Tiana's POV

I ran into the house, my vision blurry from tears threatening to fall. I can't believe Tyler kept that away from me. He is leaving, he is leaving me. The only person that made me happy is leaving me and he didn't even have the decency to tell me.

I rushed into the Kitchen and the girls turned to me, all shocked at the sight of me.

"Tiana, what's wrong?" Lyla asked, coming close to me. I couldn't even answer, I just burst into tears. Lyla hugged me. Soon I pulled back.

"Tyler is leaving me." I muttered. I expected them to say something but they were all silent.

"Damn, she found out..." Ada muttered probably not expecting me to hear but I did and I was shocked.

"You guys knew too?!" I snapped.

"Look Tiana, it wasn't in our place to tell you." Zaria tried to explain.

"But you guys should have made him tell me..." I snapped at them. I heard the front door open and close and foot steps. I looked back to see Tyler coming into the kitchen.

"Tiana..." He called but I snapped back at him.

"Don't talk to me!"

"Tiana you have to calm down and hear him out. He has is reasons, trust me." Lyla said. I looked at Tyler and saw he was struggling and I was probably making it harder for him. I cleaned my eyes and nodded.

"We will give you guys some privacy." Ada said and they left the kitchen for us. I sighed, cleaned my eyes with my palm and looked up at him. He came closer to me until we were few inches away from each other.

"Why wouldn't you tell me? You told everyone except for me." Even though I cleaned my tears I felt fresh ones coming up.

"I didn't know how. I'm sorry...I'm so sorry." He closed the gap between us and wrapped his hands around me and pulled me in for a hug. I wrapped my hands around his mid-section and  hugged him back, my face buried in his chest and started to cry.

He pulled back after a while and pulled me to sit down but I held his hand back, telling him I wanted to stand and talk this out and he understood. I leaned against the kitchen island.

"Since when have you been planning to travel?" I asked him. He sighed.

"My dad decided, I didn't. He said it was no longer safe here, after everything that happened with King and Ciara. He really didn't give me any choice." He explained and I realized it was basically my fault. If Tyler haven't gotten involved with me, everything that happened to him wouldn't have.

"This is basically all my fault." I muttered but he heard me and shook his head.

"It's not your fault. Tiana, please stop blaming yourself, please." He took my hand in his. I sighed, looking into his eyes.

"So you are leaving for good?" I asked calmly. I really didn't know how to feel. There was a big chance he would break up with me and I really don't know what I would do then.

"I really don't know, but I know it's going to be for a long time." He replied. His sentences were shorter and it meant two things. He didn't know what to say or He was about to break up with me, and the latter was more glaring to me. Tyler noticed I was quiet and used his thumb to caress the back of my arm.

"Tiana..." He calmly called. I felt another wave of sadness wash over me. I felt tears in my eyes but blinked it away.

"Are you..." I sniffed and looked at him. He looked confuse. "Are you going to break up with me?" I asked and Tyler widened his eyes, shaking his head frantically.

"No! Of course not. I would never." He took my hand to sit me down and I accepted this time
I needed to sit down. He sat opposite me and moved closer. "Why would you ever think that?" His hand was on my face, his thumb caressing my cheek.

"You are moving, not within Nigeria but outside the country, outside the continent even. You don't even know when you are coming back..." I trailed off and I heard him sigh.

"Tiana, I'm not leaving you. I promised I would never leave you and I'm not going to allow distance tear us apart..." He said but I interrupted.

"You are saying this now but you might change your mind later and I would understand totally if you move in from me..." I said and it was the truth. I don't want to hold him back. He does deserve better and I would understand if he gets someone else. I'm more grateful that he came into my life.

"Tiana don't... Please. You are making this harder." He said, his voice strained.

"You and I know it's the truth." I told him. He was silent. I moved closer to him and cupped his face in my hand, drawing his face closer and touching my forehead to his. His hands held mine to his face.

"Tyler I love you, so much but I don't want to hold you down here." I whispered.

"You are not holding me down and I'm not going to give up on us...not like this. We will figure something out, I promise. Please just hang on for me." He said. No, he pleaded and I felt the tears come and this time I let it come. I began to cry.

Tyler sighed and pulled me in. He cupped my face in his hands and kissed my tears away. He kissed both my eyes, my forehead, my nose  and then my lips.

I moved closer and responded to the kiss, titling my head to deepen the kiss. I felt him tug on my lips slowly asking for entrance and I parted my lips, letting him in. I poured everything into it, all my emotions, everything I was feeling, the bittersweet feeling. I was still crying as we kissed on. I was happy at the same time scared. Happy that he wasn't letting me go, scared that when he leaves he would break his promise. I was supposed to trust him but it was quite hard.

Tyler sighed as I pulled back. My eyes were closed and I waited for him to speak because I couldn't bring myself to say anything and he did.

"I love you, Tiana and I'm not giving up on us. I made a promise and I'm keeping it. Please, I ask again, Trust me." He pleaded. I sighed and nodded. It's a risk I'm willing to take.

