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I actually was listening to Boo'd up by Ella Mae as I was writing this chapter and I started to get really emotional!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😩😩
If you have the song in your phone, put on your headphones and listen to it as you read this chapter 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

                                       ~Prissy~

Yure texted me saying he wanted to talk to me and that he was at my house.
My house?
What the hell  was it he wanted to talk about that couldn't be talked about on the phone?

Anyways, in all honesty, the only thing I'm grateful about is the fact that his text was an escape room from the whole scene that happened in Giwa's bedroom.

I really hope Shade was okay. Before I got downstairs, she, the guards, and the limo were already all gone.  I knew I'd have to talk to her, but maybe after talking with Yure first.

Anyway, I sat on the passenger seat, inside the car that evening. I had made a call back home to the driver to pick me up from Giwa's house and I was already on my way home. It was half past six and starting to even get dark outside and I couldn't stop thinking; What on Earth was it that Yure wanted to talk about with me that made him come to my house by this time.

After several minutes on the road, we finally reached the house. As soon as the car packed in our massive compound, I opened the doors and came out of the car, heading straight into the house.

I took off my shoes and dropped them outside, before stepping into the living room, just to avoid sand getting into the house. My feet made hollow sounds as I stepped on the oxblonde-rugged floors of the living room. Just barely in, I halted on my tracks when I saw Yure.

He was sitting there on one of the couches in the living room. His shoes weren't on too, and he just lounged on one of the couches in the living room. Noticing a presence, his eyes moved from the ground to me and they lit up.

"Hi." He said. A smile appeared on his lips as he streghtened up on the couch and looked at me. I half smiled, before walking in further towards him - a bit nervous, if I must say.

"Do my parents know you're here?" I asked him, nervousness still evident on my face.

"Yes, they do." He answered. "They let me in here"

"O-kay?" I said. At that point, I was standing quite close to the couch he was sitting on, unsure if I should sit with him or not.

"You have a nice home" he said. "I know I've been here a thousand times but I can't get over how homely it feels"

Rugged floors do give that effect sometimes.

My parents knew.

That's why virtually almost all the rooms in the house were rugged, except the bathrooms and the kitchen ofcourse. There wasn't quite too much to the living room - basically just oxblood rugged floors, ivory coloured walls, and the black couches were arranged in a semi-circle pattern with the glass centre table in the middle and a big screen TV facing the longest sofa. Some flower vases were arranged on the table and the air scented of lilacs. The size of the living room was quite moderate in general.

My parents didn't go all out to make our home look too expensive and massive. They had more than enough money to do that, but preferred a home to a house, if you know what I mean. Everyone who ever came into my house felt warm and at peace.

"Thanks.." I said, and he smiled at me in return.

"But Yure..Why are you here?" I asked, trying my best not to make the question sound rude.

He sort of smiled, a small smile. Then, he motioned me to come and sit down with him.
I made my way towards him.

"What's up?" I said, as I sat down on the handle of side of the couch.

He took in a deep breath first, like what he was about to say was big. My heart tenses up too.

"I feel really bad about all the lies.." he started.

I immediately understood.
He was talking about the whole triangle - Him, me and Krisdana. Although, I was scared about where this was going. Was it going to be in my favor or Krisdana's favor?

"I don't want to hurt Krisdana. You know, we've been together since Jss2 and.." he continued.

So, its in her  favor..
Ouch..

He looked at up at me, and took my hand.

"And I don't want us to dive too deep into this and start catching feelings for each other. It'll just make it worse for the both of us.." he said.

Funny I already caught feelings for him.
A little too late for that, Yure.

"I've been thinking for a long time now.." he said, looking back down to the ground.

"I just don't want us to_"

"Yure, its okay. I understand." I said, cutting him short.

I had to understand. It's not like I had a choice. I knew he was into Krisdana. I knew I would have to accept the truth someday.

"But what happens next?" He said. The way he said it almost sounded like he was already very distressed and unsure about what he was doing and the decisions he was making.

"We stop seeing each other basically" I said, unsure myself. "Like you said, it'll make it worse for the both of us.."

He was quiet for a short while, not saying a word. A few moments after, his feet shuffled on the ground and he sighed.

"Okay..I guess that's it?" He said. It legit sounded like a question.

