HURDLES OF LIFE...CHAPTER FOUR

Celina and Ngozi got home late that night, leaving Ebuka hungry and angry. Ebuka did enjoy himself as he said he would, he discovered things he wanted to share with Chuks, but about other stuff of course, he knew Chuks would never want to watch porn or even hear about it and he didn't even want his only friend to know about it so he won't hate him for that, but still he was angry at the fact that there was no food at home, yet Ngozi and Celina stayed out late.

"Ebuka, we're soo sorry, we had no idea the time was no longer in our side, we had so much fun" Ngozi explained, "we got you this" she said stretching out a bag of what he wanted and more for himself and Chuks, "your dinner is in there, you'll love it, I promise".

"Thanks" Ebuka said as he collected the bag of goodies from her leaving him no choice than to let it go, after all they wanted him to go with them, so he thought.

Ngozi made her way to the bedroom "good night" she called as she was meters away from them.

"Good night!" Ebuka and Celina chorused back.

"How was it? Tell me about everything, I want to know every details back to back" Ebuka asked Celina trusting her to give him premium details while he searched through the bag for his dinner while neglecting the other things in it, he really had to eat.

"Okay" Celina agreed, she positioned herself comfortably while Ebuka devoured his meal.

"hmmm…this is so good" he said while he ate, "I'm listening" he said looking at Celina's direction who sat across him.

"First of all" she started "one of the waiters wanted to be rude to me, cause of what I ordered, she thought that was too high for me as a kid, hold on a second, do I look like a kid?" She paused for an answer.

Ebuka stared at her "well... yes?" He answered.

"Really? I don't think I look like a kid!"

"But you do" Ebuka shrugged.

"Fine", she sighed "so Uncle AJ told the waiter that, it was fine"

"What did you order?" Ebuka wondered.

"I ordered, chicken nuggets and butter cream, then ice cream vanilla".

Ebuka raised his eyebrows "what was she expecting to order? Rice or spaghetti?" They both laughed at that.

"Yes", Celina's favourite part "after we had finished eating, Uncle AJ told us about something that happened to him when he was in secondary school".

"Which was?" Ebuka was curious.

"I can't really remember, the room was cool and I just had the best meal of the evening so I slept off".

"Really?" Ebuka was furious and curious at the same time "why would you sleep off, you were my recorder, you were supposed to bring me full gists" he said cleaning the sides of his mouth cause he had finished eating, then he belched.

"Well, I was suddenly tired".

"Then what happened?".

"Then we came home".

"You really slept that much, huh? Then what fun was Sis talking about?" He sounded angry.

"Hey, chill, it's not like you'll get the full glimpse of the whole scenario even if I stayed up all night, I did ask you to come along, didn't I?" Celina said defending herself.

"Well, whatever".

"So, tell me what did you do while we were away give me details too".

Ebuka wanted to pour it all out to her generously, but he remembered what he actually did then his smiling face fell, not knowing what to say to her he stood up to clear his plate and arrange the other stuff in the fridge, "tomorrow is Sunday, we're going to church, go to sleep, good night" he said makng his way to the kitchen.

"Wait, what? You didn't do anything?" She said following him to the kitchen.

"Hey, little girl go to bed" he said knowing how much she hated being called a little girl and that was the only way he could send her off his back.

"I hate you!" She said storming out of the kitchen and into her room feeling sad and angry.

"I love you too!" He yelled back at her, he knew she would probably cry about what happened, but he couldn't let her know what he did, it was better he made her cry than reveal it to her, besides he never lied to her.

Celina laid down to sleep, but promised herself to tell Ngozi about what she saw on Ebuka's phone, she said her prayers and slept.

Back in Ngozi's room, she had wrote in her diary all that happened that night before she fell asleep.

Dear diary, today AJ finally told me about how he felt about me, I'm so happy. I confessed mine too. He told me about how he has grew affection for me since he saw me at the party that night. Who would have thought that I would be dating the famous OAP of Vibration FM, I'm so proud of myself. Yes, we are dating officially and we have a date tomorrow night. My dance in church tomorrow will be so special cause I am finally dating the man of my dreams and our kiss, oh my God!!! Good night diary.

AJ in his apartment was busy painting the beautiful moments he had with Ngozi. He painted magically, pouring his heart into the piece, swaying to and fro from the melody of the song that was playing from his speaker. He enjoyed the harmony of classical music a lot.

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Chuks was on his bed in his room when he  remembered what his Uncle said whom he refer to as his father "...I was seventeen…".

"He was seventeen years old when he met mummy, did they begin to date immediately? Or they were friends, but for how long? And how did he know that she was the one for him? Was he not scared she could change the behavior that attracted him to her? What even attracted him? How did his friend die? Did his friend also like her? Can I meet my wife at my age too? How will I know she's the one?" He asked these questions untill he fell asleep.