17

"Babe." Josie walks close to me with the cup of coffee right in her hands.

She drops the cup of coffee on the bed and kneels close to me.

"Josie." I hold Josie's hands to apologize to her.

"Why are you crying?." Josie surprisingly asks me. I look at her shocked.

Maybe she didn't know what I said before she came, maybe she just came when I turned to look at the door.

I remove my hands from hers and use it to clean the tears rushing out of my eyes like an ocean. I look at Josie who is expecting an answer.

"Well, Josie I'm crying because-because i-i fe-felt so bad for my friend dad I mean mom,I mean dad died." I stammer nervously.

"Really,who's the friend?." She asks me looking concerned making me feel so guilty for lying to her.

"A friend of my in work." I lie to her again this time scratching my hair with my left hand.

"What's his or her name?." She asks again.

"Her, its a girl and her-her name i-is hominy." I lye to her after thinking of one hominy grit my mother did for me when I was young.

"Hominy, sounds so much like hominy for hominy grit, how do they spell it." She asks me causing me to crack my beautiful brain for a pronunciation.

"H." I start as Josie nods like I'm doing a spelling Bee and I was asked to spell something I don't know."o." I stop as Josie nods again.

"M." I manage to crack my brain for those three words now I don't know what to say about the rest of the words.

"Is that all?." Josie asks as I shake my head embarrassed for lying to her. "Then continue." Josie tells me then I smile nervously. I crack my brain to remember some more words.

"I." I drink a sip of my cup of coffee. "I need a cup of coffee to make me stronger." I tell Josie to keep her waiting.

"N." I take another sip of coffee.

"Y. I mean I." I lie to her then she laughs.

"Homini such a weird name." She tells me then I laugh nervously.

I get a call on my phone and I look at it. Its Kelvin. I smile then look at Josie who seems to be thinking of Homini. I pick the call.

"Hello." Kelvin's awesome voice rings in my ears. He's so handsome. He's the best. I love him but I don't know how to tell Josie. She'll hate me.

"Hello." Kelvin calls again snapping me from my thought. "Are you there Josie.?" He asks me then I smile.

"Yes I am,I'm so sorry, I was thinking of something." I confess to him.

"Thinking of what?." He asks me. "Whatever." He stops his question.

"What happened? Do you want something? Or should I come to work?." I ask him not knowing why he'll call me if not for work.

"No silly its not about work." He tells me laughing.

"Then what's it about? Why do you call me if its not about work? Why would you want to call me if its not about business?." I ask him really confused.

"Its,um well I'm having a big party tomorrow morning by seven and since there's holiday at work for two days tomorrow and the day after tomorrow so I just decided to do a party tomorrow." He pauses like he chuckled. "And bring your sister with you."

"Oh my a party I love parties,I'll bring my sister."

He hangs up then I turn to look at babe who seems to have drank my coffee finish.

"Josie." I call her in annoyance.

"What?." She asks me for calling her then I sigh.

"Well Kelvin called us to attend a party he's doing tomorrow." I tell him holding the cup of no coffee in it that Josie might have drank it.

"Really?." She asks me jumping as I lie on the bed in annoyance.

Josie jumps up like a baby. "I'm meeting Kelvin, the love of my live, he might propose to me." She says causing my head to blow in fear. What if he proposes to me?. I ask myself. What will I say? He doesn't love me so he can't propose.

******

"Shall we dance?." Kelvin grabs my hand and we both start to dance but it seems like we're too close to each other the way we're  dancing.

I look around to look at everyone looking at me and not just looking at me but also taking videos of it.

He stops dancing with me and kneels down with one leg and the other leg almost kneeling own but is not kneeling down with a really expensive ring on his hand.

"Will you marry me?." He asks me then I look at him really shocked.

"Babe,Babe." Josie's voice rings in my ears as I open my eyes. It was all a dream. A really scary dream.

"Let's go." Josie tells me as I look at her surprised.

"Where are we going to?." I ask her.

"Come on to Kelvin's party." She reminds me,I hope my dream doesn't come true,well it can't come to pass.

I stand up.

******

I sit on a chair in Kelvin's party.

"Hi." Kelvin comes to meet me sitting close to me.

"Hi." I look at him trying to maintain my distance between the both of us.

"Why are you just sitting here doing nothing? Why not go to the dance floor and dance for a little?." He asks me smiling.

"Well um I don't feel like dancing." I lie to him,I actually feel like dance but I don't want my dream to come true.

"Why don't you feel like dancing?." He asks me holding my hands.

"Um, that's because I don't feel like dancing,I already told you."

"Just one dance,please." He pleads with me looking at me with one puppy eye he has.

"OK." I accept his plead at least one dance can't assure that he'll propose.

I go to the dance floor with kelvin as he begins to dance with me and we seem to be too close to each other like my dream even closer to each other than in my dream.

"Why are you dancing like this?." I ask him scared a little. I look at everyone looking at me and not just looking at me but also taking videos of it.

The light turns off I can't see anyone, the light turns back on and I see Kelvin kneeling with one leg and the other leg not kneeling down but almost.

"Will you marry me?." He asks me,this is just like my dream.