Elora pov
Its been weeks now since I have been staying with Mrs. Alice, she has been a nice and caring lady, my mom didn't lie when she said she was nice, she treated me like her daughter and even get some of the things I will be needing for school. I notice money wasn't her problem and she was not lacking, she has a good job that pays her very well and the allowances her husband is sending to her monthly, sometimes I wonder why she is not staying with her husband, well that should be a story for another day. School resumption was in three days and I was busy arranging for it. I was feeling all excited and I couldn't wait to finally be in the school I have always dreamt of....Three days later, The alarm clock keep ringing in my head, and could hear someone calling my name from afar, I was half awake, but the voice keep coming louder and clearer. I jerk up quickly fully awake as a knock on my door interrupted my sleep, then I realized that it was Mrs. Alice that has been calling out my name.
"Elora, are you awake? Hurry up, you will be late for school,".she said.
"yes Aunt, am awake".I stood up quickly from the bed.
"Okay, freshen up and come down for breakfast".I rushed into the bathroom to take a quick bath, I don't want to be late for my first day in school and I can't believe I slept so late. some minutes later, I was downstairs for breakfast that was already set on the dining table. "wow dear, you look beautiful".she said admiring my look. I was putting on a casual cloth of blue jeans with a white top and a jeans jacket along with white sneakers and I made my hair sideways.
"thank you, aunt".I sat down to eat the delicious breakfast she made for me.
"This is the second time you are calling me aunt," she said smiling and I gulped nervously
"um, yeah, I thought that will be better than calling you Mrs. Alice, I kinda feel awkward calling you by your name, hope you don't mind me calling you 'aunt?'".
"no, no, not at all, I love it when you call me aunt".she smiles at me and I smile back.
"thank you, aunt".
"you are welcome, now hurry up with your food, I will drop you off at your school".
"okay".I started eating as fast as I can because I want to make an impression on my first day in school. Some minutes later, my aunt drove me to school and packed in Infront of the school gate, I stare amazingly at the inside from the car."wow, this is beautiful!"
"of course, and I am glad you are here".
"me too".I came down and wave at her.
"break a leg". she drove off and I walk into the school building, I stood for a while gazing around the whole school, it was the largest building I have ever seen in my entire life, the structure and the flowers surrounding it were amazing.
"new here?".I was interrupted by a calm and deep voice behind me, I guess he must have noticed with the way I was amazed by everything, I turn around to see a man of late forty in his security uniform.
"um, yes sir".I replied with a smile and he smile back.
"I can see that, anyway welcome to valley college, hope you enjoy your new adventure.
"Certainly sir".
"Oh, please call me Duke,".he said
"okay".I jumped out of fear when a loud horn of a car blew behind me severally, I suddenly realized I was standing at the center of where the cars are passing.
"out of the way, you bitch! ".A lady voice out from the backseat of the car and it zoomed off.
"oh my gosh, that was close".I gasped for air.
"that's how it is dear, prepare to see more of it, have a nice day,".he said and left for his duty post. I stood for a while still trying to recover from the shock, before I started taking a walk to the main building. Everywhere was filled with students of my age and above, I saw different cars trooping in and out of the school, it occurred to me that parents brought in their kids to school, some were chatting with one another, some were walking together, while others were talking with their parents and catching fun with their friends. I walked into the passage roll of the school, I couldn't help but admire it, the place was lively with students chatting, walking around, and also talking and arranging stuff in their lockers, I could notice some of them staring at me as I walk by, I waved at whoever meet my gaze, some wave back, while others ignore me in a disgusting look. I finally found my way to the principal office, I knock and a voice ushers me in.
"good morning sir", I greeted him immediately I enter his office to see him seated comfortably in his chair and working on his computer, he was looking handsome with dark-grey hair and I guess he was in his early forties.
"good morning young lady how may I help?" he asked and then order me to sit. I sat down.
"Sir, am a newbie here, so I came to submit my files".
"Okay, let me have it".I hand him the files and he went through them for a while I stare around his office which looks breathtaking, it was larger than a living room." okay, I have seen your files".he said and gave me a white envelope."go to your class and give this to any teacher you see there, your class is B12 by your left-hand side.
"Okay, sir".
"do you understand?".
"yes sir".I replied nodding my head and the school bell rang.
"you can go now, your class is starting".
"Okay sir, thank you". I stood up and left his office, I started walking around and I ask a few of the students that I came across and I was given the direction, I climbed to another step of the building and pass through some classes, some were already receiving classes while some were nosy with no teacher present. I was busy staring around and I saw several B9, which means I was getting closer. suddenly I noticed a group of three girls standing in my way, I raise my face to look at them because I almost bumped into them, I quickly recognize one of them that yell at me from the car earlier today, she was elegant with slim body, sexy eyes, pink lips along with her golden hair. the two other girls beside her were also beautiful and elegant with sexy figures, with the way they were all looking and dressed up, I guess no one can beat them on that, I suddenly admire them.
