"Becky?", Stanley's mother asked in confusion.
Wondering why Stanley and Becky could be fighting, she told Clara to take her baggage upstairs while she went in the direction of Stanley's room.
Yvonne had finished eating her food and she was feeling better than she did some moments ago.
She kept down her plate and emptied her glass of juice, she looked at Tasha who was making faces.
" Tasha I know that you have something in your mind to ask so spill", she told her friend laughing.
Tasha knew that her friend had caught her already, pretending to be too serious about looking for clothes.
"Tasha, I am still waiting for the gossip you have in your chest so talk now or forever dies with it", Yvonne said in a loud voice that her friend could not hold back the laughter that had formed in her throat that she gave up with one evil laughter.
The atmosphere was a calm and peaceful one as they had so much you hanging out together. With all the stress that she was going through, all she wanted was to relax and live normally for a day even though it was going to be her last.
The past few say have been hell for her since her dad told her all the things that he told her and she had realized that she was on her own as far as her feelings and hard work were concerned and she was molding herself towards that perspective.
" Hey baby girl, what is going on in your mind again?" Tasha asked feeling sorry for Yvonne whom she knows is naturally quiet but her quietness at that point was just too much Yvonne not eating seemed worried before her, and pressed her tears back in order not to seem weak.
Julie knew exactly what was doing and she did not want her to have the habit of always keeping things go herself so she stretched out her hands towards her and with a voice, she whispered to Yvonne that she was always going to be there for her no matter the situation because she had become like a sister to her.
Yvonne had never felt such an impact from a friend like she was feeling from Tasha and that was what finally pushed her tears out from her eyes letting her embrace Tasha like she was going to leave the work soon.
"Thank you so much for being such a wonderful friend to me and I intend to nourish it till the very end," Yvonne muttered at the back of Tasha's ears causing her to have a feeling of nostalgia as well.
Everything was going on smoothly till Tasha decided to spoil it by reading her friend with her crazy jokes.
Tasha who had known her friend for a long time now spoke softly at her back,
" We all thought that you and Stanley were going to end up as sweethearts even before our graduation but unfortunately that was only a mere thought", Tasha blabbed her tongue in wonder as to what her friend was going to reply.
Yvonne lowered her head as she thought of her old school days with Standley as the most handsome guy in school and her as the most beautiful lady.
Her classmates always called her SHE BEAUTY as she was vastly gorgeous with curves that even teachers wished to have.
"You both would have made a good couple as you were the only person who dared to put him in his rightful place", Tasha's narration reminded Yvonne of the disgusting quarrel she had at the canteen with Standley.
Standley was one proud and arrogant student who thought that everything had to be done his way as he had a group in school who terrorized students on campus.
He felt that he had control over everyone as his father was the minister of national security.
He always walked with his shoulder so high and a diminishing look till he stumbled on Yvonne one day at the Canteen.
She was not a new student but her calmness and innocence made her almost not recognizable except for older students who had been schooling there with her.
Standley had bumped into Yvonne and her tray of food landed on the ground he could not say sorry but instead pushed her head, telling her to look where she was going next time.
When Yvonne heard what he had said, she asked him if he could at least have the decency to apologize as he was the person who was not watchful over where he was going.
Standley taking it personally walked closer to Yvonne and spoke to her face asking if she knew who he was turning back to his friends who were hyping him.
The whole canteen had become silent as everyone felt scared for Yvonne because Standley, was a notorious person and no one could do anything to him as his father always intervened fully.
Yvonne spat on his face asking him to be near her one more time and he will regret what she will do to him.
Stanley and his friends were shocked to the core after the reaction that Yvonne put up.
Yvonne left her tray of food on the ground and walked away from him. She had not yet made two steps when she felt a strong force pulling her from behind as get hand was held behind tightly.
Standley had to defend his name and his honor by making her respect him as the others did.
