Drama in Royal Priesthood

18

Chapter 18.

A week after mid-term, Oreoluwa and I had been going strong even though we never even kissed, we were keeping it as PG13 as possible. We enjoyed eachother's company and spend most of our free time in school together and sometimes after dinner. The whole school practically knew me as Ore's girlfriend.

Meanwhile, the more I got closer to Ore, the more my friendship with Queen and her group got strained. Not that she was ignoring me, we just wasn't as close as before and she wouldn't talk to me unless I did so first.

I get that she likes Ore but does she feel like I've betrayed her or something? And is it even worth loosing our friendship for?

Well, I guess I meant nothing at all to her.

I explained this to Ore one day while we were chatting and all he said to me was that I should stay away from that group of girls, that even though its oblivous to me, it was pretty obvious that they all hated me. I didn't believe him though, I mean was it even possible for Queen to just hate me just because I started dating her crush? I wouldn't even hate her if she was the one dating him. That would be too extreme.

I have also noticed one thing that Queen and her group does these days, they come together to have conversations without me and even when I try to tag along, they completely ignore me or whatever ideas or gists I lay down. And I knew that it was all intentional, I then stopped trying to fit in.

The huge bell started ringing continously signaling an emergency assembly as the Juniors ran out of their classrooms onto the field and we, the seniors walked gracefully to the field.

We cannot come and die.

Ore winked at me when I passed by him while he was ringing the bell and I just smiled at him shyly.

"Hunhun, this love na wa o!" Boiling ring sang beside me while I just slapped his shaved head in a joking manner.

Meanwhile, the rate at which we conduct emergency assemblies in this school, ehn? We were almost competing with emergency cases in hospitals.

Emergency assemblies had never been conducted in order to announce a good news, 'na so so bad news we dey hear!'

We all assembled on the field under the cool weather, the sky was rumbling and threatening to rain anytime soon. I hoped that they were just fast with whatever they wanted to announce.

Mrs Nwosu, the vice principal stood in front of the school dressed in her beautiful igbo attire, it was a friday afterall. I guess she was allowed to pass across whatever information the management has due to the fact that Mr Ibrahim was on a sick leave.

Mrs Nwosu was a very beautiful fair slender woman whose dressing was always on point. She was also a very nice person who hardly shouts at students yet gained respect from every single one. She taught Basic Science in the Junior secondary school so I hardly came in contact with her.

She cleared her throat and began to talk, 

"I wouldn't want to keep you guys waiting due to this weather..."

Well, another thing I liked about this woman was the way she always goes straight to her point instead of beating around the bush like someone we all know.

"So due to that, I'll just go straight and tell you why this assembly was called, we've caught the person who dumped a dead baby in the toilet..."

She was interrupted by whispers and snickers from both teachers and students, our curiosity was heightened and we all looked around wondering who it was.

"You won't know who it is if you don't keep quiet!" Mrs Nwosu snapped as we all kept quiet immediately, everybody just respects this woman a lot without her even bothering to shout nor beat up and down like Mr Ibrahim, she just earned that respect without asking for it and I don't even know why and how.

"Thank you, the culprit is no more within the school premises, she has been arrested and is in police custody..."

Can students who are not even up to eighteen years go to jail? 

"The person is no one other than Miss Bolarinwa, one of the girls hostel supervisors" She announced as noises arose again.

Who could have even thought of the supervisors? Nobody even thought of them at all. And now that I think of it, her tummy was a little bigger than normal at a time but no one paid attention to it because she was a fat woman with big tummy right from time, it was said that she had fibroid or something, so it was a tiny baby? I wonder what could have made her do such a grave thing, she was old enough to have a baby.

The students of RPHS weren't that bad afterall, we still have a little bit of goodness in us, one of us didn't dump the baby, a supervisor did.