Gift was Kay Kay's best friend before we took her place. She was this cute, tall girl, she was on low-cut. She was very dark in complexion and a little bit chubby, she had chocolate coloured lips and big oval eyes,her nose was petite and pointed. Overall, she was a hotshot at school.
We all sat down at our various spots in the room, trying to brainstorm and know what our next step was going to be.
"So Temi said the enemy is closer than we think? What the hell did she mean by that?" Ziora asked, frowning her face. I could tell she was already stressed out, I was too and I hated stress.
"I feel she knows something. Earlier today, Angela told me that I should be careful and I never know who's watching my every moves. That stuff scared the hell out of me." I said, still shivering from the thought.
"She did? Wait who's Angela again?" Ziora asked, squeezing her nose like she was confused.
"Really? You don't know Angela? She has been Zara's roomie since 10th grade. You need to top up your brain cells." Derin said, shaking her head and Ziora eyed her while Zikora and I snickered.
"Mean child." Ziora hissed.
"Anyway, so what are we going to do next? How do we approach Gift. It's obvious we're not her favorite set of people in this school right now." I stated and they all knew I was speaking the truth. If there's anything, Gift hated our guts,she hated the fact that we took Kay away from her and the fact that Kay immediately moved on from her.
"That's the thing, she won't even look at us." Zikora said and a thought came to my head.
"What are you thinking about?" Derin asked, looking at me.
"She hates our guts right? That's why we won't go as a group, only one of us will go but with a bug. We have to hear everything she tells that person. So who's the person she least hates among us?" I asked and all eyes turned to Zikora.
"What? No! I don't even like talking, why should I now engage in a full blown conversation with someone who doesn't like me?" She pouted, crossing her arms over her chest.
"You just have to try, Kay would have wanted you to try. Besides, you don't want your secret getting out, or do you?" I asked and she shook her head. "Good. So the target is, you'll talk to her tomorrow during recess, like we did with Temi. Hopefully, she won't cut your head off." Zikora gasped. "Relax! I'm just kidding. No I'm not, you'll probably be dead, this time tomorrow." I mumbled the last part to myself but Derin caught it and snickered.
"So we have those our bugs from last semester, I'll put it in your bra. No, you'll put it in your bra and then try to get as close as possible to her. Don't just go straight to the point like Zara did today. Push it gently, infact, start from her summer holidays. I heard she travelled to Switzerland, ask her how everything was and then you just put the idea of that evening into her head." Derin explained and I nodded.
"She'll probably listen to you because you're the less troublesome one among us and the most quiet so please, don't waste this opportunity." Ziora told her sister while pinching her cheeks.
"Get your hands off me. You sound like mum all of a sudden." She scowled.
"Okay, so during recess, the three of us will gather here and listen to you guys conversation. Try to make her talk oh. Okay so let's go out one after the other." I left first and the rest followed after, I got to my room and noticed Angela was typing rapidly on her tablet. I pulled out my duvet, dropped my tablet on my drawer, said the grace and slept off.
The next day creeped slowly. The first lessons ran by slowly, it felt like our biology teacher kept repeating everything she was saying and it was annoying. We were given a classwork to do and Derin decided to pair with me.
We used the first few minutes to finish up and the remaining time to talk about our plan.
"So I saw Gift today and I woke at her in the hallway, guess what she did." Derin said, frowning.
"She hissed and passed?"
"Of course that was predictable. I still don't get what we did to her though. It's not our fault Kay Kay chose us over her now, anyway, I spoke to Zikora, she told me she has everything under control." I nodded.
"But you know that's not the only reason why Gift is mad at us." We all knew why she was mad, but it still wasn't our fault.
"And that's probably the same reason why she was mad at Kay Kay. But is that enough reason for her to kill Kay Kay though? We all knew Kay Kay had a sharp mouth." That was when I realized something.
"Kay Kay never told us any of her secrets though but we always told her ours and she told us other people's but never hers. What do you feel her biggest secret was?" I asked Derin and she knew I was speaking the truth.
All through the three years I, Kay Kay and the girls had been friends, she never told us anything really private about her. The only private thing we knew was that she was dating Mide and she still had other flings, but who those flings were have always been a mystery to us. But none of us ever asked, well, it never crossed our minds to.
"That's true, she always found a way to dig up our secrets but hers were always bottled up. Which makes me wonder, what was she always hiding?" The bell suddenly rang and we clicked submit on our tabs and arranged ourselves for the next class.
It was suddenly time for break and Derin left the class to meet the twins. I sat in my class, eating my snacks and reading a novel from my library. That was literally all I did with my time, I loved reading, I just enjoyed it.
I heard footsteps approaching me and I got a swift of the person's cologne, I knew it was William but I didn't want to raise my head. My hands were shaking and my heart was beating.
"Hey Zara! Why are you here alone? Your friends are at the cafeteria." I raised my head to look at him. He looked so cute and innocent with the light smirk on his face.
"The question I should be asking you is what are you doing here? Are you suddenly a stalker?" He laughed and looked at me.
"Well, I am in a way but I just noticed you don't come to the cafeteria anymore." He said and I nodded. "Does it remind you of her?" I nodded again.
"So why aren't you with your friends? Won't they be looking for you?" I said, closing my tab.
"They will but they can wait. You're more important right now." I blushed but tried to cover it up. I hummed and looked at him, he sat down on the seat opposite me and kept his tab on top of mine.
"You know people have been asking me if we're together." I told him.
"I know, I've been getting the same questions since. I don't really blame them though, we've been giving them reasons to ask us." I chuckled and looked at him.
We talked till the end for lunch break and he had to leave my class. My classmates soon started filing in and Derin looked at me, smiling before going to her seat. I knew she must have seen William and I.
Immediately school closed, I went to the dining room to eat then took my things to my room and had my bath. After having my bath, I dressed up and decided to have a nice siesta for once in long while.
I was sleeping when I woke up to the sound of someone's voice. I opened my eyes a little bit to see who was talking.
"They're not even close to finding out who you are. It's going to take them a while." Angela said to someone in a pink hoodie. I couldn't hear what the person said but I could hear bits of their conversation.
So I was right, Angela is up to something, she's probably working with the person who is threatening us but I needed more proof and I knew just how to get it.
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