Kevan was singing with his eyes closed, calmly sleeping on the soft palm grass waiting for the tea to boil and after some time, he felt someone was sleeping just right next to him without him noticing how or when had that someone arrived.
Standing up abruptly, Kevan was puzzled when he noticed who it was and inside his heart he only had these three words in mind, "another radiant splendor!"
Kevan was not really happy with how things worked out in this school, from yesterday at night till now, he has not got himself some peace of mind at all. Of course, he also deep down knew how he very much liked being around beauties like in exact this one but just now, he also knew how annoying these beauties can be so he had decided to chill such issues for now and despite him giving himself such decisions, it was like as if he was just making some fake promises.
"Relax I was just passing by when I heard you rapping. I liked the lyrics because, I couldn't think you could be this great at rapping fluently like it is something so cool and usual to you so I decided to come and listen but according to your lyrics, it is like your so troubled and yet by the looks of it, you don't even seem fine from the inside out." Seeing Kevan looking at her worriedly, she decided to explain herself right away.
' I don't know if am just occupied or what but her eyes look more likely like those same eyes that Habibah used to fool me around last time, according to what I learnt, she myt want something from me and since I have nothing much to offer, she might as well wish to find my trouble.' Kevan guessed inwardly without replying to her complement.
Singing and rapping fluently was not something worth bragging about with since he was used to doing that in his moments of life so he couldn't believe it even if she was serious that she just liked the way he rapped. What kind of logic was that.
"Who are you and what business do you have with me?" Kevan used a serious tone to ask these very much serious questions. Yeah he had to be serious because he knew, this kind of beautiful girl had to just stand there and wait for him to approach her not the other way round and yet here, it was the actual reality.
Though Kevan was so convinced about his looks, he still knew that this school had way too many boys who way to handsome and compared to none much less him!
"I'm Klara, Medial Grade, 3, MDD house, and what I want from you is just a collabo at the welcoming party. Ofcourse as the rule goes, I will pay you some cash and not only me, the audience will very much give some encore fees to us since I know very well how they will like what you will display. And lastly, you can keep all the appreciation fees to yourself." Since Kevan wanted her to be on point, bragging around wasn't her thing either.
She is willing to pay me for the collaboration and still all the bonuses from it will be mine, is she really just attracted by my raps or something else!
Kevan couldn't figure this out either.
Studying her for the second time this time not leaving out a thing, Kevan realized that he had even underestimated her beauty even more.
Despite her ebony colour, someone might say that she was just an opposite to Habibah. Kevan couldn't stand lowering Habibah's looks despite the hatred between them but Klara was also very much more of an awesome beauty. She had a face that could never be forgotten even with amnesia, with her perfect curved body. She was actually no big difference to Habibah since given the height made them seem like twins.
The reason why Kevan was comparing the two was because, it was actually his first time meet such beauties in the same area. Someone might say that he had met alto for beauties but never had he met someone comparable to these two.
"Because I want a high position in the MDD house, you can also gain one if your performance is great, they pay you on each and every event morethan these casual members of the MDD house. The sum they pay to leaders is way better than that of performers, if you're interested in joining I can help you sign up..." Kevan's silence made Klara to continue her explanation trying so hard to make Kevan interested.
According to her information, the house makes performances several months in a term which are paid for by the audience interested in entertainments. Each person had to pay a sum of given amount in order to have a ticket, the tickets were sold out in a way of gaining money and that money was used to pay the performers and the leaders of the MDD club if it was the one which prepared the event but this time round, it was different since it was the School's Administration Programme named "The Welcoming Party" basically for Freshers and and Final Year students.
The section of the Medial Grad was separate from that of Top Grade, so parties used to join the two sections together plus the trending news of both parties which are read on every Monday on assemblies to keep the two sections updated on what was happening anonymously.
The leaders were from the "LEADING PATH" aka "Top Grade" and assistant leaders were usually from the "PITY CALF" aka "Medial Grade." Their classes were separate and the same applied to their dormitories. Some of this information was told to him by Job but about the welcoming party programs, Klara did the explanation.
Klara was a dancer and a semi assistant of the PINK dance crew so she wanted to get the assistant position in order to be the one distributing the cash to the crew members of the PINK dance crew at the Pity Calf. The semi assistant position was just below the assistant position but it was nothing much in rating yet something better in payments.
Kevan was not interested in joining programs yet but was more interested in the money she was going to offer since in all people, he needed cash desperately.
"10k for the collaboration." She said while putting out the cash from her pass.
Ofcourse it was quite some amount but not at the beginning of the term so it was not enough for Kevan either and since that was the case, he rejected it without a second thought and pretended like as if he didn't witness anything.
"15k last price." This time she did not put it out thinking he will reject ounce again.
"Seeing how desperately you want that position, I will help you get though your money is quite..." Kevan paused internationally to show how unsatisfied he was and be was actually doing her a favour to take her pitiful money but God knows how bad he wanted this much.
He still wanted to raise his bargaining tips when he heard an angry familiar voice interrupting his business.
"And what do you guys think you are doing?" It was Habibah that crazy witch ofcourse.