"lost your way, newbie?".the girl in the middle asked coldly at me.
"Woah, she looks old-fashioned".the other girl said from the right-hand side and they laughed, then I realized these were trouble.
"what's that in your hand?" the middle girl asked, before I could know what was happening, she grab the envelope from me.
"let me have that".I said trying to grab it back from her but the other two girls stop me, but I was lucky enough as someone interrupted us from behind, the girl threw the envelope on the floor quickly, and immediately the voice came up.
"What are you girls doing out here when class is going on?" she yelled and the girls apologized quickly and rushed off, I turn my face to her as she came closer to me." and you, why are you still here?".
"um, am sorry ma, I was looking for my class before I was stopped by those girls".I said avoiding her gaze.
"Are you new here?".
"yes, ma".
"Okay, what class are you looking for?".
"class B12 ma".
"Okay, follow me,".she said walking, and I followed her behind, not too long, we arrived at the class, I gasped in amusement to see how beautiful it was, it was bigger and the decorations were beautiful, I stare round the whole class and the look on their faces were expressionless, then my eyes caught sight of the three girls as they gave me a deadly look, I lower my head a little to avoid their gaze. " am sorry to interrupt your class, Mrs. Piper, I brought in a new student,".she said talking to the young lady of early thirty that was already lecturing the class when we walked in."I guess you can take it from here".she added and walk away.
"the principal ask me to give you this, ma".I said as I hand her the envelope, she opened it and glance through it and then turn back to me with a warm smile.
"Okay welcome to valley college,".she said and turn to the class.' alright everyone, you now have a new student with you, she will introduce herself to you all".she turn to me." introduce yourself to them".
"um - I got interrupted by a peal of laughter from the three girls and the teacher ask them to keep shut, which they obeyed instantly. I clear my throat and face the class." my names are Elora Dickson, am new here, and I am glad to be among you all".I said smiling faintly at them, some smiled back while others don't.
"alright Elora, you can go and find yourself a vacant sit".
"Okay ma".I walk around for a while and then found an empty seat by the window, I hurry to sit down and brought out my book. some of the students were still giving me awkward looks and I wonder why I ignore them and started paying attention to the teacher.
Marvin pov
I felt a little embarrassed as my mom drove me to school and we packed at the school gate, she intended to drive inside but I refuse.
"I can't believe you are stopping me from driving you inside the school compound,".she said and I grunt in annoyance.
"oh Mom, do you know how embarrassed this feels for me to be driven to school?, for goodness sake, I am not a five-year-old boy anymore".
"when does it become a problem for me to drive my son to school? I mean is not as If I got to do this every day".she smiles.
"Well, you have to stop".
"no, I won't, it's a tradition - I cut her short.
"tradition? when does it become a tradition that parents have to drive their kids to school on the first day of resumption?."I muttered frowning.
"well, but is not the first time I am doing it, it has always been a daily routine for me since you were a child".
"Now I am telling you to stop, you know I can drive, let me -
"no, you will not, your grandfather stopped you from driving until you turn twenty, so I won't allow you to take that risk".she warned cutting me short.
"Okay fine, I agree, but allow the driver to drive me instead".
"no, I will never allow another person to take my child to school not when I can drive and I am still alive".
"am telling you to stop, if you don't and then allow me to go through the school bus, then I will never spend my holiday with you again, instead I will spend it at grandfather's place".I threatened her and she laugh it off.
"you know you can't do that son, you and I know you can't stand your grandfather, not to the point of staying with him, if I can remember clearly, you said these same words last summer and yet you came to spend the vacation with me'.she laugh." you see son, you can't live without me".she concluded teasing me and she got me right there, in as much as I hate to admit it to her, she always knows my weak point.
"fine, you got me right there, now can I go?"
"not yet son, give momma a hug".she hug me so tight and I felt suffocated as she planted kisses on my face." am gonna miss you so much, I can't believe you will be far away from me,".she said sadly as she pulled away from me and hold my hands tenderly.
"you don't have to miss me that much, you know I always come to visit during the weekend".
"but why can't you just stay with me and be coming to school from home,".she said Paley
"Mom, I thought we have talked about this, you and I know that grandma build that apartment for me before she passed away, is the only memory I have left of her, and besides is not too far from school".
"but I will be lonely"
"you won't if I can remember clearly, Dad called you earlier today that he will be home by tomorrow".
"but that still doesn't change the fact that I want my only son around".she pulls a baby face
"Okay fine, I will be coming over during the weekend, and please stop making that face".we giggle and then hug."I love you, Mom".
"I love you too son".we pulled away from each other" So, do you want me to come and pick you up after school hours?".
