LOVE IN DAMASCUS XIV

 

May, 2009

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. 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. 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.

All I need now is a strategy to proclaim my love to her. I was tired of being only her friend. I wanted something more and i wouldn't care if it would make me a friend of the brainies again. All I wanted is for her to be by my side. I would never let her out of my sight, I wouldn't lose her. I had waited for so long for my Messiah, I won't let go now, Never!.

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I was getting along with Sasha, I had become a regular visitor in her house. She had also known my house. The only problem was the brainies. They had kept their distance from her because of me and I don't care but she does. She became very worried, she hadn't wanted to lose a friend.

She had approached them one certain day and asked them why they had changed towards her but they had said nothing and had walked away on her. I saw sadness in her eye, it was as if her eye were boiling and tears were about to drop from it. I had wanted to tell her what was actually going on but something in me told me not to. I wanted her to hear it from the brainies first before I say my side of the story.

On one fortunate day, I went to repair my car. I was under a tree opposite the mechanic workshop. soon began to feel some rumbling in my stomach. I knew my bowel wasn't free and my belch smells like a rotten egg. I also released some foul gas just to free my bowel. I already knew it was constipation, so I went to meet the mechanic where he was hell bent with my car.

"Do you have a toilet here?" I asked and the sound of my rumbling stomach added bass to it. I knew he now understood what I meant, so I needed an urgent answer.

"Yes" replied and pointed to an isolated building beside a bush at the east wing of his workshop "but, I don't......."

I cut him off instantly with a mighty foul smell. My present case don't need a 'BUT'. Before I knew it, I was already running towards the building not even feel embarrassed. I was sweating profusely and holding my buttocks, It was an experience I can never forget in my life. As I open the toilet door, what welcomed me was beyond my imagination. It was a boiling faeces, it was really disgusting. Sheet of paper stick around the wall of the toilet with faeces in it. I felt nauseated, the pressure coming from my bowel reduced immediately. I suddenly remembered the mechanic had mentioned a 'BUT', if this was the 'BUT' he meant I would rather offload in a bush than here.

"Ah....yes...bush!" I whispered.

I immediately ran to the bush adjacent to the building, before I knew it I was squatting and offloading. When I was done, I suddenly became ashamed as if someone had caught me. So I began to look for a tissue or probably a paper to clean up. It was a bad experience I had never dreamt of happening to me again. I wore my trouser half way and began to enter deep into the bush I knew I won't miss my way so I kept on entering. All I needed was a tissue or a paper or probably water if the case may be, I had never thought of using leaf. So I began to feel the cool breeze, I knew there was a river near by. So I doubled my pace, whole and behold I saw something that baffled me, something so awesome, something i had never thought could exist around that street. It was a garden, and I named it 'MYSTERIOUS LOVE GARDEN'. I began to wondered whether it is a government property or private owned.

The first thing that struck my mind was that I would ask Sasha out there. So I smiled and went over to the little stream and clean myself up. So when I discovered I was perfect and okay, I went back and was lucky to find my way back. When I got to the mechanic workshop, he was already through with my car.

"What took you so long?" He asked 

"Nothing, I just went on a walk" I lied

"Okay, your car is ready"

"Alright" I said and start the ignition "do you know anything about the garden at the back of your workshop?"

"Trevor garden? Hope you didn't go there?" He asked me looking at me sternly

"Yes I was there" I said trying to look for more information

"Hope you didn't meet any psycho old man?"

"No, I didn't see anybody" I said vividly "hope no problem?"

"There is always an old man in that garden" he started "he is actually the owner of the garden and the cottage beside it"

I looked so nerd for I hadn't seen any old man or observe any cottage beside the garden.

"I Didn't see any cottage" I said silently

"Really?" He asked looking at me with disgust in his eye and I nodded "well, the old man name is Trevor. He is a psychic, he threatens any one who comes close to his cottage"

"Huh....." I said really getting interested in that old man. "Can he sell that garden?"

"I don't think so. That garden has a very deep memory of his children. They had died in a fire outbreak. Nobody knew what actually happens, he had buried his four children there and also his wife Caroline, she was a lovely woman and everyone loved her. So i don't think he would want to sell it"

"Alright" I said and entered my car and drove out of his workshop. The story of that old man had touched me. He had lose virtually everything, everyone he loves was actually dead. It was really a sad story but that won't stop me from bringing Sasha to that garden and telling her how I felt about her. Telling her my feelings are pure, telling her I love her.