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?
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss
He kept calling and texting.
Every day, he called and when I wouldn't pick up, he would text me.
He took care not to blow up my phone though. He would call once a day with the corresponding text message and the next day, there would be another one.
I wasn't supposed to be reading all those texts, but I read them anyway.
I would open up the texts even when I was with Reuben, not caring if he saw them but he never looked at my phone once.
There was never a time when Reuben suspected any deceit on my part and it made me feel terrible because I was already considering replying to Tobi's texts and going back to my vomit.
Feelings for Tobi that I had buried within me began to rise to the surface.
When I would kiss or make out with Reuben, it would be his face that I would see instead of Reuben.
I tried fighting those recurring feelings for as long as I could but eventually, I lost the fight.