Folakemi walked out of the principals office, closing the door behind her with a light thud.
Wondering why she waved Anjolaoluwa a good bye, she let out a sigh of exasperation. This past few days, she had been having a change of heart towards her well after telling Chloe about her, she had adviced her to stop being harsh to her.
"The girl has not done anything bad to me anyway, well asides currently being the center of attraction at home so why not give her a chance" she thought with a shrug.
Moving out of the building, she was once again cornered with greetings and hugs from the junior students.
Chants of ''head girl'', ''Senior Fola" kept echoing around her and she immediately felt the urge to roll her eyes.
Most of the students greeting her obviously hated her guts, she couldn't help but agree with them that she was rude and a bit mean.
She used to be the head girl of the junior school the previous year a very strict one and a very intelligent student who had bagged a whole lot of awards for the junior school in a lot of competitions hence her popularity among the junior and senior students as well.
A lot of the junior students highly respected her and dared not cross her path in fear of being punished while some who were in her good book went close to give her a hug which she didn't even return.
Feeling choked with the attention she was getting, not like she didn't like it, she just wasn't in the mood for it, she almost snapped at a junior student who was standing in her way.
Bearing an unreadable expression, she turned to the junior block heading to her previous class to pick up something's from her locker, during the holiday coaching, she had left some of her notebooks and stationery in it.
She barged into the classroom and headed straight to her locker ignoring the greetings from the students. She hurried out and in the process barged into someone.
"Are you blind or what?" she barked angrily bending down to pick her books.
"Jeez! Chill na" he exclaimed bending immediately to help her pack up her books.
"Am sorry and I guess I shouldn't be the only one apologizing since you actually barged into me, please forgive my clumsy self" he apologized standing up to his full length.
Our almighty Folakemi was left speechless.
How the hell could an human being so effortlessly sound Sophisticating.
Was all she could think of, just the sound of his voice made everything go still and she couldn't help but stare dreamily into his drowning brown orbs.
She didn't know she was staring until she felt something soft and fluffy on her cheek, he used his hands to touch her cheeks.
"Sorry, I thought I lost you, you were so rigid and I was almost panicking" he said staring at her in concern.
"Am fine, am fine" she stuttered before scurring off leaving him speechless.
She ran all the way to the senior block before stopping to calm her breath.
"What the hell just happened?" she muttered throwing her hand over her chest.
She straightened her skirt and continued her her journey to her classroom, this time walking calmly.
She couldn't contain the shock on her face on realizing how quite the classroom was, she looked again to be sure she was on the right block, she was certain her classmates make noise for a living.
As she walked into the classroom, she gathered attention to herself as always, it first started with low whispers before becoming a full blown noise.
She smiled before muttering I said it to no one in particular.
"Folakemi Don come o" osankwe hollered springing up from where he sat.
"We know, so keep quiet" Ebunoluwa retorted.
"Madam saje, I wasn't talking to you o" osankwe spat giving her a bitter look.
"Osaka, you had better keep your mouth shut before shut it now" Chioma said.
"So you can talk Abi, you think I look like Damilola abi" he replied.
And they kept exchanging words until the bell sounded, signaling the time for assembly.
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Anjolaoluwa's pov
I bit my finger as I walked out of the administrative block, it's an habit I just couldn't stop, call it whatever you want but bitting on my fingers eases a bit of my discomfort and I currently wasn't in anyway comfortable.
"Anjolaoluwa!" Folakemi's mum called out loudly getting not only my attention but the attention of the other students. I didn't even know she was outside, I expected she would have gone home or still be in the principal's office.
I quickly stopped biting on my fingers and walked toward her.
"You thought I didn't see that right?" she asked pulling my braids behind my ear making me smile awkwardly.
"You really should stop it, it's a bad habit" she said whilst I nodded in response.
She pulled at her bag and grabbed a polythene bag with the name Blanco boldly written on it and shoved it into my hands.
"You'll have to take this for lunch" She said gesturing for me to check the content of the bag which I did.
It contained some snacks and a fresh bottle.
"I haven't gotten your lunch pass from the bursary but unfailingly by Wednesday, you'll get one," she said apologetically.
"You should get going dear" she added placing a kiss on my cheeks before walking towards the car.
"If you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask Folakemi," she hollered from the car.
"Have a nice day."
"Thank you, ma," I replied silently.
As soon as the car drove off, I immediately felt lost, confused and alone, I didn't even know where to go as I was surrounded by mobs of students.
I stepped down from the covet and immediately mixed into the multitude of students, the funny thing was how I stood out like a sore thumb, I looked so odd amongst them as I wasn't putting on any of the school uniform.
The principal asked me to come back to pick it up when the school closes.
I was putting on a Black flair skirt and a white round neck top coupled with black sneakers and white socks.
I continued following the other students like a lost sheep until we got to a part of the school with the name senior block engraved on the wall.
I immediately stopped and turned to look around again and I assure you, the outside of the school just didn't do justice to the interior.
Like I said earlier, the school was a blue coloured, four-cornered, three-storied building having a relatively ample middle space, it had beautiful flowers meticulously arranged by the edges and when I say something is large and lovely, just trust it really is.
For real I have never seen a school as big and beautiful as this is.
"Hello" someone called, I turned and saw two girls of about my age behind me, one was a darker shade than the other.
"Hey" I replied awkwardly.
"Are you a new student?" one of them asked.
"Are you lost?" the other one added.
"Yes I'm new and I'm a bit lost" I replied smiling sheepishly.
"Oh, I'm Adeshewa and my friend here is Cindy" the dark one said.
"Nice to meet you, you must be an ss1 student, I guess?" Cindy said stretching her hands for an handshake whilst Adeshewa hugged me, the girl has a bubbly aura whilst Cindy seemed quite.
"Come let's show you to your class' we are also ss1 students and we all would be in the same class for now," Adeshewa informed, pulling my hands.
We were about to step into a classroom when the bell rang; we were immediately almost run down by the students trying to get out of the class.
Adeshewa somehow forced our way through the other students and helped me drop my bag on an empty seat before dragging me out again.
I inwardly rolled my eye and followed her lead.