Chinny

"Uche...? " she called again just to be sure because damn! The guy standing right there was way hotter than seven years ago.
Look at all those well chiseled muscles and all!

Seven years ago, he was this sweet guy, not spectacularly handsome or a Zayn Malik, he was just very sweet. But now, he's so stupid hot!

"Chinny-swag!" he teased and smiled as he opened his arms, exposing his wide chest for a hug. But Dang! Chinny was still standing there a bit lost in her imaginations, she had never been the one to hide an emotion, feeling or expression.

She really wanted to see Uche- the father of her child, but, what she got was way hotter than what she had budgeted for.
Just look at that smile that made his dimples prominent, his dentition, his biceps!

She'd always loved Uche, although she initially couldn't explain what kind of love that was. He was her best friend, play mate, and just before she left, he was her sex mate. But seven years ago, that wasn't the body he had...

"Oh my God.." she didn't know when her mouth said that.

"heeeyy baayybeee ..." he dragged her into his warm embrace, squeezing himself into her.
He yanked her up, spinned around once, and let her down still hugging her.

She held him in their embrace, squeezing in too, feeling his masculine strength, his warmth and all.

" I missed you so much, jeez! You have no idea" he whispered into her ear with a lot of emotion and squeezed in harder, running his palms gently, slowly around her back.

They just remained there, in that embrace, savoring themselves and the moment there, nothing else seemed to matter.

She was still a bit confused, 'what's happening here?' she wondered.

It was a bit too much than she had expected. Seven years ago, she didn't really take him too seriously, she didn't pay attention to whatever it was she felt for him. She just enjoyed him, felt like herself, Chinny, around him- relaxed and safe until...

She had a boyfriend so to say, or rather, sex mate, who was really good in bed and was in a serious relationship with her.
However, he was the only one in the relationship as to her, she was not in a relationship with him. She was just enjoying the sex as a pass-time thing in France.
But basically, He just doesn't fucking know her!

She'd had lots of 'boyfriends' in different places, with different identities and personalities (of course she's a very beautiful woman!).

...Boyfriends, some who were serious, some who wanted marriage, others who were just for sex and connections (She had a contraceptive device planted in her after she had her son).
You can't judge a queen of the dark web for doing what she gotta do.

But Uche was a different story, one she couldn't explain. He knew her, the real her, Chinny, and cherishes her (although he never says that often, she knew he truely did. Every girl has that instinct) . And to her, that's everything.

She finally broke out of the embrace...

" d'accord.... Um... enough..." she said noticing she was saying french words more now - A riff off of three years in Paris.

She smiled as her gaze met Uche's brightened face. He looked so happy that it radiated in his smiles and it reminded her of something - Their son. He had his father's dimples, energy, sweetness.

"oh my ...okay okay okay. I got this, I can do this " she whispered to herself in her heart, in reassurance, as she noticed how he weakened her.

She'd have to tell him about their son, in good time, but for now....

"come here you bitch." she dragged his black body fitted polo. He followed suit into her arms, placing her arms around his shoulders, and ...her lips on his.

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Uche

He was engaged in a French kiss with the love of his life, the girl of his dreams. He felt like he was skiing on the moon.

He'd loved her for as long as he could remember. She made him feel everything possible! Pain, hate, love, anger. She was just like that , but still, prettier than any other girl he'd ever seen.

She had become fairer, fitter, and her skin glowed - Should be an effect of staying away from the heat of Africa for seven years.

' But what was she wearing?' he wondered.

She could be crazy and he knew it, but he liked it and couldn't wait to hear the story behind that .

He had waited, hoped , and prayed that God would make their paths cross again. And God answered.

He had promised God to never love another, to never be with another, especially after the joint trauma they passed through, himself and Chinny - Their dirty secret.
Yes, not the one you know, yes, you. Not the one you know.

It happened weeks after the night of a thousand events. Ronald went off the grid and Chad was missing. It was just two of them, Chinny and himself.
No one else in the world understood. No one else felt their pain. Only the two of them were left without a therapist, without help.

