🎸🎼 HIGH SCHOOL r0m@nç£🎼🎸
😔 Painful love 😔
Author Viola
#Episode_24
🎧 ANGELOU 🎧
I stood rooted to the ground while Kelanie and Tristan were held in a ti-ght hvg. I couldn’t believe I was dying at the sight and I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me.
I remembered the paper I had picked when I was with Kelanie and the times I over heard The Blooms talking of a secret admirer. I got scared that Tristan might be the secret admirer and… Why should I even be scared?
I turned around then proceeded to leave but I couldn’t and my heart was ripping out, I turned to them again and they were now holding hands and talking. I suddenly started wishing I hadn’t told her Tristan knows how to make paper jets.
What do I care?
I turned to leave again but I couldn’t and I was getting real jealous this time.
Tristan looked up and caught me staring at them then he hvgged Kelanie again. I scoffed and walked out.
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“I saw you” chance said later that evening when we were in my room
“how?”
“staring at Kelanie and Tristan at the lot today”
“I was just pas-sing by”
“but you stood watching them”
“what are you insinuating?” I asked cause I knew the guy was up to something
“nothing” he shrugged then asked “how are you preparing for NYN? It’s in a week time”
“the question should be ‘How are we preparing’ not me”
“our job is just to pl@ythe instruments no big deal”
“and my job is just to sing. No big deal”
Chance smiled “Am happy for you”
“how?”
“you coming back”
I hissed and looked away. Chance is going crazy and I know exactly what he’s talking about but it can’t be true.
“You know what makes me happy the most?”
“what is it?” I asked with less concern
“my trip to Miami with Selene”
“Have fun”
“of course I will” he chuckled “you’ll be alone”
“I’ve always been alone”
Chance gazed at me for a while then bur-st into laughter
“why are you laughing?”
“nothing” He guffawed then walked out
He’s crazy
I got up and trailed behind him till he got to the balcony then he st©pped and gazed down the outside.
“How long do you plan on hiding up here?” he asked without turning to look at me
“As long as forever”
“You can’t hide your identity forever and you can’t run away from who you are”
“Not now Chance”
“What if you ever have a girlfriend and she wants to visit you, will you bring her up here?”
“First, I don’t plan on having a girlfriend, and second, if I ever do she’s not coming up here”
“You’ll bring her up here if you really love her”
“I’ll bring her up here if she’s Lisa”
He sighed and kinda got mad “can st©p bringing up her t©pic? When will you realize that the dead is the dead and the living are living?”
“I don’t plan on realizing that” I stated adamantly and walked out
“You’ll come to realize that” he shouted after me but I wasn’t re-ady to listen to his sermons.
🎻 KELANIE 🎻
Tristan loves me. That’s so unbelievable and weird.
How can you fall in love with your bestfriend?
I don’t think I can love him back but I don’t want to hurt him at the same time. He has never being in love with anyone but me but I loved others without realizing it and now it’s too late.
I don’t love him and can’t d@t£ him out of pity. It’s totally not an option.
I can never bring myself to love him cause he’s my bestfriend and he’s totally friendzoned. Bestfriends don’t d@t£.
A knock c@m£ on the door and it didn’t sound like the crazy Blooms nor my nanny. I ignored it and it c@m£ again.
“Nanny?”
The knock c@m£ again.
I got up and went to get the door. When I opened the door my parents were standing before me after so many years.
“Mum? Dad?”
“Oh! My angel look how big you’ve grown now” mum squealed and hvgged me but I didn’t hvg back instead I asked
“what are you doing here?”
She pu-ll-ed away then held me shoulders “we’re your parents and this is our home. We c@m£ to see how our baby is” dad replied and I blinked ra-pidly to suppress my tears
“Am not your baby” I hurled and yanked mum’s hands off my shoulders
“We are really sorry for everything and we promise to make it up to you” mum said
I huffed and tears trickled down my cheeks “You think money can buy everything?”
“We made you comfortable got you cars and everything you nee-d. What more do you ask for?”
“Parental care and love but I never got that as a child. Now am grown I can take care of myself I don’t nee-d you again” I stated then walked in and slammed the door at their face
“We’re really sorry just open up and listen to us” mum pleaded but I just sobbe-d quietly on my pillow. I’ve always cried like this ever since I was a little girl and had no more and dad to come back to.
“We just wanted to give you a comfortable life that’s why we worked so much” dad said
“we promise not to leave again”
I didn’t reply them then they left to God knows where.
