A 15-day Writing Challenge

Day 3: FIRST KISS

We were still laughing at the last thing I said when the sound of her laughter started to fade in my head, you know, like it happens in movies. Honestly, I couldn’t even remember what I said that got us laughing.

I looked at her again, her eyes were shining, her teeth sparkled. I always knew she was beautiful, body and soul, but this time it slapped me different. I took her hand, much to her confusion, placed it on my chest, so she could feel how fast it was beating (also so she would have mercy and not push me too harshly in case she didn’t feel the same, but mostly so she’d feel my heart).

The moment came, I knew it was right. Leaning forward, I caressed her cheek saying in my head, “If I perish, I perish.” I don’t remember much after that, except that we had our first kiss there and then.

I know my eyes were closed, but it wasn’t dark. I could see her, I could feel her heartbeat. It was musical.

I don’t know how long it lasted, but next thing I knew, she was talking about the taste on my lips, 2 seconds after saying “Hey! No cheesy talk”. Then she told me she only did this because she was curious. Ouch! My clap-back was that the only reason her lips tasted great was the drin I got her.

I’m still trying to figure out whether she slapped me or caressed my cheek, because the kiss that followed didn’t seem like a curious one. Boy, was she one hell of a curious kisser! I swear I could feel our souls reach out and touch. I’m sure we could read each other’s minds just then.

Fast-forward a few months and we’ve become pen friends. Well, that’s an improvement considering we basically became strangers once. I started to doubt those feelings.

How many others had made her feel the way I did? Did she even still think of me the same way?

I was sure I still felt about her the same way I did when we first met, and that’s what hurt the most. Maybe she was truly just curious and nothing more. Maybe I’d fallen victim yet again. Maybe this just wasn’t meant for me.

But I’m sure of this; in all those moments of bliss, the world ceased to exist and I only felt one thing. Peace.

Then I was woken up by a strange sound. The rats had returned. Oh, bollocks!!!

Now we have that out of the way, I’m Okorie Chidiuto Emmanuel. On a regular day, I’m a student of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Federal University of Technology, Owerri. Besides that, I’m a freelance writer. And in my spare time, I’m into Android Programming and mobile photography.

I spend most of my time thinking of the connection between these things I do and how I’m going to use them in the future.

But I take a step back and do what I do. I smile and remember the words of Steve Jobs;

You don’t connect the dots moving forward, you connect them looking back.

I want to believe things will work out eventually.

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