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Chapter 13: Not some American movie

Ayo pulled his car up to the entrance of their apartment and said to Tiwa

“Sorry that I can’t spend more time with you now. I got one horrible class to attend to. So yay!” he ended on a sarcastic note.

“Aww don’t worry. You will soon be done with school anyway” Tiwa replied

“Yeah yeah. I have given you the keys right since Tomiwa might still be in school”

Tiwa jingled the keys in front of him and then he asked

“Are you sure you would be okay alone?”

“Of course, I will.”

“Are you absolutely sure?”

She slapped her palm on her face and said

“Stop treating me like I’m still a child, Ayo. Haba. I will be fine. It’s not like people are looking for us. Stop acting like such a baby! Remember I got training”

“Geez harsh much. I was just trying to show I care, you jerk.” He replied with a downcast expression

She simply sighed and said while alighting from the car

“Yeah don’t try to fool me, bro. I know your fake looks from a mile away.”
“Agh!” Ayo yelled in annoyance and waited for her to enter the gates before driving off.

Tiwa tried to open the door with the keys but found it unlocked. She wasn’t even scared in any way. Even if it wasn’t Tomiwa that was at home, she could certainly deal with any intruder herself. She calmly walked in and went to sit down with her laptop in the living room without bothering to check who was home.

Tomiwa came out from the kitchen and nearly dropped his hot cup of lemon water on the floor out of shock when he saw Tiwa on the couch.

“Geez Tiwa! Trying to give me a heart attack?”

“Ah ah did I touch you ni? Person cannot sit on couch again?” she said in an oblivious tone.

He simply ignored her response and went to sit on another couch and turned on the television, picking a sports channel to watch. Tiwa didn’t know if he were doing this to annoy her, but it was definitely stepping on a lot of nerves.

“Can’t you see I am trying to work!” she shouted

“Can’t you remember you don’t live here?” he said in plain tone without even turning away from the TV.

A nasty scowl appeared on her face and she had to take a few deep breaths to calm herself down. She couldn’t understand why she was getting so upset about all this, but maybe it was all her unresolved issues with Tiwa that were bringing out this side of her. She decided to stuff it all down and focus on her work.

“Your constant typing is really annoying. Trying to watch a match here” Tomiwa said, breaking the few moments of silence.

That statement caused Tiwa to snap and she threw her decision out the window.

“Do you have a problem with me, Tomiwa?” she said in an annoyed tone

“I dunno. Do you have a problem with me?” he retorted

They kept staring at each other with both their hearts filled with anger towards each other. Tiwa was really using all her strength to not let him push her, but it was hard seeing the smug look on his face.

“Look Tommy, I don’t want to fight with you.”

“Then here’s the first step. Don’t call me that”

“What’s the matter with you!” she yelled and stood up in anger

Tomiwa didn’t look up at her and just stared coldly at the table as he said in a solemn tone

“The matter with me is that you refuse to acknowledge that things aren’t fine between us. You refuse to remember that after our disagreement, you went away without any warning. That’s the matter with me.”

Tiwa sighed and sat back down.

“You were becoming a disturbance” she said and stretched her legs on the table

“Oh I’m sorry for worrying about you. I’m sorry for worrying about your abrupt change” he said in a sarcastic voice

“Oh please, don’t get dramatic” she said, waving him off and untying the sneakers she was wearing.

“Dramatic!” he yelled

Now it was his time to get up.

“Tiwalope! You came back with blood, blood! on your clothes that day.”

“And I told you that I had just saved someone that had an accident.”

“Lies! Don’t you dare lie to me!” he screamed with clenched fists.

“Hey…” she said calmly then looked up at him with eyes cold enough to bring snow to Nigeria “Mind the way you talk to me.”

Even Tomiwa hesitated before replying her. He rubbed his hands over his face and sat back down, accidentally toppling over the mug of lemon water on the table he had brought with him. The hot lemon water mainly poured over Tiwa’s hands which were still undoing the laces. She didn’t even flinch from the water. She looked at Tomiwa who was staring wide-eyed at her and the toppled mug.

“I wonder what things your hands have gone through to be so resistant” he murmured

She rolled her eyes at him and leaned back on the couch.

“Why does everyone keep forgetting? I trained for the police academy remember? I have gone through a lot”

“Sure, that’s why” he said in a sarcasm-laden voice

Her frustration rose again and she said

“Look bruh! I don’t know what you think is going on. I am just a normal Nigerian girl, but your brain is clearly playing tricks on you. So fine! Don’t believe any word I say. That’s your business not mine.”

She then continued working on her laptop as Tomiwa looked at her with sadness evident in his eyes. After a while, he got up from the couch and went to his room. Tiwa let out a breath of relief, but she had jumped the gun. He came back less than two minutes after. He dropped something on the table and said as he walked away

“That would have been yours if you had come back early and without blood that day.”

She looked at the diamond ring glistening against the brown table. A series of emotions passed through her eyes in about 5 seconds before she said

“Eiiiiis! Ogbeni! Come and carry this thing. What do you think this is? Some kind of American romantic movie?”
Tomiwa stopped dead in his tracks at her words. She got up, walked past him and was about to leave through the door when he said in a very low voice

“Tiwa, this isn’t you.”

She laughed in a very innocent way and winked

“Of course it is. Just a new version. Like Tiwa 2.0.” she replied with a playful laugh at the end

She then closed the door behind her leaving the sound of her laughter echoing through the walls of the apartment and the mind of Tomiwa.

End of chapter.

Okay so yeah that’s all for now. I had fun writing this chapter. Lol am I wicked for laughing at Tiwa’s reaction to the ring? I mean it’s either you laughed or you were surprised or you gave straight face( really hope it’s not this one.) So yeah sign up and let me see your comments if you like. Okay I’m talking too much. Byeee! Thanks for reading 🙂