Yvonne who could not digest the fact that he had held her hand, turned to face him and with a heavy slap, she spanked off his face so hard that he did a rotation before balancing well on his feet.
She looked at him and gave him the warning of his life that no one had ever tried to before.
Standley who could not bear the embarrassment got up and came to Yvonne to hit her and she doubled the slap.
Her late father had registered her in a Kungfu center for its steps to be instilled in her.
After doing that, she walked out of the canteen to her class. Standley stood there like a dog that had been rejected by its owner.
He could not believe what had just happened as everyone made a mockery of him so much that he left the school that day before its actual time.
" He got what he deserved as he always claimed to be a tyrant in school", a student murmured from under her desk.
Even the teachers were scared of correcting him whenever he did something wrong as they were scared that his parents were going to be informed about it and will withdraw their assistance from their school not knowing that, the father had nothing to do with his bad behavior.
His father did not know what his son often did in school but his mother was and she was the person pampering his behavior which made him so insolent towards his classmates and even his superior.
This encounter he had with Yvonne was the iron that beaches the camel's back as his true identity was finally revealed to his father when he was called for a P.T.A. meeting since his mother was out of the country at the time for medical reasons.
Standley, could not believe his ears and eyes when he was told that despite what had happened between Yvonne and himself, she still went ahead to file a complaint and demanded that her father and the parent Standley be convicted to school immediately.
His father's shock was immense and Her father arrived furious at what Yvonne had narrated over the phone knowing that no one had the right to hurt his only daughter, he stormed to the school in an uncontrollable rage.
"What are you telling me, that my son is a tyrant here in school?", Yvonne could vividly remember the reaction Standley's father had put up in the office that day.
The teachers realizing that his father was not aware of anything he was doing wrong as his mother was always the person to answer to the convocations that were being given to him, decided to narrate got chaos in the school and among the students in the institute.
He was tongue-tight probably because he did not expect a day like that to come and lowering his head he could not utter a word. Yvonne had dealt with him in the worst of ways and he could never forget that in his entire life, Never.
The meeting was a long one as everything that he had been doing, started to pop up like wildfire and there was no hiding place for him again. Holding his head up in shame, he had no clue of what to do anymore, so silence was the inky option that he could come up with.
His dad was in a made state and to say that he could punch his son in the face was an understatement, as he had assigned the school officials to give him a bigger punishment that was going to make him wish he had never done such a foul thing to a fellow student.
The retrospective side of the story, made both ladies laugh out so loud like witches.
Gael was bent on meeting with Yvonne that day though he had initially said that he was not going to over to her apartment his mind could not stop bothering him to do so.
He was very disturbed and thinking about the possibility that she might have given the offer to someone else whereas he was in the news, which made him want to see her by all means. His breathing was going up and down and though he was not certain whether the offer was still available, he just wanted to meet with her so that he could be sure about not being a candidate again for the post.
He walked quickly as fast as his legal could carry him and not looking back, he was already at Yvonne's building waiting just to walk into the reception hall to inquire whether she was at her flat but the enthusiasm was not in him.
"You can do it, man, it a not easy to do something like this but just think about your grandmother and everything will be okay," he talked about it to himself. He wanted to meet with Yvonne so badly but did not want to seem desperate before her, so he manned up and got into the building.
Meeting the receptionist, Gael greeted her politely and asked whether he could talk with her for some seconds and she agreed. His face was looking somehow worried about something but she could not place her hands on it, as it wasn't seen her concern in the first place.
He asked about Yvonne and whether she was at her apartment as he is fried and wants to see her. The receptionist not wanting to think about his looks told him to please give her a second to find out and he nodded in acceptance.
She was kind-hearted and did not make him feel worthless like some of them do whenever they see a poor person in front of them and he was glad for that. He waited for some seconds while the lady rang her lodgings phone without receiving any response so she hung up and told him that she was sorry but Ms. Yvonne was not around at the moment.