DEPTH OF PAIN{completed}

NINE

Ethan

I honestly have no idea of what is going on with me, I've never felt this way before, the feeling is strange, Patty is totally not my type of girl but I'm drawn to her.

After I dropped her at home, I thought of her till I got home, I couldn't get her out of my head, the image of when she was mad at me and when she was laughing hard at my jokes kept popping in my head, I was even finding it hard to do things right, when I tried to make another coffee when I got home, I poured salt in my coffee instead of sugar accidentally.
After having my bathe and getting prepared for school, I found out I wore the other side of my cloth, I have no idea of what was going on with me.
I don't even know why I didn't tell her the truth about me, that I'm the heir to Wellington groups, ever since I told Kayla that, she has been clingy, I know patty isn't that kind of girl but it's best I don't tell her, that might scare her off, she might think I want to take advantage of her and I'm also sure there's something she isn't telling me about herself and I'm determined to find out.

I ate breakfast and hurried out, I must see her before class starts and make sure she's okay.

When I got to school I bumped into Layla or let say she intentionally bump into me_ again.

"Sorry" she said as she gave me a seductive smile, she used her fingers to brush her hair behind her ear. So not working on me, I thought .

"Patty is your cousin right? " I asked out of the blue as i put my hands in my pocket, I wasn't even planning to ask her that

"Who's Patty? " she furrowed her brows

"Bianca... I mean Bianca "

"Oh! Why are you calling her patty? "

"Is Bianca your cousin?" I asked ignoring her dumb question

"Y...ye... Yeah" she replied reluctantly

"Your mom... " I stopped. "Never mind, can you do me a favour? " I asked

"Yeah sure"

"Don't tell her or anybody about me! About my identity, I don't want her to know, about the reason why I'm in Nigeria I don't want her or any other person to know that too, it's only you that knows about me and I want it to remain that way, can you do that for me? "

"I've told you before that my lips are sealed but why do you desperately want to hide your identity from her? Is there something between the both of you? " she asked out of curiosity

"Layla, you ask too much questions, please do that for me"

"okay, fine! Do you wanna hang out with me tonight?" She asked.

"Err...e rrrm...the thing is I have a lot of things  on my mind and a lot of things to do, so maybe some other time"

"You've been giving me that excuse for three weeks now Ethan and yet you are seeing other girls, what's wrong with you Ethan? am I not good enough for you?" she said has she teared up

"Layla, you need to stop this, I can't do this anymore! We were never a thing and we are never gonna be, I need to go to class" I walked away

"You are an asshole!" she cursed out but I didn't care. I've heard that numerous times from girls.

I went to the locker room, i walked towards my locker to kill time and to avoid that boring assembly thing and I was glad to see Patty there, I'm glad she could make it to school

"Hey" I said as I smiled

"Hey" she answered coldly

"Did everything go well at home? I asked hoping that's the reason she was cold.