Chapter 12
Julie tucked her son to sleep as she hummed his favorite song. After coming from Masai Mara, she had drove straight home to Litein alone since they all had been angry on each other. So everyone had went to their separate ways. Geff and Jason back to Kisumu their work place and Grace went back to their house in Kapsabet, Nandi. They all needed their space. So a week later Julie ended her stay at home and convinced her mother to let her take her son with her so they could catch up for a while before the schools opened and that's why at the moment she was tucking him to sleep back in their mansion at Kapsabet.
"Have a goodnight son. I love you." Julie told Brandon as she kissed his forehead.
"You too mommy. I love you." Brandon answered as Julie switched off his lights then left closing the door behind her. She then headed downstairs to the kitchen where Grace was still cleaning their dishes.
"Hey do you need some help?" Julie asked Grace as she entered the kitchen.
"Nope. I'm actually done. Is Brand asleep?" Grace inquired as Grace took a seat on the kitchen stool just beside where she was cleaning the dishes.
"Yeah he is. I should probably take him for shopping tomorrow. I didn't bring him a lot of things back at mom's." Julie told her thoughtfully.
"If that's the case I guess I'll also tag along. I want to spend some time with that little angel too." Grace said in a gleeful tone.
" What about work? Aren't you going?" Julie inquired knowing that Grace had to be at work.
"I'm the boss Julie. I can always decide when to go and when not to go to work remember?" Grace said proudly as she wiped the dishes while putting them away on the cupboard.
"Ooh haha, I tend to forget that. Well I guess we are all going for shopping tomorrow then." Julie said while laughing happily.
"Definitely." Grace said happily as she put away all the dishes then pulled a kitchen stool and sat beside Julie. "So I actually meant to ask you what the hell happened between you and Jason the day we were coming back. You two seemed so tensed and I was wondering what happened. Just that I didn't want to ask you on phone when you went home to your mom's." Grace asked curiously making herself comfortable for the gist.
" I also wanted to ask you what had happened between you and Geff coz I noticed you were so tensed up too. " Julie replied back while smirking at her.
" Well, I asked first. So you go first then I'll tell you what happened." Grace told her stubbornly.
" Okay. Jason kind of met me flirting with some dude that day and he got mad at me. I feel like he had the right to be mad though." Julie answered recalling that day. They hadn't even solved the issue yet, since Julie had gone home.
"Come on Julie. You flirting with some random dude? That isn't you. Unless you forgot the meaning of flirting." Grace chuckled doubting if truly Julie was flirting with some guy. She knew her to well and she was sure she wouldn't even give time to any flirting guy.
" I'm serious Grace. I was flirting with some random guy and Jason found me doing so. Why would you think he was so mad at me then? You know that he isn't the type to be mad at the stupid things I always do but when it comes to jealousy, he can't help it." Julie explained while shaking her head in disbelief of his jealousy.
" Damn, girl. If that's true, what made you flirt with that guy? And where exactly were you even flirting with that guy? " Grace's curiosity was now starting to spike up.
" I was coming from my room after Jason had already left with my luggage. So as always I had my earphones on listening to some music with coffee in my hands. So I guess I wasn't really looking and suddenly someone collided with me and kind of spilled all the coffee on my shirt. So when I looked up, my eyes met with a guy who was, " Julie paused to look for a proper word to describe him." He was soo handsome and soo, damn I don't even know how to describe him Grace, he was just..... "
" He was damn hot. Just say it already. " Grace interrupted her while hiding the excitement in her voice. She couldn't believe that for the first time in years, her friend was finally describing someone as soo handsome. That meant something.
" Yeah I guess hot is the word coz I actually ended up calling him Hot Stuff which Jason heard me calling him and it drove him crazy that I was calling another man Hot Stuff yet he was standing right there next to me." Julie said still not believing that she's the one who did it.
" Jeez Julie, you even called him Hot Stuff. That's so shocking coming from you! " Grace exclaimed not hiding the excitement in her voice anymore.
" That's not even it. The shocking part is that Hot Stuff, kind of gave me his t-shirt to put on after he spilled the coffee on my blouse. And when Jason asked about the t-shirt I denied and said the t-shirt wasn't his but Jason again knew that I was lying as he claimed that you guys saw the guy when he entered the hotel so he knew that the t-shirt was his and beside that, he also saw him shirtless when he found us together. So me lying to him just right under his nose made him more mad that I didn't even know what to tell him anymore. Goodness k can't even be successful with getting away with one lie" Julie explained as he hit her forehead feeling so unlucky.
