"Oh , umma " My , my I don't know my chest became stuffy when he said so, i knew that ever since I could remember, I always felt so attached to those that I hold dear to me. Was our meeting a mere serendipity? I know and I know it well that there is nothing that happens that is chance and happenstance or maybe we were just meant to meet for this moment and phase in life,I was in a state of uncertainty, what were these feelings? Oh lord please help me!
Thane brushed his back hair with his hand And Like a puppy staring into her owner's eyes, begging for a treat; he stared into my eyes at first, I held eye contact but I soon withdrew because it was too intense.
" I want to take you down home"
"oh no, my home is just right there, though…."
" All right i will see you off."
" Hummmmu."
" what is the problem?"
"My keys, they fell when the storm was at it's peak"
"oh really"
"Let me see your lock "
He stepped down to where my gate was per my directions, we both stood at my gate and I wondered what he was planning to do.
He leaned close to me, I wanted to push him as a defense but I figured out that he just wanted to collect the hair pin from my hair.
With tact and skillfulness, he took the pin and tried to unlock the padlock.
"klack!"
"Oh...wow... thank you" I raised my braw in awe and surprise.
"I grew up in a ghetto so you don't get, the wrong idea"
"No no, you really didn't have to explain anything" Ghetto keh, with his accent? I asked myself. I knew that he would be heading out now. I turned to enter my gate hoping he would call me back...
"Peace I need your number"
"Need not want, you know that those words are two different words" my melancholy side got the better side of me.
"Yes I know…You are one of my needs"
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I finished remembering the old days,and I focused on the man in front of me, grandma would say that he snored like a behemoth but to me, his snore was music to my ears, I have grown so found of this man, I expanded my lips with a smile. It was so early in the morning and we both had to start preparing for work. It was primacy that we both got up to prepare. Thane was working in a shoe company and I worked as an administrator in a school.
I should have finished bagging our lunch. I was so shocked. I looked at the alarm clocks nose and I saw that the alarm stood at 5: 00 am time really was no respecter of persons. Thane, the expert pundit in embrace had captured me, he held me in his arms, I tried getting up slowly but his grip on my arms were firm but gentle. I tried moving my pillow on my head to use it to replace my place in his arms but his breathe on my forehead became fastpaced. I looked up into his face in alacrity, eager to know or decipher whether he was pretending to sleep. Then I saw a huge grin and at once, I could see through his subterfuge, before I could blink my eyes, his movements were rapt and fast: his body flew above mine.
" Hello beautiful, good morning"
"Good morning"
"why isn't today the weekends, I don't feel like going to work today"
"Thane dear, you know we don't live by feelings, I also don't feel like going but you and I know both know that we have very strict bosses coupled with the responsibility of our upkeep. we must go early, early" I said, I felt like I had to emphasis the word early again to Thane.
"I know" he said with his voice, oh I knew that voice. He stared into my eyes and then I threw away all plans of being punctual.
Thane
peace kept on trying to get out of my arms so early in the morning, she put on her lavender smelling perfume to bed that night and all I could think of was just having her as close to me as possible. I watched a sermon about practicing self control in marriage but waking up with the scent in my head all night…I just wanted to continue enjoying her scent. She tried to get away from my embrace and put a pillow instead, I don't why she was doing that but the action was the last thing I wanted her to be doing. I could sense her head move towards my head, I opened my eyes to see if she was going to get closer and do the needful but she just stared at my face like she was staring at a file tring to read into the details.
I could not hold or control myself anymore, why should I control myself, I asked? Peace had always told me not to listen to every sermon on the net.
I changed positions as fast as I could, I knew that she would understand what I wanted. Once I stared into her eyes and I was sure that her eyes concerted and her body language was at consensus with mine, we played on the bed…