Black Pride

13.

Ayo looked up ahead and saw Kevin beside a tree talking with two girls. She had decided to take a stroll that Tuesday evening as she was not having any lectures and she didn't want to stay cooped up in her room in the dormitory. Kevin left the girls he was talking to after saying his goodbyes and came to meet her. She walked to a nearby bench which was behind another tree and sat down on it, enjoying the evening breeze which was circulating the atmosphere.

"Hey Ayo," Kevin said as he came to where she was and sat on the bench beside her. She looked over to his side.

"Are those friends of yours?" she asked as she pointed to the two girls who were already leaving by then. They both wore matching outfits; a light green crop top over dark blue jean miniskirts which revealed most of their bodies.

Kevin looked towards the girls' direction and gave a low chuckle. "Uhm, yeah, that's Nina and Tina Allen, they're twins," he said and looked back at Ayo.

"I see," was all Ayo said as she fixed her gaze on them. She watched as they walked, their hips swaying and their thighs partially showing with every step they took. Ayo watched them till they went out of view, before turning her gaze back to Kevin's side.

Kevin bit his lip and nudged Ayo, "what's wrong?" he asked.

"Oh, it's nothing," Ayo said and looked away.

Kevin tickled Ayo which made her to burst into short bouts of laughter. She tried so hard to control herself but Kevin's tickling made her laugh the more. She was very ticklish.

Ayo laughed again and told him to stop. He chuckled. "So, what's up with you?" he finally said.

"Well I am just thinking about how my final year would be like," she said as she let her mind drift off.

"Look at me," Kevin said and turned her face towards his. She stared into his blue eyes and got lost in it.

"Hug me," she thought.

"Everything's gonna be okay, okay?" He said and smiled. They stood there staring at each other until they heard a loud cough. They looked to where they heard the sound to see a tall sim guy staring at them. He stood right in front of them, holding a large sheet of paper in his hand.

"Yes?" Ayo asked, giving him a rather puzzling look. Kevin just shrugged.

The boy turned his paper around to reveal a beautiful drawing of Ayo and Kevin when they were staring at each other. "I thought the moment was right and decided to quickly pencil it," he said and smiled.

Ayo took it and looked at it. She and Kevin were astonished. The drawing looked so lifelike.

"It's---beautiful, can I keep it?" Ayo asked clutching it to her chest.

"Well, yeah, I intended to give it to you anyway," he said and walked away. He packed his drawing books and then went out of the park. Ayo smiled and waved at him as he left. She then showed it to Kevin. Kevin smiled and touched Ayo's nose.

"Well, the nose looks the same, smallish as ever," he said and they both chuckled. He later escorted Ayo to her hostel and then went to his. Brie wasn't in their hostel because she had gone to check on Gwen. Ayo gasped. She was supposed to check on Gwen too. Well, they were gonna discharge her the next day, so it wasn't worth going anyway.

She lay on her bed and stared at the picture again. She clutched it tight to her chest and smiled. "One day, it'll happen," she thought to herself. She picked up her diary and began to write in it. She had gotten that diary as her fifteenth birthday present and had kept it to use in her university.

I am Kevin's little angel. She smiled as she wrote those words in her diary, she turned the other page and started writing how her life with Kevin would look like, drawing some little details in it too.

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Brie entered Gwen's room in the clinic. There were some other girls too. The beds were arranged in two rows, each beside a wall.

Beside her was Josh, he was a boarder too and Brie had looked for him to accompany her. It was always easy to find Josh because he was always in the library whenever he was not in a class, except on Sundays, when he was either at the chapel or at the computer store designing software for the local staff that worked there.

Josh adjusted his tie as they entered. He pulled two chairs which were staying beside a nearby wall. He pulled a seat back for Brie to sit down on, like a proper gentleman, before sitting on the second one that he had brought for himself. She smiled and put her hand on his shoulder. The last time, he had accompanied her to a place and had sat down first, he had paid dearly for it. "You should learn how to be a gentleman," she had said after giving him rounds of punches on his soft arm.

Gwen smiled when they greeted her, and after greeting them in return, started to tell them stories of how the nurses had told her stories of their life. Brie shushed her up as quick as possible. She didn't want to hear stories about some old nurse' life. Josh brought out a small book from his chest pocket and started reading it. It was his favorite. Brie sighed and shook her head when she saw Josh reading.

"Oh, and before I forget, Elizabeth dropped by earlier and guess what she gave me?" Gwen said and giggled, shaking her body vigorously as she brought out a pink dollar bill from her purse. Instead of the normal president's face, Gwen's face was plastered there.

"How thoughtful," Brie said and snickered. "What do you think Josh?" She asked and turned to look at him. She showed him the pink dollar when she was sure she had his attention.

He closed the book he was reading, putting a finger in between as a marker. "It is nicely looking," he said and felt the pink dollar bill. "Probably polyester, or maybe latex," he said and sniffed it, then looked it up and down. Brie laughed. She liked it whenever Josh did this. Josh handed the dollar bill back to Gwen and continued reading his book. Brie smiled and looked at him dreamily.

Gwen took her pink dollar and sniffed it. It didn't quite have any smell. "Josh must have a rather peculiar nose to be able to smell polylatex and ester," Gwen thought, mixing up the words. She kept the dollar bill back in her purse. She was finally going to be discharged tomorrow.

"But I don't want to go," Gwen had told the nurse that had come to deliver the news of her being discharged the next day. The nurse just looked at her and shook her head before walking out of the room to attend to other students.