Three at home (On hold)

❄Chapter 8❄

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Jordan's POV

"Leave me alone.." I heard Mia grumble behind me, her voice hardly standing with her words.

I kept mute, letting a partial smirk flood my face as I met up with Kevin, now working by his side.
He didn't let a minute pass before turning to my direction and sending a sheepish smile whilst he tried not to partner with me.

One thing I didn't understand was if this was a race or something more.
I sighed, unconsciously increasing my steps to equal his.

I don't even understand life anymore.

We stopped at the first shelf of provisions, causing Mia to halt behind us, her eyes never leaving her phone.

I grabbed a basket, picking stuffs and dumping them into it.
Kevin stood studying almost everything I picked with his eyes, and for Mia, whatever happenings it was on her phone didn't let her spare even her wrist watch a glance.

I moved to the counter once I was done, placing the now heavy basket on top of it.
"This will take me for a week." I muttered to myself watching the lady behind the counter begin to sum up the total amount of the things which occupied the basket.

"Are you a glutton?" I turned to see Kevin's right brow raised at my direction, he now leaned on the counter, his eyes staring stubbornly at me. "Look how much food's gonna take you for a week."

"It isn't only me dummy" I tilted my head to Mia whose eyes still hadn't left her phone."She's involved."

Mia raised her head, finally taking her eyes off her phone.
Her expression wasn't surprising as her eyes searched mine for answers, shifting to Kevin when she got none from me. "Who's involved?" She folded her arms." And in what?"

"Is he really sharing all these with you?"Kevin gestured to the stuffs in the basket, doubting me all along.

Mia's eyes darted to the basket and the bags which the lady now dropped each stuff into as she summed up. Her lips pursed as her gaze drifted to me for split seconds and then to Kevin."yes."

Kevin shot me a doubtful glare, awkwardly turning to face the attendant afterwards.

Mia sneakered and I smiled.
So she helps.

My phone beeped and I shoved my hand into my pocket retrieving it.
It was a message from Ben telling me to hug someone, a girl to be specific.

We were playing this silly game that requires two people telling each other to do anything they could think of.
Modest things though, cause Ben was a modest being.

I smiled, tagging his message too easy.

I turned my gaze to Mia, slowly battling how I could tell her to hug me without her thinking I was weird.
At first, I was thinking she was easy, but looking at her right now kinda made me think back.

Nah, she wasn't too easy, she couldn't pretend and I liked that about her, and for the second time in my life, if not the first, I tried to plead."can you hug me.." I began, lowering my voice a little too low."please."

Her eyes widened and her lips barely parted."are you serious?" She asked like she didn't almost believe me, her brows kind of creasing."you want me to hug you?."

I nodded, totally wanting to leave words out of this, while I patiently waited for her to do it.
I knew she would.

"Okay." Her response didn't only confirm my thoughts, it made me smile inwardly as I battled to keep my outward expression constant.

She held her phone firmly as she took two steps towards me, slowly covering the space between us.
Smiling shyly, her feet stood on their toes, enough to increase her height to my shoulders, her body then collided with mine, head resting on my chest and hands curling around my neck.

I smiled, moving my hand to her waist and letting it settle there.
After a long minute which I ever wanted to stay long, I pulled away with a 'thank you' and she couldn't contain her smile.

I took out my phone immediately sending Ben a text.

Me:
Guyyy, I just hugged a girl, how about you kiss one.
Sent

"Everything costs Eighty thousand, nine hundred and fifty naira." The lady spoke softly.

I turned to her, putting away my phone and shoving my hand into my pocket, I retrieved my Wallet, taking out the said amount of money and handing it over to her.

She smiled, muttering a "thank you" as she collected it.

Just as I placed my hands on the bags to get them off the table, Kevin leaned off the counter, walking out of the place and Mia followed, scurrying after him.

How could she not ask if I needed help.
asking help from Kevin was stupid because he wouldn't even listen to my plea.
I wanted Mia to at least ask if I needed help and then I can just say no, but it was a different case totally, she didn't care to ask, and that got me kinda __should I say annoyed?..
Why was I feeling this way though.

With my phone in my hand, i grabbed the bags and began staggering behind them, almost bumping into someone.

"Sorry" I muttered as I made my way to the door.

My phone beeped just as I crossed the threshold and my screen lit up with Ben's name.

I dropped the bags on the ground and being so eager to see Ben's response, I quickly unlocked my phone and clicked on the SMS apk.

I blinked twice as I read through the message.

Ben:
It was a lot to do but I did it anyway✌.

I wasn't able to laugh, i tried but laughter completely deserted me.
That would have helped me a lot cause right now, I just stood pondering over Ben's message.

Ben never kissed random girls, he only kissed girls he is in a relationship with, and presently, he's single, so what's with the "It was a lot to do but I did it anyway". Thing?.

I quickly typed back a message.

Me:
What are you talking about?

Seen

His response came almost immediately.

Ben:
I kissed a girl man,
That i really like.

My eyes widened on their own accord, gravely reading each word again.

placing 'really' and 'like' in a sentence which was to be directed to a girl wasn't really my thing and it wasn't Ben's either, so this was really strange.

My fingers landed on my keypad before I could stop them, eagerly typing away.

Me:
Are you dating her?

Ben:
I really want to...

After I had read Ben's final message, I turned off my phone, sliding it into my pocket and getting hold of the bags, I made my way to the car.

Kevin and Mia were already inside the car when I got there, I turned to the back door, opening it and placing both bags on the car seat but not without glancing at Mia. She looked really engrossed in whatever it was on her phone, only looking up when she heard the door close.

I sighed, lazily walking to the front door and hopping into the car once I got there.

Kevin drove off almost immediately, after glancing my way and shrugging.

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