“You know there is something that I want to tell you,”
“You can tell me anything,” she said with suspense in her eyes.
“That first day when I saw you at A2 Lecture block, I saw undoubtedly the most beautiful girl ever. And I knew right away that there is something special about you. And as we chatted, I got to find out that you are the easiest person that I could ever chat with. I thought about it through the week and I could not think of anything over that. I would love it if I spent more time with you.”
“Me too Bradley, I would love to spend more time with you,”
“Emihle, me and you meeting, but not as friends though,”
“Then what do you mean, Brad?”
“Emihle, I mean to say that I’m falling for you and I would like us to date,”
“Bradley, I don’t know what to say,”
“You don’t have to say anything just say yes,”
“I want to but…”
At this time we were looking each other deeply and intimately in the eyes. And I now felt a very strong connection between me and Emihle. My fingers were crossed, hoping that she felt the same way as i felt about her.
“But what?” I asked.
“I, I am seeing someone.”
“Huh, but… I thought you said you’d also like to spend more time with me and you never said anything about having a boyfriend,”
“Yes I didn’t say anything because… Because I also felt a connection between us and I couldn’t just tell you that I have a boyfriend. I mean, when we spoke, a feeling that I’ve never had, not even with Thabiso, grew inside of me and I could not just kill it.”
I was so relieved that she had felt what I felt. But now a problem that she had never given me reason to anticipate had just arose. But I was not one to give up on something so strong.
“But you can’t feel like this if you really love you Boyfriend. Can you?”
“I don’t know… I mean I do love him,”
“You what, Mihle?”
“I can’t just leave him,”
“But being with me and acquiring all those feelings means you’re not happy with him,”
“I didn’t see it that way,”
“So would you rather be with me or him?”
“Please don’t make me answer that, at least not now, let me go and sleep on it first,”
“Okay, but please do not take long,”
At this moment we were so close by each other that I instantly grabbed her and embraced her as tightly as I could. The moment seized and it made me feel home. Something in me told me to not let go but that didn’t last long. Emihle now had tears falling from her eyes. She then immediately let go of me and I could do nothing but let her be.
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