" I bet you will win my bestie completely over and more to your side with this good gesture of yours. But even without this, she is already on your side. She already thinks the world of you. She placed you at high esteem, about you being great and you being the moon and the star for me. With so much admiration and respect. She believes you have the key to my heart" She informs Lucas of Chelsea's support for him, while removing her hands self cautiously and placing them on her lap shyly, while blushing
" I really do hope I have the key to your heart"He said, soberly.
" You and Chelsea should have been best friends because you too are very in touch with your emotions, feelings and inner child. Unlike me who is not" She muttered
"Oh, you a don't say" He Murmured with a tone of someone who has finally solve, a very hard and difficult puzzle( Kevwe's caged, shielded and bullet proved heart, which you need her to let down her guide, to trust and love you. So that you can get into her heart for real). The answer to the puzzle being the Key to Kevwe's heart, which is and why she was like she is, which is too cautious and guided. Not that being cautious of your environment or people around, is a bad thing. But a good thing, because people wouldn't be able to take advantage of your feelings, kindness, trust and love. Like Lucas previous relationship, not only with women, but almost all the people he knew, that is not related by blood to him, apart from Dennis and some few people that are close to him, "Really?"He asked happily, " I'm already in love with her"He said dreamily.
" But , I thought you said you are in love with me" She said, playfully pretending to be hurt at his confession of love for Chelsea, turning around, trying to hide her smile and suppressing the huge to gigle.While knowing he didn't mean sexual or romance love.
" Of course you are my one and only true love" He said, hitting his chest like the way those knights in historical romance, animes and historical films all do when they are professing their love to a lady or a damsel in distress, who is the main character or leading lady of the film or book.
" The love I now have for her is brotherly and a gape love, my love",He told, playing along.
" You better" She warns playfully, turning around to face him and to unexpectedly. To see him kneeling like those knight in those books and films ,during the love confession scene.
" Come on, get up!, we are in public" She whispered to him, on seeing that everyone in the restaurant were already looking at them, very soon they might think he was proposing to her. Which he wasn't a bad ideal and wouldn't be too bad if he does. Not that she will say yes, because that will be ridiculous. They just met for goodness sake, " People are starring"She shouted with her teeth held together, although with her slips moving but no movement of her teeth, as he refused to get up.
" Let them stare, my love"He said , standing up and sitting down, " Nothing to see here"He said out to the onlookers.
" Dose it or would it bother you, if I propose to you?"He asked, the very question Dennis asked Chelsea. No wonder they were friends, they thought alike.
"I'm not sure , if I'm even ready yet for marriage. Not that I don't want to" She clarified, " Yes, I know I'm now 25years old. And my biological clock is ticking. But the patient dog, they say eat the fattest bone. And marriage is not something you rush into, because the same way you rushed in, that's the same way you will rush out" She gave him a very good words of wisdom.
" Please, stop beating around the bush and answer my question, Kevwe " Lucas insisted to know, in order to know his stands with her. "Dennis always talks about how his love, Chelsea loves talking. Now I know why you two are besties, you love to talk a lot, if not little bit too much. You too are obviously talkatives" He jested.
" Thank you very much for that insult. As if you men don't like talking too" She replied sarcastically, "But to be truthful we just met and it is too early to talk about marriage with each other"She, " But maybe I will say yes, I don't know I think so" She reply not too sure, without much conviction.
" You better think , because you don't want to miss this beautiful, specimen of male. Husband material 100yards. Someone that wants to marry you"He replied, " You are thinking too much these days oo.It is so-so think that you are thinking" He throws at her sarcastically, just for the fun of it.
" If you say so" She replies rolling her eyes, " What about you, would you marry me if I ask you?" She asked.
" Yes at a twinkle or blink of an eye. I will say yes, without restrain or any resistance. But you don't have to. I as the man, the future head of our, in the nearest future, will handle that. It is my duty, so you don't have to bother or stress yourself with or about it" He said with so much confidence. Without a pause, filter, delay or hindrance or a second thought. He doesn't have to, he was already a goner like he called Dennis. But wouldn't reveal this intel to Dennis, because Dennis will never allow him to live it down, just like he didn't allow Dennis t to live it down. Dennis's love for Chelsea, which he thought, at first that it was just a shirt lived infatuation that el was becoming a long lived obsession. Mean while his best friend was feeling genuine real and true love for the first time. And this apart from his parents, Dennis's parents, and some other people, was a rare sight for him to see between two young people, not even between him and the other ladies he had love or those that said they loved him. Heart break is a bitch, sorry to say and it was and is too painful for him to experience it again or as Nigerian singer and Nigerians call it, " breakfast. You will even think you will die any moment, but you wouldn't and it still wouldn't go away. Preventing you from breathing, that's how painful it is. And he doesn't want to experience it with Kevwe and doesn't want Kevwe to experience it too. He wanted the love he dreamed of about both of them to come true, to become a reality and last long, even forever. Until death do them part and they meet in eternity, to part no more.
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