They were alone to mourn the death of Mac Donald, their late friend. To whom they were witnesses to his painful demise.
They were the only ones present at his parents house to console them and to tell them his story. To explain what had happened, to miss him .

They were the only people in the world who truly understood what terror befell them that night.
Others expected them to get back to school, return to normalcy, return to being regular. That would never happen! and only they knew that.
And with Chad and Ronald gone, all they had was themselves to get through the long nights, through the cold nights, the lonely times, the nightmares , the grief , the pain.

They got closer than ever, hung out a lot just to be with themselves - The only ones who could truly understand what each other felt.

For goodness sake!, they were the only ones who survived the conference! The medusa killed all the hostages when the minister would not reveal himself- a huge massacre!
Over eight hundred souls gone! Just like that! And they, only they, were the survivors.
The government was selfish, self centered, wicked, and controlled by that monsterous body, Medusa!

It also haunted them that the government did nothing about those souls butchered and executed mercilessly!
Lively people they had seen hale and hearty a few hours earlier, eaten with, talked with. Now they could still see them how medusa had left them : As corpses, messed up with their own blood, and piled up as trash!

It was just that bit of luck or they would have been those corpses, that pile of trash!
It still haunted them, appeared as dreams, flashes, and all!

Oh lawd!
The country has degraded that bad. It was no longer a sovereign state, period!

Chinny liked to hang out at Maggie's Kitchen restaurant, and the mall. She just wanted to be where people were, people who were alive.

She couldn't be alone in her parent's large and relatively empty house.
Even Maggie was not enough because she had to see to the running of her new business, Maggie's kitchen and was rarely home, hence, she needed someone, Uche in Particular.

He was the only one who really took care of her through the trauma. He spent all day and some nights at her place when she'd cry and have nightmares in the midnight, and see the vampire!

Later, it got better, and on her eighteenth birthday her wish was to get drunk.
Uche would fulfill this wish but he wouldn't get drunk so he could protect her.

He ensured they were in a closed room at The Billion Hotel.
Uche's parents had travelled to Dubai for the summer. He'd insisted on staying with his grandma (he didn't), so he'd been free to spend all the time with Chinny.

He locked the doors and sat on the bed. Everything was quiet like they had been locked out from the rest of the world as the room was sound proof. Only the music from the Mtv base channel showing on the TV could be heard.

They were wet from the rain that had beat them that night, and all the fun they had.
Chinny was in a night robe- purple was the colour. Her hair was wet and dropped lazily on her shoulders. Her lips were pink, her skin fair. She was beautiful without makeup as always, very beautiful.

"You ready?" he asked her

"you scared ...?" she asked him back taunting him.

"Fuck it." he said as he unscrewed the first of many bottles, and they began the short trip.

Short, because she got drunk after that first bottle. And when she did, her inner fears were unleashed!

She started behaving like a demon-possessed person. Uche had to record what he could on his phone so she could see later- that was the agreement.

She was so freaked out and scared as hell of the vampire! She'd cry and scream!

" he's coming ! He's coming... arrrghh!!!!"

"Chinny calm down" Uche tried to touch her to Calm her down

"Don't touch me!! Don't touch me!! I promised Uche no one would touch me"

Then she'll go again
"Look he is coming!!!! Somebody help me!!!!

He'll kill me , look at his gun!! Where is Uche...??!"

She would cry and fold herself up with the duvet, and then suddenly burst out, kicking and struggling with the air. She kept alternating with different kinds of freak shows.

It got to a point that Uche himself started crying because, he didn't know what else to do. He had tried to control the situation and calm her down, to no avail.
Now, he understood truely the extent of what she was going through- the terror that was living inside her and in her dreams. It had come alive.

At some point she wanted to run away from the room. Uche had to hold the door, and shut the windows. He didn't want the police showing up on him at that moment. He'd go to prison for abduction probably because that was what it looked like. Especially with the messed up state of the country!

