Episode 16 : The Game
“ You are not okay tell me the truth ” my mom press harder.
I explain everything from the beginning to the end.
“ What?! You are just an idiot! When he wants to explain the situation why didn’t you hear him out? Are you that stupid? When a guy is telling you he can explain he is telling he likes you and that situation is a mistake can’t you see ”
Seriously I don’t even know whose side my mom is on. Hmm after that I did not also listen to anything she said again.
Monday
My mom makes sure David and I trek to school together, and you won’t believe me, it is so awkward.
“ About that day I did not do it Isabella did it to hurt you,” he said, starting a conversation.
“ What?! Hey don’t try to lie against that girl I know you did it ”
“ I swear ” he tries to hold my hands, but I bite him hard. He groans in pain, begging me to let go of his hand.
“ What was that for?! ” he cried.
“ That is for hugging another girl except me ” I mock him with my tongue.
“ Do you want me to hug you? ” he asked.
“ Forget it ”
He eventually hugs me, and it felt so warm immediately he let go I saw Janelle and Chris looking at us with what is happening eyes “it’s not what you are thinking ” I said.
“ Yes, it is what you are thinking,” David said, putting his arms on my shoulder.
“ I hope your mouth won’t put us into trouble. I always like the quiet David because once you open your mouth nonsense always comes out of it ” I said through clenched teeth.
“ What do you mean nonsense? My IQ is greater than yours ”
“ And you put vinegar in stew,”
I said, and he quickly holds my lips to stop me from saying anything with the other hand, he drags me to the class.
“ What was that for? It’s not that I’m lying ” I said, twisting my mouth.
“ I don’t know what to do with you again we just got back together now we are fighting ”
Seriously what does he mean by back together? Are we in some kind of relationship? Or are we dating? Or he likes me?
Not long our class teacher enters the class, and after calling the attendance, she told us we are going for an excursion at a game reserve. Yay! I love game reserves.
The day came, and everyone is looking fabulous Isabella I guess too.
On the way, we sang in the school bus that the driver told us to keep quiet.
We were to use two days and one night there.
After walking and learning seeing some fascinating things in what seems like a forest to me.
Everything seems dull, and the teacher seems to notice this.
“ I have a very interesting game for you guys are you interested? ” our class teacher announced.
We don’t have a choice, do we? We agree with whatever the game is.
“ You are to group yourself into groups and a group will consist of four people two boys and two girls now to be fair, you have to dip your hands into the jar there and if four people have the same color then a group has been formed you are to find at least four pegs in that forest ” she explained. I think the game will be exciting.
I dip my hands with a prayer that I will in the same group as David. Fortunately, David Eric and I are in the same group.
Guess the fourth person…
Episode 17 : Game Change It All
Why will Isabella be in our group? Mteew I prefer Janelle instead of this ugly looking dry western witch.
The game starts, the first group to make it back to our cabin will win a prize as per our class teacher.
We started our journey in the forest, careful not to get lost. I’m furious because Isabella is just clinging to David now and then which is making me fume with that kind of flame you know.
Suddenly we started hearing some kind of sounds like that of a wild animal. I’m so scared it gets louder then David grabs my and Eric grab Isabella when it seems that whatever the animal is coming to our direction.
David and I slip on a semi cliff filled with dried grass, and we roll and roll until a rock hit my arm. Eric and Isabella ran and ran that they didn’t even notice we fell.
My arm hurts so much, and it is bleeding. David unbuttons his shirt, and my eyes grew wide in shock.
“ Idiot it’s not what you are thinking ” he knocks my head.
“ Auch that hurts ” I cried.
He wraps his shirt around my arms to stop the bleeding, and he rests my head on his shoulder.
“ I am in love with an idiot,” he said.
“ What? So that’s why you won’t look at me anyway who is that idiot so I can ruin her face ” I frown my face.
“ then get ready to ruin your face because you are the one ” he smiled.
What? So David loves me? Wow, I don’t know what to say…
“ Since when? ” I asked curiously you know I have to understand when na.
“ The day I set my eyes on you ”
“ But why did you reject me? ” I hit him playfully.
“ Because your confession sounds like a joke. I mean how will you just tell me you like me like that ” he pinches my cheeks.
“ But do you know how much I was hurt that day if not for Janelle I will have commit suicide and when I saw Isabella hugging you my heart shattered in pieces ” a tear escape from my eyes.
He uses his free hand to wipe my tear then he held my head in his hands, and he plants a kiss on my lips. Am I dreaming?
If I’m dreaming, please let me wake up, but I don’t want to wake up, and I kissed him back losing ourselves into the world of love as we kiss deeper.
Narrated by Isabella
“ Eric stop I’m so tired,” I told Eric when I almost fell. He is still holding my hands, but why didn’t I notice him before?
He is so handsome and tall, and he has a dimple making his smile look like a shining pearl. Yes, I have a crush on Dave, but Eric caught all my heart today. He made me fell helplessly in love.
“ Oh anyway where is Dave and Nikky,” he asked, breathing hard.
“ Oh, I don’t think they are near? Dave!! Nikky!! What if the wolf catch them? ” I said with fear showing in my tone.
