KNOCKING HEARTS

CHAPTER SEVEN

TRAVIS.

“Pay attention” her lips formed one time. Some one hit me from the back and I fell down, my eyes still on her, she laughed with her lips covered.

I knew she would laugh of course, she uncovered her lips and whispered sorry before the coach called for our attention and told us we were to hold on for thirty more minutes.

A smile never left my lips; I winked and turned to face the coach again only to realize Reagan’s stare. I glanced at him once and turned to coach. After him talking, Aida showed up with her usual playing, I glanced back once at Bibi and concentrated on my friends.

Since a week back, from the time she hugged Reagan, my heart had drowned, and my whole body boiled with envy. Every single day that passed, my eyes sat on the beauty besides me and it felt as if I was in a vacuum trying to push out yet wanted in.

Three days before the match, I was rummaging my desk for my new mathematics text book, I had placed it in my desk and nowhere else. I turned to my bag and drove the zip open before I heard Bibian’s voice.

“Looking for this?” She held a white text book in her hands. “I found it on the floor and thought you were in the library but you weren’t so…” she trailed before placing the book on my desk. “Any way here you go.”

“Thank you” I said and she smiled thinly then showed me her back before I called her name. “Do you have a minute?” I inquired.

It was getting cloudy outside. The wind blew her black blouse exposing her belly; she quickly pulled it back and placed a hand on it then the other on the face. “Wind can sometimes be funny you know.” I breathed.

Her laugh settled in my heart like the best memory ever. Its echo still sounding the whole room even when she stopped.

“It’s not funny.” She said in a laughter.

“But you are laughing at it.” I crossed my arms against my chest and lean on the desk.
“I swear I will kill you if you tell anyone about this.” She smiled.

“Don’t worry I won’t tell anyone that you have the most beautiful, hairless belly I have ever seen.” I said shoveling my hands into my trousers and sat on the desk with one leg on the desk seat while the other on the floor.

“What!” she covered her face with both hands. “You are pissing me off now”

“Sorry should I say, the smallest cord.”

“Stop it already” she punched me slightly on the shoulder as we both laughed. She pulled herself on top of the desk and rotated her body to look straight to me and then she bit her downer lip.

“Before you say whatever you wanted to say to me, I wanna ask you something” she played with her fingers as she stared at my blue shirt.

“Why weren’t you talking to me the whole of last week?” her voice strained, I knew that question came deep from her heart and I felt her pain. I was a fool who ignored her for the stupidest reason.

I put both my legs on the desk seat to face straight into her. “I am really sorry Bibi, I had a lot on my mind that I didn’t even realize I was ignoring you.”

“It’s okay, it’s just that you changed abruptly and I thought maybe I did something wrong to you”

“No no, you did nothing of course”

“Okay.” She smiled giving me more hope, her smile was healing. It covered all the memories of her and Reagan off my head. “So what did you want to tell me?” she asked still smiling.

“Well, I know this is none of my business but just asking, u know.” I trembled trying to collect up my pieces.

I had her and she was here with me, that’s what I always wanted and everything just happened to vanish and I could only see her and nothing else.