Chapter 6 You Smile Alot

Aunt Iyanu dropped me off at a Supermarket to get her body cream for her, she instructed me to get back home as soon as possible because of an important meeting she was having and wouldn't be going home again, so I'm making food for tonight.

I walk through the aisles and shelves of creams searching for a 55H+ and finally stumble on it at the top of the shelf, and from the look of things , I won't be able to reach it, I might not know my height but I'm aware of how short I am, especially for a thirteen years old girl. I make my way to the back of the aisle of creams to look for a tall supermarket assistant who would help me take the cream, I stop in my tracks.

" Hey, Urhm ---Glory", he says smiling while holding a bottle of perfume

"Good afternoon senior", I learnt earlier this week that it's better to refer to him as a senior rather than sir, although he can be intimidating...ly handsome.

"What are you doing here?", he asks still smiling

" I..emm, i came to buy a cream for my aunty",

" Oh really?"

I nod.

" that's nice, glad I bumped into you today", with the perfume bottle still in his right hand, he crosses his arms. "So how are you enjoying Crystalline so far?, hope no one's been giving you any trouble "

" No senior, I'm good, it's been okay", I answer a little too timidly for my liking.

"The assignments?",

"They're okay, I've been able to finish most of them, that's , the one I missed"

" Yeah, same thing happened to me too that's why I asked", he unfolds his arms and drops the bottle on the counter then puts both his arms into his hoodie.

"So where will you be going from here, Glory?", his full attention is now on me, I shrink

"Home?"

"You want me to drop you off?"

"No I'm okay, I'll just walk or take Keke or something", I reply " it's nice to meet you though senior Adam, I should be going now". I make a turn to leave and he stops me. His hand holds onto my arm for a while and then he removes it before I can fathom what was happening.

"I'll drop you , and I'm pretty sure you don't know your way around here"

" How do you know?", I ask suspeciously

He smiles, he's always smiling.

" I just guessed", he shrugs, "well, you did say you came to get something for your aunt, and with the way you said it, like your tone, it means you stay with her and you're not living with your parents..which means...you just came here to stay with your aunt, Miss Glory ", he ends with a smile

"That's a fast guess, ...but ....you could be wrong"

" How?"

" It could be possible I've been staying here but going to a different school..."

" Is that why you're looking for a cream on a Perfume shelf?", he raises an eyebrow. God I'm mesmorized by how beautiful this boy is, he looks a lot like his brother but his lowcut just makes him different. I get carried away.

"Hello?"

"Sorry,... I got carried away",

" Yeah, I noticed "

He notices everything.

" I actually was at the cream shelf before , I just came to...", I stop , I had totally forgotten why I cane here in the first place, "sorry senior, I actually came here because I was looking for a way to get the cream from the top of the shelf, I can't reach it"

" Yeah", he says laughing, " you're small" , " I can help you with that though", he starts to walk ahead of me, his hands still in his hoodie, " come-on".

"Okay".

....

He helps me with the cream and even offers to pay advising me to keep the money but I refuse . I thank him and pick up the cream and we go out together. It's already getting a little dark outside , it must be around six now, I should start heading home so I can cook before Aunt Iyanu comes back.

"I thought you wanted to buy a Perfume, you didn't get anything" , I ask, looking at his empty hands .

" Yeah ..I forgot about that, I'll just ask my driver to come pick it up later"

" Won't you be stressing him?"

He stares at me for a short while , about five seconds then smiles, " yeah but , I didn't come with him and besides I don't want to go in there again, I'm already out and it'll be weird.."

" I like your accent", I say from no where, I had not even thought of saying it, it just came.

"Thanks?", he says , taken back, "well, I like your accent too"

"That's not true", I say smiling, " _you're just being nice, my accent is very... Nigerian "

" Yeah, and the Nigerian accent is very nice... and for the record, I'm not being nice, it's actually the truth, it's a fact, miss", he bends down to my level , " hope you're going to... grow taller than this though "

" I'm still thirteen", I reply laughing

"Well, I've heard stories..."

"I'm different",

" Okay ma'am", he says in a sing-song form

" Come-on I should really drop you off, you're aunt is going to be furious ".

He walks me to a small black benz parked outside the Supermarket and presses a button on the key, motioning me to come closer as he opens the door to the passenger seat.

I open my eyes, "This is your car?"

"Nope. It's my Dad's actually , I'm just borrowing it, ..com-mon'", I hesitate a little and look up at him before going inside and then hear the door close before I feel him seat beside me. He turns the car on.

The car is breath taking. If I thought the outside was nice, then I don't know what to use to describe the inside of this wonderful car. I've been in a car before , considering the fact that my aunt just dropped me off in her car but I have never in my entire years of life being in such a comfortable beautiful car before. The seats are red, and the dashboard and every other thing in it is wood brown. The whole keys or whatever it is called is glowing like mad and the a.c, oh God, I can live here.

"Your car is really nice",

"Thanks"

I turn to him, "I can't believe your parents will give you such a big car".

" Well, like I said , it's not my car..it's my Dad's car, I'm just using it for now ",

" I don't have any money of my own, it's all my Dad's ", he faces the road, " you should put on your seat belt"

"Oh yes, thank you, I forgot".

" So where do you stay?

"I stay at Ikate Elegushi ", thank God my aunt told me earlier, I'm really bad at directions

"Really?"

"Yes"

"I have a friend that stays at Ikate Elegushi, but stays at Montego Bay 3 , he's a good friend of mine", he turns the steering using his right palm, to take a bend, that's was really cool, I smile. "Do you know Alpha?", he asks , turning to me for a while and focusing on the road again

"Nope"

"Oh, yeah that's true, you probably haven't met, he's a good guy, really cool, one of the first friends I made when I came here".

" Ohhh", I nod not having any idea of what to say again.

"Yeah".., "and we're here", the car comes to a stop. I open the door and come out and he does the same.

"Thank you very much Senior Adam, I really appreciate",

" You're welcome miss Glory", he says smiling.

" You smile alot",

" I do?", he asks patting his cheeks

" Yes",

" Is it a good thing or a bad thing?",

"What?....it's a good thing, very good, you're also very nice too and I like your eyes , it's gold and beautiful"

" Wow, you have a lot of compliments for me today Miss Glory", he laughs, " I'm very happy you think of me that way, that's cute, ..thanks", he stops to look at me for a short while. "Well, you should be going in now, I don't want to keep you waiting here so your aunt doesn't catch you with a boy outside by this time".

" Thank you very much", " thanks alot for today, I really appreciate "

" I think you've said that before", he laughs and gets into the car. " Bye miss Urhm..Glory", And he zooms off.