Paper Hearts | ✓

✍ Chapter Four✍

Four | Playing Hero

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye—  Jackson Brown Jr.

*quick recap*

"Heavens no, I was only staring at Nnamdi, he..." Kemi stopped abruptly as she noticed her friends staring at her wide-eyed.

"So it's him you like?" Nifemi and Ada chroused.

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"Ermm, I didn't..."

"I mean how can you like 'him'" Ada said using her hands to make the quote sign in the air.

Kemi observed her for a few seconds while trying to keep her temper at bay. It didn't work so she finally snapped, "and what's wrong with him?" Kemi queried narrowing her eyes to slits.

Ada shrugged obviously unaware of her friend's brimming anger,
"I dunno, maybe because he is dull, reserved and what's with that scowl he has on his face all the time!"

Kemi took a deep breath stopping herself from reaching across the table to slap the smirk off Ada's face.
"Well I think he's very handsome and nice," she retorted gritting her teeth.

"And I think you're just lovesick," Nifemi countered pointing her chicken lap at Kemi. She had ordered fried rice and chicken.

"What do you mean?" Kemi snapped turning sharply to Nifemi.

"Nice? C'mon you hardly even know the guy."

"I bumped into him once," Kemi blurted out immediately wishing she hadn't done so.

"And so? I bet he pushed you out of the way saying something like 'are you blind?'" Ada chipped in while pushing her salad round her plate.

"That's not what he said, he..." Kemi stopped, she wasn't about to tell her friends that he had been rude to her. She still had dreams about how well it would have ended if he hadn't been a jerk.

Rooftop dinners, chocolate gifts, diamond necklaces and maybe roses.

"Any hoo, I'm going to get more salad cream this salad is just bland!" Ada complained interrupting her thoughts.

"You and salad sef, don't you eat any other thing?" Kemi grumbled.

"I'm watching my weight duhh," Ada retorted as she headed towards the food court.

Kemi signed glanced at Nnamdi, he looked so cute. She wondered how he would look on their wedding day with his tuxedo and all.

"So, when did you start?" Nifemi asked looking at Kemi with her hands on her cheek and her elbows resting on the table.

"Start what?" she replied without taking her eyes off him.

"Liking him of course!" Nifemi snapped using her hands to bring Kemi's face back to her food. The young woman had forgotten where she was, she really likes him, Nifemi mused.

"Well I dunno, it just happened." Liar! Kemi's mind screamed at her. She could still remember that it had been Nnamdi who showed her to her office on her first day of work. He had been curt and straight to the point, he hadn't even bothered to socialize. Well, Kemi hadn't minded, she had been too busy admiring his handsome features.
"I don't remember," she lied.