Painful Addiction
"What happens when a nerdy girl falls for a playboy?" "They say that pain is a sign of weakness leaving your body but in my case, it's a clamp that refuses to let go of my heart no matter how hard I try." Chisom has had a complicated life but when she meets him, the world seems brighter and everything feels a thousand times better. Even though Chisom masquerades as the strongest person she knows with nothing being able to move her, deep down, her emotions are as fragile as an egg: easily shattered. Meeting him was one of the best things to happen to her. He was her first love but would he be her last?
Best of both worlds
"How haven't you fallen in love before? Not even once?" I said in disbelief.
"At all? That's not possible? Are you sure? Wait why am I even asking that? No one can ever forget if they were in love unless they have amnesia or something, but you don't have amnesia, or do you? No, I would know if you did. Ah, you're truly—"
"Oya, be quiet. See this motor mouth, saying a thousand words per minute," He cut me off in the middle of my nonsensical rambling.
"Sorry," I apologized, pressing my lips into a thin line as I mimed locking my mouth and throwing away the key.
"Good. Very good. You know, I used to have a crush on you back when we were in SS two and—"
"You had a crush on me? How didn't I know that?" I cut him off as I wondered how I had missed such an important detail.