave before it turns into another 7 minutes in class talking about which direction or what side I stayed. Luckily, Ireti was someone who never spent a single second in class after the bell goes off. With a single nod, we were out of the class heading to the car taking us home at that point.

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