ORANGE LIFE. (Book 1.)

10. Chocolate Indulgement 🍫

Victoria:

My phone was ringing and I was trying to ignore it.
It rang again until I stood up and walked to the place I was charging it and picked the call, not bothering to check the ID. "Hello? Why on earth would you be calling me up by 3am? Is it normal?"
"And here I was thinking that you'd be happy to hear my voice." He paused.
"Tunde...? Oh sorry, I didn't know you were the one." I mumbled causing him to laugh.
"You didn't know but you were pissed." He stated stoping my other apologies from tumbling out.I shrugged, "I'm really sorry, I didn't check the ID." I sat back on my bed rubbing my throbbing head.
"Sometimes I don't how to feel about you."He began and my heart started racing.
"Ehn...?" I trailed off, surprised.
"I know I texted you on Monday asking you to give me another chance to take you out on another date. I never got any reply and that's what led me to calling you." Tunde sighed at the other end.
"I..." I trailed off not knowing what to say again , I think I recalled that I got the text but I can't remember if I had given him any reply or remembered it again after that day,I've been so busy with My Test and really preoccupied with reading better so as to avoid any B in my grades even though I know myself that no matter how lazy I get, I can never get B in my grades. I've been bothered too, the girls has been keeping away from me and it's been scaring me.

I don't like being left alone. I was scared of it.
"Victoria?" The girls weren't even saying Hi to me anymore, I've tried to catch both of them's gazes but they always avoid it and I've been so unlucky, keeping to myself has been hard on me and making me lose my remaining sanity, maybe that's why I hadn't thought about Tunde.
Tunde.
He was far from my mind, many reasons why I hadn't thought about him. The gifts,his gifts to me were still lying at a corner of my room untouched and I closed my eyes halfway.
I had ran out on him, midway into a kiss, I had acted like he was boring on the date and faraway even though I think I like him a lot.
"I'm waiting for you to say something." Came Tunde from the other end of the phone and I felt exasperated. "I've Been very busy Tunde. I'm really sorry that I never replied any of those texts. But be rest assured that I had every intentions of doing so but a lot has really happened." I muttered and the other end of the phone was silent, he seemed to be contemplating what I had uttered. "I'm not angry anymore princess." This few sentence reply said opposite.

"This week was Test week in school. The teachers wants me to prove that I am better than one Mayokun." I informed him, I was desperate to get him to see that I was really busy with just school not that I purely forgot about him.
"Mayokun? Do you know his surname?" He asked bewildered and I tried to recall what Nonye has said about him that day at the cafeteria. "I don't know his surname, I don't even know him face to face, but they seem to think that I might be a dullard or something." I added, stifling a yawn.
"So what did my princess do?" Came his thick voice, I think he was smirking.
"I'm not quite sure how much I've surprised them but they're in for something. Something huge." I retorted and he laughed.
"I trust you. Well, I called to talk about the date night again. Please consider me." He begged me. "Sure. We should probably go out tonight, to end the week with something cheery." I replied him, he cheered loudly.
"Ok princess. Will you wait for me in front of my house? By 7:30?" He whispered.
"Oh sure." "Thanks babe!" He was all excited.
"Should I still let you sleep or we should continue talking?" He asked me, he seemed to be shy or was it fear? I sighed.
Talking with Tunde would have been a good idea but I wanted an early morning . I wanted a morning with myself and my thoughts.
"Tunde, I think I should go back to sleep." I lied, I didn't want him to feel bad so a lie would be better. He breathed out at the other end; "okay princess. Sleep well Babe." He said softly and then the line disconnected.

What had I done? I had just lied to a boy that I think I have a huge crush on and didn't even feel any remorse or any kind of emotions at most. I'd have to open up to him sooner, come clean at my hasty lies and everything. I wasn't raised up as a liar and I did never want to be known as one. I slumped in to bed and tried to close my eyes.