My lonely world

chapter two

My brother dropped us and hanifa and hassan hurriedly left for their various classes. I am the new one so i have to find my class. Farouk followed me to the principal's office to get ID card,notebooks and textbooks and school uniform. As we were coming he said "are you sure you can find your class by yourself? i can follow you if you want. This school is wide". "no,its okay. i am sure it can be that hard. Thanks anyway" i replied. "okay, but haliyah were you really talking about boys? i mean about what hanifa said". "oh that one? i'm serious she really heard wrong". "no problem but please don't think about boys for now. You are still too young to have a boyfriend ok?". "of course bro,i know. I'm only 17.I wasn't talking about boys. I was just gisting with big sis. "good, if its about your sister,i'm sure amira knows whats good for her and also what to advice you to do. Amira is also young but she is not too young to get a boyfriend. so,you should wait till you are old enough ok? Boys will try to get your attention but you should know what you are doing and focus on your studies. Do you understand?" "yes bro. Thank you. i replied. "now go to your class. I will see you at home. Bye." he said and left. "bye" i yelled after him and turn around to find my class.

As i walked through around the school,i noticed the tall and huge building painted in emerald green and sky blue to compliment the school uniform. I must say,these buildings are wow! this school is really beautiful and neat. No wonder,its more expensive than my formal school. My formal school is beautiful and large too but bright future college is another thing entirely.The problem is i don't know if i can do this. I have start all over. Their way ways here,the students,the teachers and i don't even know if i can make any friends here. oh! i miss my friends from New horizons college. I hurried shrugged the thoughts away and continued on my quest.

As i was walking along the walkway,my eyes met with a girl looking lost in the corner that i realised,leads to the biology laboratory. She seemed to be the only one not in a hurry. I walked up to her and asked "Hi, are you a new student?. She looked up at me and smiled "yes. i am having problems finding my class"she replied. "well, i am a new student too and i am having the same problem. What class are you anyway? i asked. "SS3 science department " she replied.  "oh! we are in the same class" i informed. She smiled and offered her hand for a handshake and said "my name is muzeenah.I'm from the north. Kaduna precisely. Can we be friends?". I smiled and thought "i just got myself a friend. I guess things won't be that bad here" . I shook her hand and replied "i am haliyah.i'm from kwara state. Of course we can. "well then new friend,let's gef ourselves to our class" muzeenah said and we both laughed. We both walked together but it took us sometime before we found our class. We couldn't even ask the students as they all seemed to be in a hurry to get to the morning assembly

We entered our class and we realised that some students are still in class. We both found a desk and chair next to each other,dropped our bags in our desks and head to the assembly ground.

The assembly was about to end when we got there but we were there when the principal addressed us all. He talked on good morals in the school and also outside the school premises. He also talked on neatness and punctuality. He praised the students for their good popular academic performances and also congratulate the school for their newly won competition "the states champions" He called the winners. He concluded by talking about the new students "us" i thought and how we should embrace each other and always excel in our studies. The assembly ended with reciting the school's anthem and we all headed to our various classes.

We got to class and our class teacher was waiting for us. The class settled and she addressed us. "good morning class" she said ."good morning ma" we chorused. "okay i am here this morning because we have some new students among us and i want them to introduce themselves to the class. haliyah and muzeenah,please introduce yourselves. muzeenah stood first " i am muzeenah abdulkareem. I am from the kaduna state. I hope we can get along" she said and sat back. I stood and said " my name is haliyah kuranga. I am from kwara state. Its nice to meet you all. I sat back and our class teacher continued " good.I hope you all can accept them as one of you. The most essential is to excel. Do not forget that.From your timetable,i can see you have mathematics now. I want no noise as you wait for your math teacher. Good day" she said and left the room. " thank you ma" we all chorused after her. But just as she left,the murmuring started. Some pushed their desks towards a friend so they could gist,some started to bring out notes to copy,some had their heads on their locker probably sleeping,others are busy teasing themselves.It was as if the class teacher had not just left.

I started to bring out my notes and textbooks while waiting for the teacher. Muzeenah was doing the same. I looked at her and we both smiled at each other.

Senior year is going to be fun!