Chapter 155

Tears welled up in my eyes. 

"Nothing," I answered.

Uche laughed, his eyes never leaving mine."It can't be anything, Julie. You don't just decide you're never going to speak to a person ever again and actually do it for nothing. I did something that hurt you, didn't I?"

I shook my head, and a tear escaped the rim of my left eye in the process, and after that, tears freely streamed down my face.

"So I did nothing wrong?" The sleepiness I noticed in his eyes had left and now, he was just shocked and...hurt, maybe. My chest tightened, and I found myself not being able to breathe like the first time I had his call coming in, but I decided not to pick up.

"I'm...I'm sorry," I muttered, not having the courage to even apologise properly because now that I was older, it dawned on me every day I woke up that I had no good reason to do what I did to him. I could have tried attending the same university as him and still stayed with my mum like he suggested...