Devastated

CHAPTER FIVE

AVRIL

I felt cold run down my spine immediately after our lips locked. I couldn't believe this just happened. This wasn't how I planned my first kiss.

His left hand on my hip and the other around my neck devoured my lips greedily.

I pushed him away roughly and gave him a resounding slap.

"How dare you touch me?" I barked at him angrily.

He placed his right hand on his chin and let out a weak smile.

"This just makes me want you the more", he said and walked away.

"This is a bad week for me, the worst week I'd say", I said and sat on my seat.

I was angry, I always dreamed of my first kiss, I wanted it to be an enjoyable one not one with this cute monster.

"How could he kiss me like that? He's so full of himself, that arrogant cute little demon", I said weakly.

"Who kissed you?" I heard Sally's voice and was startled for the second time today.

I knew Sally likes Chris and would be disappointed if I told her it was him.

"No.. no.. no one", I stuttered.

"You can't tell me no one when I just heard you say it clearly", Sally replied.

"Is that why you startled me?" I asked trying to change the topic.

"You were talking to yourself, is that not weird enough to startle anyone including you?" Sally asked sitting beside me.

"Whatever!" I replied.

"So go ahead I haven't forgotten", she said smiling.

"Go ahead with what? And why are you smiling that way?" I pretended not to know what she was talking about.

"The princess finally had her first kiss and you don't want to share it? Come on dear go ahead and tell me about it. Was he cute?"

I rolled my eyes at her ignoring her questions.

She pushed me back and forth forcing me to tell her about it.

"I always tell you about my kisses including my sex life, why not tell me this......."

The morning assembly bells rang interrupting her.

"I'd tell you later", I said and raised my head. There were about five more students in the class and I didn't notice.

'they were here all along while I was talking to Sally? How embarrassing' I thought.

CHRIS

I couldn't help but smile the whole day. Who wouldn't? Flashes of the scene kept coming back to my mind.

"You've been smiling throughout the day and you've been acting strange, what is the matter?" Andrew asked on our way home after school.

We were walking towards our ride, we counted our steps carefully ignoring the cheers and shouts from the girls. We were used to it already.

"I don't know what you're talking about", I replied still smiling sheepishly.

I told my friends every detail when I kiss any girl but not this time, I even told them about the girls I had sex with. Why not Avril? Probably because I didn't want them to start chasing after her, or decide to go try their luck, I wanted to have Avril all to myself. I didn't want to share her as we did with other girls.

"Whatever it is that is making you smile, it'd come out soon I bet you", Andrew stressed staring at me with so much eagerness in his eyes.

"Allow him, it's his turn now very soon we also will start keeping dirty secrets from him", Daniel added.

"You dare not!!" I replied grabbing Daniel by the collar.

"Being violent will do you no good", Daniel said smiling.

We got to our ride, and the three of us entered the back seat of the car ignoring the driver's greetings. He drove off afterwards.

AVRIL

I sat on my bed thinking about today's incident. I couldn't believe Chris kissed me.

I sobbed quietly, as thoughts that I was no longer human ran through my mind.

I was a warewolf and I had my terrible first kiss.

I was tired of sobbing, my head was aching badly, and it wasn't helping matters at all.

I picked up my face towel and wiped my face, I stared at the mirror. My face was swollen.

I stood up and walked to the bathroom to rinse my face. I rinsed my face thoroughly and returned to the room.

I stood in front of my mirror, my eyes were still a bit swollen... I knew I had to do something about it, I wouldn't go downstairs for dinner looking this messed up.

I applied some make-up on my face to cover the mess I made there. The make-up did a very good job as expected.

I heard a soft knock on the door then I heard Suzy's voice.

"Dinner is ready", Suzy said from outside my door and walked away.

She made dinner, it wouldn't be that enjoyable.

I hesitated for a while, took one last glance at the mirror and walked downstairs hesitantly dragging my leg.

I could perceive the nice aroma coming from the dining hall from the steps. I increased my pace.

"Wow!" I said at the sight of the jollof rice, salad, chicken and orange juice arranged neatly on the dining table.

"Jumai tells me you made dinner", I said making a baby face at her.

"I did, Suzy only helped me to set things around here", she replied with a smile.

"Yaay!!" I jumped on her hugging her passionately.

"I can see someone made something delicious", Ariel said walking towards us.

"Mom and dad will be coming home when?", he asked sadly.

I would confess that dinner was always more fun and enjoyable with them.

"Next week, they promised to come home next week", Jumai said.

Jumai called Suzy and the other six domestic staff to join us for dinner.

They were excited and we had so much fun together.

After dinner, we helped Suzy to tidy the dining and kitchen, we chatted happily as we cleaned up.

After cleaning we decided to retire to bed when we heard a loud knock on the door. Jumai went to see who it was.

I stood in the dining with Ariel, we were both staring at each other wide-eyed without uttering a word.

Jumai closed the door slightly turning to us.

"The police are here", she whispered slowly making our hearts skip...