FORBIDDEN LOVE 4

Continuation…….

I excused myself and picked the call right in front of uncle Sam. He
just kept staring at me with a very straight face. I couldn’t really
tell if he was angry or not. I mean, it’s just a phone call right.
“Hello?” I said when I picked the call.
“How are you Meso? I just called to say hi” senior Daniel replied.
“I am fine senior Daniel.”
“No, no, no. You don’t need to call me senior Daniel. Just call me
Daniel. I am your school father now.”
“Okay, I’m sorry Daniel. I won’t call you by senior Daniel again.”
“That’s much better, my baby,”
“My baby?” I questioned myself in my mind.
“What are you doing? I hope I’m not disrupting anything.” senior
Daniel said.
“I’m actually busy with my uncle”
“Oh!!! so sorry. Then I’ll talk to you later. Just call me when you’re
free”
He said and I replied with an okay before we ended the call.
Dropping the phone back on the table, uncle Sam finally spoke up.
“Who was that? your boyfriend abi? you’ve started dating ehn?”
“No uncle Sam, He’s not my boyfriend oo, I don’t have any
boyfriend. He is just my school father.” I replied.
You don’t know that’s how it all starts. Don’t pay attention to
them oo. You don’t know I’m the one that’ll marry you.” He said
with a smile. I just laughed because it was not the first time he
was saying it and he reminded me of my dad. My dad would always
say that to me whenever he was trying to tell me to forget boys by
not having boyfriends and facing my studies.
When we were almost done with our meal, uncle Sam cleared his
throat and said he wanted to tell me something.
“My princess, do you know I like you. I love you so much. In fact,
my love for you cannot be found in this world”
“Unc..” I was about to call him uncle Sam before I remembered he
didn’t like it. “Sam, (it still sounded weird for me to call him that
but I did anyway), I love you too, we all love you. You are a very
nice man. Even my friends say so, especially after you bought things
for them the day you took all of us out.” I said.
He just smiled when I stopped talking and replied, “No, Meso, I
don’t mean that. I……(taking a long pause)…….don’t worry”
I couldn’t understand what was going on or what he was trying to
say, but he just smiled. We finished our meal and waited for some
time before we left the restaurant. When we got into the car,
uncle Sam didn’t start the engine immediately. He looked up at me
and leaned in closer to me. I thought he was trying to grab
something from my side of the car, but he pecked me on my cheeks
instead and whispered, “I love you”. There was something different
in his voice especially the way he said he loved me. it didn’t really
sound like the uncle Sam I knew. He sounded more like a different
man. I was just eleven, almost twelve so I didn’t really suspect
anything. He was just my uncle after all. He later started the engine,
asking me where I wanted to go so I told him I wanted to go to
the movies and immediately he drove there. When we got to the
movies, he bought me popcorn and a Pepsi and got the same for
himself. It wasn’t yet time for the movie we wanted to watch, so
we went to check out some other things around. The
movie theatre was in a big shopping mall, so we decided to go site
seeing and possibly buy something for Esther.
An hour later, we were back to the movie theatre, taking our seats
on the third row, we sat right in the middle. During the movie,
uncle Sam kept on glancing at me. I just smiled whenever I caught
him stare. I was enjoying the movie, so I paid little attention to
what he said or did. I laughed almost every single minute and
couldn’t control myself even uncle Sam noticed how much I was
enjoying the movie. Two hours later, we were done and we left the
cinema. While we were seated in the car, uncle Sam told me he
wanted to get something from his house and so we drove there
immediately.
When we got into his house, he asked if I was hungry. I laughed
and asked him if he wanted to kill me with food so he got the
message that I wasn’t hungry. He dropped his keys on the table and
asked me to follow him to his bedroom. I didn’t see anything wrong
with it because he was my uncle so I followed him. We got into his
room and he went to his closet immediately. I guess he wanted to
grab something, I just went for the bed. I was about to sit down,
when he said I should check in the drawers beside his bed for a
blue paper. I was guessing it was an important document so I
reached for the drawers and opened the first one. I didn’t see any
blue paper so I decided to check the other two drawers below the
first. When I opened the second one, my eyes automatically became
bigger.
I saw a drawer filled with what looked like condom, although they
were all still in its pack, I didn’t stop at staring. I decided to touch
one and I realized it did feel like what they had brought to class
one time during our integrated science period. My teacher had shown
us a condom when she was teaching on sex education and
reproduction in which she made us get a feel of it. She said she
wouldn’t expect anyone our age to be having sex but just told us
that it was one of the ways people prevented sexually transmitted
diseases or getting pregnant. To my guess, I concluded it was a
condom. I turned back to see if uncle Sam noticed what I had seen,
and just about that same moment I turned, he turned as well. He
looked down to the drawer and realized  what I just viewed. My
heart started pounding like I had seen the devil.
To be continued………..