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Chapter 8 - 8 Chapter 8: Meeting New Friends.

I was walking to my department on a very sunny morning(I think OAU and sun are In some kind of partnership because all they do is to make students suffer) kicking all pebbles that came my way and feeling very lazy because the distance was long. I was going there for my departmental orientation and on getting there, I found out that I was very late to the place because it seems they were giving them the closing speech. I just sat down and I was looking down at my hands which was on my laps because I can't seem to look at the faces of these people.

Raising my head after I heard them say that we were free to go and it was like 20mins after I got there, I saw a girl and she was beautiful with curvy body. I liked her immediately and I frowned at that because it was weird. I looked down immediately to avoid eye contact with her but before that, I saw her talking to another girl that was equally beautiful.

I quickly left the department and started retracing my steps to my hostel and walking very slowly because I was very tired and my favorite food was all I could think of. I made a mental note to garnish the stew with chicken, I have not had that in a long time(that was an exaggeration because I still ate it not quite long). Getting to my hostel, I saw those girls again and I was surprised because that was the first time I was gonna meet someone in the same department with me in my hostel. The fair one among the ladies walked up to me and said she saw me at the department. She asked me my name and I said "Aminat", I asked her for hers too. She introduced herself and the other girl, they are Damola and Haleemat respectively. They were really friendly even though Damola did all the talking. They asked me for my hostel number and they also asked me if it was okay for them to come. I said I was okay with it, In my mind, I was doing summersault because they were my first friends. They told me their room number before they finally left.

I walked to my hostel that day with a big smile on my face. I was contemplating on telling Ade but I knew he was not going to pay attention to whatever I say and that would surely put me in a bad mood. I just decided not to do that and I happily went to cook my rice and beans making a mental note to collect their number whenever they come.