Twin Souls

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❗TRIGGER WARNING❗

Sanaa☯️

"You're such a good friend!" Ada squealed as I handed her a solved math worksheet. She quickly stuffed it into her bag before sitting on the floor with Chichi and me.

"I try," I replied with a smile. Call it strange but another person's happiness caused by me fulfills me.

I was blessed with the opportunity to spend my last weekend in Nigeria with the friends I made. We were ending our adventurous weeks with a send off sleepover at my house on a Friday night.

"How's Johnathan?" I asked Ada, wiggling my eyebrows. Chichi smirked at my question and Ada scratched the back of her neck, unable to send me a glare.

"He's fine. I'm completely over him."

"Of course you are," Chichi snorted as my lips twitched into a smile.

Johnathan was our school mate who was two classes ahead of us due to his intelligence. He was a year older than us and came as a new student this school year from England.

"I am. He doesn't even notice me."

"Maybe he doesn't because you don't want to be noticed. Everyone knows he has secret admirers."

"They don't know I'm one of them."

"Sanaa, did you just hear that? She used the present tense instead of the past," Chichi pointed out as Ada's eyes widened.

"Whatever," she said, taking a pillow shove her face into. "I'm a hopeless case," she mumbled against the pillow.

"What about you, Chichi? No one's on your mind?" I asked, shifting my body towards her.

"Boys are a waste of time," she replied with an eye roll.

"You won't be saying that for long," I sang. "I know girls like you."

"How do "girls like me" behave?" she asked, making air quotes.

"You have this mindset of boys being the worst creatures created."

"Aren't they?"

"To some extent."

"No one has been able to catch your interest?" Ada asked me, putting the pillow aside.

"Not really."

"Are you serious? You've been smiling a lot lately."

"Yeah..."

I was stuck on the regular dreams I shared with Abel. His intellect was quite outstanding for a young age and his presence ignited unknown feelings within me. I haven't been comfortable with sharing the thoughts I had with him but knowing my friends, they wouldn't let it go until they hear what they want to hear. I just had to find a way to mention him without mentioning him if that makes sense.

"I was thinking about a celebrity crush I've been dreaming about," was what I could come up with.

"You and your celebrity crushes," Chichi snickered. "Dreaming about him, eh? Sounds like you have a boyfriend in the 3D realm."

"God forbid!" I replied, laughing with her. "I've just been thinking about him lately, that's why."

"Or maybe he's someone important but you don't know yet," Ada reasoned. "Perhaps a soulmate."

My heart's pace increased at the sound of the word. "Soulmates," I mumbled, tasting the word against my tongue. I shrugged, ignoring the burning sensation from the pit of my stomach.