Wonderland

6 pt 2

Stop staring you moron.

"He made me leave you G."

"It was never my intention, he said so many things and I believed him until I found out recently that those things weren't true.

"Your dad?"

He nodded.

My bad girl facade was fading  losing and I wanted to believe. It all made sense now. The rejected phone calls, the qunanswered emails. I was just another best friend who lost her friend and probably felt unwanted.

Daddy Gaius wasn't the best dad on the planet. To his son or any child. He didn't shave or trim his beard and drank often. Ever since the tragic incident of losing his wife which was when Gaius was one, he neglected parental duty and Gaius was left with the old nanny who filled up that space. She was his granny and I was his friend.

"So this is like a family reunion 3?" A smile was starting to form on my small face.

"I don't know." he said shyly then he took two steps closer and wrapped his arms around my shoulders.

I didn't return his hug until he held me tighter whispering a bunch of I'm sorry's  a million times in my ear. I laughed and stepped on his toe.

"Ow. That is painful, bae." he pouted.

"And bae is lame, G."

When he heard the nickname I saw him smile faintly and remember something because his eyes  were twitching so much, it was had to notice.

I let go of his arm and winked at him.

"See you in class!"

I was tapping my pencil repeatedly on the table a habit I do in class unconsciously when I am trying to figure things out.

"Do we all care that you are in a good mood?"  Folake chirped in her usual sarcastic tone.

I kept humming ignoring her completely and doing the rhythm I formed.

  She turned my face to hers and I just noticed they were glowing.

"I saw you made up with your new bestie now. So we aren't besties anymore right?"

"Did you have sex?"  I said that a bit loudly because it  immediately earned laughter from everybody in the class. Excluding the teacher.
Well, maybe because he left the classroom to bring some instruments.

Good Lord.

"Are you out of ya mind?" Folake covered my mouth with her perfectly manicured ones.

"I am ok, girl. I think you're the over sensitive one here, just because I made up with my other G doesn't mean I am leaving you, okay?

"Fine, but it isn't my fault if we hate our guts."

"Didn't you like him before or something?"

"Well stupid me, did until a familiar someone broke up with me yesterday." She whispered.

I turned my head backwards to look at the bastard that broke my bestie's heart and behold the he-devil was making Ifeoma laugh like a dying hyena in an evil forest.

Fola touched my arm lightly. I looked deeply into her eyes and gave her a squeeze that meant we would figure this out.

"Just next time receive my blessing if you want your relationship to work out."

She rolled her  eyes and sighed.

I hope not.

Clock was ticking for me. I had to get things straight before I leave Bermusa and that was almost done.

Do what I have always wanted to do.

Ehnnn. This was a once in a high school opportunity.

I waited till past 4pm when I was sure almost everyone has gone home. I  tried several lockers until I found the one. The one I had buried my diary into.I still had the key to it so I could identify the camouflage and it fit perfectly.

I checked the down side of the locker and I felt my hand brush on a book. The diary. It was there. I brought it out and brushed it. It was blue and had lovely rose tied around it. I remembered it looking so alive now it looks very much dead and abandoned.

I sat on the bare floor and opened a page of the diary.

19/08/2014

Grandma had trouble falling asleep like always and I hated hearing Gs dad scream at her for any little thing. I fear the old woman might get sick soon and Gaius would suck for the rest of the time she gets better. I asked Gaius yesterday if he wanted to runaway with his poor Grandma but he smiled sadly at me and changed the subject. I felt so awful after that.He is my best friend and I don't want him getting hurt by his drunk dad but what can we do? I pray everything turns out well.

5 years ago.

Present me chuckled at my past self I was so worried about his ass then. I must have still been crushing on his majesty.

I turned a few pages till it was next year  the second longest letter I wrote in my diary.

19/03/2015

Yesterday was my younger sister's birthday, Mom had invited Gaius  for Lola's birthday  dinner. Mom went out with Lola for her present while we watched TV with Tammy  who was so reluctant in baby sitting me and  him. we ended up boring him out so he fell asleep.We had fun pranking Tammy's girlfriend with a text that he was cheating although Gaius severely repeated that it was a bad idea because  the teenager was snoozing next to us on a couch like a potato and he could wake up any moment from now. We had  a good laugh at it and covered all evidence till the next day which meant putting his phone on silent so he wouldn't hear calls from his beloved. I patted Gaius on the back and he gave me a wink when he left our house.

I felt a wave of butterflies in my belly and I knew I was attractive to my best friend I like him more than he knows ever since....

Ever since today. I just found him ten times more cuter than before and his love for his old nanny I mean Granny is the best I have ever seen. I don't want anything to be taken away from him especially by his father. I will be his knight.

He needs me.