#TOCHI
episode 10&11
Ten
“Jesus” she shouted as the footwear landed a little above her chest which i noticed made her b00bs jingle a bit.
I stood rooted to a point with my hands over my open mouth. I was oblivious of my posture. For some seconds i stood there not knowing what to do next. At this point Ada was observing her white t-shirt and the dirty mark the sneaker had left on it. I managed to walk a little bit closer to her and noticed Lucy was with her. Lucy lived in our lodge and we were all very close. I was a little glad on seeing Lucy there, at least someone to speak on my behalf.
“Am really sorry, i never meant to throw that at you” i started to say in a shaky voice while i fidgeted my fingers which i had managed to slide into my pockets. She looked up at me with an expression that was hard to decipher. Not smiling and not much frown there. She said nothing while trying to brush off the dirt on her shirt. Lucy cast a glance at me and gave me one of her naughty smiles. She pulled a hanky from her pocket and used it in blushing the spot off. I was tempted to go over and lend a hand but i just checked myself to avoid stories that touched.
“Hmm, no problem, i guess i’ll just go in and take this shirt off, lucky my Lodge’s over there” Ada finally said in a voice that made me want to ask her for a kiss.
“OK, i will see you later” lucy replied her while i stood there almost invisible to them but i was glad it seemed i would be left off the hook. Ada walked past me without even looking at me. I heaved a sigh of relief as i turned and my gaze followed her for some distance. Honestly i was observing her perky a-s which Lucy seemed to notice. She dragged me into our Lodge holding me by my hand.
“it’s like you want to throw the remaining shoe at her butt too” she said pulling me by my ear. I grimaced and pulled myself away. I saw kossi peeping out from his door with a wicked grin on his face. I pulled the remaining sneaker and threw it at him, this time making sure it landed him squarely on his head before he ran inside.
Emeka rushed out from the room, observed me and broke out into a laughter.
“see them, busy body” i said and picked the sneaker that i threw mistakenly at Ada. Kossi threw the other back at me and i caught it mid air.
“But seriously guy, Ada likes you o” Lucy said. I looked at her.
“Really?”
“yes nah, you needed to hear what she told emeka for stepping on her slippers that she kept outside and this one, you threw ur dirty shoe at her and she just let you go like that, maybe she dy trip for you” Lucy said smiling and winking at me. I looked at the three of them hissed and went inside with my sneakers clutched under my armpit.
[]Eleven
Exams were fast approaching. Just two weeks left. Usually i hardly touched my books until its a week to exam day but this time around i just decided to start early with no reason.
The day was Wednesday and the time was 12:45. I strolled leisurely into the school library with my books tucked under my armpit. My head was covered with a black face cap which partly covered my eyes too, i just didn’t want to observe or be observed by anybody there. I found a seat and sat there alongside a guy and a girl whom i suspected to be couples romancing their books more than they were reading it. I hissed lightly and rubbed my nose. Opened my mathematics textbook and started reading it. I was just a little too lazy to solve instead i solved in my head and crammed the formula for the ones i couldn’t solve. About 15 minutes gone, i raised my head from my books, i yawned and stretched my body. Three rows from where I sat i noticed someone that looked like Eva. I wasn’t so sure and i couldn’t walk up to her seat to check. I screeched my feet on the floor, it made a little lot of noise. Few people looked at me, i managed to hide my face behind my face cap. But my plan worked, she managed to look up, i recognised her with the style of her hair. I smiled at myself and picked my books, i felt my pocket and made sure her pen was intact. I walked up to her seat and sat besides her. She didn’t even as much as look at me.
I coughed. She then stole a glance and focused on her book again and then looked back at me with an expression of recognition on her face. She gave a little smile and faced me fully.
“You again, i don’t have a spare pen here” she said
I looked at her with a fake shock on my face and smiled.
“so you are now calling me a pen borrower?” i asked still smiling
“Not exactly but i don’t see a pen on you and I’m quite sure u came here to read”
I looked into her eyes and shook my head.
“You know there’s something cute about you” i managed to tell her with my heart p******g at the prospect that i was actually going to sweet talk her.
“Really?” she asked her eyes focused on mine.
“Yea, and i was hoping we could go beyond pen lending and borrowing relationship” i said touching her lightly on her hands.
She gave me this feminine laugh that warmed my heart and made her beauty animate.
“So what should we now lend and borrow?” she said
“Well i would love to borrow your heart and besides i don’t think you have any pen that you can lend me now, do you?”
“Well right, i don’t think i have a pen to lend you for now and about my heart, i also don’t think i can spare it either”
I knew it wasn’t going to be easy but i have started and i wasn’t going to stop.
“Well i don’t necessarily need everything, you can keep the part that pumps blood and all, i just need the emotional side of it” i said with a smile and still keeping eye contact.
She laughed.
“You are not serious” she laughed.
“I am” i said smiling.
She tilted her head and looked at me with the most charming smile I have ever seen which seemed to spread into her eyes.
“Whats your name?” she asked.
“Tochukwu and yours?”
“I thought you already have a name for me?”
“Do i?” i asked
“Maybe, well i’m Eve” she finally said
“Well i was actually close the last time i called you Eva”
She smiled and said there’s a difference. I dropped my nokia torchlight phone on the reading desk.
I pulled her pen from my pocket and waved it in her face.
“Well I’m giving it back to you on one condition”
“What condition?” she asked.
“That you write down your number for me with it” i said trying to sound confident.
She smiled, looked at me and then back to her still open books
“Well you may have to keep it for a long time” she said
“Why?” i asked a little disappointed
“Well, Because i can’t possibly oblige to your condition, and don’t border to push it cos it would be a futile attempt”
i moved my hand closer to hers on the desk, held her fingers and was about to tell her the story of my life when my phone vibrated in my pocket. I pulled it out and saw my brothers name on the screen, i swore under my breath and picked the call, placed the phone to my ear and said hello with a killer frown on my face.
“Hello idiot come house” Martins said hastily and cut the phone.
I slid the phone back in my pocket. Picked my books. I made to pick my nokia phone on the desk but on a second thought decided to leave it there.
I looked at Eve again. Her shinning skin made me so weak i felt like i could fall. She looked at me and asked if I was leaving.
“Yea, my brother just called me”
“Ok”.
“So when would i see you again” i asked her.
“Well, whenever you see me, you see me”.
“Cool” i said and pulled closer to her, planted a kiss on her cheek, stood up and observed the shock on her face which broke into a smile. I smiled back and turned straight for the door deliberately forgetting my Nokia phone on the desk,.
Tbc