"no Mom, I will go with the school bus".
"but I don't mind".
"I do mind, Mom".
"Why do I have this feeling that you don't want me to come to pick you up because you don't want your girlfriends to see me,".she said teasing me and I grunt feeling irritated.
"Seriously mom !".
"yes, is about time you bring one home,".she said smiling and I know she was just trying to annoy me." you know I love teasing you".she chuckle and I came down from the car"Have a lovely day son, and one more thing son".I bend to her.
"what".
"smile, I don't like how your look is, it's really scary, you might scare the pretty girls away".she teased and I sigh tiredly.
"have a nice day, Mom".I turn my back against her heading inside as she said the last word I love hearing from her before she drove off.
"love you, son!". I smile at her last word and then quickly return to my hard look as I walk inside. I like the way I look, I like it when people are scared of my look because I hate companies, that's why I never have friends, everyone sees me as a spoilt brat, others wish to be like me, while others pretend to be like me, I love minding my own business and I hate people bugging me and girls screaming and crushing for me, in as much as I hate those screaming, but sometimes it makes me feel good to know that I am the best among my peers, but is not my fault, I love how I was been created.
"welcome back Marvin, is so good to see you back to school again". the security man said to me nicely and I stare coldly at him, I could see the scared look on his face as he gulped severally.
"Like I care".I muttered rudely and walk away, this is how I want everyone to see me and it makes me feel unconcerned. I enter the school corridor heading to my class, I can see some students along the corridor crushing and melting in admiration and others in class stretching out their necks and taking pictures, I choose to ignore them because this is what they do every day and it annoys me. I walked into my classroom and I heard the same never-ending screaming from them, there was a lot of screaming from the girls and the boys stare at me and wishing to be like me, I close my eyes for a while and open them before I walked to my sit that was beside the window, I brought out my ear pond and started listening to cool music with my eyes closed. I could still sense their gaze on me and the screaming stopped and started hearing murmuring and the sound of Cameras.
Elora pov
I suddenly got interrupted by a loud screaming from the girls, I stare at all of them wondering why they are screaming, then I noticed they were screaming and the boys were admiring the boy who just walked into the class, I suddenly gasped in shock to see who they were all screaming for.
"angry bird".I said quietly and notice he still has the cold look on his face, he close his eyes and opened them for a second with a sigh, it was obvious he was tired of the screaming, I couldn't help but continue to stare at him till he walked to a sit that was behind me, I went startled, I can't believe he is sitting behind me. "I don't think he's the one, maybe he is someone else". I said to myself and continue my reading, but the girls were still blushing and taking pictures of him, not too long after, the teacher walked in and all became calm and quiet...
later at the canteen, everywhere was filled up with students eating and chatting with their friends, I stood still with my tray of food that contains a can of juice with hamburger and an apple, I was scanning where to sit because it was filled up and the ones that were left with a little space, someone rushed to sit on it, I sigh tiredly, I stood still staring round, then I got sight of space, I smile and turn to walk but I tiptoe and fell on the floor as my food scattered on the floor, I noticed it was someone that made me tripped.
"oops, my bad".a familiar voice said coldly and there was a roar of laughter from the whole crowd, I felt humiliated and tightened my fits, but I manage to control my anger, since is my first day in school, I stood up and started picking my food back to the tray, but suddenly someone steps on the juice and it splashes on my face, I gasped in surprise and the laughter increase. I stood up angrily and rushed out of the class and suddenly bumped into someone hitting my face on his chest, I raise my face to see who it was and I went shocked to see it was the same boy at the airport, and I could see the shock in his face.
"Angry bird".I called surprisingly and his gaze on me became darker.
"you !" he voice out angrily and I pushed back creating a little distance between us."how dare you, what the hell are you doing here?".he asked and I scoff.
"duh, can't you tell, I school here, or are you now blind and dumb at the same time not to know". I said and he quickly grabs unto my arm and Pierce his gaze deep into my eyes." ouch! Let go of me".I winced in pain.
"how dare you show your face to me again after humiliating me in public, do you know who I am?!" he yelled and I became uncomfortable with his dark gaze."I will make sure you pay dearly for it, you should watch your back because you have just step into the lion den".he muttered in a scary tune as he let go of my arm and walk of. I stare after him feeling pains in my arm.
"you asshole!".I said and walk away.
later at home, during dinner, I was all moody and feeling scared about the threat that weirdo gave me today...
"so, how was school today?"Alice asked.
"it was great, I had fun".I lied.
"Really? But you don't look cheerful and you are not touching your food, did something happen? you can tell me" she said calmly
"is nothing aunt, let's just say is because I am a newbie getting used to the school".
"Okay, but if there is a problem, you can tell me".
"Okay, aunt".I smile forcedly at her.
"Now eat your food, ".she said and continue eating.