"Oh fuck! That explains the t-shirt you were wearing that day. I guess I saw a guy wearing the same t-shirt that day. He isn't African right? Very tall and well built, scary face and dangerous eyes. He is the one right?" Grace said in bewildered recalling when they had seen the foreign guys enter the hotel. She hadn't focused too much on what Julie was wearing when she entered the car that day, hence not suspecting that she had probably met one of the handsome guys who had somehow made Geff to be mad at her too.
"Well that's him but I wouldn't really describe him like that. His face isn't scary, it's just a serious handsome face and when he gets to smile you will definitely go weak on your knees. And his eyes ain't dangerous either. I would say they glow sexily with some kind of mischief and mystery in them such that when you stare at them, they seem to be seeing straight into your soul while drawing you to him with an unstoppable force. Such a hot stuff. " Julie described him still feeling awed at how someone could be so handsome. It even felt so nice to describe him and she couldn't even help it.
" OMG! Juls! You have a crush on him. Goodness, where did my I don't crush on guys Julie go? " Grace said with shock and excitement at the same time. She didn't even know how to react to her best friend having a crush on someone. She thought she was never going to get the feeling but seems like a stranger had made her have the rush feeling eventually.
"Don't be stupid Gee. I don't have a crush . I'm just describing how he looked. And stop calling me Juls by the way." Julie said while hitting Grace's shoulder lightly.
"What? You don't have a crush on him? Tell me you haven't thought about him a million times since you met him. Tell me you haven't closed your eyes and looked back at his charming smile and his glowing eyes as you say. Tell me you haven't taken his t-shirt and tried to sniff it trying to find his cologne in it. Tell me you haven't felt some warm chills every time you thought about him. Tell me you haven't smiled by yourself every time you thought about your flirty conversations that day. Tell me Juls, and don't even dare lie to me. I know you. " Grace told her seriously looking at her with a detective face that Julie couldn't even lie to her. All whatever Grace had stated was true. She hadn't stopped thinking about him ever since that day. The way his glowing blue eyes had bore into her soul, the bewitching smile he had on his face, the black beautiful hair that were tied nicely at the back of his head, the way his well built chest looked so sexy and even the electric feeling she had felt when he touched her. She couldn't help thinking about him no matter how much she tried not to. And that led her to always sniffing his t-shirt every time before she went to sleep. She even thought she was becoming obsessed with him but maybe Grace was right. She was probably having a crush on him.
"See what am talking about? You are already thinking about him and how hot he is. Now tell me Juls, are you still denying that you have a huge crush on that Hot Stuff?" Grace asked chuckilng knowing that she had cornered her friend and she wasn't going to deny that fact anymore.
" Stop it Gee. He is from another continent anyway and probably he was touring around so me having a crush on him doesn't matter. And besides, currently I unfortunately have a boyfriend who I have to sort out things with. So I guess that doesn't really matter." Julie said dismissing the issue but deep down, feeling some dissapointment to the fact that truly she was never going to meet him again. She didn't even understand why she was getting dissapointed over not having a chance to meet again with a total stranger from another continent.
"And that fact makes you disappointed right? Haha, you truly crushed on this one so damn bad Julie. It's been long since I saw you crushing on someone this much. If it were in my power, I would have done all things possible to make sure you meet with that Hot Stuff again. Too bad I can't perform miracles. " Grace said jokingly but deep down really wished Julie could have had a chance to meet with the stranger guy again. According to her Julie seemed to have been so taken with him that it felt like if she had the chance she would probably fall in love with him and it was all she had wanted for Julie all along. For her to fall in love again. Too bad she truly couldn't perform miracles.
"Gee can you please stop? I have a boyfriend remember?" Julie said hitting her again but deep down loving the fact that Grace didn't have any problem with her crushing on Hot Stuff. She even seemed to have been supporting it too much yet she knew she was now dating Jason.
" Fine fine. I know you have a boyfriend which apparently you haven't talked for the past week and you have to sort out issues. Sounds amazing indeed. Haha ." Grace said sarcastically while laughing
"Okay, that's enough. You really not going to stop. So how about tell me what happened with you and Geff that day? It's your turn now." Julie said changing the topic so Grace would stop pulling her legs.
"Hehe, you won't even believe it Julie." Grace answered smirking while shaking her head in disbelief.
"Stop tantalizing me with that information. What happened?" Julie was getting impatient.
"Those foreign guys are definitely gonna be the death of us." Grace said chuckling yet again.
"What do you mean?" Julie sounded confused. Of course she knew by foreign guys she probably meant Mr Hot Stuff but what confused her was how Hot Stuff could have been the reason for Grace's and Geff's misunderstanding too. Damn just the thought of it made her heart twitch in jealousy. She truly must have been having a huge crush on Hot Stuff.