LIKE STARS

Chapter Forty Five.

Tamiloore groaned as she placed the ice on her face again.

"Careful" Theo said as Tamiloore nodded. She removed the ice after a while and stared at Theo.

"I'm gonna ask you a question and I want an honest answer" Tamiloore said and Theo nodded.

"You got it"

"What do you think of me?"

"Huh?"

"As a lady, what do you think of me?"

Theo swallowed his saliva as he rubbed his hands together. "You want an honest answer?"

"Yes,an honest answer"

"Well, I think you are a very pretty girl,you are fun to be with and pure at heart. You care a great deal for everyone around you and at times I think you are very adorable. Any man would be blessed to have you"

Tamiloore smiled as she looked down "One more question"

"Okay"

"Theo..............do you by any chance,any slightest chance like me?"

Theo froze on his seat as he dropped his head. "Why do you want to know that?"

"I just want to know"

"Aren't you scared my answer might hurt you?"

Tamiloore swallowed her saliva.

Theo sighed loudly "Yes, I like you, like shouldn't be the word right?"

Tamiloore raised her head to look at him "Why didn't you tell me?"

"We were good friends and even if you wouldn't glance at me I was okay"

"You weren't okay Theo"

"Then Snr Akin came into the picture, you really liked him then and what could I do? I wanted you to be happy and you were happy"

"I didn't love him, I was just delusional"

"You weren't delusional"

"Hell I was. I was seriously fantasizing over him and I wanted attention and which he gave me on a gold platter"

"Why are you asking all these questions all of a sudden?"

"How long were you planning to hide your feelings behind those glasses?"

Theo laughed a little "Maybe forever, us being friends was okay for me"

"I see you are an expert at hiding feelings"

"I am not. I'm just good at adapting to situations very fast. So why asking all these questions now? What's the significance?"

"Semiloore said a lot of people fall in love without realizing it. Sometimes events trigger the realisation, sometimes people do and sometimes death does. That day I heard Snr Akin already had a girlfriend, I finally realized. The time you carried me,. the time you hugged me and stopped me from punching that mannequin, my eyes, they opened and I didn't want to believe it"

"Believe what?"

"That I love you. That I would do anything to keep you safe, that you were the only person I could tease and get away with it and first love is real"

Theo opened and closed his mouth but no words came out.

"I know I sound very weird, after all these while, why am I just knowing these?"

"Its okay"

"I am so sorry Theo"

Theo dragged her into his arms and hugged her. "I said its okay" he whispered to her as he rubbed circles on her back.