It is Monday morning, Fadimatuu was about to enter their school, when she looked up and saw the sign board in which their school name was engraved on it.
It says "Government college"
Today she went to school alone because she had to finished the work that Ammi gave her, so she told Aaminah to just go.
They're attending the same school.
As she was walking around the school, the wind blew her Hijab covering her entire face, causing her to bumped into someone she never wish to came across.
As she bends down to pick the books that fell from her hands as a result of the impact, she felt a pair of hands on top of her hands.
She looked up to see who had the gut to touch her hands.
As her eyes met his, she fumed at him and snatched her hands away from him.
"How dare you try to touch me, who the hell do you think you're?" Fadimatuu yelled at him causing him to stagger backwards and staring at her at the same time.
He tried to talk to her but no words came out.
"If you think just because you said you love me that doesn't mean you have the right to touch me.
"Not talk of love, I told you I don't love you and I'll never be able to love such an ill mannered person like you" she said sending murderous glares down his way.
"And make me make it clear to you once again, for Allah's sake don't bumped into me ever again" She said again.
He just kept quiet and stared at the beauty in front of him, who had the gut to talk to him like that.
If not because he loved her he won't allow her to talk to him like that.
No one ever dared to talk to him that way except her who always gets away with it.
Fadimatuu looks at the crowds of students that gathered around them.
Every students was whispering to the other students beside them.
Everyone knew there was no person in this school that have the right to speak to the principal's son like that.
Though he is a bad boy but his father never talk to him of his bad behaviour.
Because he was his only child, so he pampered him since when he's a kid.
He always gets what he wants.
His father even made him the head boy of the school even when all the teachers were against it, because he was not a good boy.
Everyone complaints of his bad manners.
He always finds a way to flirt with girls.
But he knew Fadimatuu was not like any other girls he flirt with, and she put him in his place every time he tried to flirt with her.
Fadimatuu picks her books and walks out of the crowd leaving everyone whom also starts going to their various classes.
As she entered their class, she met her best friend Aaminah.
"Why do you look like you just finished beating somebody?" Aaminah asked her while examining her face.
"Uhm you don't know who I just met now" Fadimatuu told Aaminah.
"Don't tell me you met Bala because he's the only one that can make you look that way?" Aaminah asked her.
Fadimatuu nod her head and Aaminah's eyes went wide.
"What did he do to you? Did he touch you? I won't spare him I swear. Who did he think he is? Just because he is the principal's son that doesn't mean he can do whatever he wants and we watched him do it." She rambled on with frustration clearly in her voice.
"Calm down babe don't waste your energy on that useless boy, anyway I put him in his place"
Then she went on and told her what transpired between them.
While she finished telling Aaminah what happened, one of her classmates Rabi'a came to speak to Fadimatuu.
"Fadimatuu you really did a great job by showing Bala his place. Everyone was talking about what happened between the two of you now. You're my role model girl" Rabi'a said with excitement.
Fadimatuu just smile in return because she don't like people praising her.
"That's my best friend you're talking about, love you lots dear" Aaminah chirped in and hug Fadimatuu who also hugged her back.
As they were talking, their Maths teacher entered the class making everyone to move to their seats.
"Good morning Sir" they stand up and greeted him who respond to them by nodding and asking them to sit down.
Mr Tanko was their Maths teacher and he's not friendly at all, he's very serious, so every student was scared of him.
"You know anytime soon you're going to write your JAMB and then your WAEC and NECO. So you better tighten your belts because I don't want anyone of you to fail" Mr Tanko said to them with authority in his voice.
(JAMB, WAEC and NECO were the examinations that Nigerian students do before they entered university)
"Okay Sir" they chorused.
"Fatima Muhammad you should help your friends with Maths if they don't understand" Mr Tanko told Fadimatuu who replies by saying "Ok sir" She's the best in Maths in their class.
And then the class continues.
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When the school closed at 2PM, Fadimatuu begs Aaminah they should stay till 4PM so that they can study.
Because she knew when she went home Ammi won't let her study instead she would give her chores to do.
So sometimes she stayed at school to study.
Luckily for her Aaminah agreed to stay.
"Fadimatuu it's almost 4PM, we should go and pray then we can go home" Aaminah told Fadimatuu.
"Okay let me quickly finish reading this topic then we can go" Fadimatuu replied to her.
When Fadimatuu finished, they went to perform ablution.
When they finished performing ablution they went and joined Malam Kabeer to pray, the Imam of the school.
As they finished praying they picked their bags and started heading home.
They walked to their house because their school was not that far from their house.
When they reached home, everyone entered their house which was opposite to each other.
"Assalamu alaikum" Fadimatuu salam when she entered their house.
"Waalaikumussalam is now that you wished to come back you stupid girl" Ammi answered at the same time yelling at her.
"Ammi it's not like that, we stayed at school to study" Fadimatuu said to Ammi a little bit scared because she knows Ammi could make it a big deal.
"Okay Mungo park, keep staying at school" Ammi said to Fadimatuu with sarcasm clearly in her voice.
"I'm sorry Ammi" Fadimatuu apologized to Ammi.
"Hold your sorry to yourself, you should go and remove your uniform and take a bath because you're stinking.
"And after that, you should clean the house, I don't want to see any dirt in here!" Ammi orders Fadimatuu.
"Okay Ammi but I'm hungry, can I eat food now please" She begged Ammi.
"Because am your cook right? You won't get any food until you finished cleaning this house. You can starve for all I care." Ammi said to Fadimatuu as she storms inside her bedroom without waiting for any reply from her.
Fadimatuu shed a tear and went inside her bedroom too.
She's even lucky that Ammi allowed her to remove her uniform and even take a bath.
Today was her lucky day indeed.