enemies to lovers

chapter 13

-three months later-

its been a full three months of us dating, we've fallen more in love than ever, even our friends are disgusted by how we act towards one another, we are practically inseparable that the thought of us leaving one another makes me feel distraught. I eventually told my parents about our relationship since Uche brutally tried to blackmail me into giving her all of my money, they seemed less surprised than i expected but were very supportive of it since they have this image of him being a good boy

"Yo Nasuka"

oh hey Jackson, what are you doing here?

just came to see jay so we can go out together, oh haven't seen you in a while

yea me neither, how have you been?

i am good hah. oh did jay tell you he's moving to New York since he wants to further his education there?

No he hasn't actually maybe he wants to tell me later on today?

"could be but aye I gotta go find jay now, I'll see you later" suddenly i felt a sharp pain in my stomach, the thought of jay leaving made me seem uneasy. "why didn't he tell me he was leaving?, does he plan on telling me? should i talk to him about it?" we did plan on meeting up could be he plans on telling me then. but at the moment my calculus teacher has been giving me a hell of a time, i've been so consumed with school, i don't even have the time to check up on Ebela, singing has also been pushed to the side since i don't see a future with singing anymore.

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"MOM I DON'T WANT TO SEE OR TALK TO HIM AGAIN!"

" SLAM!"

that was the sound of Jahari slamming the door as he stormed out of his house, it seemed weird because after a few minutes of watching him, it appeared as if he had trouble breathing, that's why i blasted out the house to give him a hug. " its okay, Jahari you can cry to me "i said in reassurance"

I'm sorry we always meet like this, as he gently placed his head above my shoulder," see my mom wants me to meet up with my dad again because she feels as if i need some sort of father figure in my life. its just so pointless, after all he did to her?, how can she sit there and watch him try to slip back into our lives, its an absolutely bull shit.

Its okay Jahari, you crying isn't a sign of weakness, we all go through it, but damn fuck your dad. Infact fuck the world and everyone else in it, its just you and me here, and we should always be here for one another haha

Ain't no way you started cursing, who taught you that?

boy hush isn't that part of the American day to day vocabulary

"Haha thank you Nasuka, it was nice talking to you." In that moment everything felt so quite, "probably because we were the only ones here 12pm at night"

okay Jahari i have to go now, so see you tomorrow?

nuh uh ain't no way you going home that quickly, whilst he pulled me by the waist for a kiss, the kiss should have lasted a second but i had somewhat let it continue for alittle longer, before i came back to my senses and pulled him off.

sorry Jahari, i can't do this, i have a boyfriend, we can't continue like this, good night!

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i woke up this morning feeling like a cheater, i knew the feeling was temporary by i didn't think it would make me feel as though i should dig a 6ft hole down the ground and stay there for eternity " however my Nigerian side wouldn't let me do that since it would be connected to witchcraft " But i still wasn't so eagar to talk to jay about it

"knock knock"

come in

Nne aren't you going to school today

No ma' i just want to stay home

hope there's no probelm ehe?

I just don't feel like going to school today well you're still going to school get up and get ready your dad will take you to school

ọ nweghị ihe ga-eme ka ị ghara ịga akwụkwọ

"there's nothing that will make you not go to school"

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finally school had finished and i decided to call Ebele to check up on her to see how she's doing

hold up ebele calling my friend I'll call you back

sup b how are you?

good..

"what's up with the attitude, you not tryna talk to me or something?

"mhm.. when were you going to tell me you were leaving?"

oh- my bad it totally slipped my mind

so you had no intention of telling me then?

eventually I was- but wait how did you know i was leaving?

It doesn't matter, we spent weeks, days, months together, you didn't think it was convenient for you to tell me about it ?!

nah nah b, I was gon tell you but I didn't think it was a big deal at first and i was scared of how you were going to react, but don't worry our relationship will work, we can call everyday, text everyday, do what ever you want, so stop tryna act mean and cheer up ?

so are you saying my feelings aren't valid?

my fault, they are."okay jay but i am really going to miss you, oh i had wanted to tell you So..jahri kissed me when i tried to reassured him.

HUH WHAT!

"now please i don't want you guys to go and fight about it"

what do you mean, he tried to kiss my girl whilst i was still around?!  what did you do? did you at least try to stop it?, pushed him away?

i did, i told him i had a boyfriend and he backed off

see i never trusted that suspicious looking guy, now i don't even want to go to New York no more

no baby, you have to, this is for your education as well.

Aight b I'm gon talk to you later.

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okay bye " it took a week or two to completely get over it but that was officially  the last fight that occurred between us because in the next two months he was leaving, we tried to do everything together, he even bought me a promise ring, took me to the park where we first confessed our feeling for one another, "i cried i truly did" but i still had Savy and Misha here to help me through it, he never really trusted jahari ever since then, hence why he took me out almost everyday, he thought of it as a way of me not seeing him again.

now i think of it i miss my man! * i said whilst i sobbed for the trillionth time now "