I stepped into the school and a light breeze welcomed me. The first person I sighted was one of my annoying seniors, Senior Ebube. She's too proud, acting as if she was the first person to reach their final year in secondary school. She is busty and beautiful too but her character made her look like a witch. As an early comer that she is and a labour prefect, she walked towards me and asked why I came late. I laughed and looked at my watch.
"I'm only ten minutes late" but she didn't find it early enough.
"Don't ever come late again" she told me while pointing a finger at my face.
I didn't mind her words, nobody does. I just happily hopped towards the school and there I bumped into one of the most handsome guys in my school, Senior Rotimi. He's too handsome, so friendly, we call him the Lady's man cause he knows he's way around the ladies, not all of them but most of them. All thanks to God, I am friends with him, we talk quite often and that makes me happy. I smiled at him cause he was looking so good.
"Good morning sunshine" he said smiling. He never lets me greet him first, I don't know why but its cool. I enjoy it when he calls me sunshine but most times he gets too sweet and that makes me suspect something else.
"Morning senior Rotimi"
" I thought I told you to stop calling me senior"
"No, I can't stop calling you senior, you're my senior and I will always call you senior". He sighed and tried to walk away
"Where are you going?" I asked
"Commit suicide" he said, but I knew he was joking so I laughed very hard.
"You're laughing? I'm very serious" he said with a serious face. I stopped laughing
"You're serious ke"
"Yes, but I'll not on one condition"
"What condition is that?"
"Stop calling me senior" he said with a wicked smirk. I smacked my hand on my forehead
"Okay fine, but only when we're together"
He smiled "Yeah, sure"
" Can i go upstairs now?"
"Was i the one stopping you from doing that?"
I chuckled "of course"
"Oh okay, I'm sorry milady" he said and directed his hand towards the door leading to the stairs.
I left, smiling at everybody I met, greeting all the teachers as I walked past various classes, walked up the stairs and finally reached my class.
"Is it just me or this school keeps getting bigger everyday" I said panting. The stairs seemed to have added in length and breadth.
"You're just getting more lazy everyday"
I looked up and saw another handsome creature coming out of my class. Senior Temi. Why are all these Yoruba boys so fine? He's handsome but not as handsome as Rotimi.
" I'm not lazy, I just don't like stress"
He scoffed "You're a lady Hilda Joseph, stress is your third name. You must love stress, a woman must..."
Yeah, I forgot to give you one very important detail about him. He loves giving lectures, we call him Mr Adviser. One complaint and you get a whole lot of advice. I take him as my Older brother, he's always helpful during my struggling times, he gives good advises though. I wasn't paying any attention to him but to simi who was making funny faces behind him.
I started laughing. "What's funny?" He asked confused
"Nothing, its just that I have to go now and settle down before the assembly bell rings"
"Okay, but meet me during short break"he smiled, left and went to his class upstairs.
Each class has A,B and C, I'm in SS2A, I know, I'm smart. Nobody dares go to the senior floor without invitation, those seniors were so strict and sometimes proud but I don't care. I show respect to those who respect me, irrespective of my age and their age, respect is reciprocal and maturity comes with the mind and not with the age.
I walked to my class and laughed with simi as she walked towards me and hugged me.
"You could've gotten a lecture too if he had caught you" I said
Simi rolled her eyes
"Who cares, he wouldn't lecture me that much"
I forgot to mention what's between Simi and Temi, he likes her and keeps visiting her from time to time, but Simi as the big girl that she is makes effort to stress him out before accepting him.
"What's happening now?" I looked at the back and saw Lola crying.
"What's wrong with Lolamide?" I asked Simi
She looked at Lola and back at me "Well she ..."
"She what?"
"Bright broke up with her"
As i heard that news it was as if the sky fell down, the earth quaked and the sin came down. That news hurt me as if I was the one he broke up with.
" Bright's leaving" Simi uttered another heartbreaking news. My eyes widened and i placed my hands on my head
"He's moving to New York, so he broke up with her"
"What? Couldn't they continue the relationship that way?"
Simi rolled her eyes "So if your boyfriend goes abroad and I mean for good, would you continue?"
That question got me cause I know even if we still love each other and promise each other to be there for each other always and never cheat, one person or both would surely break that promise then the relationship becomes pointless.
"Aw" I said as I walked towards Lola "I'm so sorry dearie" I rubbed her shoulders
" Its not your fault Hilda, this is bound to happen when we're not made for each other"
This was so sad but all we could do was sympathize with her and made jokes that would cheer her up. Moments later we saw Aaron walk into the class teary eyed,. Tears were falling down from his eyes and everyone burst into laughter. This was the first time I saw a guy cry over a guy, that view cheered Lola up that she was laughing more than the rest of the class
"Its not funny" Bright said sobbing
The laughter only increased after his statement. Unfortunately for us senior Ebube was on her way to her class when she heard our laughter. She's always been looking for a way to scold us. She uttered all sorts of things but we weren't concerned. She kept on talking but we only laughed more. She got tired and left. The moment she left Aaron walked in, everyone was silent for a moment then we all walked up to him and gave him a group hug.
We weren't just classmates, we were family and who wouldn't miss their family when they are far away from us. We would go on outings and visit each other.
"We're going to miss you" I said almost crying. He smiled but was sad, he had no other choice but to go with his parents.
" or maybe we should hide in your luggage and fly with you" Simi suggested. All we could do was laugh. We broke the hug and then the assembly bell rang. We went downstairs and our seniors were conducting the assembly until our teachers teachers arrived.
I was sent to the secretary's office by a teacher. When I got there I couldn't find him but I found someone. He was wearing a white long sleeve Shirt and a black pencil trouser and a boot, black boot. I didn't waste time there and went back to the teacher who sent me, since the errand was incomplete she sent me upstairs to look for him. I got upstairs but couldn't find him there. On my way out, I looked down at the assembly and the boy i saw in the Secretary's office was walking towards the assembly.