Better Days Ahead (BDA Series Book 1)

Chapter 2...First Day Of School Always Suck

When I entered the school I saw the receptionist, a petite woman that is fair in complexion and has way too much make-up on with extremely red lipstick and was in a red dress I was waiting for her to notice me but she did not so I decided to greet her.

"Good day ma'am." I greeted with a small smile and she looked up at me before answering.

"Yes, how may I help you?"

"Ma'am I am Axymah seizer Adam, the new transfer student."

"Oh yes Axymah, I am Mrs Hakirah Baidah, I am the secretary, here is your schedule and a map of the school your locker is locker 209 have a nice day."

"Thank you." I took the stairs up and started my journey looking for my locker. The school is so massive.

I have been walking for like ten minutes, my legs are hurting I'm in so much pain from the beating I received this morning walking around is making me feel so weak and the pain is unbearable and on top of that the map Mrs Hakirah Baidah gave me is not of much help because I can not read maps. I'm malnourished and constantly beaten and tortured so walking for even two minutes puts me in pain but I have to walk from home to school and back I hope I don't die drop dead one day.

It is so confusing so I am just following my gut and my brain where that has gotten me in life I have no idea, after parading the second floor I saw locker 189, 190,191 and stopped at locker 200 my locker must be on the third floor.

I took the stairs up then immediately found my locker I opened it and put my books in it then took out only the books I needed, I checked my schedule for the day and found I have mathematics first great what a perfect way to start school, I started looking for my first class when I heard footsteps.

"Wait up! Wait up!!" I heard someone yell, I did not want to stop but I also did not want to seem rude so I stopped.

"I have been yelling for a while for you to stop."

"Sorry I did not hear you." I lied effortlessly.

I took a good long look at her she is chocolate in complexion and has long hair and full lips, she also has an average height and I must admit she is very beautiful unlike me.

She was wearing an ash coloured crop top and leggings of the same color she looked good I then unconsciously looked at myself and frowned but my actions went unnoticed by her.

"I am Alero Vincent and you are?"

"Axymah seizer Adam."

"Can you pronounce your name again?"

"Axymah." I repeated.

"Okay, your name is kind of hard to pronounce but I will try to pronounce it correctly, Azyma." She tried again but got it wrong.

"No! it is pronounced Axymah not Azyma."

"Are they not the same thing?"

"No they are not, Axymah is different from Azyma, it is pronounced Axymah... Okay just forget it." I said with a deep sigh.

"Can I just call you Azyma?" She asked dropping her hands to her side.

"Yes of course, what else will you call me?!" She rolled her eyes.

"What are you having for the first period?" I had to stop myself from saying the first thing that came to mind "none of your business" I really didn't want to offend her or be rude to her I'm in no position to do that anyways.

"Mathematics." I answered curtly.

"Can I see your schedule?"

"Sure." She scanned through it with furrowed brows.

That was when I found out I have all of my classes with her except literature, Government and physics, great.

We both have those classes on the same day but at different times.

"Okay let us head to class, we are running late." She dragged me along with her.

"You are the transfer student the new kid, am I right?"

"Yes you are, but how did you know?"

"I know everyone in this school that is how I know that you are new here you do not talk much, do you?"

"No I do not, I like to keep to myself."

"Oh I see, then you'll make good acquaintances with my friends and I let's hurry we do not want to be later than this." Did she just say friends? Oh no.

We reached the entrance of the classroom and Alero pushed the door open and went straight to her seat but I had to be introduced because I am the new kid

"Good morning students, I am your mathematics teacher from today onwards Mr clerk Jefferson."

The mathematics teacher was quite attractive, very tall and had a light complexion with long brown hair and golden eyes. I guessed he was not from around here.

I wonder what brought him to Nigeria, probably work, duh.

"You are the transfer student Azyma?" The teacher asked and that brought me out of my thoughts.

"Yes but no my name is Axymah."

"That is what I said." I did not even bother arguing about it.

"Introduce yourself to the class."

"Good morning everyone, I am Axymah Adam, I moved here from Lagos state."

"Why?" Someone yelled out, people just need to learn to mind their business you know.

The teacher asked me to ignore the person and he called the person to order.

"Go to your seat." I scanned the room for an empty seat and spotted Alero, she motioned me to take a sit in the empty seat after hers by the window, almost to the back of the class.

"Everyone bring out your textbooks and open to page seven, we will start from there, Geometry."

I paid attention throughout the class but from the corner of my eyes I saw some people passing letters to each other and smiling.

It is none of my business, I went back to listening to Mr Jefferson, "that is all for today." The bell rang and everyone stood up about to leave the classroom.

"Do the exercise on page 9 and 10 you are expected to turn in your assignment during class on Wednesday." I just resumed and I got to do homework on my first day 'how exciting' I said to myself in the dullest tone I could muster.

I headed for my second class not before Alero told me to meet her at lunch because I am having physics now the same routine went for physics but I did not see anyone throw papers at each other.

I saw a lot of grumpy faces. I guess a lot of students dislike physics but I have a mutual feeling about it.

The bell for lunch rang, I am just grateful to Mrs Anderson the physics teacher for not giving us assignments, she also does not look that bad she is also dark in complexion, medium hair length brown eyes full lip and she is a very nice woman. I shot out of class and was on my way to the cafeteria when I suddenly tripped on something.

I gathered my stuff and I stood up then found out I tripped on someone's foot, I was about to yell at the person for sticking their foot out just then I heard....

"Well well well look what we have here a little mice." A voice said mockingly.

