My Messiah :Love in Damascus - Episode 16

 

It been more than two weeks now and I was already getting along with Sasha. We were already intimate but my major problem was with the brainies. 

I discovered they were very close and nothing more, but they were really against her relationship with me even though we were still mere friends.

I could see them flaring up and I could hear them making plans on how they would intimidate me to back out.

My mind was already made up against any form of threats.

I have come a long way, so I won't back out now, Never!.

I knew something for sure, is either I am for them or against them, is either I win or they win.

Am the only one that knows what I am pursuing so I was so determined not to be intimidated.

Not by Brandon, Ethan.... Not by anybody . I had different thoughts popping into my head, I thought of joining the brainies again like the prodigal son just to win her heart or fighting my way down into her heart and proclaiming my love.

I knew both ways will work, but it will only take time which I was ready to waste.

Fighting my way into her heart will take more time than usual. After class one day, Sasha was engaging in a chat with the brainies.

So I went over to her not minding the presence of the brainies. Sasha and I had formed an habit lately, we were always going home together.

That was even what made us closer and I loved it

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. So I went to inform her that I was ready to go home.

"I am ready" 

I said as I joined the gathering.

I could see that morris countenance had changed.

It was like 'what the heck are you doing here', 'you wanted your space, we have granted your request'.

Guess they have granted my request but i have one more request to make, I want to take Sasha with me, I want Sasha in my life. I knew that is a request can never agree to. I won't stop until I get Sasha in my life, not as a friend but a companion. So I won't give a damn about what the brainies thinks as long as she is mine.

"Okay"

she said and stood up

"guys this is my new friend. The one I was talking about, his name is Joseph"

she introduced not knowing we had an history from way back, an history that has made us enemy.

"Joseph these are my reading partners, they are called the brainies"

she continued and began to mention their names one after the other. I stood still knowing fully well she was kept in the dark and don't know what business I had with the brainies.

"........this is Morris, who I always call the angry man"

'She was right' I thought 'morris got the name that suits him the most, the angry man' The brainies stood up and gave me a hard stare. I knew Sasha was puzzled, I knew she wouldn't understand. 

I hadn't faced the brainies for quite some time now.

Since the incident with Melissa, the brainies had left me to my business not interfering in my matters anymore.

They walked out on Sasha and I but I only smiled. I could see that Sasha was baffled, she didn't understand what was going on but I patted her back and assured her that all was well.

On our way home, she stopped all of a sudden and turned to me.

I could see worry in her eyes. It was as if she was going to lose her old friends because of me.

"Joseph, have you met the brainies before now? Do you guys know each other?"

She asked me with a worried eye. I looked straight into those pitiful eyes and nodded. I wasn't ready to start a new friendship base on lies,cause sooner or later I was certain she would know I was also a member of that group, Brainies.

"Everybody knows them" 

I said simply

"Well you are right, everybody knows them"

she nodded but she wasn't satisfied.

"...but do you guys have some unresolved issues like a fight, cause you ain't the first guy I have introduced to them and they always welcome my new friends whole heartedly but I am surprise with their behavior towards you"

she explained and I could sense the reason for her concerns but she really need not to be deeply concerned over this issues caused we all have chosen our paths and in their story, I am the super villain.

"Maybe they were not in good mood today" 

I said and I wasn't ready to listen to anything concerning the brainies anymore."I think it would be better if you don't bother yourself with this issue anymore".

"......I will give them a call when I reach home"

she said after some thoughts

"Will there be need for that?"

"I just want to know whether they were all right"

she said and stopped again but this time, we were already in front of her house and I suddenly wished we shouldn't have gotten there so soon. I was already so fond of her company, it just brings unnecessary joy to my heart. 

I checked my wristwatch I discovered it was just past three and I suddenly became sad. I couldn't bear to wait for more than twelve hours before I could see her face again.

"Thinking baby!" She said snapping me away from my thought.

"What were you thinking of? Is it the lonely wife at home or the young children? Don't worry it will be well"

she continued but I merely looked at her and she smiled, I could see her dimples, it was so glaring and beautiful.

"Am hungry" 

I said but she merely looked at me and smiled again

"I have no food at home"

I lied. I won't mind putting up the charade just to be by her side.

"Really?"

She said fixing me a hard look that swept me off my feet.

"Yea, am broke"

I said try as much as possible not to meet her eye.

"Alright, lets go inside"

she said after many thoughts.

It seems she knew I was lying but she doesn't know why.

She lead the way into her room, the small was her palace, a place that could hardly accommodate me.

And she was living perfectly in such a place,

"I have some leftovers. I had planned on eating them when I come back from school"

she said 'Leftovers???' That word ran sharply in my head. I don't eat leftovers, I haven't eating anyone leftover. I don't eat stale food but here I am about to eat her leftovers.

"You can have it" I said flashing her a dramatic smile. I think she already sensed it, I think she already knew that I felt disgusted even with fake a smile. I wasn't hungry, I just wanted to stay by her side but couldn't think of a way to stay by herself except that.

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. So now I will be eating her leftovers, gosh I just can't!

"Don't worry, I will make you some noodles while I eat the leftover"

she said after some thought and I was relieved.

Something in me told me to drop the quest, to drop my Ego.

To catch a gorilla, one has to behave like a money.

To get her, I had to behave like a pauper for now at least cause only then she would show me much love.

"I will eat the rice" 

I said "so make yourself the noodles"

"Don't worry, I will find something else to eat" she said "I thought you wanted to make me noodles"

"Yea, I just wanted to get you one"

she said and I felt sad, was she really living like this, managing herself, and everything just to survive. I suddenly felt pity for her.

"Go get a spoon and lets eat this together" I said not even ready to listen to her. I knew she wouldn't so I placed her on a condition. I will leave her house and won't come again if she refuses, It was a condition I didn't mean but I just have to make her eat. So we ate together, it was very romantic. I could see that she was shy for a seconds but turned it away and ate. I stopped eating and kept looking at her, looking at her natural beauty, It was mesmerizing. And I suddenly wished she is mine. After we were done eating, we watched movie on her phone and when it was late in the evening, I left her place.

I enjoyed every moment I spent with her, she was fun to be with There was nothing much to do at home than to watch television or get engross with my laptop, so I had never wanted to leave her place.

When I was getting bored, I went to Danny apartment to play chess. Danny and I had become more closer, he always get to school even before me sometimes.

I heard he had fought with Edward and I was so happy for him, they both have different believe and conviction. I commend him for taken a brave step.

He was already becoming a man.

Was I also a man? Or am I still the same kid?. 

I couldn't answer the question but all I know was that I am already moving on the right path and am not ready to go back