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Chapter 8
I had to run in order to meet up with Queen's fast pace, also taking in the environment that I was going to be in for almost two years.
It was the females' lodge like the hostel supervisor had said. It had just two blocks which had sixteen rooms each in it. The blocks had a compound in the middle.
"Where's the males' lodge?" I asked out of curiosity.
Queen laughed at my question while I just looked at her confused at what was funny.
"You have not even been here for more than ten minutes and you are already enquiring about the boys. You better take it easy." She remarked adding some shady meaning to my question.
"I didn't mean it that way, I just thought that we'd all be in the same compound." I said and suddenly realised how stupid I sounded.
"Eheh! So you think the school's management is that stupid to put boys and girls together?! If it was so, many girls would have been getting pregnant every day." Queen said while I laughed at the humour.
"So you have never entered RPHS hostel before?!" Queen asked.
"What would I be looking for?!"
Before she could answer, we already got to the front of our room which was surprisingly filled with loud noises.
"So you are telling me that you didn't take my milk, uh?" A tall girl with a long tribal mark on each side of her face shouted at a short light skinned girl who was probably still in Junior school.
"I didn't take it, senior Dupe! I swear I didn't even know that you have milk or any beverage." The young girl pleaded but the taller girl was having non of it, she was about to hit the short girl when Queen interrupted.
"Dupe, leave the girl alone now! She said she didn't take it! Meanwhile, meet our late roommate, her name is Tiwalade."
The tall girl surveyed me from head to toe as if I must have kept her milk somewhere on my body.
"I am not late, I am alive." I retorted, angry that she added 'late'.
"Lack of English understanding is worrying you!" Queen said while two girls sitting on one of the bunks giggled.
Queen and I walked into the room as I tried to recognize anyone of my roommates but failed, I had never talked to any of them, what kind of luck was this?
Surprisingly, all of them was already dressed in their uniforms.
"So this is Sarah and Hannah." Queen said pointing to the girls that giggled.
"They are also in S.S 2 like us, just in art class." She added while I nodded.
"And that is Dupe, the room prefect, she is in S.S 3." She said pointing to the girl that was accusing someone of stealing her milk.
She was a senior and a hostel prefect.
She didn't act like it though and why was Queen calling her by name without adding senior?
"That one reading is Chinyere, she never talks." she said pointing to a chubby girl reading on her bed oblivious to the fact that someone was pointing at her and talking about her.
"She is in J.S.S 3, that is Kanyinsola..." Queen continued before 'the Kanyinsola' interrupted her.
"Don't introduce me! I have mouth. My name is Idowu Kanyinsola, I'm in S.S 3, the school library Prefect." She said while I nodded my head telling her that I've heard of her. They were appointed prefects when they were in S.S 2 and I was in S.S 1.
"This short girl is Aminat who is in J.S.S 1, the youngest class in this room." Queen concluded.
No wonder she was been picked on.
"You said ten, you just introduced six, where's the remaining two?!" I asked looking around just in case there's someone else lurking around in a corner.
"That is Eniola and Greatness, they probably want to school already, they are the SUs in this room." Queen replied sitting on her bed.
My mood lightened up as soon as I heard Eniola's name, at least I wasn't going to be lonely but it soon became dull when I realized that we weren't even friends anymore.
"Aren't we eating breakfast?" I asked no one in particular as my stomach grumbled in support of my question.
"Breakfast ke?! We have had breakfast since." Dupe said packing her books.
"Breakfast before seven? Wow!" My stomach grumbled even more.
I should have just listened to my mom and eaten the delicious Jollof rice and plantain that was cooked this morning.
This was the consequence of disobedience, I thought as I scolded myself.
I sat my backpack on the available bunk and was about leaving to go get my bags from the office where it must have been checked when Queen stopped me.
"Where are you going?!" Queen questioned.
"To get my buckets and bags."
"You better just take your school bag and let's get out of here before they'll use cane to come and chase us, the bell for assembly have been rung! Aside from that, your bag is safer there." Queen said as she picked up just two higher education notes and rushed out of the room.
I quickly followed her.
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