We both left for my seat, leaving Emeka hanging there, looking all hopeless and shocked as how I just came and took the girl he was trying to impress and woo.
I would pay a million dollars to see the face Emeka made in a permanent portrait hang on my wall. it was just so priceless really but I am pretty sure he will not give up so easily. As I said earlier he is very competitive especially when it comes to girls, he always have this saying
’ Every girl has a price, and he is every girl's dream. '
What a guy! So full of himself.
“ So why did you leave your former school, didn't you like it there? " I asked her once we were seated.
“ I love my former school and I didn't want to leave, but I had to leave because my dad wants me here."
I could sense the sadness in her voice. I wonder why her father would want to make her daughter sad, then I remember that her father is Mr President, the same man who derives joy in the tears of many school children.
This is no man. He's a monster. Those were my thoughts but unknowingly to me my facial expression had changed while thinking about Mr President.
“ What's wrong, you seem angry. Did I say anything wrong?"
“ No is not what you said, I just remember something in the past." I lied.
“ Would you like to share?"
Huh??
This girl has just put in a tight spot with that question. Should I tell her it's because of her dad? I am angry that I hated her father with a lot of passion. She will surely hate me too.
Should I lie? But I was never a good liar, she will know i'm not telling the truth, I decided to be honest with her.
“The truth is your dad.. " I was stalling as I was trying to figure out how to say it.
Suddenly a familiar figure walked into the class. Miss Esther, a youth corper who is teaching us English. I quickly stood up and greeted her first and Sandra with the rest of my classmates joined me.
Everyone loves Miss Esther because she is friendly and she never brings a cane to her class. There are other reasons why we like her, especially the boys because we boys find her hot and sexy. We do tell her from time to time in a funny way how hot she is and she seems not to mind.
“ How are you all doing? I hope you enjoyed your weekend and you didn't forget to do my assignment." She said with a lovely smile.
Oh shit!!! Assignment?? I totally forgot about Miss Esther assignment, and I am 100% sure she will call me out, cus unlike other subjects I am pretty good in English language and she just likes calling me, maybe because I always smile at her in her class.
However I pray she does not call me this time around cus I don't want to embarrass myself in front of Sandra.
“ So I want someone to come out and talk about the importance of democracy in Nigeria."
Total silence filled the classroom, it seems no one did Miss Esther assignment as well, maybe because we know she won't cane us or maybe we all enjoyed the weekend that we forgot about school work. Any case this is bad news for me. I saw Miss Esther gaze fixed on me, this can't be good.
” Chris, can you help your classmate out?"
All eyes were fixed on me including Sandra's. I wanted to say no, but somehow that felt more embarrassing than actually making a total mess of myself in front of the whole class so I stood up.
It can't be worse than crying like a girl I said to myself.
“ Alright let me try, ". I said all the while trying my best to keep a smile on my face,to put a form of false confidence.
For about 5 minutes I kept on saying things that came to my head. Each time I glanced at Miss Esther's face there was always a smile on it. I am actually pulling this off.
“ ...so these are the reasons why democracy is important in Nigeria. " I concluded..
The whole class applauded me and I felt I had won a million dollars.
“That's wonderful, simply brilliant. That's why I like you Chris. " Miss Esther said, smiling at me and I smiled back at her.
“Now I want someone to say what he/she learnt from Chris' presentation?"
She looked around and then called out to Emaka.
“MA, I..I don't know what to say."
The whole class burst into laughter including myself...
I went back to my seat and the look on Sandra's face was that of amazement.
“You didn't tell me you are smart."
“What can I say..... I don't brag." I smiled.
I was really happy that I didn't embarrass myself and that Sandra had forgotten what we were discussing early. Someone tapped my back. It was my best friend Ayo.
“Chris, you did the assignment?"
“No I didn't." I replied.
“How come you said all that you said?"
I laughed softly, “I just said what came to my mind, most of them were from movies I watched."
“Bad guy. So when will you start your revenge on our teacher's daughter?"
Oh shit!
I have totally forgotten that I told Ayo about that, and I don't intend to go on with the plan again but I don't want to look like a ‘woman rapper' so I lied.
“Very soon, I have gotten her trust, which is the first part of my plan. I will soon teach her a lesson she won't forget."
“Wow, you're the boss, so you don't like her?"
“How can I like her? God forbid." I lied.
I felt bad for saying such things but I don't want to look weak in Ayo's eyes.
I figure she wont find out
But had I known what would happen next I wouldn't have said that to Ayo.
After having that weird conversation with Ayo I went back to my seat to meet Sandra.How can I possibly hurt someone as beautiful and lovely like Sandra, it's been more than a day but it feels as if I had known her my whole life, I could tell she had 5 smiles.1when she is smiling normally.2When she is smiling, something slyly just happened.
