Chapter 2, Episode 2

Last updated on December 8th, 2023 at 03:21 pm

“Angel.” 

“It’s Angela, please. I have told you many times.”

“And I have told you I don’t listen. I have told you many times.” Was he trying to act like nothing happened? I kept quiet.

“So you missed me? You can miss me?” Tochi said.

“Really, Tochi? Is this what it means to you? You were off for three weeks! Three weeks and this is what you say?!

“Angela, what should I say? What do you want me to say?”

“How about you start with what happened?”

“Deal. Can I come in?” I left the entrance and he entered the room. He sat on the chair in my corner while I picked up the blouse I dropped earlier. I resumed packing my clothes. It seemed like forever and he was not yet talking. He was playing with the hand fan on my table.

“When do you want to start talking?” I asked him.

“Wow! If looks could kill. Why do I feel like you are scolding me?”

“Wait, why are you acting like this is nothing? Is everything a joke to you?” Tochi joked about everything and it could be insensitive, but it just rubbed me the wrong way to think that he would take his disappearance lightly too.

“Angel, what do you want me to say na? I am here now at least.”

“Oh! Okay. That’s fine.”

I continued packing my clothes. To be frank, I really felt better. It was so good to have him here after all this while. I wouldn’t push this issue as it did not seem as if he was ready. Anyway, I was not his girlfriend. Not like he had one though. There was this girl who really liked him and even came to ask me if we were dating. To convince her that we were not dating, I introduced her to Tochi.

I didn’t know what happened between them but I stopped seeing them together after a while and it felt intrusive to ask the girl. All Tochi said was that they were incompatible and he told her. I had a feeling there was more to it. But what was my own?

***

I was almost done packing when Tochi broke the silence.

“So you are leaving tomorrow?” He said it as if it hurt him.

“Yes.”

“If I did not come today, you would have gone without even seeing me?”

“Yes.”

“One-word answers?”

“Tochi I don’t understand you, please leave me!” 

“Ouch!” It definitely came out harsher than I intended, but I was angry. Who left for days without offering a tangible reason? Yet he was acting like everything was fine.

“You don’t like being accountable. Even as friends I demand accountability from you, it is not too much to ask. Everything is not funny.” Tochi was quiet.

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