CRUSHES & BULLIES
CHAPTER 1
5:30 am and precious is in bed sleeping, arms hanging off the bed, face down, suddenly her door was slammed open, precious jumped out of bed In fear, and behold.....it was her mum.
" precious!..." her mother Mrs zang shouted.
" I know, I'm awake coming tsk " precious sucked her teeth ".
"oya hurry up so you'll make breakfast for you guys" her mother instructed.
" ok ma" she answered as she stood up reluctantly and dragged her feet to the bathroom to pee, when she finished she went to the kitchen where she prepared noodles and eggs.
when she was done she served it to her brother.
" I have a morning shift so I'll be leaving now, make sure your brother and you are not late for school " her mother instructed.
"yes mummy ".
"ehm precious?".
"ma?"
" good morning oh" precious immediately knew she had messed up. " I said let me greet you since you cannot greet again ".
"mummy I'm sorry, I thought I greeted, sorry ".
"it's ok oh bye, I Left your break money on the table spoon, tell Kelvin to take his bath right now ba bye". her mum left for work at the hospital she's a nurse".
precious and Kelvin were done And by 7:30am they were already in school, she attends Baptist highschool and yes just as you guessed she's a day student. She walked into school and went quietly to her desk, she said hi to a few people, some didn't respond And some barely responded.. you should know precious is a very pretty girl and a neat one at that.
"Hi good morning" precious greeted her seat mate. Gloria.
" how far now precious?" Gloria pulled her bag for precious to sit .
" fine" answered precious.
"did you do that English assignment?" Gloria asked.
" yes I did "
" let me see, give me let me copy now abeg".
"why didn't you do yours?" precious asked with a calm tone.
" what's that? are you trying to insult me? because of that assignment that you probably did wrong? abeg get out!" Gloria pushed precious out of the way and left to copy from another person.
precious was just in shock as she sat down quietly, soon the teacher arrived, he taught them and left
Break time. everyone was out and mingling, precious just said in her desk, she did not care about socializing with people, she values her own space, as she was sitting, face buried Deep in her novel titled 'Goosebumps" figure began to form in front of her, she began to tremble, did I mention she was socially awkward??? she literally is. She finally decided to look up and when she did, she saw David! David manji. incase you are wondering who he is............drum roll he's only the most handsome boy in Baptist highschool, and he's standing here, beside her, and he's smiling at her and then he said....
"move a little".
Precious' POV.
"ok" I moved. oh my f.....God. I was shaking but I still managed to keep my calm, my heart beat got faster with each breath, it was like I had forgotten how to breathe. 'why does he want to sit with me?am I looking pretty today?. I began to ask myself questions, alot of them .
" what are you reading?" as he asked that I came back to the present, I zone out a lot BTW.
"it's novel....I.....I mean it's a novel called......................" Dammit I forgot the name, ok if I had a gun right now, I would put it in my mouth and pull the trigger. I'm way too tense to have a conversation, I mean, my crush was this close to me and was talking to me , I could faint right now.
" don't worry". he turned the back of the book and saw the name, I guess he's used to girls being nervous around him.
"Oh goosebumps". He smiled at me and I muffled, I was shrinking
"You know......you give me goosebumps". omoh my eyes lit up, so a guy is actually interested in me? For the first time ever, I almost thought I was invisible to men.
"ohh" I said to him and immediately regretted it..
" ok I'll go straight to the point" David started and my heart was back to pounding again.
"you see precious , you have big breasts and nyash
and me I like that so I want you to be my girlfriend".
now I'm thinking, wait a minute.....this is not how I pictured my first relationship, I thought it will be cute with flowers, just like in the movies but this is not the movies I guess and this is how people actually do it in real life, he's cute and I don't want to blow my chances of being with him, so I said.....
" let me think about it". Took courage and composure but I did it.
"think about it keh? it's either yes or no and I want the answer now! ". he TOOK his hands and touched my breasts and that made me feel bad but I didn't say a word).
"tell me your answer now". he's was quite persistent. my head was about to explode from the pressure, he was cute and all but he had no manners and I don't know about you but I won't take that, so I said....
" I'm not ready for a relationship yet so no I'm sorry "
"ok now no p" . he stood up like I did not just reject him, he left , as he left, the class began to fill up, break was over, I thought about the whole incident until school was over.
when I got home, I changed and ate lunch, still thinking about David and I, some part of me knows I did not accept him because he was too perfect for me, I mean why would he even want me. I was still eating my rice and beans when I heard a knock on the gate and I told Kelvin to get it. he did as I said and came back in with my best friend joy.
"precious guess who?". Kelvin said with beautiful sparks in his eyes, he was excited.
"tell me" I played along , smiling broadly.
"tadaaaa" he exclaimed as he wiggled his fingers dramatically and revealed joy.
" ok Kelvin thank you". I smiled, he went back to watching teen titans go and I led joy into the bedroom.
"omohhh your room is scattered oh precious, what is this?" joy asked, wowwwww she didn't even say hi to me and that's the first thing she's saying???.
"leave me alone, you sound like my mum"
"try and fix it abeg, your clothes are on the ground and everywhere, your books too, see where you kept your school bag ". she buried her face in her palm.. "In the middle of the room". She pointed to it, she was definitely disappointed.
"I'll try and fix it".
" ahhh better oh". Joy sat in my bed and started going through her phone. "ehen!" She jumped up in excitement.
" what is it?" I asked in curiosity.
"I just remembered chima's birthday is on. Saturday and he's having a house party".
" are you going?". I asked her.
" i have to go oh, he invited me personally" she answered proudly
"he didn't invite me so I'm not going".
" he said I should bring you along".
in case you are wondering, let me clear you. Chima is a guy in my area, that is a fine boy, a lady's man and girls were crazy about him, he was like 2 years older than us and he's also a crush of mine, I've crushed on him since forever and I didn't think he noticed me at all, infact I still don't think he knows who I am, so right now it's kind of a shock that he knows me and has noticed me but it's probably because I'm friends with joy.
"maybe I'll go, I don't know". I was seriously not interested i don't even party.
" please now" joy begged and I couldn't resist.
"oyanow ". I agreed almost immediately, honestly I'm easily influenced by joy".
" ok. what did you guys cook?".
" rice and stew"
"I want".joy licked her lips.
" ok now, let me get it for you ".I went to the kitchen and got the food for her.
" thank you. Ehen today in school I kissed a boy in my class, he has been crushing on me for a while now but he didn't know how to tell me so I made the first move. It was sooooo niceeeeeeee". she exaggerated. " might do it again tomorrow.".
wtffff come on girl.....you have a boyfriend!
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