“ Shut up nothing is wrong with them and I think they are safe,” he said with a calm voice.
“ I think I will look for dave,” I said, but eric holds my hands. Do you need to see how my heart melt is this how it feels to be really in love?
“ Are you going to leave me for him too? ” he said.
“ Who? And what do you mean? ” I didn’t know what he meant.
“ Nikky left me for him and you too? ”
Oh, this guy is pitiful hmm. He pulls me hard that I sat on his lap. My heart almost jumps out of my mouth, beating so hard that my chest couldn’t take it.
“ I love you Isabella the last time I confront you for hurting her I realize the hidden beauty inside you I love you ” He confessed.
“ I don’t know what draws me to you but anything that is it must be a strong okra soup Eric I love you too,” I said as tears filled my eyes.
He hugs me so tight that I like the warmth.
Episode 18 : Love Is Strange
The narration continues by me.
I couldn’t explain the feeling, but I like it so much that oh I’m short of words.
David and I walk together as we found every peg, and that means our group won.
We found Eric and Isabella in a romantic mood hmm are you thinking what I’m thinking? Wow, Isabella looks so pretty when she smiles, and they both look good together.
We made it back before other groups, and we also found the peg and guess what the prize is? Nothing lol. Our class teacher just wants us to enjoy ourselves, and I enjoy my self except for my bruised arm lol.
Here come the aggressive couples and guess? Chris and Janelle. They are fighting, and I know they love each other. Janelle confessed to me earlier, but whether she told Chris or not, I don’t know.
The night was fun, we made a bonfire, and we sang I resting on David’s shoulder and eric and Isabella’s hands we were clamped together.janelle and Chris are flirting with each other.
Do you know the reason why Janelle let go of her crush? That’s because she found out doctor ken is dating our class teacher, so she decided to make the adult have their fun.
Wow, can you see how a little game changes our love life? It’s so cool.
During the weekend, when my mom caught David and I smiling at each other, she asks questions as usual.
“ Nothing is happening between us its just that he change a little” I quickly deny the allegations.
“ I don’t think so you guys are strange,” she said.
“ Mom there’s nothing strange about just that he started treating me well because we are neighbors ” I smiled.
“ Oh look at that smile just take things slow okay? I was also a teenager like you. Stella and I attend the same school so that’s why we were still best friends not knowing one day will come when our families will live together ” she said, kissing my forehead.
“ OK mom ”
David and I wash our uniform together not like how you are thinking o but you know at the same time and not far from each other.
“ I love you ” he whispered.
“ Hey our moms are at home,” I said shyly splashing water on his body.
“ it doesn’t matter ” he splashes water on my body too and before we know it, that’s how we waste the water we supposed to use to wash clothes.
We went to the tap to fetch another water again, and our clothes are very wet.
“ Do you know it is your fault? ” he said, pinching my cheeks.
“ Two of them are funny,” David’s mom told my mom.
“ They grow up so fast ” my mom replied from where both of them were watching us before they enter the kitchen.
“ It is your fault why will you tell me you love me?” I said, hitting him with a cloth, but he caught it, and he pulls me closer, and we end up in a hug position.
“ Because I love you,” he said, kissing me I smiled, but that silly smile faded when I saw my mom and his mom starring at us with a shocked expression. He saw them too, eh? Not knowing what to do, we started moving in circles then Omo sees race!
I took the right David took a left.
That awkward moment when parents caught their kids dating father lord, please take my soul.
Episode 19 : Couples
“ Mom it’s not what you are thinking I can explain,” I said immediately my mom enter the house.
“ I’m listening explain the kiss,” she said you know African parents. Chai, I’m in the soup.
“It’s kind of awkward mom how can I explain a kiss? Mom, can you please understand? ” I said, closing one eye.
“ Understand what?! I suspect it but why didn’t you tell me the truth? You know I’m your best friend, you are not supposed to hide anything from me. You guys look great together, but you have to take it to slow you know you are just
teenagers.
No relationship till you finish high school ” my mom concluded.
“ But what if I lose him? ” I asked, feeling concerned.
“ I’m sure Stella will guard him with all her strength so you don’t have to worry my dear okay? Just take things really slow and don’t let your feelings get into your heads okay ” she said, and I smiled.
Monday
David and I are just smiling at each other as we trek to school. There is a difference between the mood of being together and laughing together, and just walking with someone who always left me behind.
We hold hands as we smile at each other, allowing love to fill the air for us.
“ Good morning ” I hear Isabella and eric chorused behind us. “ I told you to hold my hands like they did why won’t you?
Can’t you see how love is flying in the air between them ” Isabella yell at Eric? “ Do I have to hold your hands, so you believe I love you?” eric asked.
But wait o what’s wrong with this couple? “ If I know you won’t be so romantic like dave I would have left you for him. David, can we be together? ” Isabella said, and my eyes turn red immediately with anger.
“ Nikky can we be together? ” eric also asked, and I can feel David even boiling in anger.
“ There is no way! ” David and I chorused.
“ We are just joking after all I can’t let Nikky snatch eric from me this time,” Isabella said.
“ And I won’t let David snatch you from me this time too ” eric added.