Later that night, nanny brou-ght dinner up to my room cause I refused to come down for dinner. I didn’t want to see my godforsaken parents.
“Are you alright?” nanny asked patting my hair while I ate and I shook my head
“You have to forgive your parents so you can be fine”
I opened my mouth to talk but shut it back and continued eating.
“I know they hurt you but their back for good and won’t be leaving again”
I didn’t say anything as I continued eating.
“Hear them out plea-se”
“Am done eating” I said and dropped the spoon
“Isn’t the food delicious? You haven’t eaten anything”
“you’re ruining my appetite with talks about the people that gave birth to me”
“Am sorry but those people are your parents”
“were my parents” I corrected then fell back to my be-d
“plea-se eat I promise not to talk about them again”
I gazed at her wordlessly then got up and continued eating. I finished my meal then she left with the tray and I locked my door not wanting my parents to come in. I took off my clothes then entered the tub for a cold bathe.
THE NEXT MORNING ⛅
I ru-bbe-d my tempo with my palm as I got out of be-d. I slid my feet into my pink fl!pflops and plodded into to bathroom to shower and get re-ady for school.
THIRTY MINUTES LATER 🕒
I was done dressing for school then I shouldered my bag and walked out of my room. I locked the door then glanced at my parent’s closed door. It felt the same way it has always been, like no one was there for me.
I took in a de-ep breath and descended the stairs. Nanny was pacing to and fro worriedly when I got to the kitchen.
“Good morning nanny” I greeted then sat on the breakfast table and she pas-sed me a cu-p of coffee
“You look tensed”
“am fine. How was your night?”
“Great” I replied then drank from my cu-p
“where are my parents?”
“Well… Something urgent c@m£ up and they didn’t want to wake you and due to how urgent it was… they couldn’t wait so… ” she trailed off
“they left?”
“am very sorry”
I swallowed a lump in my throat and ran out of the house ignoring my nanny’s calls. I ran out of the compound and the security men didn’t try st©pping me. They un-derstood why I was running away cause it wasn’t my first time of running after each time my parents leaves.
I ran a far distance then st©pped and sat by the road side and continued crying.
“It’s okay” a familiar masculine voice coo then pu-ll-ed me to his shoulder. I fell on his broad shoulders and continued crying without looking up to see who it was.
He wiped my tears with a handkerchief then started singing softly.
🎶 she said don’t cry I got your back
🎶 I’ll be there to catch you when you fall
🎶 I’ll be that someone you can depend on
🎶 that someone you can confide on
🎶 that someone to catch you when you sli-p
I got up and stared at Angelou then he st©pped singing
“plea-se go on”
“you’re not going to cry again?”
I hastily dried my tears “am not”
🎶 carry you when you fall
🎶 make you happy when you’re sad
🎶 make you smile when you cry
🎶 correct you when you go wrong
“Am done”
“You didn’t sing it till the end” an elderly woman who had been listening to him from behind said
“That’s the only p@rt I know”
She smiled revea-ling a set of old decayed teeth that were once white an attrac-tive
“my husband used to sing it to me when we were younger and in love like you both”
I and Angelo exchanged glances then turned to the woman and I asked
“can you sing it granny?”
“yes”
“plea-se sing it”
She cleared her throat then started singing in an old crooked voice
🎶 and love you till the end
🎶 she’s my soulmate and my companion
“I don’t know that line” Angelou said when she was done
“it’s was so ro-mantic then, you wanna hear our love story?”
“Not today granny, we’re late for school” Angelou replied then took my hand and dragged me up
“I’ll be quic-k I love telling young couples my love story so they can learn from it” she prompted
“You’re ma-king a mistake granny we aren’t a couple” I said
“oh!” she mouthed “am sorry but you look like a couple”
“we aren’t”
“you should be a couple”
“But we aren’t” Angelou repeated
“Why?”
I exchanged confused glances with Angelou then turned to the woman “we’re in a hurry”
“you alre-ady said that before” the woman sighed “am old but I can hear properly why must your generation be so disrespectful? Back in our days, we respected elderly people a lot. Wanna know why?”
We shook our heads “no”
“sit, am gonna tell you”
🎷 TRISTAN 🎷
Words couldn’t explain how I felt when I saw Kelanie and Angelou together. I should had been the one holding her and consoling her but someone else is taking my place again. Someone I’ve always feared. I watched them from a distance as they talked to an old granny then sat down next to each other as the old granny joined their hands together.
I bit my lower l!pand shut my eyes ti-ght as tears rolled down my cheeks.
It’s happening again. Am losing again.
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TBC