Ryan's Loneliness (Episode 2)

Days flew by and it just kind of happened, I was beginning to get used to Jane, she never cared if I was going to respond well to her or not each time she greets, she kept greeting anyways, and those free periods when we wouldn’t have any teacher around she would always try to spark up a conversation with me knowing fully well I wouldn’t talk, I would keep smiling, maybe she was enjoying the smiles I had no idea.


          With time we grew fond of each other, each time I was going to school I would get two snacks one for me and one for Jane, I would greet her and we got talking, we became so close and my boring lonely life transited into a fun filled life- all thanks to Jane. Finally, I had someone to share my dreams, fears and secrets with, so we exchanged phone numbers, we talked on phone for at least  30mins each day and we also chat late night on whatsApp that never stopped my reading and other basic chores, well about Jane I really don’t know but she was also a really intelligent lady.


       At some point things really took an unpleasant turn, Jane didn’t show up in school for about two weeks, and I was really disturbed again nobody to shear my burdens with. Unfortunately for me, I couldn’t reach her on phone, she don’t know my home address neither do I know hers. So I had to reverse back to my normal lonely life, I had no choice than to get over it and try to move forward, I was so lost in my thought that I didn’t even notice when mum came back home from work .


        She went upstairs had her bathe I guess and changed her dress, I was so surprised when she came to me “my boy what bothers you? You look so depressed” she said “I’m fine mum” I said “that’s not true” she said, she had noticed me for the past few weeks, I have been a lot happier than I was at that moment especially when I’m with my phone, she asked “is your phone faulty?” “no ma” I said  my eyes brightened the more knowing that even as we don’t seem close they always  watch me and they have me in mind.


I opened up to her, told her how I got to know Jane and how she had caught my whole attention, mum was so amazed she smiled and asked “what is sad about making a new friend?” I told her about Jane’s sudden absence in school and how I have been trying to reach her and it all proved abortive, she patted me on the head, “don’t worry my boy it’s going to be fine” she said I felt relived and I placed my head on her shoulder and I was relaxed something that happened last when I was 5 years old.


On Friday, the day that succeeded the one where me and mum had our conversation, in the evening my longtime lost cousin Edward was found, (just kidding) Edward and his family have been my closest relative, Edward and myself met last when we were 3 years old, and now we are 15 that has been a very long period of time, unlike me Edwards is not the only child his parents have, though he was the youngest he has two elder ones both outside the country where they school.


We left our parents in the living room we went to my room; we played ps3 the one mum bought for me for topping my class the previous term. We got talking, talked about football I’m a Liverpool fan while he is an Manchester united fan, talked about school and my lonely boring life too he made jest of me and said I’m a guy that I shouldn’t dull myself I smiled and pretended I didn’t hear him, they were about leaving and he invited me to just a small gathering with some of his friends and their friends too.


That takes us back to where we started, waking up from, I went straight to the dinning I was so sure the maid would have prepared breakfast, I took breakfast and off to my room had my bathe dressed up ready to roll, I couldn’t wait for 3:00pm the time we scheduled to meet, I read, played game, slept woke up went back to sleep 3:00 seemed like its taking forever to come, 2:45pm mum asked the driver to take me to the place where we were to meet and told him to look after me that nothing must happen to me, when we got there I called Edwards on phone, he came out smiling happiness written all over his face he was so happy to see me, taking me to where to where is friends were seated, and to my greatest surprise………………………………..


(To be continued in episode3)