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Chapter 23.
Sunday came as fast as it could and I had no choice than to resume back to school after two weeks at home, I had a lot school work to catch up to.
Exam was fast approaching and it was in less than four weeks, I guess Life just goes on?
My brother dropped me in front of the school hostel and I hugged him tightly like my life depended on it, I was crying so hard like I would never see him again.
He kissed my forehead before giving me a pep talk,
"Be good, baby and don't hesitate to call me if anything goes wrong or if you need anything. I'm just a phone call away. Meanwhile, read your books and don't keep bad company. Make me Proud! Make mum proud!"
He hugged me one more time before he got into the car and zoomed off, I watched the car until it was out of sight.
I cleaned my tear stained face with my palms and proceeded into the hostel, dragging my box behind me.
A reasonable amount of girls were sitted outside their rooms gisting, it was a sunday afternoon afterall.
Their eyes followed me as I walked down to my room, peace welcomed me with stupid questions.
"Is that your boyfriend? See all the love love you were showcasing, so it was honeymoon you went to do for two weeks? And then you lied that you're sick, wayward girl. What if Ore saw you?"
I simply shook my head since I was not in the mood for bantering.
Queen nudged her telling her to shut up.
"That's her brother!" She said.
"Whaoh! Your brother is so cute, where did you get your own ugliness from?" Peace said yet again.
"Can't you just shut your mouth for once? She's mourning her mom for God's sake!" I looked up to see the owner of the voice that said that and it was the person I least expected, it was Eniola.
"What kind of friends are you girls? You didn't see her for two good weeks and you didn't care to call her or even try and find out what could have happened to her? Tiwa, are these the kinds of friends you keep now?" Ugoma questioned in dissapointment.
Peace was suddenly quiet and ashamed and everyone suddenly looked at me with pity. It made me feel even more sad.
So non of them actually knew except Enny and Ugoma?
"We are so sorry, Tiwa, we didn't know anything" Queen apologized looking so sad like she could feel the pain I was going through.
"Oh! So you thought she went home to celebrate a wedding ceremony for two weeks, abi?" Eniola snapped again.
She was taking this too personal, I didn't even notice that nobody from school called me. It just wasn't something I even thought of.
She had never liked Queen and her group. She always said back when we were close friends that the only reason she was the most brilliant girl despite all her escapades and unseriousness is because she sleeps with all the male teachers. But we all know that she only said that out of jealousy since Queen still beats her in academics despite not acting so serious like her.
I guess it sucks to be the second best girl.
"What is your problem sef? Why are you carrying all the matter on your head like this? You just enjoy causing turbulence, abi? Am I a witch that should automatically know what happened? Aren't you also her friend? Why didn't you call her too? And since you knew, why didn't you bother to tell anyone? Pot calling kettle black! Hypocritical nincompoop!" Queen shouted already so annoyed at Eniola.
Big grammer madam!
"Oh please! I'm not such a hypocrite who would be ciculating such sad news! Meanwhile, I'm not her friend!" Eniola replied and left, Ugoma followed her.
Queen hissed and came to my side for a hug, I didn't do anything, I just allowed her to hug me even though I didn't hug back.
Zainab sat on my other side while Peace and Fumbi stood in front of me, our other roommates were acting like they weren't listening or hearing what was happening.
"Don't worry, we are going to help you in writing the notes you've missed and I'll explain the topics we did in Maths, Physics and Chemistry to you." Queen said even though Peace and Fumbi looked unpleased at what she said, they didn't object.
Whatever Queen said was final.
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