EIGHT
802 Words
I and my friends began to walk out of our seats and we stopped at a point in front of the field and I turned to Claire,
“Please give it back”
“No”
“I’ll forge something up and tell Senior Jerry”
“What are you still waiting for?”
“Claire…”
Suddenly her eyes brightened, Kamsy mumbled my name quietly with eyes like Claire’s
I turned, what were they staring at? Senior Henry… He stopped some inches away from me. I almost leaped in shock.
He had this grin on his face and he slowly collected my handkerchief, then the bottled water I was holding, opened it and gulped it down in one go. I was busy staring at his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down as he drank the water.
My friends were staring with amused grins on their faces. He finally closed the can and handed it back to me and said, “Don’t worry, I owe you one”
I just blinked,
Claire surged forward and said, “Senior, see what she asked me to give you” She handed him the paper. It took me a while to realize what the paper was.
“Oh my gosh! No! it’s not true, please don’t open it”
I tried to get it from him but he shoved it away,
“Meet me in my class during dinnertime”
Then he walked away using my handkerchief to dry his face. I turned to face Kamsy, Claire and Christy, the smirking trio. All eyes were on us… me to be precise. I grabbed Claire’s hand and Claire grabbed Kamsy, then Kamsy to Christy and we walked away quickly
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“Claire!! I can’t believe you did that”
I said frustrated when we got to our class. Gosh… I couldn’t stop thinking about that look in his eyes. That was when the butterflies in my belly remembered there were flowers in there that needed pollination. Damn hormones!!!
“You’re meant to be thanking me actually. Because I’m the reason you guys are going to have dinner time… sorry… lone time all to yourselves, with no one in class. Wow! Bring back gist oo”
I then hissed, leaning my head on my locker not wanting to see the grins on their faces. And I also didn’t want them to see that I was already blushing
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Evening came fast and so did dinner time. Apparently, I was forced to sit as Claire re-braided my hair, that evening. When she was finally done with my face, she made me wear one of my short uniforms. What was she thinking anyways?
Just then Ahmed walked in, paused, looking like he had seen a ghost then walked in slowly,
“So what’s the big occasion?”
He stopped in front of me and Claire said, “She’s going to meet her crush… he asked her to come”
I looked at Ahmed and he grinned, “Okay, better make me proud”
“Ahmed!”
“What?”
“Mtcheww”
I stood up to go and Claire said,
“Wait…” She took a small bag up, opened it and brought out a gas perfume and an oil perfume of the same brand.
She sprayed the perfume on my cloth and rubbed the oil perfume behind my ears, on my collarbones and on my wrists. The scent was so sweet, so captivating. There was no way he wouldn’t know I took my time dressing just to meet him. She finally dropped me off at his set block and left for the refectory. I took a deep breath and walked to the front of his class.
He and Senior Michael, our Senior prefect, were in there talking. I just stopped at the door and he looked up and flashed me a sweet smile asking me to come in. I slowly walked in looking around. They were the only people in the class. Senior Michael smiled at me and looked at Senior Henry, “Guy, she don become your babe already??”
I gulped. That was a strong word… His Babe... Senior Henry just looked at Senior Michael, not really saying anything. He just kept a smirk on his face.
“Well… okay…” He then stood up with this grin on his face “…oh… I forgot to water the fishes in the garden… oh … flowers …I mean…” he obviously wanted to give us privacy, but why the f**k was he making it so obvious that the fishes were a cooked up story. Besides we didn’t have any fishes in our school garden.
He then hurried out of the class. I was still busy trying to process what just happened as I looked at the door.
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