"I really don't understand how you will end with how weak you are. It is almost off the break yet I have yet to put something in my stomach. Are you stirring the pot or what?"[1]
"Well guess what,..each and every minuted you misuseis indebted to you. Its hot already i need something cold don't bother with that tea, meet me inside my apartment in 10 mins, don't waste a second, it will also count." She left without any response from the two harshly.
"Oh oh! Seems like you mum is quite angry with you, have your cash, make the best rap song you know very well and tell it to me before the week ends, you will have to sing on the sound with me doing the dancing, the rap song has to be anything I can dance on, if not that! make sure you have a part that includes me in the song, its also better." Klara gave me the cash before turning to leave.
"Wait,.." I called for her and she stopped in her tracks.
"You didn't ask for my name yet?" Kevan was not stupid to not recall that it was her that introduced herself till now.
"Everyone knows who you are ever since you slapped the Director's favourite." With that, she turned and disappeared through the distance.
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"Pack for me a glass of medium sized Lemon Juice, plus a loaf of bread." After my business chat with Klara, I hurried to the canteen to get Habibah's eats in a hurry before heading to her apartment.
On my way to the girl's quarter, Kevan met quite alot of unsightly stuff non- qualified for a boy like me to see in day light but he decided to give it a blind eye.
'I'm not supposed to be here in reality.' he sighed.
"Hey, this way." The girl who brought the flask last time was standing by the door to a room. it was not that big from the outside but at a boarding section to own yourself an apartment room like this was also another matter on its level.
Walking to straight to her, Kevan stood by the door waiting for someone to take the eats from him. Instead of picking up the eats from him, they all looked at him with no blinks or jokes and nervously Kevan decided to come in but stood still just close to the door.
'This is a pit of beautiful girls, yet all venomous as snakes!' Kevan sighed deep inside of him.
Looking around, it was a single room, so my eyes directly fell on three pant pegs hanging above three different bed decks, giving up on looking around the room, I noticed that in this room, there was a number of three girls besides Habibah.
Yeah, these three girls were sitting on top of the three different beds and of the three, I knew just two girls. The one who brought the flask and the other one who was crushing on that Allan dude.
The third girl wore spects and seemed to be very calm looking like as if she talked less in all of the three. Looking for Habibah, the very reason to why I am here, my gaze fell on the forth bedsheet which was surrounded by a pink net. All of the other bed sheets had sleeping nets but they were hanging above the bed apart from this pink one which was loosened and flowed freely down the bedsheets to the ground.
Inside of it seemed to be a perfect figure lying down peacefully.
'Is she the one I should give the eats or she is not around' it was all in my thoughts and just then, the other girl who crushed on Allan blocked my train of thoughts with a smirk, "You actually won, Momo, this guy is way too ballsy to walk into our room with no question when the sky is blue, haha come on in house boy"
"You're two minutes late!" I heard the annoying voice from the nice pink bed. Knowing that it was Habibah iside of it finally, even though Kevan wanted to give her the eats, he didn't know how to do it since she was still inside her bed, he even saw her arms bare as if she was wearing nothing on her upper body so he was stuck and just stood there without saying a word but anger simply trying it's best to hide inside of him. They dared to call him a house boy, very arrogant of them.
"You want to waste more time, I promised you that whatever minute you lose, you'll have to pay for it, its like your not taking my words seriously." Habibah moved out of her bed and to my surprise, she was at least wearing something on her upper body though it just covered her breasts, something like a bra showing off some parts of her stomach, a short covering a lower body but showing off some parts of her pure white thighs and legs.
Giving her what he brought before thinking about something stupid, Kevan hurriedly headed towards the dormitory and straight to his bed, before he got something to eat! He couldn't help but remember those brown thighs, neck, lips, eyes, stomach! everything was in his brain when the bell for the end of the break time was rung.
Walking shoulder passed with Job and Ganja to the class, I sat along with them sharing the same seat. On Monday after break, form one, it's always an art lesson up to lunch so coming along with my art books and other materials, I waited for the start of my first class at this school.
Since it was not like me seating at the very front, I left Job and Ganja alone and went to sit at an empty seat at the back.
Before starting my Medial Grade one, I loved Art and my big sis used to teach me from my primary four until now because she studied Art almost all her Grades in school so I knew that whatever this guy is going to teach be it theory or practical, it was going to be just a smooth play since I knew that my knowledge in Arts far surpassed Medial Grade three students.
I knew my first Art lesson would be boring but never did I expect it to be this boring, the guy was so full of himself that he even forgot the reason he was here. Always talking about stories of his interest trying very mucht to let us understand him more.
Kevan couldn't be bothered with him as he took a nap from his tiresome works of today, it was atleast worth it more than listenning to some brags about this guys who takes himself as an artist yet with a big mouth instead.
Even if the lecturer noticed Kevan's carelessness, he seemed like it was normal and carried on until he was called out hurried by someone and the whole class went silent for a moment.
"Who is Kevan?" The teacher shouted at the door forcing me to raise my head up and my gaze meeting Habibah standing with an art book, a set in her hands with a wicked smile on her bruised face. Her face had yet to be healed so it was a bit funny to look at her while putting on a wicked smile.
'What is it this time!' Still quiet, Kevan cursed inwardly.
Walking passed the students, Habibah sat right next to me on the same seat..
"I want you to draw for me a perfect sketch and I will do the toning."
[1] In this area, 'Stirring the pot' is like trying to make things worse.
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