/CHAPTER SIXTEEN/

my heart had stopped pumping blood through my arteries and my veins, it felt as if I died at that moment, went to Gehenna and came back. Meaning
My heart hurts
~TAYO~

(Song: Time by NF, play it when he's speaking with pink)

~TAYO~

I was in class when a teacher called to tell me that I was being summoned by the principal. To be honest, I wasn't surprised because I was expecting him to call for me since I arrived school in the early morning, also I knew why he was calling for me.

It was either my mom called him and told him to talk to me, or it was about the fight that occurred on Saturday.

Maybe he even called for both reasons.

I didn't want to answer him at first and pretend as if I wasn't aware that he called me, but I just ended up going because my class was really noisy and it was really enraging.

I walked out of the SS3 building and  was greeted by the sun, it was really hot mostly because it was September. On a normal day I wouldn't had complained about the sun but the day wasn't normal for me, i still had a purple eye and it was literally blind, I couldn't even see anything with it. I quickly rushed over to the administrative building and entered into it, went straight to the principal's office and knocked on his door then I was told to come in.

“Good afternoon.” I greeted the Principal and he smiled at me but I didn't return the smile, I just went to sit on the chair opposite him.

“You called for me?” I had to ask him since he wasn't saying anything.

“Yes, I did.” He responded, clearing his throat. “Your mum called me.”

I didn't say anything as I tapped my shoe on the floor waiting for him to continue speaking.

He cleared his throat again. “She told me that you aren't picking her calls. ”

“I don't feel like. ” I told him bluntly.

He cleared his throat again and believe when I tell you that i was feeling aggravated already.

“She's your mother and she really cares about you so just answer her calls. She's really worried. ”

My mom was worried?

“Why don't you tell her that I'm fine and I don't need her to worry about me. ”

“Tayo, she just wants to talk to you. ”

“And I don't want to. ”

He cleared his throat again and it made me really angry. “Stop doing that. ”

He looked at me with a confused look on his face. “What am I doing? ”

“The clearing of throat thingy. It is really annoying.” I told him.

He didn't say anything as he kept looking at me with a stoic expression on his face then he smiled.

Why was he smiling.

“See Tayo I'm the principal--”

“Of the school, not my life.” I interjected his speech.

He frowned at me. “See Tayo I've always known you to be disobedient and rude. . .”

“At least you know.” I interjected him again.

The frown on his face deepened.

“Enough is enough Tayo!” He yelled hitting his hand on his table, but as usual I wasn't fazed, instead, I had a smirk on my face. “Don't ever interrupt me when I'm speaking, and also mind the way you talk to me.”

Or what?_ I wanted to ask but I didn't I just listened because my mouth was still hurting from the punch that bastard gave me.

“Look at yourself, your face, God! look at your eyes” He said pointing to me. “See where your stubbornness led you to. You where even wrestling with someone on the road, why? Answer na?”

I didn't answer because I knew that silence was the best way to infuriate people, so I decided to test that theory.

“You are not answering ba? The cat got your tongue now ba?” He asked me and I still didn't answer. “But you know with that stupid act of yours, you could have gotten a suspension?”

Suspension?

I could never get a suspension.

It was impossible.

My dad owned about fifty percent shares of the school, so suspension?

Never!

“Your dad is the only reason why you haven't been given a suspension, you know?” He asked and I didn't answer. “Anyways, I just called you to tell you that your mother said you should return her calls, also try to stop getting into fights.”

I didn't answer him and he didn't say anything too so I stood up from the chair I occupied and walked out of his office and out of the administrative building when I sighted my Pinky and her idiotic twin walking towards the SS3 building.

And my Pinky, she looked beautiful as always, the wonders the sun was doing on her skin was ethereal and magnificent, mostly the smile that graced her lip was beautiful, and she was walking like she had no worries, so carefree and happy.

I wanted to let her be, go my own way, but my stubbornness just wouldn't let me. I wanted to talk to her, Especially since when Wendell told me she came to see me at the hospital.

Maybe. . . just maybe I still had a place in heart.

I was lost just by looking at her, oblivious to whatever was happening around me. When she caught me staring, I didn't look away neither did she, but the smile on her face melted away and she had a solemn or a pity look on her face.

I walked up to her as she stopped walking, also her idiotic brother stopped walking and we were all dwelling in silence without saying a thing even though I had millions of apologizes to say to her.

I was about to say something when Chase finally left, leaving me and my Pinky together. She didn't say anything neither did I and in as much as I wanted to say something I was tongue-tied, then she smiled.

She actually smiled, my Pinky smiled at me!

“How are you feeling?” She asked and my heart just started malfunctioning, it was beating out of control.

Love can really make a man into a fool.

Six months, six months since Pink spoke to me nicely, six months since she smiled at me, and there she was asking after me.

I smiled at her back unconsciously not caring about the pain that accompanied it, because my Pinky was smiling at me.

