"How did you know she was coming? Is she your girl friend?" My aunt asked sternly with her eyes looking straight to mine and by that I knew what she meant. Seriousness, that's what her look entails. I couldn't determine whether my answer was a yes or no. I lowered my head depicting no answer.
She came closer and gave me a tap at my back and I responded "yes", after she had cuddled me into it; her actions towards me speaks more than her words as I would easily know when she wants the truth out of me. She looked again straight to my eyes and said "don't be afraid to tell the truth " Dazed, I asked "really?", although not the usual way for me to respond to her and not the question to her statement since we haven't really spoken much about relationship since I began staying with her at age nine. she then responded "I know how you feel now at age twenty-one". I touched my clothes and my lips tried to produce the thought that was boiling in me but that was not possible as I wanted to hear more of such words I have been longing to hear since the days of my secondary school when I had a lot of girls who admired and flaunted themselves for me.
She began her usual tales but this time not the offensive. My brain began explaining to me how I stepped out of childhood. As she moved out of the gate where our conversation took place, I asked "where are you going?" she looked back gave me a left curved smile showing out half the teeth from the right side of her mouth. She then responded "I am going to visit Alice". I became speechless. I never thought that she will be going to visit someone I just told her about.
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to be continued...
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