" what happened to you cub?" Lena mother asked her.
"Am Wolfie mum not a cub, can't you make the change if you want to call me different names?" She protested.
She ignored Lena's protest. "Since the time you came from school you've been zoning out." She explained.
Lena mute the TV volume before looking at her mother seriously. "What is love Mama?" She is new to the word love.
"My cub is in love? Love is complex, there is no guaranteed recipe for love dear.
The strangest thing is that love comes in different forms. The waiting love, the hurting love, the pure love, the unrequited one and the fake love. But as time went by, you are the one to answer which love were you dealing with.
Waiting love is where it gives you hope of the future but slowly it breaks you living you alone, crying deep in to the nights, even fearing your own shadows.
When you have waited for nothing it turns into hurt. The heart becomes the biggest victim before the brain could.
But when you have waited for long and got hopes it becomes pure and strong to fight all demons in life.
The worst love is the unrequited love and a fake love. Loving someone who in turn love the other is a puzzle or loving someone who lies to love you is pain.
What is your type dear." She looked curiously at her daughter, her gossip nature revived.
"I didn't ask about types but what is love." Lena answered arkwadly.
"I don't know, me and your dad didn't date. That time it was late at night when he gave me a lift but it was raining heavily so he took me to his combo and that's how we became couples."
" Couldn't you just lie and say you met on social media or search for any romantic story you know of mum." She felt embarrassed at them.
"Why should I hide the truth?" She looked confused.
Lena sighed. " I'm going to my bedroom ma."she said as she stood up and head to the second floor.
Lena took her laptop before typing on how to fall in love, how would you know you are in love, what is love and how love feels.
She read all the answers she got but she felt something was lacking.
Heart racing, check.
Knowing what they like check.
***
It was another new week of school even though the year was winding up to the end.
Lena as always came to school but she looked different.
She wore mature clothes with her hair braided in a ponytail.
"The two of you look different today." Caren told her when they were sitting in the football pitch.
"The two of us? Who is the other person." Lena asked.
"Gael, who else."
Lena paused in drinking her ice water.
"How is he different?" She asked curiously.
"Are you talking behind my back again." Gael voice was heard.
Lena turned and looked at him, he really was different.
His dyed hair was now dyed back to black and his ripped clothes were now changed to non ripped ones.
"You look new, no my mother will say you look Holly." Lena laughed while imitating her mother's voice.
"All our memories of auntie's are dark I never want to remember." Garl complained while sitting beside them.
"Is it that time she always forced you in wearing girls clothes or when she made you sit down and did your overgrown hair?" Caren asked amused.
"He did like it, now he is complaining like his childhood was his black history." Lena said.
Gael face darkened at how they made funny of his past.
"Where is the yesterday chic?" He changed the topic.
"Who?" Lena asked.
"That Vera girl." Caren replied angrily.
"Why are you looking at me strangely Lena?" Garl fidgeted.
"I'm wondering why you are asking about her whereabouts from us ?"
"Isn't it my passion to investigate, stalk then to date." He said.
"I thought you distanced yourself from women after last time incident?."
"I did distance myself, can't you guys even see it for yourselves."
"Then why are looking for her?"
"Just curious, she is too pure to my liking, my type are the bad girls ones."
"What incident?" That piqued Caren's interest. She wriggled her eyebrows seductively.
"Hey spare my reputation Lena". Gael protested though already too late.
"Don't you remember that time he came when all his face was swollen"
"I do, didn't he brag to our group girls how he was experimenting on traditional method to increase our behind?"
"Yeah that time"
"I remember, that day he looked too funny. he told us the best way is to smear honey on our behind then we walk near a bee hive?"
"Yeah "
"So you mean there were more to the story. Now speak don't put me hanging."
"He was dating a soldier's wife,they were new in our estate and apparently he didn't know she was married,so one day the soldier came home earlier than his usual visits then boom he caught them in the act , Gael was beaten badly and to make matters worse the soldier removed all his clothes and chased him naked in the street"
"Is there any evidence?" She looked at Lena with an accusing eye.
Rolling her eyes she retorted "don't give me that kind of an eye and rephrase your sentence"
"You know me Lena, so did anyone take pictures or videos I need them asap"
"They did but you know his dad is in government everything was wrapped up"
"What a bummer!" She looked dejected.
"So how does that matter explain why he should distance himself from the other gender?"
"For his dad to wrap the matter he was told to swear never to date "
"Okay and he just did!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah he was desperate at that time"Lena replied in a calm manner like that was to be expected.
As Caren and Lena gossiped about Gael and K-pop idols her eye glimpse at Alex shadow.
"Bye." She hurriedly stood up and followed after him.
"She is acting differently." Gael commented.
"She is in love with that cold sissy." Caren grumbled.
"That boy is bad news." Garl clicked his tongue in annoyance.