Mellon

Chapter 10

I never thought that some people dont like the fact that they can read about themselves in newspapers or in books , I dont know how you feel but for my case , when something like that happens , i'd feel good if only what's written about me is such a wonderful story , however I dont think i've written something wrong against Mellon if you've been reading this careful .

But things seemed different  the day I payed a visit to her after shifting to her new hostel , we managed to meet at the last floor of the new building as we used to.

"By the way , I wanted to show you something," I said when she sat down .

"Huhhh , what would that be now joeh?" Mellon replied .

"You know am thinking of becoming a writer someday , but I dont know whether this is good or not , I think it will require a professional publisher to look into it , and I dont think its a crime if you looked into it."

"And what is it all about ?"

"First read through , you will tell me if it's worthy taking to a publisher or not but I really wanna have it published."

"Ohh give it to me my future author ."

I pulled out the book from my handbag , placed it on a table , opened a few pages and asked to start from a certain page .

"Why do I have to start from here ?"she asked.

"The rest is irrelevant , its my personal accounts, just scratch work. "

"Dont make me laugh , this is also supposed to be personal ."

"But I trust you , and u know that."

"Okay , now shut up , I have to read this."

It took her something like 30 minutes to go through this but her reaction really surprised me , she threw a book back at me and left after the 30 minutes of  reading .

"What happened ?" I asked.

She never replied instead  quickly went down the stairs in a hurry.

To me this felt all the end , from now am to have Mellon for an enemy , why did I turn out so stupid , why did I even showed her my writing , she must have been right when she told me that this was to be personal too , it really felt so stupid around me , I thought of following her to her hostel but that was not to be a nice idea , am sure she needed her space to think .

Now I know how it is to feel disappointed , abandoned , you cant even feel your legs , however  I thought the game might still be on , I immediately thought of sending her an apology .

"'I dont know what I can do to prove to you that am really sorry for whatever I wrote, I didnt even know that it would upset you and I hope you dont tell Ivan about this , i dont even know how much it cost to have a friend like you and if you really accept this apology please reply back , am really desperate my dear and since it is really killing me to have you against me'" I messaged.

After sending that to her , I had to get home cause the environment was really unbecoming , it took Mellon a week without flashing on my phone , i guess am coping up with this and starting to forget , but as I was reaching to this , she flashed when I was having dinner with my sister and mom, but something I dont remember was wrong with my phone and for that matter I couldnt pick her .

I decided to use my sister's phone to call her back .

"Hello ," she picked talking in that sweet soft innocent voice , she must have realized that it was me calling.

"How are you ?" I asked.

"am fine."

"Is that you Mellon ?"

"Yes."
"How are you doing ?"

"Fineeeeeeee......."

"You know my phone got a problem earlier , so I couldn't reply to you immediately and am sorry about that ."

"You are lying to me."

"For sure."

"What sure ?"

"Hello melon , how are you doing?" my sister Maggie interrupted.

"Who is that saying hello to me ?" She asked.

"Its my sister."

"How's she ?"

"Can I talk to you tomorrow cause I don't have enough credit and my sister is such a bother now ?"

"It's okay , I was just checking on you."

"That's sweet , thanks ."

This conversation gave me some hope,  brought back all the memories between her and I but when I tried to call her back the next day  on a sunday morning,  calls were being forwarded ,user busy , no replies , this was breaking a little but I had to hold on .

"It's gonna be all right , calm down Joe,"  I told myself .

but will it ever be okay ?