Forty one

I was almost out the room when I turned back to Lily because I remembered to ask something.

"Do you know if she has any lectures to attend tomorrow?" I asked her roommate.

"Uhm, no I don't know." I got a reply.

"Okay. Here, the car keys." I handed the bunch over to her and she took it.

"Her purse?"

"Oh yeah, shit." I gave myself self a facepalm because I knew it was still in the car.

"It's fine, I will just go down with you and get it." Lily smiled at me but I didn't smile back, I just nodded to what she said.

We walked slowly down the stairs, I followed her as she lead the way. She got to the car and opened it, I heard the car beep.

"Bye, goodnight." She smiled again.

"Yeah, goodnight." I stood there waiting to flag down a cab.

"Jerry?" I heard Lily again so I turned to answer her.

"Yeah?"

"Are you and Ann like serious?"

"Hmmn?"

"You know, are you guys in anything serious or you both are just like messing around for now?" I understood what she was asking the first time but I didn't want to answer that question.

Why was she asking? Didn't Ann tell her the kind of relationship we had? If Ann didn't tell her then maybe she didn't want her to know. Maybe Lily didn't know Ann was pregnant; it just occurred to me.

"Ask Ann." I tried to be simple with my answer.

"She already told me, I just wanted to hear it from you."

I chuckled when she told me that because there was great possibility that she was lying. If Ann told her anything then she would not have asked me.

"Goodnight Lily." I finished our conversation before getting into the cab that had stopped for me.

Getting back to the lodge, my thoughts went back to when Jessie kissed me. I didn't know how to feel about it now. I didn't know if I should tell Ann about it, she might be mad if she found out herself....but we weren't dating, officially at least so there was also no need to let her know.

I scratched my head as I went up the stairs, I didn't want Ann to be hurt in anyway, not physically and not emotionally. I knew she probably felt something for me too like I did for her, i overheard her roommate say it when I was at her place for the first time today.

If she liked me then she certainly would be pissed about Jessie, she couldn't know about her neither could she know about the kiss that happened before she woke up.

I started to contemplate asking her out to make it formal but what if she said no to me, I knew for sure how girls often reject guys they very much liked and I didn't want to be rejected by Ann, it would be too awkward.

I just sighed, what we have is really unusual. We were expecting a baby and trying to cope with school, neither of our parents know about it, we were risking our education and her life doing the shit we were doing. I've tried to talk her out of keeping the baby repeatedly before now but that was fruitless, Ann was as stubborn as hell with her decision.

All I could do at this point was hope she survives through all nine months, she was about to enter her third month, her bump wasn't visible yet but soon it would be, people will know, her friends and our course mates alike.

It's surely going to be hard for her, especially when we started exams but I planned to help her as much as I could, we are in it together.

"Who is it?" Dylan asked in response after I knocked on our room's door.

"It's me."

"You? Don't you have a name?" Was he serious now? He could hear my voice and most definitely tell that it was me standing outside.

"It's Jerry." I said so he could just open the door and he did.

"Oh, you decided to come back, I thought you were gonna spend the night at her place." He said with a sarcastic tone.

"She couldn't drive, I had to take her home."

"Why? To prove to her how much you care about her?" Dylan scoffed, taking his seat at the desk in our room, he was reading again.

"....." I didn't know what to reply him so I said nothing, taking off my shirt because I felt hot all of a sudden.

"Look man, I know I advised you to go for Jessie but if you are gonna hit her then drop Ann. Don't play with both."

"What?" I had to ask, his statement surprised me.

"Don't ask me what, come on, you have Ann in here and you are making out with Jessie outside, is that what you want to do now?"

Shit. He saw when Jessie kissed me.

"That shit is not the way it seems, I didn't make out with her, don't make it sound like that."

"How am I making it sound? Didn't you kiss her?"

"No, she kissed me. I couldn't stop her before she did. I don't have anything with her, I'm not playing with both, it's just Ann and I am not even playing with Ann."

"Come on man, you are telling me that she just kisses you?" He sounded doubted of all I just said.

"Yesss."

"It's not possible, I mean she can't just kiss you."

"But she did," Was he really not believing me right now?

"Let's assume that's true, do you....."

"No, no assuming, it's not something you assume to be true, it is true." I cut him short to correct him."..and yeah, what was that you were asking, what if Ann had heard you?" I remembered what he had asked just before Ann came out from the bathroom.

"I was asking because of what I saw." he defended.

*****

Heyy, it's your author geni. Please note that everything written here is nothing but fiction.Please vote as you read, comment your thoughts and don't forget to leave a review, I am very open to constructive criticism. I'm on all socials as @genika3na.