INTRODUCTIONS ARE MADE

INTRODUCTIONS ARE MADE

~~XAVIER~~

Leaving the Dean’s office, I walked to the gate and hopped on my motorcycle while calling my mum. She picked on the first ring “Hi sweetie”, she said, putting a smile on my face for the first time today. “Hey ma, I have gotten my housing settled, I’m headed back to work, I’ll call you later alright?”. I cut the call when I heard her say alright. I went back to work under 20 minutes. I’m so glad that I was able to get a job here without stress because God knows we need the extra money. I walked straight to the back of the office, put on my tag and went to tell my boss I was back. ‘Welcome back, Xavier, how come you were so quick? were you able to finish what you wanted to do?’. I told her how everything went and she just laughed and said God is in control. I let her know that I would be going to her house in the evening to collect my things and move into the house on campus. When I saw my acceptance letter into this university, I kept asking myself where I was going to stay because I didn’t know or have anyone here but I guess the universe had its own plan for me. I never thought I would work in an eatery one day, and not just any eatery, the biggest in Tercoma, because I got so used to working in the repair shop with my boss back at home.

I clocked out from work by 6pm, so that I could have time to go to my boss’s house to collect my belongings, I didn’t really have much to begin with, I made two trips to the house carried my things in. I guess the secretary was right, it was exactly like a dorm room, there were two beds on each side of the room, two little student wardrobes, a bathroom and a toilet together, and a little student-like kitchen that had cabinets, a two-burner gas cooker and a cute little mini fridge. It looked more comfortable than I thought it would be. I scanned the room and chose the darker part of the room, since I didn’t like the sun reflecting in my face, I arranged my things and settled in, took a shower and slept off.

I woke up to hear the rattling of keys in the door, I quickly covered my head with my pillow and pretended to be asleep because I wasn’t ready to converse with anybody this morning. But I guess the universe had other plans because the moment she dropped her bags, I heard footsteps approaching my bed before I felt a hand tapping my back slowly. I grunted like I was just waking up [ meanwhile I had been awake for the past two hours since my body automatically wakes up by 5am], and turned to see a girl who in simple terms looked like a Greek goddess with her green eyes, tanned skin, long lashes, hips that could last for days, tiny feet and pink luscious lips, my eyes found themselves roaming her body until I got back to her face to see her looking at me with an indifferent face. I got up and she stretched her hands out to me with a not-so-kind-smile, “Hi, I’m Rachael, the girl you rudely bumped into yesterday and your new roommate”. I apologised immediately not because I cared but because I knew if I didn’t I was never going to hear the end of it and I didn’t need any extra shit to think of considering what already plagues my mind.

‘I’m Xavier’, I said. She nodded her head and I thought we were done with the introductions but she dipped her hand into her bag and brought out a notepad, then walked towards me and said, “So we need to set some ground rules if you don’t want to end up being killed by me, literally ”, I couldn’t stop the smile that tugged at the side of my mouth as I looked at her tiny barely 5’2ft body. I grunted a response and she took that as her sign to continue.

“So, my rules are; no visitors, no late nights, no noise if I’m asleep because I’m a light sleeper, no touching of my belongings without permission, no crossing boundaries, no form of relationship between us and no dirt- I hate dirt”, she said all these in one breath staring up at me, which I found amusing. Then she looked at me realising I hadn’t said anything and raised her eyebrow with her arms crossed. ‘Don’t you have any rules to add?’. I just shrugged my shoulders and turned my head saying ‘No’.” Uhm okay, that’s all I guess, I’ll think about some later on, but for now, these are most important, nice doing business with you”. I huffed and got up to have my bath because now I couldn’t go back to bed even if I tried a million times. I took my shirt off and immediately heard a high-pitched scream and turned to see her tiny hands covering the small frame of her face.