Standing over the dead body of her father, Clara has already decipherd how bleak her future is going to be.
She just lost her father to the cold hand of death. Her father; Mr. Derick developed an illness in the prison, and due to improper care and facilities, the illness eventually claimed his life in the prison.
How did it happen?
On a bright school hour, Jackson was rightly sited on his chair in the classroom waiting for the next teacher who would soon come in to give a brief teaching.
He had waited patiently, but amidst that, he has a golden wrist watch right in his palm, the wrist watch that his parents gifted him.
He was given two of those wrist watch , but he chosed to share one with Clara his school friend. Well to him it was just a school friend and nothing more than that.
Well, this was his own side of the game, unknown to him, Clara had got an autirior motive, she sees Jackson beyond what was expected of her from Jackson.
Well, Clara came from a poor family, where both parents struggle to make sure that there's food on the table on daily basis, but that was contrary on Jackson's side.
Just as he was waiting for the teacher, the door was swiped open, the entire students in the class in unism turned to see who it was while thinking it was their long awaited teacher.
Suddenly, Clara entered, some hissed in disappointment, not as though they hated her but because they thought it was the teacher.
Clara entered the classroom, her eyes as though had planned it already, was first looking at Jackson with a malicious smile, as she elegantly walked into the classroom.
She went straight to Jackson to greet him as courtesy demands of her.
Well, she has taken that too far, Jackson just sees her as a mere friend, because, she was actually intelligent, more or less the most intelligent student the class, seconded by Tyler; the Class representative.
Jackson was also intelligent, but not to be compared to that of Clara.
So, for this reason, he had decided to make friends with her in order to learn more.
But, despite all this, it was only on his own side, Clara had failed to reciprocate by seeing things the right way as Jackson thought.
"Hey! Jackson" Clara greeted.
"Hey! Clara" Jackson reciprocated, while smiling at her.
The smile from Jackson just pissed her off, though she was beautiful and elegant, but that was not actually what Jackson was after anyways, but she thought within her that Jackson is thinking otherwise.
"Hey! How are you?" Clara asked.
" I'm doing well, and you" Jackson replied.
"Uhm! I'm good " she said, trying to show off.
"Alright, that's great " Jackson said.
Some of her classmates where angry at how she shows off her beauty. If not that she was intelligent, they wouldn't just relate with her because of her character.
She sat down when she approached her seat, Tyler was her closest seatmate, but she just sat down without recognizing him.
"Hey! Clara, you've forgotten me your closest seatmate right?"
It was then she came back to her normal senses, "ohh! My apologies, it skipped my mind, good morning", she added.
" That's fine, I wanted to know if all was fine with you, because you've changed of recent and I can't tell the reason " Tyler said.
" Me? Change, how?" Clara asked.
Anyways, Tyler was right when he said That Clara had changed of recent. Clara was once the most quiet girl in the clas, very dedicated to her studies, and because of this, he parents class in the society never affected her in the school.
She schooled in the same school with those whose parents where Billionaires. Well, she was lucky she was intelligent, but it's like she's starting to abuse the previlage of recent.
" Yes , you've changed, this is not the Clara I used to know, the quiet and dedicated Clara I knew, no this isn't you, or is this you?" Tyler said, with his eyes looking steadily on Clara's face.
" What's that, I'm okay, I don't think I did change, maybe you see it that way huh" Clara replied.
But, the response of Clara can show that she doesn't know her present status, but that was a lie.
"How? Are you telling me that you've not experienced any change?" Tyler asked.
" Enough of this conversation, Tyler, you can't force me to accept that I've changed when I haven't, besides I'm still toping the whole class in academic performance, so, where is your observations?
Tyler kept silent, he couldn't say a word, he just minded his business.
"You ain't saying anything, Tyler" Clara asked.
Tyler ignored her, he was just minding his business, since Clara earlier said that the discussion was enough.
He stood up and walked out of the classroom, because Clara was about to make him upset.
As soon as he left, as though she had waited for him to live, she moved straight to Jackson's seat.
"Hey, Jackson, I got something for you" she said with some smile on her face.
But, what could she offer that Jackson couldn't afford, Jackson's father was the founder of one the fast growing Tech company in the state, they've got many branch across the nation. So, to him,it was by chance of the scholarship Clara got that brought both of them to the same school.
" Ok, what's the gift?" Jackson asked while smiling.
He just like how intelligent Clara is, so he just like being close to her just to learn.
"Guess what" she asked.
" I'm not good at guessing, can you just tell me what it is" Jackson pleaded, " meanwhile I have a gift for you, so guess what too"
Clara, who was first to offer a gift became anxious to know what kind of gift that Jackson has to offer.
"So, you and I, who should go first" Jackson added.
"Okay it's fine, I just got you a chocolate from the mall, so, what
's the gift you have for me.
To be continued...