Chapter 21 My journey Continues 21

The meeting was indeed a lively one, it was a heart warming opportunity, they would play and laugh and discuss and rehearse at the same time, it was a one big happy family.

It was the only thing that cemented my stay in that church till now, no one dares miss that teenagers meeting then, especially when the queen is going to be around, external guys do come to join us just to watch the queen.

By then the queen was our teacher in the teens department even though some of us were 4 Year older than her but the kind of Wisdom she posseses is different from others.

She was extremely wise as a little girl, filled with big dreams and exquisitely beautiful, she was a true Definition of perfect Creation, as time goes on I began to realize that she and I had some sort of life in common, she lived a reserved life and self preservation was always my first instinct, I was always an esoteric type and I began to realize that she was also an esoteric type.

When I went home I was just thinking of how I could approach her, but it was so confusing for me to believe that I'm even thinking of approaching her.

I had been doing well in my working place, I was a fast learner my madam said, It didn't take me months to master the supermarket.

One day I went to work and I decided to tell my story that sounds like a Korean love movie to my two colleagues Richard and barrister, I began by telling them that someone is looking at me with a crushing eye, I didn't even finish saying what I wanted to say, the silly boy barrister picked me from the up and started laughing at me as if I was already mad.

When he began to laugh at me I felt so sad, and he said, what is the person looking at, is it this your catfish body has shrinked or is it this your black face or this your shortness that the person is looking at?

I started to regret why I had even opened my mouth at the first place to say that someone is crushing on me, I've not even finished telling them that she was the most beautiful girl in my formal street, if I had told them he would have laughed at me as if I'm crazy.

So I just had to finish the story anyways even if he wasn't listening to me since Richard was listening then I'm okay, so after telling Richard the whole story from the beginning he told me it's possible that she is looking at me but no one knows what she could have in her mind.

Two months later in the first Sunday in the month of March we came to church and was persistently looking at me, but this time I had been exposed a bit, so I had to put on some pride as a man and as an alpha male, I realized that the girl that was always sitting beside her was also looking at me consistently.

I became confused about the whole thing, I still had to respect myself and behave like a real man, after the Sunday service they announced that there will be teenagers meeting after service by 4 PM so that we can discuss about our annual teenagers Easter camp out in Abia province 2 of the RCCG Abia State.

We came in the evening as the instructions says, we started discussions on the upcoming provincial annual Easter camp out that lasts for 4 days, and it's probably the sweetest moment of our lives then in the teens department, it was a mass gathering of teenagers from different zones and different areas and different parishes in the RCCG Abia province 2.

We agreed to contribute 400 naira each for the registration fees for the camp, the registration fee is purported for the feeding of every teenager in the camp ground.

I've spent about 6 months in the church and I have not made any friends yet I was still being on my own observing everything and everyone and more especially learning, I have also worked in the supermarket for about 2 months and I've almost learned everything in the supermarket, I started getting closer to Richard because I noticed he has understanding more than barrister.

I had already informed my madam about the teenagers Easter camp out that will be coming up on the 12-16th of March 2015 and she agreed that I will go when it's time, I was so happy that I have gotten full opportunity to share moment with the queen.

The next Sunday I went to church and the impossible happened, I entered the church auditorium I searched for where I would sit down with my eyes and unbelievably the queen had already reserved a sit for me beside her, Immediately I tried looking at her direction I saw her pointing at the empty sit beside her.

She asked me to come and sit down there silently,I went there and sat beside her I didn't waste time before the ushers would say otherwise, while the service was going on I noticed she was steadily looking at me with her one side eye and I was also looking at her with my one side eye.

It was a very big challenge to me that I couldn't say a word to her even when I have seen it is what it is, I believe she has even seen that I was frightened and I couldn't speak out of fear, she silently asked me if I'm on Facebook and my username