Tuesday morning.There was something about this morning the sky is not as bright as it should be this should be 6:00 am but everywhere is still dark, I check outside my window and outside was just as dark as the inside, I quickly turned on the lights in my room to check what's say the time on the wall clock.... But to my surprise it was only 1:00 am!I haven't slept at all, how could I sleep? when I was having nightmares about Sandra.There was one where she was flogging me with her father's cane. Mehn that was horrible, there is no way I can sleep again. I have to just stay awake till 6 am before taking my bath....The time passed slowly but finally it was 6 AM, I quickly went to take my shower, had breakfast and then rushed off to school.Due to hectic traffic on the road I didn't reach school on time I barely made it for assembly, I kept wishing no one had told Sandra any thing, when I finally got to school the prefects had already arranged stud
The principal could not believe what he was hearing, his face was that of disgust and fright as he was trying to take in what Emeka just said.I on the other hand was prepared to defend myself from such despicable accusations, I won't let Emeka ruin my life with his evil lies, because of this unhealthy jealousy he has for me.Emeka had always been jealous of me since I could remember. It started when we were both in junior secondary school (jss). Back then Emeka was like the king of the school, he was rich, handsome and was good at football, he had many friends and the girls were always flocking around him but his fame didn't last long because due to the crisis in the North (Boko Haram) my parents had to relocate, leaving their business and everything they had.We moved down to the West to live in Lagos. Life wasn't really easy at first as my family had lost a lot of money because everything we had was in the North but later on both my parents got a job al
I got home that day, told my parents what happened. I must admit it was not easy telling them, especially when I had to tell them I have been suspended from school for 2 weeks and that the principal had asked for one of their presence in school.My Mom was just so angry and disappointed,shouting and cursing Emeka. You know how mother's used to behave, while my father was as calm as calm can be, he didn't say more than what was necessary, he asked when he needed to be present in school and gave me some advice on life Matters...TWO DAYS have passed since I was suspended. My parents and I had gone to meet with the principal, and I was fined 30,000 naira for fighting and disturbing the peace of the school. I told you my principal knows how to get money involved in everything, yeah such an opportunist.My dad paid the fine and we both headed home.. However, on our way out of the school compound, a Range Rover Sport 2022 model was just making its way into the s
“Ahhhhhh!!!" That was the sound I made while forcing myself to get out of bed for two weeks now I have been waking up any time I please, the earliest was around 10:00 AM but now I had to force myself to wake up around 6 AM, some part of me wished the suspension continued, but it was for the best it ended, because I was eager to see Sandra and explain myself to her regardless of what her father had said earlier. She must have calmed down by now, she would listen to me I guess.I sluggishly took my bath and fixed a quick breakfast before I took off to school....Arriving at the school gate.“Ahh," I took a deep breath wondering what awaits me at the other side of the gate.Has my name been cleared? Or have they added more lies to my head? All these questions kept entering my head as I opened the gate and went in.I noticed people were talking about me as soon as I walked by them, I tried to pretend as if I wasn't hearing or seeing t
When we arrived at the hospital we went straight to the ward where Ayo was being treated. His mum was there with him and I heard she had not left her son's side since the day he was admitted to the hospital.Ayo lay unconscious in the bed, only still living because of the mechanical oxygen being passed through his nose by a machine. It was horrible, I didn't know when tears started licking from my eyes. I felt really pity for Ayo but more for his mother. It's never easy for a mother to see her son lying in a sick bed almost lifeless without being able to do anything to help him.On seeing us Ayo's mom was happy, she told Ayo that visitors are here to see him, that his best friend, who is me, is here to see him as if Ayo was able to see or hear anything she was saying.However I do admire her optimistic spirit, she still believes her son can still pull through from this and I want to share that belief as well.."It's nice you came to check on my son,
In my room reflecting on what happened today, having mixed feelings of joy and sadness. Joy because I have patched things up between myself and Sandra but sadness because of the state in which Ayo was in.I wonder if I will ever hear his voice again, then the thought of me and Sandra almost kissing came to my mind like a flash which made me smile in the midst of my sadness.“Miss Esther just spoiled the show."I said out loud to myself.I wondered what Sandra's lips would taste like? I closed my eyes and started to visualize I was holding Sandra in my arms and about to give her a kiss....Knock!!knock!!What the FUCK! I can't even kiss her in my own imagination without being interrupted!“Who is that!!!!" I said in a frown.“It's me," I heard Felicia voice say.What can this girl possibly want? I wondered. Guess I will have to find out.“Come in, the door isn't locked."Felicia walked
Two days passed, me and Sandra had become very close, but she wasn't yet my girlfriend, hopefully I should ask her out this Saturday if everything goes as planned, the inter house sport practice was still on going so in a week we only have lectures on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday while Tuesday and Friday are for inter house sport practiceEmeka have been quiet since is as if nothing had happened between us, I know it most hurt him seeing me and Sandra together despite all he did to separate us but I don't think he will give up that easily so I always watch my back,sadly Ayo's condition hasn't improved despite doctors effort, they have even advice his parent to cut off his life support cus they see no sign of improvement, but his parent refuse to pull the plug that still kept there son alive although this treatment it's very expensive, I don't know how long they can keep that up.I am really sad for Ayo and I wish him the best but that doesn't mean I can't have