Smile for me

* CHAPTER TWENTY ONE *

AMANDA'S POV

I slowly take a sit on the couch behind me, my left arm hurts a little, I must have bruised it when I fell off of Uche's laps- I didn't fall, he pushed me away from him. I don't understand why he did that and why he suddenly became distant after Chioma walked into the sitting room. I totally forgot she was even in the house at all, I wasn't thinking, I wasn't thinking when I crashed my lips on his, I wasn't thinking at all.

Chioma is still in the room when I walk in, she's lying on the bed and it looks like she has been in that position after she walked in on Uche and I, waiting for me

"So Amanda, you and Uche enh? Look at this girl you've not been giving me gist! Come and spill 𝒋𝒂𝒓𝒆" I lie down on the bed, close to her

"What gist? There's nothing Chioma" she frowns her face at me

"Don't tell me that now! I literally just walked in on you guys frenching like 20 minutes ago!" I keep quiet, I don't even have the mental energy to argue about this with her

"Ah ah are you okay? You don't look exactly excited for someone who just made out with a hottie!" I take in a deep breath and sit up

"I really think I made Uche upset"

"What do you mean?"

"Well I..uhm..I kissed him first, I don't know Chioma, I was thinking about him going away and I just..lost it I guess" she's looking at me with a very confused look on her face

"Wait first, where's he going to?"

I tell her everything from the phone call, the strike and how it affected him and even how broken he was, and then my suggestion about the scholarships

"He was here because we picked out some colleges and scholarships offer together" I concluded

"I knew about the strike but I don't see why he should be upset about the scholarship?"

"No it's not that, the fact that I kissed him is what got him upset"

"Why would he be upset? He would have pushed you away the very second you made the attempt now but he didn't"

As much as I want to agree with Chioma, I'm still confused about why he suddenly became so cold over one kiss

"Look Amanda I need to ask you something?" I turn to look at her

"Would you take kissing him back?" I think about her question very well, I think about how his hands felt so right on my waist and how warmly he held my face and how he gently whispered my name under his breath thinking I wouldn't hear him. I shake my head at her

"Good and I don't think he would take it back either and I don't even think he's angry or anything like that. When he came to the house earlier you should have seen how excited and happy he was when I told him I was going to get you from inside, I think that he liked that you kissed him and maybe he's probably confused about what happened just like you right now. Trust me he'll call you before the day runs out and even if he doesn't, I know for sure that he's not upset"

I only nod my head at her because I have no idea what to say but she's right though, everything that just happened has confused me very much so much that my head had started to hurt

"I'll leave you here so you can think, I need to prepare dinner anyway" I nod my head at her and she walks out of the room leaving me alone, I remove my phone from under the pillow to check my notifications, I have none. I switch off the phone and toss it aside, I'll loose my mind if I keep checking to see if I have any messages from him.