CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR: NOT SOMEONE YOU KNOW
"Nah! I can't take it" Daniel responded with a nod as he rejected the money
"If it was a small money, I would have appreciated for you to reject it but the money isn't small"
"I still can't!"
"Just take it as a gift from me" my brother responded as he pulled his hand gently and put it on his palm then closed his palm with his hands
"Thanks" Daniel appreciated as he held on to the bundle of money and put it in his hand bag before sipping from his Pepsi
"You are welcome" my brother responded with a smile
"I will be expecting my money from you" I said to my brother as I tapped his shoulder
"Didn't mom and dad give you money separately? The money is enough to feed you for a term"
"Enough with the exaggeration! Besides, it doesn't mean; it is different when it is from you"
"Don't whine at my back! I will give you money since you have been on your best behavior"
"Thanks father!"
"Lol! Enough with the whining!"
"Francis!" another voice called out as he walked closer to our car
Samuel!
I felt my heart beating fast as he stood in front of my brother with that killer's smile
"Samuel, the most gentle boy I have ever met. How is your girlfriend?" my brother said as he didn't bother standing up since he is exhausted from the registration and others
Samuel is dating?
"Girlfriend? You mean ex" Samuel responded as soon as he stood in front of my brother and gave him the handshake
"Oh… You broke up with that fine girl?"
"Yeah, I am not feeling her like the way I am feeling my present crush" Samuel replied as he silenced the word crush
"Hmn… crush?"
"Yeah, is it someone I know of?"
"Nah, you don't know everyone in my set"
"It isn't someone I know?"
"Yeah!" he replied as he looked at my brother with a smile
Jeez… My brother knows me, he is my brother of course! Him saying it isn't somebody my brother knows, excludes me from the hint of knowing his crush
I just suddenly remember him talking of asking a girl out in J.S.S. three, he even requested for my advise
Urgh! I almost groaned out loud out of exhaustion
Exhaustion for falling for the guy that doesn't love me, I am sure Daniel doesn't
I turned to look at Daniel who is sitting on the passenger's seat and is busy looking at something in my brother's laptop
I am not sure he likes me either
"Aren't you dating my sister?" Samuel asked Francis
My brother that is dating a Mexican girl called Sandra, I heard from him that she is on transfer.
She must be a black, I guess.
"Nah, she broke up with me since she wasn't interested in long distance relationship."
"What is wrong with her? Isn't she going to the same school as yours?"
"No, she got lucky Havard picked her. I am going to Wisconsin"
"I thought…"
"... Yeah, I was supposed to but, the school didn't pick me"
"Sorry!"
"It is okay" Francis nodded it off
My brother didn't reach the qualification upon all his hard work, it is fate though!
He is proud that at least he got accepted into Wisconsin
"Hey! Didn't see you there!" Samuel said to me with a smile
"Yeah!" I answered trying to keep my voice straight so as not to sound broken
"How is everything?"
"Great!"
"In-case you'd ask, my own too has been great. I even wished for the holiday not to end" he responded with a smile
"Yeah, I can see it in you. You really enjoyed your stay at home"
"Didn't you?"
"I did! I actually did!" I answered with a nod
"It is also showing in you. You skin color is as beautiful as ever. Loving it!"
"Your height too"
"Yeah, I am almost 6'2 foot tall" he responded with a shrug
"Isn't that something?"
"It is, until I grow taller than Francis and my dad"
"You want to be iroko?"
"Lol! Funny!"
"That is the truth!"
"At least, thank you!" he appreciated all of a sudden
"I will start going, my parents are here so, I can't keep them waiting for too long" he responded with a smile
"Okay" I replied, the same as my brother said.
"I am also here!" Daniel responded as he closed my brother's mac-book and looked up at Samuel with a smile
"You have been here the whole time?"
"Yeah, I have been hearing everything including the crush part" Daniel said with a shrug
"Nothing concerns you with who I crush on"
"Just saying and, I don't want you going against your word" Daniel said with a straight face as he looked into Samuel's eyes
Francis suddenly laughed and then changed it into cough all of a sudden to not alert them
I wonder what Daniel means but, whatever he says just made Francis act like that
Samuel and Daniel attention moved to Francis
"You want water?" Samuel asked and Daniel just smiled as if understanding something all of a sudden
"No worries, I am fine" Francis said with an assurance
"Okay" Samuel said
"I have key to what I said and if you go against it, I will use your words against you if you go against it"
"I don't want to keep my parents waiting so, I will say this before leaving" Samuel responded "I don't say everything with my mouth, some words remain silence and not to be brought outside" with that he left for his parents' car
What does that even mean? Am I the only mid here?
"Lol! He is funny!" my brother said with a smile
"What with you?"
"You will understand soon, don't worry" my brother whispered to me
"Your laptop is damn boring, just full of non educational stuffs. Don't you play or watch movies?"
"They are all in different laptop"
"You got two?"
"Yes, why not" my brother responded as he collected his mac from Daniel
What does Francis mean by saying I will understand soon?
Urgh! Why is my brain thinking deep at the moment?