A/N:

Heyyy!!🤭😂🔥

And no, you're not dreaming, I'm actually here with another update!😗🔥✨

I know I disappeared, yes, but I'm back and sincerely sorry.

This chapter was draining and so difficult to put together 💔. I really dunno why but mehhh, it is what it is, ahbi how them Dey talk am🤸🏽‍♀️?

So nobody could come with conspiracy theories?😂😭

Well, Anita said Toyo beat Farhana 😂😭. How true do you think this is?

And Emem said she married Austin😂😭. Mumu girl😂

Let's seee let'sssss seeee... 

complete the lyrics na🙃

So this chapter was a lot and so difficult to put together and on God I pushed myself to write because the inspiration kept dying everyday. It's not my best, but I hope you enjoy it all the same❤️✨

Skrrrr😂🔥

Enough talk talk, leggo😌🔥.

~Toyo

I took a step forward, my brows furrowed in utter confusion as I stared at the duo that stood before me.

"What are you doing?" I asked suspiciously, squinting my eyes, like somehow I'd figure it all out by just staring at her.

"Doing? Tee, I don't think I get you," the pretense in her voice irked me, made it feel like my mind was playing tricks on me, made me want to question my own sanity.

"Stop! Stop it, Farhana! Shut the fucking hell up!" I screamed, inching towards her, feeling anger course through my veins, stinging me on the insides. But she was unmoving.

She stood there, staring at me with something akin to. . . Pity?

"I understand, Tee, that you..."

"No! You understand nothing! You know nothing! Stop pretending like you care for God's sake!" I ran my fingers through my curls, lightly tugging at it, causing a soft groan to escape my lips.

"Tee this, Tee that? Who on earth said you could call me Tee!?" I hollered, my hands moving in exaggerated gestures.

"Following and stalking me around, pretending to care about my wellbeing and state of mind?" I asked in disbelief, shaking my head aggressively as I peered at her, a scoff eluding me as I tore my gaze from her to the crowd that had now gathered around us, whispering and murmuring to each other, their gazes fixated on us as they waited in anticipation for something to blow out of proportion.

"I'm not stalking you, Tee," she sighed, causing my brows to involuntarily quirk up in disgust, bobbing my head to the side, silently pointing out the absurdity in her statement, but she went on.

"I just want to have a decent conversation with you, that's it," she finished, raising her hands in mock surrender.

A breathy laughter escaped my lips, then turned into a full blown laugh, my shoulders quaked and my stomach hurt and I didn't stop laughing, couldn't bring myself to stop, not until I started to feel tears burn my eyes.

"Really? Farhana wants to have a decent conversation with me?" I queried, the disbelief evident in my tone. "And you expect me to believe there's absolutely nothing else asides you just wanting to speak to me!?"

She stared back at me, her face void of any emotions, her lips pressed tightly against each other. She went silent.

"Tell me, what exactly do you want to talk about?" I inched forward again, folding my arms across my chest. "Because the last time I checked, we weren't acquainted in anyway, we don't hold 'conversations' with each other," I added, using air quotes when I said 'conversation'.

"That's true o,"

"What's really going on?"

"Drama no dey finish for this school,"

"So, Farhana, you will explain to me why you suddenly feel the need to speak to me, not ignoring the facts that I have been seeing you everywhere with him," I pointed behind her, where I was sure Emeka was standing without having to look there. "And that too after the mad stunt he tried to pull on me!" My voice raise an octave higher, bouncing off the walls, resonating through the hallway.

"Tell me," I sighed. "Tell me why I should trust that you just want to have a decent conversation with me," I hollered and this time I saw her flinch, her eyelids pressed tightly together, causing a feeling of satisfaction to go through me.

"I'm so disappointed in you, babes. I expected better." I said, averting my gaze to meet Emeka's sad eyes watching me intently. "I expected better from you," I added, my gaze never leaving his.

"But oh well, it is what it is, isn't it?" I moved my gaze back to meet hers, mustering a sheepish smile before spinning on my heels to strut out of the hallways and to my class.

Understand by Omah Lay played subtly from the JBL speaker that belonged to Sodiq, giving the classroom a serene atmosphere as I watched them all in their respective cliques as they talked and bobbed their heads lightly to the music.

Some were even reading and taking down notes, mouthing the words of the song with smiles on their face.

For the first time, the noise didn't irritate me, it was soothing.

I spotted Anjola and peace in the middle of the classroom, showing each other something on their phones with wide grins on their faces.

I walked over to them.

"Babes," I called out, plopping down on my chair.

They both looked up simultaneously, their smiles never faltering.

"Toyosi!" Peace screeched causing Anjola and I to put our hands over our ears as the pulled me into a hug, tightening her arms around me until I could barely breathe.