I stayed quiet as I took in her appearance, wanting to hear what rubbish she would spew, she is very beautiful I must say, a little light skinned with brown eyes quite tall she is about my height, full lips she was dressed like slut that is going hiking after analysing her I gathered all my courage and answered her back.

"Who are you? And why did you stick your foot out?", I am not one to yell, or even talk but I was pissed off by the way she spoke to me "did mama not teach her little sassy pants some manners?" I heard a lot of Oh's that made me internally pat myself on the back.

"How dare you f**king talk to me like that?!!" She pushed me making me stumble a bit the b***h yanked my hair to the back bending my neck in a awkward angle.

"I have not properly introduced myself to little mice, I am Cyril Deborah but you can call me Debby gold that's what everyone calls me and no one dares to speak to me the way you just did bitch."

"Except me! Let her go Debby could you not find anyone else to pick on?"

"Come on West, can you not allow me to have a little fun? You are such a party pooper."

"Whatever just let her go, we are late for lunch."

"Okay bye little mice but this is not over." She spat on my shoe and left, disgusting.

I ran my fingers in my hair because it hurts from all the yanking she did, I gathered my stuff and stood up straight I was thankful to that West guy that came to my aid, I went to the cafeteria after that, it was huge I scanned the crowd for an empty table.

And I found Alero sitting with a girl and a guy our eyes locked and she waved at me, I awkwardly went to their table and she motioned for me to sit.

The girl opposite her has an average height, dark her beautiful glowing chocolate skin, big doe black eyes and big boobs with full lips and has really long hair while the guy next to her was very tall, a little light skinned and has really short dark hair with black eyes and full lips.

She introduced her friends to me, the girl is okoro Chidinma Dinela she scolded Alero for telling me her middle name which is Chidinma and proceeded in telling me Alero's middle name, peace.

"Don't call me Chidinma, rather call me Dinela." I held in a laughter as I saw the expression on her face, she looked like she was thinking of 'One thousand ways to kill Alero.'

"And this jelly right here is Eke Jude Austin, call him Jude." Alero motioned to the guy with glasses and snickered.

He frowned at his name "Call me Austin, Jude is my middle name." If looks could kill Alero would be six feet under by now, the dude was glaring daggers at her.

Alero then introduced me "This is Azyma, the new transfer student." She introduced me placing her hands on my shoulder, I stared at her hands for a split second before shrugging her hand off.

"The name is Axymah not Azyma."

"Nice to meet you Azyma." Dinela gave me a bright smile showing off her pearly white teeth if I didn't know any better I'd say she was making an advert for a toothpaste company.

"Its Axymah, my name is Axymah not Azyma, there is no letter Z in my name." I was getting really frustrated.

"Really? Are you sure about that Azyma?" Austin gave me a cocky smile.

"Yes, I'm pretty sure about that."

"You know what? Forget it, we'll all just call you Azyma, sounds good?" They all nodded their heads like Agama lizards and I smacked my lips at them in my head, they brought out their lunch I was a little ashamed to bring out mine.

I swallowed my pride and brought it out, they didn't comment on it as we ate in silence.

"Why did you move here?" Dinela asked out of the blue breaking the comfortable silence 'what will I tell her?' I don't want to start lying this is my first day of school, 'can things just go my way for once?'

I was saved from answering by a voice I was starting to dislike and it's just my first day here, In a blink of an eye soda and mashed potatoes were all over me and Debby Gold's last comments were; "Go back to the hell hole you crawled out from loser!!" She screamed from behind me laughing maniacally.

I ran out of there as quickly as I could and headed straight to the washroom, I cleaned myself as much as I could and cried my eyes out for awhile.

'Why do people hate me so much? I didn't even do anything to her? I'm a good and nice person, I don't deserve any of this why me? Why does everything bad always have to start with me?!!'

I just resumed here for God's sake!! I screamed louder as I grabbed her hair harshly causing my scalp more pain, I wallowed in sorrow, 'I'm so unfortunate I'm not destined for happiness what's all this?' My heart was heavy, my eyes were red and puffy from crying I got a hold of myself again I left there thinking 'could this day get any worse?'

I finished the second to the last class and headed for the last one which was literature, I walked in and Dinela looked at me with eyes filled with pity and so did everyone else. I know that I must look like a mess, I went to my seat and a piece of paper was thrown to my head I looked to see who it was of course, Debby Gold.

This day just got worse, she waved her hands at me sweetly before giving me the middle finger and a stink eye.

With a sigh I finished class, I rushed out of class but of course Alero quickly caught up to me.

"Are you okay? Please don't mind Debby gold, she is a bitch." She told me with a small frown. The rest of her friends came and we all walked out of school, each of them telling me how bad Debby gold is and how she always likes to torment the nerds and newcomers.

I felt better knowing it wasn't because of me Debby gold did what she did but because that's how she is that's her character and behaviour how sad, I said goodbye to them and headed home it was already cloudy with a chance of rain.

I tried to walk quickly but Alas I was drenched and shaking I got home and changed into fresh dry clothes.

I made lunch for my stepfather because if he comes home and doesn't see his lunch ready he'll beat my guts out of me, I sometimes return home before he does he'll be back from work in less than thirty minutes I presumed.

The last time I made the mistake of not making lunch for him because he wasn't home, he made sure I never repeated the mistake again, the bastard tied me up and beat me like a goat, a worthless animal, I am so glad he is not home I did my homework and by the time I was finished I heard the front door open, oh fudge!

He's home, I quickly put my books away and pretended to be asleep, I waited for him to come check if I was in my room or not but eventually fell asleep, sleeping is the best way to avoid him beating me unnecessarily after I'm back from school.