I excused myself and picked the call right in front of uncle Sam. He just kept staring at me with a very straight face. I couldnβt really tell if he was angry or not. I mean, itβs just a phone call right. βHello?β I said when I picked the call. βHow are you meso? I just called to say hiβ senior Daniel replied. βI am fine senior Daniel.β I said. βNo, no, no. You donβt need to call me senior Daniel. Just call me Daniel. I am your school father now.β H said. βOkay, Iβm sorry Daniel. I wonβt call you by senior Daniel again.β I replied. βThatβs much better, my babyβ he said. βMy baby?β I questioned myself in my mind. βWhat are you doing? i hope iβm not disrupting anything.β senior Daniel said.
βIβm actually busy with my uncleβ, βOh!!! so sorry. Then Iβll call you later. Just call me when youβre freeβ He said and I replied with an okay before we ended the call. Dropping the phone back on the table, uncle Sam finally spoke up. βWho was that? your boyfriend abi? youβve started dating ehn?β βNo uncle Sam, Heβs not my boyfriend oo, I donβt have any boyfriend. He is just my school father.β I replied. βYou donβt know thatβs how it all starts. Donβt pay attention to them oo. You donβt know Iβm the one thatβll marry you.β He said with a smile. I just laughed because it was not the first time he was saying it and he reminded me of my dad. My dad would always say that to me when heβs trying to tell me to forget boys and not have boyfriends.
When we were almost done with our meal, uncle Sam cleared his throat and told me he wanted to tell me something. βmy princess, do you know I like you. I love you so much. In fact, my love for you cannot be found in this worldβ βUnc..β I was about to call him uncle Sam before I remembered he didnβt like it. βSam, (it still sounded weird for me to call him that but I did anyway), I love you too, we all love you. You are a very nice man. Even my friends tell me especially after you bought things for them the day you took all of us out.β I said. He just smiled when I stopped talking and replied, βNo, Meso, I donβt mean that. Iβ¦β¦.donβt worryβ I couldnβt understand what was going on or what he was trying to say, but he just smiled.
We finished our meal and waited for some time before we left the restaurant. When we got into the car, uncle Sam didnβt start the engine immediately. He looked up at me and leaned in closer to me. I thought he was trying to grab something from my side of the car, but he pecked me on my cheeks instead and whispered, βI love youβ. There was something different in his voice especially the way he said he loved me. it didnβt really sound like the uncle Sam I knew. He sounded more like a different man. I was just eleven, almost twelve so I didnβt really suspect anything. He was just my uncle afterall. He later started the engine, asking me where I wanted to go so I told him I want to go to the movies and so we left the scene. When we got to the movies, he bought me popcorn and a Pepsi and got the same for himself. It wasnβt time for the movie we picked to watch and so we went to check out some other things. The movie theatre was in a big shopping mall, so we decided to go site seeing and possibly buy something for Esther.
An hour later, we were back to the movie theatre. We took our seats on the third row, right in the middle. During the movie, uncle Sam kept on glancing at me. I just smiled whenever I caught him stare. I was enjoying the movie, so I paid little attention to what he said or did. I laughed almost every single minute and couldnβt control myself even uncle Sam noticed how much I was enjoying the movie. Two hours later, we were done and we left the cinema. Uncle Sam told me he wanted to get something from his house and so drove there immediately. When we got into his house, he asked if I was hungry. I laughed and asked him if he wanted to kill me with food so he got the message that I wasnβt hungry. He dropped his keys on the table and asked me to follow him to his bedroom. I didnβt see anything wrong with it because he was my uncle so I followed him.
We got into his room and he went to his closest immediately. I guess he wanted to grab something. I just went for the bed. I was about to sit on the bed when he said I should check in the drawers beside his bed for a blue paper. I was guessing it was an important document so I reached for the drawers and opened the first one. I didnβt see any blue paper so I decided to check the other two drawers below the first one. When I opened the second one, my eyes automatically became big. I saw a drawer filled with what looked like condom, although they were all still in its pack, I didnβt stop at staring. I decided to touch one and I realized it did feel like what they had brought to class one time during our integrated science period. My teacher had shown us a condom when she was teaching on a topic under reproduction. She made everyone get a feel of what it looked like. She didnβt encourage anyone to use it. Especially because we were still young so she wouldnβt expect anyone to be having sex but she told us that, it was one of the ways people prevented STDs or getting pregnant. To my guess, I concluded it was a condom. I turned back to see if uncle Sam noticed what I had seen, and just about that same moment I turned back, he turned as well. He looked down to the drawer and realized what I saw. My heart started pounding like I just saw the devil.
