Monic: From the story of Romeo and Juliet to the story of Jack and Rose in Titanic,man is yet to understand the anatomy of love.one question that baffles man is "how do we go for love when it when it hooks us in the hearts?".but you see,some times we mistake lust for love.well,lust is a story for another day.lets talk about true love.my grand mother would define true love as a feeling beyond what is done on bed.One annoying thing about love is that some of us do not know how to express ourselves when we are in love.Some people say they are shy and others would say they feel intimidated. my Nicholas and I were in this category of people living with this cancer in the heart.Nick and i were in the same secondary school and in the same class,but we do not talk to each other except when we are having one of our fights.I Like him and wanted him to be my boyfriend but i had this thought that it would only be in a fairy tale because it seemed he did not feel the same way and only cared about the attention he gets from every body especially the girls in school because he was very intelligent and had a sense of humour.I always like the wideness of his nose holes and his hairy eye brows.i was jealous because the girls were always around my Nick whenever they had the opportunity. This made me wish i could swallow myself up. Because i was angry he never gave me any attention i would pick up fights with him at everything and every opportunity. Nick and i were called mr and mrs smite because of our regular fights. I could not tell my friends about how i felt about Nick because they were part of the girls that flocked around him.
Nicholas : Monica had no clue what i felt for her. I could not approach her to express my feelings to her because i thought i was not her type..i mean she was the student in the school from the richest parents. I felt intimidated by her status. So i pretended to tough.
Monica: I pretended to be tough too. I acted like his existence did not matter to me and he could go to hell for all i care.
Nicholas : I always like her dimples whenever she smile and her voice like that of birdsong. We lived with this cancer in our hearts until our graduation day. I was happy i was leaving school and sad i would not see my monica again. I knew i had to do something fast. I had to summon courage. After the valedictory service,i came out of the auditorium searching for monica. I saw my monica in her graduation gown taking pictures with her friends and family. i had an intense desperation because of the situation. I hid behind a tree and wrote monica a love letter. I sent the letter to her through a junior female student and watched her approached monica and gave her the letter.Then tension gripped me as i started to think about what she would do after reading the letter. I prepared myself in case of any embarrasment coming my way. As i watched monica read the letter,someone touched me from behind. I turned to see who it was and discovered it was another junior female student wearing a big see through eye glasses. She was holding a folded paper. She said,"senior Nicholas,i have been searching for you around the school. Thank the lord i have found you. Senior monic sent me to give you this letter". Quickly i collected the letter from her,unfolded it and chased her away when i noticed she was trying to peep into the letter. The words in the letter were : Nicholas,i have never liked you since the first day i set my eyes on you....". I could not continue reading the letter because i was already disappointed and angry. I began to regret ever writing to her. I felt i was a fool. I threw the paper away after i had squeezed it. I was about walking away when monica appeared in front of me with a smile. So i said to her," you can mock me for all i care.
Monica : i frowned and asked him if he read the letter and he said he did and he thanked me for never liking him since the first day i set my eyes on him. i laughed and said he did not read the letter to the end because if he did he would not react the way he was reacting.
Nicholas: i picked up the squeezed letter,opened it and began reading the letter again,this time to the end. The Words in the letter were : "Nicholas, i never liked you since the first day i set my eyes on you...but i have loved you since the first day i set my eyes on you".i looked at her and smiled. I ran to her like a dog happy to see its owner and We embraced eachother.we kept on embracing eachother so passionately that we were lost in love to notice that everybody had gathered around us in circle until we started hearing claps from them.we did not just became lovers but bestfriends.
By pche obasi.
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