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Chapter 12
We all rushed towards the scene that was empty.
"Where is she?!" I asked looking around.
The girl bursted into laughter.
"April fool!" She shouted as she ran into her room and locked the door.
"Abi this girl is mad ni?!" Kanyinsola shouted angrily.
"It is not even April yet! She is definitely mad!" Queen blurted out also angry.
"If I beat her now, you people will say that Dupe have started again!" Dupe said blinking her eyes profusely.
"I can't believe that she had all of us fooled." Aminat said.
Others hissed and went into the room.
I was just speechless but inside, I was also fuming with anger.
What nerve!
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Throughout the school week, all that was on everybody's lips was about the dead baby found in the toilet.
And as expected of typical Nigerians, the real story was so twisted that even the people that witnessed it first hand was confused as to which was the real story.
If not because I witnessed it all myself, I would have also believed some of the fake rumours.
Some people said that the girl actually gave birth to the baby alive and pounded her with mortar in the toilet.
Another news was that the mother actually wanted to defecate and the baby came out instead.
Another one was that the mother already gave birth to the baby two days before she poisoned the baby and then dumped her.
Some other people were been hilarious by saying that she had used lots of abortive pills and the baby refused to flush out such that when the baby even came out, all of the pills used were enclosed in her little palm.
Naija people no go kill person with stupid and fake rumours.
What was bad about the whole matter was that our teachers wouldn't stop looking at female hostelites as if guessing if it was this one or this one.
Even the guys were suspecting all of us.
Oreoluwa walked towards my seat as he usually did whenever we had a free period. He had been doing that ever since the night we talked and me being me had already been feeling and acting like we were dating, it was not like he was stopping the rumours being spread about us dating.
Ore wasn't his usual cocky and playful self, his whole self looked disturbed and restless.
"Ore, why are your looking so disturbed? Hope all is well?" I asked acting like a worried girlfriend.
'As if he even asked you out!' My inner voice taunted me.
"Nothing o! I am just perplexed about all that is happening in this school. A private school for that matter!" He said demonstratively.
"You still call RPHS a private school? Abegi (I beg), this is a correct public Ajepako (poor) school." I said.
"But Tiwa, who do you think could have been the mother, ehn?!" He asked looking at me suspiciously.
"Ehen! You too?! So you are also suspecting every hostelite, shey?! Is it with this flat tummy of mine that I carried a baby abi (or) how did the baby even want to get there? I haven't even ever had s*x in my Life!" I blurted out and as if just realising my last statement, I covered my mouth.
Oreoluwa's body vibrated with laughter.
"What are you covering your mouth for? You think I don't know? It obvious enough." he said choking on his laughter.
Was it that funny?
"Toothpick! Come o! Your attention is needed here!" Peace shouted in an embarrassing manner. She was seated amidst Queen and others.
That girl knows how to ruin special moments.
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Well, I guess that girl had us all fooled.
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