She started like this;
"Joe! A friend of mine said she likes you. She said you look so handsome and whenever she sees you, she feels like approaching you and telling you that she loves you but she was always afraid that you were going to disgrace her."
I asked; "Is that why you are happy?"
She answered; "No!"
I asked again; "Ok! Then why are you happy?"
She shout; "Because the person is Dede, your dream girl."
I was happy inside but somehow confused. She looked at my face and saw that I didn't seem to be interested in everything she said.
She asked: "Should I go and tell her you love her or you hate her?"
I answered; " Don't tell her anything."
I could see that Sellina's happiness all vanished just like that. She went out and told my boss who was still standing outside that she was going home.
I packed my bag and was outside to lock the shop.
My boss was looking at me as if he heard something.
He asked; "Is it Dede?"
I replied; "Yes boss, She said Dede said she loves me."
He said; "Be-careful. That girl's mother can really bite so be very careful."
He left after telling me that. As at how he got to know that we talked about Dede, I can't even tell today"
It was a whole lot to take in for one day. Even when I went home, I was still thinking about everything that happened. I was so depressed and confused. I didn't go to the shop for two days.
I was fine on the fourth day so I went to work.
Since Sellina delivered Dede's message, I never get calls or text messages from her again. I don't see Dede as well. It seemed all the girls I knew and admired in the area all vanished.
Days passed and weeks passed. No signs of any of them. All the feelings I had for Dede and all of them were fading gradually.
I didn't want to text Sellina for any reason because I know if I text or call her, she will ask me a lot of questions concerning what she told me and I wouldn't have any tangible answers for her.
One night when I was about to sleep, I had a call. I looked on the screen of my phone and the number was a strange number.
I went through the call like this;
Me; "Hello!"
Stranger; "Hello! How are you?"
I guess I told you I am a genius when it comes to recognizing people by their voices.
The person my sound recognition senses detected for the voice that came through the speaker of my cell that day really shocked me because I was never expecting that person could call me at that particular time at all.
The story continues;
How Love Left Me
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