“Okay, I guess.” I replied her and she didn't say anything.

“Please Pink can we talk?”

I asked her. She didn't respond as she kept looking at me with the same pity expression in her eyes, then she nodded her head and started walking towards the SS3 building.

I was heartbroken. Was she leaving me?

My heart ached again as I watched her walk away towards the SS3 building, then she stopped walking and looked back at me.

“Not here, the sun.” She yelled and honestly I didn't understand what she meant, but at least she was talking to me. “Follow me.”

I smiled like a fool and nodded. I immediately took to my heels so I could catch up with her.

I trailed at her back as she kept walking and I just couldn't stop looking at her body. I missed the feel of it, the warmth, how soft it was, and how she would had allowed me take control over it anytime, just to please me.

Damn! I just missed all of her.

If only she knew how sorry I really was over that incident.

We kept walking still we reached the abandoned biology lab, she entered, I entered and i closed the door behind me. I didn't know what to do while she sat on a stool with her hands in her blazer pocket. I wanted to apologise and tell her the millions of sorry that I'd been wanting to tell her for the past six months, I really wanted to take away all the pain that I'd inflicted on her, I really wanted to make her smile with me again, I really wanted to be with her again, and I was ready to do anything just to be with her again.

She patted the stool next to her and said, “Come sit here.”

I nodded and walked slowly till I got to the stool and sat on it. I stared at her but She wasn't even looking at me and. . . and that really hurt me. Then she pokily brought her gaze to my face, with an expression that carried tons of emotions, she brought out her right hand from her pocket and what she did next shocked me.

No! She didn't slap me.

She placed her hand on my face, using it to caress my face. She stroked it softly, and the feel of her hand on my face was really soothing, it felt like she was rubbing an ointment on my face. Her hand was like medicine to me, it was doing wonders on my face, I couldn't feel the pain that I once felt on my face anymore, I was at peace, lost in a world that consisted of only me and my love. . . My Pinky.

“How painful is it?” She asked, her voice coming out low as her hand rested my cheek.

Better with you around.

“Not much,” because you're here, I answered in a voice that irked me, because that voice wasn't mine. It was relatively low and cozy.

I was really a fool in love.

I faced the floor not baring to look at her innocent beautiful face, then I had her sniff. I looked up and saw My pinky crying.

God!! It broke me.

My heart was smashed into many pieces. My Pinky was crying again because. . . because of a schnook like me.

“Tayo, I don't like it when you fight.” She told me. “I don't like it when you are being beaten.”

I didn't say anything as I kept looking whilst she cried, and it was breaking me, seeing her cry was really twisting my heart against it cage. To be honest if she was crying because of someone else I would have killed the person, but she was crying all because of me.

I deserve to die.

“Tayo, I can't bare to see you injured because of me, or even any other reasons.” She continued. “Please Tayo, just stay out of trouble.”

Her hands left my cheek, then she placed it on my aching eye, using her thumb to stroke it softly, and just as expected the eye didn't ache me anymore.

“You can't see with it right?” She asked.

I nodded. “Only light.”

She removed her hand from my face, and instantly I missed the warmth of it, how it felt and how pacifying it was, also the pain came rushing back.

“Pinky?” I called her and she looked at me smiling. “Can you forgive me?”

I really wanted to know if I had a chance again with her again, I really wanted to know if I still had a place in her heart, I really wanted to know if she could forgive me, I really wanted to know if things could go back to the way it was before all those dreadful incidents occurred.

“No.”

That was her answer, and my heart pulverized. I couldn't even explain how I was still breathing at that moment with the way my heart constricted against it cage, it felt like my heart had stopped pumping blood through my arteries and my veins, it felt as if I died at that moment, went to Gehenna and came back. I was sad, melancholic, crestfallen, downcast, and forlorn, with only one person to blame.

Me!

I was at fault. . . culpable for everything. I allowed my monsters to control me and I don't think that I could ever forgive my self.

“I don't think I can ever forgive you Tayo. ”

God!

She could never forgive me? The breathe I breathed became toxic, and tears clouded my vision. The one I love was about to desert me, the one I love said she could never forgive me, the one I love was about to forsake me, leave me bare and sad.

“Tayo, I could have sued you for assault, you know? But I didn't, because I couldn't.” She added.

“I'm sorry,” I told her even though I knew sorry couldn't solve anything, I just really wanted her to know that I was sorry, and I deplored every actions I took towards her. “I let my jealousy get into the way of our relationship, I'm sorry. I let my anger get into the way of our relationship, I'm sorry. I hate myself for every tears I made you shed while we were in a relationship, I'm sorry. I regret every. . .”

“I know you do.” She cut in. “That's why I'm here, Wendell spoke to me when I came to see you at the hospital. He told me everything you used to do when you laid your. . . hands. . . On me.”