I just nodded.
That's it, right?

I looked to the ground now as he slowly stood up to leave.

Prissy, don't cry. Please don't cry.

He started making his way to the door and my eyes stayed fixed on the ground. Although, I noticed he stopped moving, but I didn't look up to see why.

"Prissy.." I heard his voice call.

That's when I looked up from the ground and turned to look at him. He was standing by the exit of the living room and as I looked to him, he motioned towards the dining like he was trying to show me something.

"The piano.." he said.

I looked to the dining to see the huge grand piano that had been there for ages at the side of the dining room.

"You play?" He asked me.

I laughed at the question.
I had no idea whatsoever about anything concerning music.

"No.." I answered. "It belongs to my late grandma"

His lips formed an "o" shape. His eyes turned to the grand piano again. The way he looked at the piano, I almost thought there was something else there he was seeing that I wasn't seeing.

"She knew how to play" I told him.

"I would have loved to meet her" he replied.

"I know you would" I said.

Yure was everything music. Music was his life. And, the piano just happened to be one instrument he had mastered so well, even right from the tender age of six.

"Would you play something for me if I asked you to?" I asked him.

He smiled shyly, and sort of laughed.

"Well, I could but..

"C'mon" I urged. "One song before you go.."

He hesitated for a few seconds. Then, he smiled at me.

"Okay.." he agreed, and then started to make his way to the dining room. I got up from the couch and followed after him. When I got to the dining, I took one of the seats from the table and positioned it near Yure, who sat on the seat of the grand piano.

He smiled at me and I smiled back.
I leaned in close, eager to hear him play.

Yure got his hands on a piano and started to play. I watched his hands move so smoothly on the piano like a professional he clearly was. Playing all the chords so flawlessly and gracefully with his two hands and putting in a few minor notes that melted my heart. Few seconds in, I recognized the song he was playing to be a sort of remixed piano intro of Boo'd Up by Ella Mai.

Then, Yure started singing.

And, Lord!

His voice is Divine!

I had heard him singing a few times before in the past, mostly in school events and especially with Krisdana, but his voice always hit different for some reason.

It's just something I can't quite explain. I mean, Yure didn't just sing the song, he bodied it!

He hit the notes perfectly and added his ablibs into certain parts, effortlessly flaunting flawless riffs where he needed to and my mouth hung slightly open in awe everytime he did that. His tone gave me a calm feeling, but at the same time, the power in his voice gave me mighty chills. As I listened to him, goosebumps formed on my skin and I almost teared up. His talent was so real and so pure. Why on earth wasn't he showing it to the whole world?

He stopped adruptly without finishing the song. Just when I was about to start whining and asking why he did that, I noticed my mum on the stairs of the living room that led to the rest of the house. She was just standing there and rubbing her eyes like she was just waking up from sleep. I was so focused on Yure that I didn't even notice her walking down the stairs.

"Ah ah. Nana, who is singing?" She asked, as she rubbed on her face, and tried to adjust her stand on the stairs.

I laughed, and so did Yure.
So, Yure's singing woke my mama up from slumber. This is so hilarious.

"Good evening, ma" Yure greeted my mother.

She squinted as she looked at me and Yure by the piano.

"Yure" she called. "Na your voice be that?!"

I laughed again. My mum wouldn't kill me, God! How could she be asking Yure if that was his real voice? I wouldn't say I didn't understand where she was coming from.

"Yes ma" Yure answered.

"Ah!" she said, still apparently shook.

Yure and I just smiled to each other as we watched my over dramatic mother.

"Abeg, also be teaching my daughter how to sing and play that thing.." My mum said, gesturing with her hands like there was a piano infront of her.

"Mummy!" I screamed, laughing at my mum's silliness.

She just shrugged and started to make small comments about how serious she was about it. My mum was too funny. She had longed so much for me to be a music inclined person, like grandma was. But, just like her, I didn't inherit that. And also, fortunately, just like her, I could dance.  We actually had a lot in common. Our most glaring feature was our appearance; slim body and trimmed hair.

"Na-na.."  Yure called me after my mum left. He loved to imitate the way mum called me nana.

"Be quiet, joor" I said to him, and we both laughed together. We looked so happy laughing that way and_

Right..
No deep feelings. Got it.

