Chapter 22: Chapter 22
: Text buddies
Pamela.
Where you at?_(HC)Hot CEO
Work _ P
At where?_HC
Football stadium_ P
Must you be sarcastic?_ HC
Am a doctor, where else will I work at If not Hospital? Nigerians and stupid questions _P
American lady, forgive me_ HC
Not forgiven. When are you coming back _ P
Why? Do you miss me that bad? _HC
You wish darling. _P
What's up with ladies and emoji? I'll be back soon cool your racing longing heart. I have a meeting now bye weirdo _ HC
I'm presently staring at my phone missing him already, and wondering how far we have come. 2 weeks ago he randomly sent me "hi" on whatsapp and we became inseparable. The amount of texts we've sent each other already was unbelievable, we could talk for hours as long as we were both not busy. I scrolled to previous messages smiling to myself.
He was so different from who I thought: he was funny, and gave great comebacks. He didn't type much though I I did most of the talking, he gives few in depth funny replies.
I miss him already.
No I Dont.
Yes, you do.
Oh just shut up.
5 days later.
Nothing! No call no text not even a single hi. I stared at my phone screen while playing with my spaghetti and meat balls.
"Are you sick baby?" My dad asked.
"No dad."
"Then why are you playing with your food?" Worry showing clearly on his face.
"Nothing dad am not just hungry" I got up to cover the food, and went to my room.
I plugged my phone to the Bluetooth speaker as Adele's "Hello" blasts through. I remembered he said he wasn't a music person, but he loves reading. What a nerd!
There is this ache in my chest right now. Its true: I miss him! I don't even know what he is to me yet I miss him. I'll just facetime Nina to psychoanalyse me cause I don't know what's wrong.
"Elizabeth" I whined immediately the call connected.
"Wow!! Are you sick? Have you eaten what's wrong?" She asked going on full mummy mode.
I went ahead and told her everything from the office meet to being text buddies, even how there was this strange ache in my chest.
Her wide open mouth was my reply. She was gazing at me strangely. "Pamela!!!!!!!!" She shrieked after consciousness came back.
"What? Geez you sound like a banshee." I replied irritated.
"You are in love!"
"Oh hell no! I am not. Tune down your voice, it is giving me a headache"
"Great! You are even moody. You skipped dinner right?" Smiling like she just won the lottery.
"Yea. So?"
"You never skip food, not even when you are sick. I for one am glad you have high metabolism if not you'll be obese"
"What has this got to do with me being in love?"
"You may not realise this right now, but you like him a lot. You have gotten used to his presence and you miss him. What have you guys being talking about?"
"I dunno, Everything and nothing. Do you know he hates music and basketball? Weird nerd" I smiled.
"See the way you are smiling while talking about him. I haven't seen you this excited about anyone of the male specie since that good for nothing matt. I like this and i'm happy for you. Promise me something though?"
"What?"
"Say I promise first?"
"Wow! You guys are so alike, he always makes me say I promise first" clicking my tongue.
"So much for not liking him, now you must add him in every sentence"
"Goat, must you rub it in my face?"
"Hell yeah!" Grinning evilly, I hate her sometimes. "Promise me you won't judge him so hard or compare him to matt or push him away easily. You have a tendency of doing that" she added somberly.
"No I do not."
"Yes you do fish"
"Goat" I replied sticking my tongue out.
"Orangutan" she replied.
Ouch! "ELIZABETH BROWN!!! That hurts! Mind you i'm not ugly"
"Yea darling sure. Promise me though?"
"Fine okay."
"Good girl. You may be ugly but at least you are wise" and ended the call. I laughed because I know deep down, that was what she intended to do, to make me laugh. I swear I love that crazy girl.
Dialing his number, I waited for the phone to connect. I was so anxious, I wiped my sweaty palms on my pajamas button.
"Hello! Arthur get into my office right now" he said.
Wow great! He doesn't even have my number anymore. "Wrong number." I whispered and ended the call.
I plopped down on my bed not knowing what to think. It hurts even more than it did before. I flung my phone far away and increased my speaker to the highest. Adele's_ someone like you filled the room.
Never mind i'll find someone like you, I wish nothing but the best for you too. Don't forget me, I beg I remember you said "something its last to love, but sometime it hurts instead"
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17 missed calls. Wow! Stalker alert.
Hot CEO, 16times. Great what did he want now? I'm definitely changing his name. I dumped my phone on the bed and went to sit in front of the television,Ten minutes later Tolu walks in with my phone.
"My crush is calling" she said.
"Hi" I said into the phone as nonchalant as I could.
"Hey! Have been trying to reach you. I'm sorry okay, Have been dealing with lots of issues here, I'm fighting a take over bid and I didn't check who the caller was before I answered. Forgive me?"
"Yea, its cool" I replied.
It definitely isn't, except if the world melted away no reason is acceptable for leaving me hanging.
"Hmmmn, really? I find your 'its cool' weird like you just said it to get me off your back. I know I should have reached out to you but have legit been walking 20hours in the last 5 days, i'm a wreck. Are you not going to ask me how my company is?"
Is it my company?
"I know everything is settled since you remembered to reach out to me now"
"Sorry na. See I called you 16 times previously and you didn't pick, isn't that revenge enough. I almost got high blood pressure fah. Tolu said you missed me so much you didn't eat"
"No I didn't. I did not even miss you, Tolu has a big mouth and she says nonsense"
"So why didn't you eat dinner?" He asked
"I wasn't hungry. Must I always be a glutton? If I eat you people will complain, If I don't you guys will still complain."
"I missed you too." He said instead, My face broke into wide grin.
"I didn't" I replied.
"Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Go and eat now Tee we'll talk later."
"Okay. How is your company?"
"Good, we scaled through and I closed the holes in my ship. I'll come to Nigeria sometimes next week, Go and eat I refuse to see you in my dreams saying I starved you"
"Yeah yeah" I replied rolling my eyes. "You need to sleep, your voice sounds strained and eat well okay." I added.
"Yes dear, bye." He ended the call.
"Later you will say you don't like him, see the way all your teeth's are out" Tolu chirped in.
"Shut up. Chu chu chu your mouth won't close, its like you have forgotten that we are not mates abi? Be running your mouth at me" I hissed and went to the kitchen.
Its food time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Here am I walking towards him, and wondering 1000 ways to kill him.
"Is that the face you make when you want to say I miss you without words" he teased.
I know you are wondering how we got here. I lost a bet to him online and I had to have his driver pick me from Ibadan so I can go to Lagos and pick him up from the airport.
"So much for blackmailing me to be here, now I have to take two weeks night shifts at a go. Oh and you are taking me back home today, I did not tell my parents I won't be back."
"Chill! Wierdo," And hugged me. I felt so safe much more safe than I've been in a long time.
"I'll just sign a document in the office and you can take me to dinner"
"Why me? Are you not the rich one?" I asked as he pulled me along.
On the drive back he was still holding my hands as he took a nap. He looked so thin and stressed, keeping riches was also a job. Not even the rich is totally stress free, if not why is Dangote still working? The money some of them have is enough to take care of them and their children's children still they Dont stop, they want more.
I tapped him gently as we got to the office. He opened his office door which wasn't locked.
"Hey boo! I missed you, mummy told me you were going to be back today" A lady said. She had on the shortest work skirt have ever seen and a shirt whose bust was unbuttoned? I could legit see the bra and part of her breast spilling out.
Great! Just great.