Her voice was breaking as she spoke, her tears pouring out. “He told me that you used to hit the wall till your knuckles bled, he told me how you would scatter you whole room. He told me how you would hate and starve yourself for days. He told me everything, including how much you really love me.” She was crying as she spoke.

“I'm sorry pinky.” Was what I could say again, because I was lost of words. The tears I tried fighting back started to escape through my eyes and that made my eye hurt. “I do love you and because of that I'm ready to let you go.”

Wait! Did I really say that?

She looked at me, and she looked shocked, like she wasn't expecting me to say what I had said.

I smiled and it hurt. “I'm serious Pink. I'm really ready to let you be. I'm ready to let you be with someone else, anything that would make you happy.”

What was I thinking? Give my Pinky up?

Never!

She didn't say anything as she kept looking at me like I was saying the most stupidest thing on planet earth, though I knew I was.

I held her hand in between mine and looked at her.

“I'm ready to give up on you, but just know that I'll always love you till my grave.” I told her.

Her eyes were red from the tears she had shed, her face holding emotions that I couldn't explain. We kept staring at each other, neither of us saying a word but I didn't release her hand.

“Thank you tayo.” She finally said and I released her hand. We were both speechless for sometime, then she stood up from the stool and left.

I facepalmed myself, inhaled a large amount of oxygen and smiled as she left the lab because I was sure that she really thought that I'd given up on her.

Well! Never.

I could never give up on my Pinky, I could never lose her. I love her and I could never let her go, She was mine and mine alone and if I couldn't have her, no one will. But anyways she will still be mine and I'm sure of it, because SHE'S MINE.

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~LILY~

“Hey Wendell, I just want to say thank you for the top you gave to me, I really appreciate it. Also I washed it, ironed it and folded it all for you. Thanks once again.”

No! No! No!

That didn't sound right at all.

I was in the toilet, looking at myself in the mirror trying to practice how to return Wendell's top back to him and it was really hard. I couldn't combine the appropriate English words together, and even without seeing him yet, my heart was beating really fast and I was jittery.

Let's try this again.

“Hey Wendell, so I want to say thank you for the top you gave to me, I appreciate.”

No!

That was too plain! Right?

Let's try it one more time.

“Wendell, you really helped me in the cafeteria that day, I really appreciate it.” Then I will stretch out his top to him and leave.

Simple. No it was not simple. I couldn't do it, I couldn't bare to even give him his cloth without my heart falling out.

This is hard. God!

One more time, for the last time.

“Thanks for the cloth, bye.”

Okay that was better and simple.

I took Wendell's top and went out of the toilet. I walked through the hallway towards Wendell's class. Science class was the last class in the SS3 building, so it was quite a long walk from the toilet.

My heart was pounding against it's cage as I got to the entrance of his class, I wanted to turn and walk back to my class but I decided against it. Standing at the entrance I faced the floor, scared to enter into his class, but I could hear the loud noise coming from the class.

“Excuse me,” I heard someone say and I quickly left the entrance, so the person could pass. “Who are you looking for?”

I looked up and saw chioma staring at me. I opened my mouth but nothing came out of it.

“Who are you looking for?” she asked again.

“Wen- del - Wendell,” I told her, stuttering a bit. She nodded and went into her class while I stood by the entrance.

I saw Wendell come into view after some seconds later and it felt like my heart stopped beating, my whole body was frozen and everything I had practiced in the toilet vanished away from my head, I think I even forgot the alphabet at that moment because words couldn't be composed in my head. I was just an empty human.

“Hey,” I was ill at ease when he greeted me with a huge smile on his face, I didn't know how to respond.

Hey thanks for the cloth_ Was what I had wanted to say then leave, but my mouth was useless at that moment, I just hung it open thinking words would come out of it, but I was only fooling myself because words didn't come out of it.

“Are you here to return the cloth?” he asked and I nodded words still not coming out from my mouth. “There's no need to return the cloth, I don't need it anymore.”

I faced down, sadness clouded over my emotions. How was I expecting him to collect the cloth that I'd worn? When he probably just gave it to me out of pity. . .

“On a second thought, I think I might be needing the cloth,” he said and took the cloth from my hand.

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We are moving and I'm happy.🥳🥳

Some more chapters to go 🤸🏾‍♀️🤸🏾‍♀️🤸🏾‍♀️

So my baby Tayo. What do you guys think?

Do you think he would ever be with Pinky again?

So what do you think Tayo feels for pink.

A) LOVE.

B) OBSESSION.

C) LUST.

D) FETISH DESIRES.

E) ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Please drop your answers, I'm really curious to know.

This chapter was meant to be solely for Tayo and it would had been long scatter so I just had to summarize the normal chapter so that how this chapter came through. And Lily just borrowed out of his chapter 😂😂😂

And my poor baby Lily 😪

She will overcome, I believe.

Thanks so much Wattpadis 🌺

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