Chapter 5 LOVE COMPETITION

"What are you still doing inside the bathroom" I shouted at Erica from the room. I couldn't wait anymore. I opened the door and ran inside. I saw Erica's nakedness.

"Ahhhhhhh" Erica shouted, covering her body with a towel. "What are you doing here?"

"I don't want to be late for school today" I shouted back at her

"But, this is 7:20" She shouted again

"You can't understand" I shouted back. I quickly off my clothes. Erica was amazed to see me allowing her to see me naked. I looked at her. There is soap on her head. It seems she had not bathed finished. Suddenly, I removed the towel from her body and she screamed. I laughed out. And she slapped my buttock.

"Ouuuuchhh" I screamed. It pains me. I need revenge. She wants to run out, knowing fully well that I will revenge. I quickly slapped her buttock so hard that she screamed more than me.

Now, her face change. She got angry. "I don't like it," Erica said.

"I don't care," I said. "Are you not going to forgive your boyfriend again? Are you not happy because you wanna forgive him? Don't you think today is the best day which you can do that? Then why did you want to be late to school?" Her face changes again. It seems, she likes what I said.

And now, in the same bathroom, we girls started fighting for a soap. We cut the soap into two. It's felt like a competition. Even it was a competition. Because we started bathing - rushing - to know who would first bath finished. And we are just laughing. And we did it happily.

I won. And I started brushing my teeth. Immediately, she joined me too. But I still won and ran out into the room nakedness. Erica was surprised to see my attitude today. But she didn't understand. Or lemme say, she can't understand. The power behind my actions was from an invisible force. The force is powerful more than. And I surrendered. I surrendered to the power of love. And I can't wait to see Henry at school.

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"Run fast please" I begged the driver. Erica looked at me for about 3 minutes.

"Why?" Erica asked me

Should I tell her the truth? But if I explained it to her in a million ways, she won't and can't understand because I too, I don't understand. Yes, I don't understand how this love entered my heart. The love just entered like a thief in the night.

"You can't understand" I replied.

"Okay then" She smiled "Run faster please" She begged the driver. And I started gazing at her.

"Why?" I inquired

"You can't understand, with a smile on her face. And on her face, I could see t wait too to forgive her boyfriend. And then, like inside the bathroom, things change to competition again.

"My driver, please, accelerate" I begged the driver

"Please my baby, please drive madly" Erica shouted

"My sweetie... don't care... drive us crazily" I shouted

And as if the driver enjoyed our sweet words. He jerked the engine into another gear. And remove his leg from the brake. And then slammed on the speed pedal.

"Yay," We both shouted in happiness.

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"What do you want?" I frowned at Henry. And Henry was ashamed, his head bent down, gazing at the floor

"She said she didn't love you" Lucy raised her voice at him.

"So, leave her alone, because you don't worth her" Bella added.

Although my friends had already known the truth that I love Henry. But because I was pretending, they kept pretending too.

"Please, Sophia" He knelt with a flower in his hands. And I hissed at him.

"Let's us go Henry. She didn't love you" Micheal said. He was Henry's best friend. "Take heart men, let it go"

Henry obeyed his friend and stood up. He dropped the flower and dropped tears too. And he turned his back with his friend. Deep inside my heart, I couldn't wait to tell him that I love him. I ran like an antelope towards him. He looked back and I hugged him immediately. Then his tears flow.

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Writer's POV

"You think you can fool me" Erica shouted at Ben

"I'm sorry baby. Please give me one more chance" Ben begged her

"Don't call me your baby again. I'm not your baby. And I'm not your friend" Erica shouted

"Please, Erica, I know you can still love me again, please do" Ben begged her again.

"After you broke my heart many times. You want me to love you again?. This is nonsense" She said the last word with a louder voice.

"Please, I had changed, I won't do it anymore, please" He touches her clothes

"Don't touch my clothes. Kiss me instead" Erica smiled

Ben was so happy and kissed her. Then his tears flow like water falling from the mountain. And then love wins.