Kapitel 48: Forty eight
As soon as my aunt left, Uche hurried down the stairs to meet me. He looked a bit worried now, compared to how composed he was while talking to my aunt.
"Julie?" He called me, his tone sounding scared.
"Yeah?"
"Come with me, I need your help."
"What happened?" I had to ask, I was sure I have never seen him that worried. My mind immediately went to Nick."Is Nick okay?" I asked.
"No." His answer was immediate.
"No? What happened?"
"Just come." He took my hands and we started up the stairs.
I didn't say anything else but I was scared as hell. We got to Nick's room and he opened the door but stopped suddenly. He started to look at the floor like he expected something or someone to be there.
"Uche?" I called in a low tone, still wanting to know why he was so worried earlier. He turned to me, a little confusion on his face but before he could say anything, Nick came out from his wardrobe, he was laughing.
Uche didn't laugh with him as usual, he just stood there staring at Nick like he didn't find any reason to be laughing.
"You were so worried," Nick said laughing more.
"That shit wasn't funny man." Uche finally said something after a while.
"It is, come on, you had to see the fear on your face...." Nick laughed again, coming to Uche and patting his shoulder as he laughed on.
"Fuck off, I can't believe you did that. What the hell?" Uche shoved him off before running his hands through his curly hair while I stood with them in the room, more confused than I was before.
"But really, what were you gonna do? I mean you lied to my mum, what if I wasn't actually okay? What if I actually passed out, what then?" Nick wouldn't stop laughing.
"Fuck you," Uche told him and sat on the bed, I heard him sigh as he looked up, he seemed to be annoyed at Nick's laughter.
"What are you both talking about?" I asked after I couldn't hold in my confusion any longer.
"Come," Uche said and got up, taking my right hand and leading me out of Nick's room.
"You are really mad right now?" Nick poked his head out of his room to ask Uche when we left him I'm his room alone.
Uche still said nothing.
"It was a joke," Nick said again but Uche didn't turn, he just stood behind me waiting for me to go down the stairs so he could follow.
Nick closed his door after his best friend didn't say anything to him. I continued down the stairs and towards the dining table where I sat before but I didn't sit on getting there, I just stood and turned to Uche when he came.
"What was that all about?" I really wanted to know. I heard him sigh before shaking his head.
"Nick thinks shit is funny, I literally thought he had passed out for real." He massaged his forehead with his left palm while reaching for my hand with his right. He brought my hand to his lips and pecked on my knuckles.
"Are you okay?" I had to ask, he didn't look like he did before he went to check up on Nick. He really didn't find whatever Nick did funny.
"Yeah." He said plainly before going on."When I went to his room, he just started to hold his head after we closed the door behind us and the next thing I know, he was on the floor, he was not saying anything, and he doesn't even look like he was breathing but then I checked his pulse and saw that he was breathing and just passed out, that was when his mum came to the door. I didn't know if to answer the door at first because if she saw him like that, she would panic and probably want to go to the hospital nearby, then they would find out he had been drinking last night so I just lied to her before coming to get you because I swear, I didn't know what to do, I just...I just...I don't know, maybe I panicked." I watched him explain and understood why he didn't laugh with Nick just now in his room.
"Coming back to his room and he's laughing like it's funny. I don't know if he expected me to find his prank funny." He shook his head again.
"You were so worried." I saw how scared he was when he came to me after talking to my aunt.
"Yeah, I was." He brought my hand to his lips again and kissed it. I smiled when he did that. I loved that doing that was calming him down.
"And now, our breakfast is cold." I started after I noticed. He didn't say anything immediately, he just glanced over at the dishes arranged by my aunt on the dining table and then back at me.
"If you want, we can get something on our way to school, maybe stop by the diner around school and have some french fries."
"No, we have to eat these, my aunt made them, she wouldn't be happy if we don't have them. She even came to get us when we were outside to have them but now they're called." I pouted as I explained why we shouldn't just throw out the eggs.
I noticed a smile line his pretty lips as I spoke and that smile got bigger when I stopped talking.
"What?" I asked him to know why he was smiling.
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