30.

O'Connell could still recall how he had first met Ronan at the restaurant. He knew it was something he could never forget. Plus how it all started between him and Ronan, the Scottish boy who had fill in the hole that was in his heart.

O'Connell blinked away from those thoughts, and could feel his eyes welling up with tears, as he hugged Ronan even tighter, on the day the boy had showed up with a box of pizza and wine. It was a week to get leaving for Nigeria, and he hadn't told Ronan yet. He was scared of how Ronan was going to react. He knew he couldn't stay in London with him, because he had alot of things to go tend at home. And all of this broke his heart even more.

His mom wanted him to come back to tend to his younger siblings. He was to be tutored in Maths, so he could write and pass his WASSCE, for him to get enrolled into the varsity the following year.

Thinking about leaving London, was making O'Connell sick.

He had come to love Ronan so much, t