The drama went on for several hours until she mellowed into a subtle sob and slept off.

Uche had stayed awake the whole night crying, sobbing , when he realized that even in Chinny's subconscious, she loved him. Even in her most vulnerable and scared state, she called out to him. Especially when she had sobered up and said;

" where is Uche? I want my Uche."

" I'm here" Uche said , stretching his hands towards her.

"No! Leave me alone , you're not Uche! I want Uche, I love Uche!"

Uche withdrew his hands instantly as tears filled his eyes.

"Heeyyy baaayybbeee" Uche had said.

"Uche? That's Uche, Uche says that. Uche come here, I want to hold you"

He came close and she cuddled into his body as they lay on the bed.

"Uche, don't let him touch me..." she cried.

"I won't..."

" I know you think I love Ronald, I don't. Ronald is just a crush, I know that now. I just don't..." she coughed severely and continued...

"Uche , I love you. I have always wanted to say that, but, I didn't know how to."

"It's okay " he replied as tears rolled down his cheeks.

" Uche I love you." before she dozed off.

He'd always thought she was Ronald's girl, but now.

The next day came and he narrated everything that happened the previous night to her after she was done with her hang over and vomiting. He showed her the video clips he did as proof.

" please delete that" she laughed shyly.

He smiled " you know what else you said?

"mmmmm... nope." she replied biting her lower lip and moving closer to him on the bed.

" stop doing that.." Uche warned.

"cry baby!" she hit his shoulder slightly
" scared? Yo mama ain't gone' bite ya."

"Shut... up..."

She laughed

" you said that ...you love me."

"what?" she hit him and laughed out loud

" yep, you did!"

" I did not"

" you did" he poked her cute nose slightly

"Oh my ... damn!" she bit her lips " you know what?"

"Mmmhmmm....."

" I think I ... don't love you." she paused , noticing the disappointment in Uche's eyes

"Come on, Cheer up. I'm in love with you, I don't just love you" she smiled and hit him slightly.

"whats the difference?"

" context? Concept? Name it."

"Chinny..."

" what? I can't be in love with you, Uche?"

" no no not that."

"what then? You don't love me back?...Liar..."

" no not that."

"So, you love me back..."

" yes , but it's not that."

" what then? You shit..."

" um... this is supposed to be the part where we kiss and um... I'm sure you have not brushed this morning. And the alcohol from last night and that grrroowwsee soup you ate makes your mouth stink like... "

" ...shut the hell up." she interrupted as she grabbed his lips with hers, moving her tongue on it gently and expertly until he moaned of sweetness!

He grabbed her hair roughly, broke away from the kiss and stared at her for a while to enjoy the sight of her lust for him plastered on her face. Her breathing rhythm was changing.

His lust was building up too and he felt it. His breathing was hard! He had waited for this moment a long time.
He kissed her back starting with a soft peck on her lips, and then a second, and a third! Before he grabbed her lips with his and kissed her so good ...till a moan escaped her mouth, and then he dived in again a second time, and a third, and then...

He ran his fingers gently through her hair, to the back of her ear, playing slightly with her ear lobes as they kissed. Moving his fingers gently and sensually.

He noticed her breathing became heavier and heavier, and her body began to move slightly in response to his touches.

He continued to her neck, moving slowly all the way to the back of her neck, moving his fingers in gentle round circles all through as he traced down towards her breasts and...

She stopped..

" Uche, I want you..."

The rest was history, it was the best day of his life! They had the most amazing sex in the history of Shakespeare!
He was even surprised at how good and experienced she was. He wasn't her first.

'well, for a pretty girl, Ronald must have scored first' he had thought.

It didn't matter to him. All that mattered was that he was in love with this girl he adored and she loved him back.

Soon, they couldn't get enough of each, they kept on with the 'sexcapades', hot sessions and romantic dates even after Uche's parents and sister returned from the vacation until....

