Etched III

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Me x My Fante kinswoman, Abena Amponsah come your way again with this third chapter of our series. Do enjoy it and if after reading,  you feel like doing the Shupperu dance a, we won't stop you kraaa 😂😂😂

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CHAPTER 3

"Earth to Philip Dwomoh!" I heard Eloise's voice call to me.I was jolted back to the present and I realised that apparently I had dreamt the whole thing in my head...at least the part about me holding her very much closer.

"Where was your head?"she quipped.
"Nowhere...I was just thinking..."
"Thinking huh...what about?"
Then it dawned on me that I still had not confessed my undying love to her yet so I mustered all the courage my little faint heart haboured and told her.

"Eloise...I have...ummm...feelings for you..."
"Hihi ...Phyll I have feelings for you too" she replied even though what I had uttered was in no way a question.

"No...no...I mean I have feelings...feelings for you...And If I'm not afraid to say, I think I'm in love with you!" the dreaded words escaped my mouth. No sooner had they come out than the world turned silent. My heart beat quickened and a lot of blood coursed through my veins to reach my ears just to provide them the nourishment they needed to enable me heed to what Eloise was going to say next but she stood there still, her face showing a spectrum of emotions...a little bit perplexed and I thought I saw what resembled a frown and then finally she burst out laughing.

"Dwomoh...I don't know how to say this..."she finally let out. She never called me by my surname so I knew what followed was not going to be good.

"We can't ever be lovers you and I and it's not you...it is me...i just have to focus on my studies now...and then there'll be my carreer to worry about once I graduate and then also how to advance my carreer...you see, I have a full plate and I can't afford any distraction," she lied.

"Distraction" The word hit me like a nuclear missile. It wasn't like it was a word anyone has never said before but coming from Eloise , it sounded like a divinity's resolute merciless judgement on an unruly human worshipper .

 How could I be a distraction?
I'm pretty sure Juliet did not call Romeo a distraction nor did Kate , Jack in the Titanic and why couldn't my love story be like theirs? I thought as I walked away, angry at the fate Eloise had condemed me to. How very weird this world is...a while ago I was her bosom friend and then quite swiftly now I was a "distraction!"

Eloise and I did not talk for almost a month. I didn't want to 'distract' her after all and then one fateful day...it all changed again. In the various Colleges of Education across the country, it is not very uncommon to find in a hot afternoon sun every Wednesday, all the level 100 students engaged in rigourous weeding exercise. It was on such a day that Eloise and I buried the hatchet.

 That afternoon started as it always did except that this time, the sanitary prefect who oversaw the work was the infamous "physical" who had made it his life's mission to make my life miserable in the school ever since I reported him to one of the tutors for extorting first year students for cash so that in exchange they never had to partake in the work we all had to do. On this aforementioned day, he apportioned a large part of the school field for me to weed alone...a plot that should be weeded by at least six people.

 I complained and then he started pushing me.
"What are you going to do about it!?...I have got you today haven't I ?!" he sneered trying to provoke me to action and I would have but my inner voice counsled me not to. I turned around to walk away but he started hurling insults at me and one particular expletive he used prodded me to halt and look back at him . What I saw alarmed me. There stood Eloise right behind him wearing a scowl.

My jaw dropped while my eyes watched what was going to happen next for I knew that look Eloise wore on her face and it only meant one thing...'physical' was going to be shocked today....

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