"But Yure.." I said, being a bit more serious.

At that point, he turned the swivel piano seat to face me as he looked at me.

"Why don't you want to put yourself out there? I mean, I heard you want to be a musician and all, but you're not really doing anything much concerning it..Why?" I asked him.

His face sort of drops a little, and I instantly hoped there wasn't something bad about that question that I had popped up.

"I'm just scared." He said.

"Of what?" I asked.

"People may think I'm not taking my life seriously and they'd just_" He was saying.

"Well, People don't matter." I cut him in the middle of his statement, shocking myself with how mature I sounded.

"No, really,  they don't" I continued. "You're super talented. You're even better than some famous singers out there and you can't just give away your dreams just because of what people may think about it."

Not caring about what people think...
In a way, I wish I could do that.

"I want to do so many things in my life" Yure told me.

And as I listened to Yure go on and on about the goals he had set for himself, I couldn't help but marvel. He was such an ambitious person, and he dreamed so big. Very big! His goals were so big and only someone with a broad, determined mind set could think that big. In shorter words, I was impressed.

"..and to be honest, sometimes, I feel it's not even enough.." he said, shocking me even more.

"I mean, Music is my first love, but sometimes, my mind ventures into other places, businesses, and all that. Sometimes, I also want to change the world. Maybe even run for presidency.." he laughed as he said the last phrase. I laughed too.

Yure was truly ambitious, but he also seemed a bit confused and unsettled about his life journey too. If there was anything I needed him to work on, it was making up his mind. I mean,let's talk about our stand at the moment; as much as he tried to hide it, he clearly still couldn't make up his mind concerning me and Krisdana.

"Do you think I'm being delusional?" He asked.

"Delusional?" I said.

"Am I dreaming too much?" He asked.

I just smiled.

"No one can ever dream too much, Yure" I said.

"You're a big dreamer and that's the first step to being someone in life. In the end, these people would be the ones wishing they followed you up through your journey" I told him.

And the way he smiled, I knew my statement meant a lot to him.

"Prissy.." he said. "I'm so happy I have someone like you in my life..

"Thanks?" I smiled.

"No seriously.." he said, as he bent closer to me, resting his elbows on his thigh. "I mean, I'm usually scared to open up to people about my goals in details but I just did that with you"

A smile formed on my lips, and I said "It's nothing"

"No, it is something.." he said to me. "You're just..so different..in a good way..I wish people could see how amazing of a person you are"

"Thankyou." I said to him. That smile never left my face.

"Back to you!" I said sharply, trying to kill the intimacy that was about starting. He pulled himself back to sit up straight.

"I'm going to make sure you get yourself out there" I said. "..and we start tommorow"

His eyes widen in surprise.

"Instagram is a good start." I said.

I had a feeling he understood what I was saying but I still needed to elaborate.

"Remember my older brothers that graduated in our Jss2?The twins?" I asked him.

My older twin brothers, John and Jay, had amassed about 400k followers from dance videos. It took a couple of years, but they did it.  Apparently so, it was their fame that rubbed off on me and blessed my account as well.

"You want me to post covers online?" I heard Yure ask, and I nodded. And my determination for it showed in my face. He knew he didn't really have a say in this really. And, I couldn't let him just ignore his talent.

"We start our first video tommorow!" I said.

He smiled sweetly and ended agreed to it.

The idea of coming over to record sounded good until I remembered..
He remembered too..
I could tell from his face.

"Look, Yure.." I said starting to address it. My voice was lower and with less enthusiasm now. His eyes were rather still focused on mine.

"I'm only doing this for you as a friend and nothing more. You don't have to worry about being disloyal to Krisdana in the midst of this all" I told him.

"..It's okay. I know that" he replied, forcing a smile on. "And Thankyou"

"For?" I asked.

"Well, for listening to me, and offering to help too." He shrugged.

I laughed a little.

"Friends don't say Thankyou" I told him.

That's a wrap!!!!
Did you listen to Boo'd up as you read it?? Tell me the truth???

So, basically, I had to add a musical character cuz I'm a little obsessed 😂
I sing guys. Yeah, shocker. That's actually my first talent. I'm shy to let out my Instagram lmao😂

And  back to the chapter, what's your thoughts on this love triangle between Yure, Prissy and Krisdana???