lessons in love

1

"Ohh you must be Kye the new tenant!" exclaimed Doris, my new landlord when she finally opened the door.

"Yes Ma'am" I smiled getting into her humble abode. "Beautiful home you got here" I complimented the fancy rustic home.

"Thank you dear, would you like same tea?" she asked, her gay smile never leaving her face. Her grey hair shiny and alive in neat curls.

"Yes please and thank you". Mother's humble teachings shining through.

"Please make yourself at home than I'll be right back" she cheered disappearing into the kitchen.

I found her ad for a room in the paper and placed my interest in the room. It was sort of as my backup plan if things didn't go right with my coming out and guess what..... Things didn't go right.

"Okay, here we go" she appeared with a tray of cookies and a tea pot with two cups. "Are you okay dear, you look sad" she questioned looking at me with concern.

I sniffed away the feelings and brightened my face with a smile. "Yes..... Just homesick I guess" I laughed which she imitated.

"Yeah it can be scary moving out, I remember when I moved out at fifteen to run away with the love of my life" she sighed her eyes cloudy with distant memories. "Do you have a girlfriend or boyfriend?"

Boyfriend.

"N-.... I broke up with her, found out that she was cheating on me" I lied......and I don't know why I did it........ But it's a habit I picked whenever my cousins would ask me.

A defence mechanism.

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that but don't worry son you are still young and good looking" she smiled handing me a steaming cup of tea. "my granddaughter went through the same, maybe you two can get to know each other when she comes over" she looked at me cheeky.

I let out a tiny laugh stuffing my face with a delicious cookies. I felt better after the long conversation we had and I must say the feeling of being at home was slowly making home in my heart as I followed her to the back of her house where the pool  house was situated. Its a fully furnished single bedroom and bathroom with an open  floor kitchen and sitting area and very private, enclosed by thick large trees and a lush garden and a bit far from the main house.

"I hope you enjoy your stay with us dear and feel free to move anything around to better suit your style and if you need anything please don't hesitate to ask me"

"Okay ma'am" I smiled feeling warmly welcomed.

She giggled. "Please call me Doris, I'm still young here" she handed me the keys. "My grandson will like you being here, he's always complaining about not having someone of the same gender around" she added patting my back and turned to leave.

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Chapter's will be short cause I don't want to bore yall with long ass chapters.

Maybe it's just me but I really lose interest when a book as long ass chapters.

Okay bye