He started noticing some changes in her body. He knew her body as well as he knew his. Her breasts had become bigger, her face was fattening up, her ass became bigger.
He didn't say anything after the sex session, until Chinny started crying.

" hey... hey ... Baaayybee ... " he knelt down before her because she was sitting at the edge of the bed , naked and red with tears.

"what's the problem?" he asked lovingly, holding her hands tightly.

She wouldn't say, until he kept asking and asking.

" I think I'm pregnant..." she finally said and started crying again.

He could remember how his heart burst open with love and pain, and sadness, and some unexplainable happiness, a pride , an unspeakable joy , a rapture of his soul in a web of gladness. That was the moment his soul got bonded with Chinny's forever! He was gonna be a father.

But then a sadness followed swiftly when reality struck...

".. We don't have what it takes to parent a child Uche..." she burst into tears " look at this, she showed him the pregnancy test strip.

He took it, it showed two lines, she was pregnant indeed.
He got scared but couldn't show it. He remembered his parents. What would they say? How about Chinny's celebrity mother?

His heart began to beat fast, it was like his head was immersed into cold water.

" lets run away...with our child "

"To where?" she cried

"we can go anywhere! Lets disappear entirely, together.."

" with what money? Huh? How do we raise the baby? Pay hospital bills?"

" I'll work... I promise"

"work where?" she cried

"anywhere love... anywhere"

"you're being delusional."

Uche was being delusional and he knew it. This is real life, not the movies.
There was only one more option, he couldn't bear Chinnys cry, he couldn't bear seeing her in pain.

"what then? abortion then?" he suggested

"What??!" she cried " I don't believe you!"

" what else can we do my love? What ? Think about your mother, your future, school and all that..."

"I don't care..."

" I do! I care ... I care about your future, all these..."

Chinny was crying helplessly now

" I love you baaybee... " he held her in an embrace.
" but.. This , this is the real world. This is a sacrifice I have to but don't know if I'm willing to make."

" but you'll Leave me Uche, when I'm done with it, you'll leave me..."

"Chinny, I swear! Look at me. I swear I won't..." he raised her face with his palms, held it up so that it aligned with his.

"You promise?"

" I promise..."

"what if I die?" she cried.

"you won't, I promise, I won't let you die..."

"but the complications ... "

" I love you, and I swear! I won't."

" please don't leave me " she cried, she was really high on emotions, the pregnancy was contributing a lot to that.

"I promise you, my love " he reassured her and held her in his arms in a soft hug"

" no surgeries, just pills right?" she asked

" yes , just pills..."

His phone rang and he had to leave in a hurry, Chioma was having an asthma attack.

After he left Chinny's house that day, Chinny had disappeared completely leaving no traces. She could do that, she is Chinny .

He had always been wondering what happened after then. If she was dead, if it was suicide (as she looked suicidal). If she was angry with him for suggesting an abortion, if she hurt herself in the process, and Maggie denied any knowledge whatsoever.
He'd been feeling alone and guilty for seven years!

Chinny broke away from the kiss suddenly, tapping his chest twice and saying:

" good thing I got that off , where's the fucking car?" she asked and walked away in a wrong direction.

She was way prettier now, and crazier.

" hey baayybbee..." he called softly and
she stopped and turned.

" it's this way" he pointed to the other direction

" damn! Nigger! You still doing that heeyyybbayybbiiee shit?!"

"Hey baayybbiee" he taunted her

" mother f****r ... I've had enough of ..."

Uche quickly picked up her bag which was on the floor, looked at her purposefully and said slowly;

" hey baayybieee..." and ran away knowing fully well what was about to happen

" that's it it you shit!!" she shouted as she pursued him in her 'complicated' outfit.

" heyy baayybbiee!!" he shouted back at her as he avoided passersby in his annoying race.

"cow!! " Chinny cursed back in her ironically fierce pursuit.

Two fully grown adults feeling alive again, being kids again at a public airport.