Crushing Hard.

I guess it's because of it is the season of love , that's why we have a lot of topics asking about love and stuff. So I decided to tell my story too.

So it happened that this girl Shakira became my next house neighbour, initially we didn't talk, I would be upstairs at my one place and would always bsight her every activity, in truth Shakira was a very beautiful girl , she was a Muslim and I a Christian, I was this shy guy in the area, well to me I wasn't shy , but when I hear how other describe me, I always laugh in my head. Yes I was gently in every way , but shy... that was another whole kind of adjective to describe me.

After many days and weeks of sighting this girl in her house , outside her compound, I decided to give talking to her every shot I could shoot. That's day I already spotted her packing first inside a bag and I knew she was going to the rubbish bin outside the house, so I decided I was going to do same ,so I could get the chance to talk to her. And off I went.
Outside the house, I did as if I was fixing the things that had been poured wrongly on the ground and I saw her open her gate, I was still bending down when she walked towards the place I was standing, her bag of dirty was big, as she tried to carry the dirt while alos trying to open the lid if the dustbin, I offered to help her , cos at least I was a gentleman man.

She said a very soft thank you, and that was my cue "Hi, I'm cohl, I guess you guys just moved in right?" I asked.
"yes we did about 6 months ago, my name is Shakira" .... And this was the beginning of a friendship) crush like relationship.

After some days we exchanged numbers, since we were still teenagers, we werent Allowee to use our phones often, so we always found a place to sit and talk, some times I would walk with her to the market , or whenever she wanted to buy something , or she was being sent on long distance errands, we would trek to the place ans then use what was suppose to be her tfare to buy water and snacks on the way just so we could talk.

I and Shakira never did anything pass holding hands and yes I liked it at that, she then told me one day, how people said I was a shy person and that it's strange they even see me outside the house, my parents were always busy with work, they knew I wouldn't leave the house without their permission. So I told her maybe I changed for her, and she laughed.

We couldn't go pass this out relationship because she was a Muslim and the difference in religion made her have this distance , though she didn't say it plainly but I got the message. I liked that she was like my first crush and because I was proud to always be seen with her.

She still has a place in my heart even after many years later. Now not in a romantic way , but as someone I knew.

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