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EvaJael:
I'm not even near perfect o. It's my first story. You need to read the works of kayo80,rachealfst,lilyjoe567,chumzypinky,divepen1,creeza,scarlett and many more here on nairaland to know the real meaning of perfection. Those guys are hot

Thanks for the compliment.

KINGS100:
sorry man I pray u got ur stofs back

Thanks.

EvaJael:
Kayo80 I'm waiting o

Lol! Sorry, one of my chickens was giving me wahala. I will update tomorrow afternoon.

hormobolanle:
yes of course am on d right path

I meant shade no vivo
I sense dat she is liking freddy


but.......

Lol! Okay.

hormobolanle:
Na Wa o
only one night out n vivo Don dy fall Issokay........he beta don't fall but stand cos if e go fall na katakata e go cos fa

our write wehdone oo
I hail

Hmm! Are you sure you are commenting under the right story?

xaviercasmir:
Following this wonderful story. Keep it up bro.

Thanks. I appreciate the compliment.

Chapter 9

Shade sat in the crowded movie theater with her face on the screen but her mind elsewhere. Angela was meant to have come with her to see the new beauty and the beast movie, but she changed her mind last minute. It had been five weeks since Freddy’s father passed, but things hadn’t gotten better, they got worse. Freddy was broken. He was like a totally different person. Apart from cutting his dreads, his demeanor was different from before. He no longer had the charisma he had been known for. The bad boy charm was gone, and he seemed a nervous wreck every time he came around, which was rarely these days.

Angela understood what he was going through, but Shade could sense her friend was getting tired of him. Their energies no longer matched and he hardly came to see her or called unless she reached out to him first. Something in the movie she was watching made her laugh. Belle had thrown a snowball at the beast in a playful manner. The beast in turn had rolled up a humongous snowball and thrown it at her. It hit her smack in the face; making her fall down flat. That wasn’t something Shade expected she would see happen to a Disney princess in a Disney movie.

She sat up in her seat, dug into her tub of popcorn and stuffed a handful in her mouth. The room had gotten quiet after the laugh out loud scene on screen, and her munching on the popcorn turned some heads in front of her. She sunk down in her seat.

……………….

After the movie ended, she stayed put, waiting for the initial rush out of the hall to reduce. She used the time to eat some of her popcorn, and drink her Pepsi. When there were just about ten people in the hall waiting around like she was, she got up, swung her brown satchel bag around her shoulder and started the decent down the theater steps.

At the mall car park, on her to the gate, a guy in a black hooded t shirt walked passed her really fast. She thought it was odd that someone would be wearing such clothing in the heat, but then there was something familiar about the person’s bounce. She looked well and recognized who it was. “Freddy.” She shouted out and he stopped, but didn’t turn around. She jogged up to catch up with him.

“How are you?” He said without a smile as he turned around to face her. He took off the hood off his head and she noticed he had grown a little more hair since the time she saw him last, and it kind of fit his oblong head just right and made him look a lot more handsome than before. She looked at his hand, and noticed he had about a dozen can drinks in the paper bag he was carrying. When she didn’t say anything, he looked down and said, “Shade, I am sorry about what happened at the hotel.”
“What?” She said, looking lost. “Oh! Forget about that. Exams are coming up and you have been skipping school.” She added. Just then, a little girl trying to avoid her mom ran under Shade’s white flared skirt laughing. Freddy chuckled as Shade became uncomfortable trying to get the girl away from her. The mother apologized and bent down to unclasp the laughing little girl’s hands from Shade’s legs before carrying her away. Shade smiled up at Freddy who was laughing at her.
“Are you going back to school?” He asked and she nodded. “Okay. Let me drop you off.”