"Please don't hurt me..." I squeaked out.

"I would never hurt you. Everything will be fine, I promise." He kissed my forehead and pulled me in for a bear hug and I held him close.

Everything will be fine.

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Tyler's POV

Tiana and I made good use of the days left for me to be in Nigeria. She came to stay with me for that period. We went out together in the day time and in the evening, we would spend it together, in my room watching movies  or going a bit physical and if we don't get physical, we just cuddle all night. As the days sent by, the urge for me to stay grew more.

It was the last day, the day before graduation and also the day I was going to leave. My flight was early in the morning so I was going to be in the airport as early as 5:00am. We decided to spend the last night in Zaria's place. Her parents were out of town but they promised to be back before graduation.

We all went out to have fun at the beach, Tiana stayed at my side all the time. I wouldn't want her anywhere else though. While everyone was at the shallow part of the water playing, Tiana and I stayed on beach mat. She leaned her head in my chest, my hand entwined with between hers. At intervals, I would bring her hand to my lips and place lingering kisses on it. I really don't want leave.

"Are you okay..." I heard her voice, drawing me out of my thoughts. I turned to her and smiled.

"I'm fine." I told her and she believed me.

"Hey, come on!!! The water is great." We heard Charles' voice.

"Do you wanna go?" I asked Tiana.

"Nah, you go ahead." She replied but I wasn't having it. I stood up.

"Nope, we are going together." I replied and picked her up in a bridal style. She laughed and wrapped her hand around my neck as I carried her to the water.

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We all sat by the pool. It was already night, precisely 9:00pm. We were just going to talk and say our good byes. I held Tiana's hand as we sat on the rug together and so did others. Everyone was talking about sweet nothing. Taju spoke first.

"...but Tyler, we would really miss you sha." He said and everyone murmured in affirmation.

"The only correct person in this group is going, chai!" Kelvin exclaimed dramatically.

"So we are not correct people now bah?!" Joel smacked the back of his head and we all laughed. I'm really going to miss this.

"Seriously, I'm going to miss all of this, all of you." I told them.

"I can't still believe you are leaving us." Lyla said.

"Me neither. I'll really miss you guys. Kelvin, thank God you grew the balls to ask Lyla out when you did." I teased and everything he laughed. Lyla nudged Kelvin playfully by the side and Kelvin laughed, giving her a gentle peck on the cheeks.

"Lyla, you have always been the motherly figure among us. I swear, a lot of us would have done really stupid stuffs if not for you. You have always been the sensitive one, always thinking things through. Let me tell you though, I used to have a crush on you in JSS2." I said and she widened I eyes, so did everyone else except Tiana, who basically knew everything about me.

"Wow. So today is confession night like this." Lyla teased and I laughed, everyone did. I looked at Ada.

"Ada... Oh God I will miss you so much. You always want to have fun and tried imbibing it in us too. I can remember when you went out for a party in JSS 3 and used Charles and Zaria to lie to your parents that there was a sleep over." I revealed and we all smiled. Good times.

"What can I say?" Charles smiled at Ada and wrapped his hands around her. "I was in love with her then so I could do anything for her." He said and Ada leaned Into him, smiling.

"Charles, you have the back of all of your friends. You can do anything for us, you can take risks upon risks for all of us and I'm grateful to have you as my close friend." I said.  He nodded at me with a smile. I faced Taju.

"Taju!!! My guy!!" I hailed and everyone laughed.

"Na we dey there." He responded.

"You are the realest person here. You don't shy from anything. You will always say the truth without fearing the consequences. You are always there for your friend and I hope we can get together some time when you get to Spain." I smiled.

"Of course. I'd really love that." Taju smiled.

"Zaria. When I first met you, my first thought about you was that you are a stuck bitch...no offence." I said.

"None taken." Zaria smiled.

"But when I got to know you I realized that you are an amazing human being and you are strong and you will go to heights for your friends. You can be annoying at time... But you mean well."

"Joel. You are a good guy. Zaria is lucky to have you because you are real, you care for your friends, you would do anything for her and for us. Thanks for all the advise you gave me because they all helped. You are a friend Indeed."

"I'll miss you bro." Tyler smiled sadly. I smiled back at him.

"Come on, let's bring it in guys." Lyla said and we enveloped ourselves in a group hug. I will miss all of them.

I'll miss you guys so much.

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It was 11:30 and we had all retired to bed. They decided to camp at Zaria's house and everyone had their graduation dresses with them. I was in Tiana's room, just in my pyjama pants, sitting on the bed with my phone. Tiana had gone to the bathroom to change. I heard the door open and automatically looked up. Suddenly I couldn't look away.

Wow.

She was in my sweatshirt and she looked so hot in it. It settled on her mid thigh, revealing her long dark flawless legs and the sleeves were long enough to cover her fingers. Her hair was packed in a bun and though she looked really innocently and cute, she looked ten times sexier than ever. I automatically stood up to meet her mid way. She smiled shyly.