“ oh look at this couple,” I said.
“ well, my sunshine let’s move,” David said, holding my hands.
Love is a beautiful feeling if you allow it to rule your heart. I’m talking about pure love not obsessed with love or lust love. If you are obsessed with someone, you might end up losing the person.
If you lust after someone, you will satisfy your lust one day feeling nothing for the person, but when you are talking about pure or true love.
That is letting go when you know you can’t make your partner happy or you are not the one for them or believing in that love and fighting every obstacle to protecting that love.
I found out my crush is not a crush but pure love. I allow myself to love myself. Then I allow my heart to open to Dave. I’m not the one who is only crushing on him, but he is crushing on me too.
My senior secondary school days are filled with happiness, not only me but my friends too. Immediately we gained admission into higher institutions. David and I went on a date together, and our parents are happy about it.
The small company my father and his father run together is now big, having many branches across the nation.
We were once neighbours, and we are still neighbours because our parents build their mansions close to each other so there is no way that strong family bond will break.
Episode 20 (Final) : Wedding Something
Years later we are still in touch with Eric Isabella Janelle and Chris. And now that we are adults and currently working on our own. We hang out when we have some free time.
One faithful afternoon Janelle called me.
“ Hi girlfriend ” Janelle sounded too happy.
“ Janelle I’m busy right now I will call you later I need to edit this,” I said disappointing her. I work in a media company, and I’m now a reporter (my dream). David is a surgeon, Janelle, a gynaecologist, Isabella is a general doctor and eric run his father’s company, and Chris is a lawyer. You can imagine how busy we are always, but we don’t fail to hang out every weekend taunting each other about our schooldays.
I gave Janelle a call after I’ve sorted out everything I need to sort out. “ I want you to follow me to a bridal shop I need to pick a wedding gown,” she said.
“ What?! So you are getting married? And you didn’t let us know? Its unfair o Nelly ” I called her with her nickname.
“ So you are expecting I will be lord of rings bah? He proposed a year ago na ” she said.
“ Oh, I remember I wonder when this Mr man will propose too ” I smiled referring to David.
“ We are getting married next month because of my busy schedule ” she laughed.
“ Wow, where should I meet you? Let’s go together I need to choose a beautiful dress for you and a dress for me too cause I will be your maid of honor” I said happily.
“ That’s my friend meet me at the hospital ” she ended the call.
Janelle hugged me immediately she saw me. I’m just happy for her.
I taunt her with old-time how she and Chris use to fight, how she always tells him he is saying rubbish. Now she is marrying that man who used to say nonsense how funny.
After choosing the perfect dress for her, she came out looking so gorgeous that Chris is almost faint.
“ Is this Janelle? ” he asked with his mouth full in shock.
“ No your grandfather’s ghost ” Janelle replied funnily.
“ Wow you look so beautiful the dress is just sparkling on you ” Chris added while Janelle blush.
The wedding finally came, it was a white wedding, so it was held in the church. My friend is just looking gorgeous wearing that smile oh I want to get married too. Isabella Eric and David were present also.
After saying their vows now exchanging rings is next but the problem is where the ring is? We started searching for it which arouse murmurs from the people present. I found a ring box on David. Isabella found one on Eric, the bride and groom also found theirs.
What is happening? After exchanging the rings the couple kissed and I stared at David smiling, he also smiled, but he surprised when he kneels at the same time eric also kneels in front of Isabella.
“ Will you marry me? My queen ” they both pronounce it together, opening the small box in it is a diamond ring sparkling.
A tear escape from my eyes. I look at Isabella, who also returns the glance.
“ Yes!! ” like a miracle we both said together.
I stretch my hand, and he put the ring on my ring finger. I’m so happy. I can see isabella, also smiling.
The bride and the groom were even jealous.
A shout of kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Were heard in every angle in the church he pull me up then he kissed me passionately.
Four months later, David and I get married, isabella and Eric get married a month after ours.
“ Mom that was so interesting ” my eight-year-old daughter Laura said.
“ Should I start again?” I asked, and she nods her head.
“ Don’t tell me you are still narrating those lies to her I didn’t put vinegar in the soup ” David said immediately I finish the story.
“ You did I’m not lying the taste was horrible and I still remember ” I mock him with my tongue.
“ I thought it was cooking oil ” he scratched his head while our daughter burst into loud laughter.
“ you really put it there you did ” laura mock him with her tongue.
“ I didn’t ” he try to deny.
“ you did you just say so you said you thought it was cooking oil,” laura said, and I burst out into loud laughter.
“ Anyhow my princess,” he said lovingly to laura.
“ And me? ” I asked jealously.
“ You are always my queen ”
Love is perfect when you allow it in your heart, and that’s my story.
~ The End ~
Last Words
After all the ups and downs, the misunderstandings, and the moments of joy, Nikky and David finally realize their feelings for each other. Years later, they’ve built a life together, surrounded by friends who’ve shared in their journey. And guess what? They even have a beautiful daughter, Laura, who loves hearing about how her parents met and fell in love. It’s a story filled with laughter, love, and a few life lessons along the way. Ah, high school memories—they really do last a lifetime, don’t they?