Falling Before We Started

💞 Chapter Nine 💞

JASON....

I had an awesome day out with Mercy for the second time in a week. I never knew my boring life will become way fun than playing video games, watching movies and eating. Those are my daily routine after graduating from high school.

Mom is supposed to be back home today, tomorrow or the next. I just don't know the exact day she's coming back home from her trip.

Well i never did give hears to her words when ever she's traveling and giving me lots of lectures and rules.

The rules are always the same, they never changed. I just feels she talks too much and for that i will always block her out when ever she's giving lectures.

"Man...just get your butt off the couch and do something meaningful before Mama gets home" i tried motivating my lazy butt to get off the couch.

It's not my fault the chairs in this house is so comfy. The kitchen is in a mess and my bedroom is in a bigger mess.

I haven't done the dishes and my laundries in days....if i calculate correctly, it's should be up to a week now.

Picking up the remote, I tuned into a music channel and placed the volume in the highest degree. I'm sure Mom or Dad will kill me if they were around.

"🎶That's why i sing my alcohol. I don't wanna reason about things no more....I just wanna go back to where am from......make nobody stop me to disturb me jhoor jhoor jhoor....🎶"

Singing along with the music playing, i kept doing my chores as i dance to the beats of the song occasionally.

I'm already done with washing the dishes. It's up to cleaning up the kitchen when my phone rang out to notify me of a text.

I cleaned my wet hands and take my phone out of my pocket.

Entered my password and on my phone screen lay a text message from Saucy

Yup!... I saved Mercy's number as Saucy.

I had no idea what her name was the first time i knew her so when I came in contact with her number, I had to save it with the first word i can describe her as.

"are you busy?"

I read out the message she sent me

"If u need me...I will be at your service cupcake"

I replied texting quickly before dropping my phone on the kitchen slab.

Ding ding!! My phone rings as her text came in again.

"I don't really need help. J, I was just wondering if you might have a few minutes for me out of your busy schedule?"

She replied. Well I'm very busy and i can't just go out like that....there is still no meaning or a name to our relationship. She just don't want to give me yes, and now i got a nickname 'J'.

I tried flirting with her but she seems too wise for her own good.

The way she does play me off when ever I get serious with her annoys me. She seem into me, and i can sense that as a man. Even though her feelings are not written over her like most girls in my school and Jessica.

Yup I'm a man whether my family member accept it or not. Being a last born doesn't mean....I'm a baby forever.

" Girl!...I'm pretty kinda busy right now. So...I can't come over to your place today" I texted her sincerely.

Mom is coming back soon. That's if it's today anyway. And my table is filled up right now.

I could have gone over to her place but i don't have energy to handle any parent issues right now.
Her Mom and her Dad are one difficult set of people and her dad seems more scarier  than her Mom.

"Oh! OK, it's ok if u are really busy"

Is she hurt about me rejecting her offer?...it's not like i fully rejected it, I mean I was going to ask her to come over to my place if she really need my presence.

Gosh!!...should i ask her or i should just run over to her place.

'Ok. I know what to do.' I said within me letting out a buff of air.

"You can come over if you really want to go out" I replied her and drop my phone on the slab again.

I opened the fridge to check out the snacks left in the fridge.

She loves ice cream so i went for the ice cream plastic bucket and they were still some good amount of leftover ice cream  in the bucket. We got chips and meat pies. Even the pizza i ordered yesterday is still there, I only took three slides out of it.

Ding! Her text came in.
"Send me the location i will come over. Promise you would try ANYTHING!...."

"Are you serious right now?" I asked no one in particular.
It's not like I'm a crazy person or have something in mind to do with her except loving her....

"Come over, there are CCTV cameras everywhere except my room.... We can have fun there"

I texted joking with her.
"Send the location fake bad boy and let me in"

A pleased smile spread across my face when i read her text.

Well she's serious about coming...I can never be more happy.

Before she comes, I have to finish my work.

Ok...this is what's going to happen. I will delay the address to prolong her journey to my house. The distance between our house isn't that much and she can be here in less than thirty minutes.

I will just do the old cleaning style we are used to in boarding school.

I will do a little rub and shine in the kitchen and leave my room cleaning after she leaves or tomorrow.

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MERCY...

Getting to the location Jason sent me i got my phone out of charging after parking Mom's car outside the royal green gate of a huge flat apartment.

Mom has not been at home for three days now. She want for a seminar at Accar the capital Ghana. Well....she's supposed to be back today but she decided to speak and extra day there away from all of us.
She said she needed a day break from her family drama.

Now guess who's cruising her precious Katie now?....

Yup!! It's all me and I'm so excited that i put my ass together to get a driving lesson last year summer during summer holiday at Toronto Canada when i turned sixteen.

I dialed Jason's line and he picked up immediately.

"Hi, I'm outside your house, can you come out and pick me up? Cause there is no way I'm coming out of this car and wait for you..."

I said in a long stretch. He let out a soft laugh and said i should hold on his coming.

I end the call and let my head fall back on the car sit.
I looked out of the car window to see empty street ahead of me.

"Gosh!...this place is more lonely than my place" I said and began inhaling and exhaling loudly to kill time.