Deeper Than Faces

Chapter 12

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3 Days Later

   It felt so sad as Charles dropped the news, for three days now we haven't heard from Lucy or even knew anything about their whereabout, we'd gone to her house several times but no one seems to be home, it seemed they had travelled, but to where?, I tried reaching her line but it was always switched off, her mom's too wasn't going through, I was so worried and couldn't help the thoughts that came to my mind.
"relax mehn, they are fine"  Charles reassured, looking a bit more relaxed than I was, "we've been in the house all day, why don't we go out for a stroll " he suggested, it was a good idea so i rushed upstairs and changed into something nice, took some mint and ran back down to join him as we left the house.

    That's her house right? " Charles said as he pointed at Moet's house, and I nodded in agreement, why don't we go introduce me " he added as he began to walk to the house, I held him firmly by the hand and dragged him out, knowing the disaster he would cause if I was to let him do that.
We then decided to go eat at mummy Pete, since Lucy wasn't here it didn't seem to be a bad idea.

   
     Few minutes later we got to the canteen and sat at our favorite spot, we'd ordered for our meal and were ask to wait for a while,
Charles kept talking as not to make the whole thing boring, he was good at it though, he is the best raconteur I have known,
I was so carried away by the story he was telling just when I noticed the sudden pause in his speech and movement of his eyes from mine to something behind me, I turned to see who it was and behold, Moet was standing there, ordering whatever she wanted, "that's her Charles, that's Moet" I said as I began to smile nervously, I couldn't believe my eyes, she had become even more beautiful than the last time, I tried to organize the table we sat, begging Charles to behave himself as she approached us in search of a place to sit, "hey Moet" Charles yelled out as he  waved at her, OMG!!  I exclaimed softly, using my hand to cover my face, he invited her over to our table and she looked surprised on how he knew her name,
"my name is Charles, and this is my friend Alex " he said as he stretched out a handshake, "nice meeting you guys, hello Alex " she greeted as she sat next to me, looking excited to see me.

  I felt happy having her sit by me, but having Charles here, smiling and looking at me with those eyes of his soon made me uncomfortable, "Alex told me so much about you" Charles said with a deep smile on his face, making Moet very anxious to know what I had said about her,
My God, what's he trying to do? I thought, as I looked at him with a nervous smile on my face, "hey, don't look at him, tell me what he said" Moet said as she waved off Charles attention from me,
"well he said you the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, I thought he was exaggerating it, but from the looks of things..." and then his phone began to ring,
We waited patiently for him to be done and continue from where he'd stopped, but then after some seconds on the phone he stood up to leave "I have to go guys, something came up at home" he said with a smile on his face
"I hope no problem" Moet asked curiously " no...no, no problem, just something I have to do for my dad, please enjoy yourselves, I'll see you later Moet" he said and tapped me on the shoulder as he walked out.

   I was so nervous around her and couldn't even make eye contact, the silence was taking too long to break and things where becoming weird fast, "so moet, any sibling?, I asked, as that was the best start that came to my head, "ehh, yea, I do have siblings,brothers actually, Noah and Joey, they not here with us actually, they are in lagos, my dad is in the Army, you know,....... Serving his country"
I watched and admired how much she spoke about her brothers , it made me feel left out as I had no sibling, but then I noticed the change in her tone as she spoke of her dad, she didn't seem very happy, staring down to the table as she played with her keys, I looked at her and noticed her mood, "hey what's wrong? " I asked, sounding very concern and interested, "I don't know Alex, I feel very bad that I don't get to spend quality time with my dad like others do with theirs, it's either peace keeping here or there, Boko haram here or there, or something to just take him away, I am so not happy but I have to pretend in other to look strong for my mum"
I felt really bad for her as she spoke, she really misses her dad and couldn't do anything about it, "hey, it will be fine OK, besides you have a lovely mum here with you, and you also have me you know " I said with a little bit of sarcasm and it made her smile a bit, looking a bit more relaxed than earlier, we kept smiling at each other and giving all sorts of funny looks to ourselves as the waitress brought our food...

Hey guys, yea this chapter is longer than the rest, the vibes came in strong , I hope you enjoyed it though 😇😇😇