THE HEARTS REAWAKENING

44: OREO.

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KANO STATE, NIGERIA.

"I am still in love with you, Oreo!"

Imad blinked incredulously, not quiet understanding where this is going but have the knowledge of what she means with those words. That she still loves him? Huh? What a cruel joke she is trying to play with him again! But why does his traitorous smithereens of a heart gave this happy flutter at the thought of it. Why does it feel like his heart got cured just by listening to those words coming from her plump cute lips? Why?!

He shakes his head absently while his fingers rub his jaw as he scrutinize her, waiting to see whether she's gone out to drink something and gather this much confidence. She has looked different the whole morning but he never thought she would confess her feelings like that. Since the time he saw that message in her laptop, he's been using her feelings against her but this time around, she's totally sweep him off his feet in surprise. I am still in love with you, Oreo? Seriously?!

But did someone dare her outside? Maybe Lateefa is playing this cruel joke on him knowing how she finds everything funny. But Amirah is also sensitive to not play this game with her friend so it results to one thing and that is that Amirah is willing to work on her feelings now. It's been a few weeks already and he's been waiting to hear about the proposal from Nazir but zilch, Nada and nothing so far. He's seen them countless times but that's beside the point, seeing them isn't exactly them being married. The guy is carving his path alright but Amirah is here confessing her undying love for him.

Who is he to believe her? No matter how much he wants to bring her emaciated body closer to his and give her a bone crushing hug but cannot do that because he is not sure what she is saying is true. She might just be lying again to get something from him, you never know with such women.

Maybe the world is fully against her now and she wants to crawl back to his arms for refuge? He is no saint anymore, he won't endorse such behaviour but this will arch his plan more graciously. She is making everything easy on him now, he won't annihilate it so easily.

Deciding to play along with her rubbish like a cold hearted man, he gave a pinched confused look to her figure, watching the anticipation broadening in her eyes. Ha, what a treacherous histrionic vermin she is. "What are you talking about, Ms. Adam?"

Amirah wanted to yell at the top of her lungs for getting shunned away like that but decided to keep her cool. If she wants this to work out the way she's engraved in her head. Her gaze is unfocused, eyes blinking rapidly and head cocked to the side as if not believing what he's just said. Of all the things she'd thought he would say, that never rushed to her head until he's said it. Pretending they are still into that businesslike matter again

Ms. Adam seriously? After she called his nickname he decided to go business?

Deciding the forget about the Ms. Adam for now and talk the matters at hand, she let out an exasperated breath before answering.

"What you've just heard, Imad. I still love you, I never stopped loving you and I can't take it anymore. You've been so distant despite us being really close, it is messing with my head. One second, I thought I could continue like this till the time comes but on another, I can't! I'll keep acting strange and my heart... I don't want to risk more."

Amirah gulped because she rambled out of proportion and she still have so much to say. Her legs are trembling beneath her, willing to grovel but she stood straighter, her palms supine with great strength on the smooth oak so she won't buckle. His gaze is susceptible making her straitjacket and all the sheaf it bagged along. The hefty amount of mayhem she's once dropped on her way back to the office ladened her shoulders with more mastery. She is close to being genuflected, her knees are whispering so.