"I hope you don't mind me wearing your sweat shirt?" She asked and I chuckled, my voice coming out deeper than I expected.

"It's all yours. You look really hot in my dresses." I replied and she laughed. We stood there. I took her hand in mine and she looked at me.

"Tiana, I want you to be prepared, because you will wake up tomorrow and you won't see me beside you..." I trailed off when I saw her nod slowly. She let out a short laugh.

"I can't believe you are finally leaving." I heard her sniff again.

"Tiana..." I trailed off again.

"I really don't want you to go..." She was sobbing.

"Hey... Come here." I pulled her closer to me and held her in my arms, her hands wrapped around my waist. "I don't want to go either. I don't want to leave you." I whispered. She pulled back.

"You have no choice, I understand." She whispered. I didn't know I was crying until her fingers went to my face. "You are crying..." She laughed, even with the tears coming from her eyes and I laughed along with her.

She used her fingers to clean my eyes and kept her hand on my face, my hand automatically wrapped around her waist. She tip toed to press her forehead against mine. I just wanted to hold her in my arms, I didn't want to let go. I decided I wasn't going to rush, I would take my time to savour the feeling of our last moment together

I heard her take a shaky breath as I brushed my nose against her neck. I raised my head slightly, my lips against her cheek, brushing it lightly—and still that light touch sent shivers through her nerves, shivers that made her whole body tremble. 

"If you want me to stop, tell me now." I whispered. When she said nothing, I brushed my mouth over the hallow of her temple. "Or now." I traced the line her cheekbone. "Or now." I brushed my lips against hers. "Or-"

But she reached up and pulled me down to her, the rest of my words lost in her mouth. I kissed her gently, carefully, trying to memorize the feel of her against me. I played with her lower lips, tugging on it gently as her hands went to play with the hair at the back of my neck. I gently tugged on her lips, silently asking for entrance which she gave. I slipped my tongue in and she did the same, our lips moving in sync.

I felt her hand move down to my chest, and started to trace her finger on my pecs, causing a low groan from my throat, circling my hands around her, gathering her against me. Her hand went down from my pecs to my abs and began to trace it, her fingers doing things to my skin. I groaned, breaking the kiss. She whimpered at the lost of contact but moaned softly when my lips started placing open mouth kisses on her neck and collar bone.

"Tyler..." She moaned out and I was semi hard at the way my name rolled off her tongue. My lips when back to meet hers as I crouched down, my hand on either of her thigh, lifting her so that her legs were around my waist and backed us up till my back was on the bed and she was automatically straddling me.

The kiss grew hotter and much more intense. I couldn't get enough of kissing her and soon the sweat shirt was getting in the way. The shirt had already hiked up to her waist and I wasted no time in wrapping my hands around her waist, trailing my fingers into her shirt, running it up to the end of her bra. She pulled her lips away from mine and buried her face in the crook of her neck, trying to muffle her moan.

I tugged on the sweat shirt, asking for permission to pull it off and she raised her hand up, giving me the go ahead. I pulled it off,  awestruck. She was magnificent. She became shy and covered her chest with her hand. I shook my head and slowly removed her hand.

"You are beautiful. Don't ever hide yourself from me." I whispered. I gently pulled her head down to mine and kissed her slowly. One of my hands moved up to palm her breast through her bra, kneading softly, making her moan into the kiss. She grinded her hips against mine to the rhythm of the kiss, causing me groan, all the blood in my brain rushing south. My lips didn't leave hers as she kept grinding against my erection. Soon it was like we were dry humping, my erection pressed against her core, causing soft sensual gasps out of her lips which I muffled by pressing mine against it, my hip moving in rhythm with hers, turning into mini-thrusts.

She pulled her lips from mine and rested her head in the crook of my neck again, her hips slowing down in movement, her gasps coming short.

"We shouldn't..." She whispered and I didn't say anything trying to catch my breath. I knew why she stopped, we both want to but we had to stop. I wanted to wake up by her side the next day when we ever make love.

"If we are going to, I want to wake up with you by my side. I'm going to wait for you and that's a promise." She whispered. I smiled making her look at me.

I love this lady so much.

"I love you." I told her with all honesty.

"I love you too." She replied. I pressed my lips against hers in a brief but passionate kiss.

I helped her with the sweat shirt and we spooned, my face resting in the crook of her neck, inhaling her scent while my hands wrapped around her mid section. She sighed as she snuggled closer to me and we slept, savouring the feeling of being in each other's arm, one last time

A/N
I'm so sorry for the late update guys I hope this chapter was worth it. I don't know how to write a sex scene and I also believe that if they are going to make love then they should wake up together by each others side. This has got to be the longest chapter.

So Tyler is leaving. I'm crying!!! 😭😭😭 who else is crying? We have one more chapter to go so stay tune. I'll try to update as soon as possible. Anticipate.

I love you guys so much.