I pushed her away playfully, "I know you love me, but abeg no kill me," I croaked out, causing Anjola to chuckle.

"But I'm only hugging you na," she said with a pout on her lips, folding her arms under her chest, looking like a child that had been refused candy.

A breathy laughter escaped my lips.

"So, what are you guys happily doing without me," I quirked suspicious brow at them, inching closer.

"I'm not going to tell you," peace mumbled.

The laughter I had been trying to hold, erupted from my lips as I stared at her in disbelief.

"Ahan?" I said in between laughs, tears brimming in my eyes as I held on to my stomach that was starting to hurt.

"Anjola, please tell me," I turned my attention to the other girl, causing her eyes to gleam in excitement.

"We we're trying to shop for shoes," she said, her smile growing wider.

"Shoes!? For me ba!?" I squealed, moving to hold Peace's hand expectingly but she was quick to swat my hands away, painfully.

"They're not for you," she rolled her eyes, letting out a loud hiss.

What is this childishness, abeg?

"They're for peace o," Anjola spoke, staring at the petty teenager from the corner of her eyes.

"I was just helping her choose and she kept saying I have bad taste," she completed, her lips turning down in a slight frown.

"That's because you have bad taste," Peace shot back, punctuating her sentence with a causal shrug.

"I don't have bad taste," Anjola swatted her arm, then folded her hands across her chest.

"You do," Peace insisted.

"I don't," Anjola objected.

"Shut up! You do!"

"I won't shut up and I don't have bad taste,"

"Urgh!"

"Hmph!"

"Don't talk to me, please,"

"I'll talk to you,"

"Toyosi, warn Anjola o,"

"Toyosi, tell peace to stop being irrational,"

"How dare you call me irrational!?" Peace hollered.

"Aren't you being irrational?" Anjola quirked a brow at her.

"Toyosi, am I being irrational?" Peace turned to me and Anjola followed.

Honestly, I couldn't tell how long they were bickering for, but I didn't want it to stop. It was giving Tom and Jerry.

"Fools," I laughed, moving to pick my bag before I felt a sharp pain surge through my scalp, causing me to wince loudly.

Peace yanked at my hair.

"What the hell is wrong with you!?" I cried, massaging my head softly.

"You're not nice," she said almost immediately like it was a valid reason to act to petty.

"I'm not going to do this with you and your irrational self right now," I dismissed her.

"Ha!" Anjola laughed out and I realized what I did there.

I saw peace move to yank Anjola's hair then mine almost immediately. And before I knew it, we were all yanking at each other's hairs, laughing, squeaking and screaming at intervals.

"Health prefects!?" A loud voice called, causing ya to abruptly stop what we were doing, turning in direction of the loud voice.

Kenneth stood at the entrance of the class, his eyes scanning the classroom in search of the health prefects.

"Toyosi!" Precious called from the back of the class, "please go," he begged when he finally gained my attention, his eyes blinking at an abnormal speed.

Sighing, I stood up from my seat, grabbed a comb from my school bag and walked to meet Kenneth.

"The nurse needs you in the clinic," he said sternly and I nodded in response, moving past him and heading to the school's clinic.

~Austin

I stood in hallways that led to the restrooms, my back pressed against the wall. munching on my Tom Tom as the burning sensation in my throat through to my chest started to reduce gradually.

I closed my eyes shut, the sound of ocean waves filled my ears as I took deep breaths, my ASMR, playing over and over again as I tried to forget those words...

Then it abruptly stopped.

Groaning, I took my earpods out of my ears, shoving them into my pocket angrily.

"Stupid thing had to run out of battery when I needed it the most," I muttered under my breath, hitting my head against the wall repeatedly.

The pain surged through me, soothingly distracting me from those thoughts...

Those thoughts that I ran away from...

Those thoughts that threatened to crumble my entire life to dust before my very eyes.

"What are you doing?" That very familiar British-Nigerian accent resonated through the hallways, causing my eyes to flutter open, darting them him the direction of her voice.

And there she was, the only person that had been clouding my mind ever since that day I left her in the parking lot of the restaurant that evening.

Guilt washed through me as I recalled how I had unnecessarily screamed at her and zoomed off.

Her horror filled eyes stared at me, jaw dropped like she was staring at a ghost, her feet rooted to the ground where she stood, frozen like a statue.

"What?" I asked deadly, darting my gaze to the ground.

"Your head banging against the wall was echoing through the halls, Austin!" She exclaimed, pointing towards the wall behind me.

"It wasn't that loud..." it shocked me how my voice had dropped so low. I could barely hear myself.

"Are you kidding me right now?" She shot me a look of disbelief, throwing her hands up in frustration.

"Just go away," I dismissed, turning to walk to the restrooms..

A/N:

Heyyy! Omoh sorry for the short chapter, this is the shortest chapter I've ever written ☹️. I'm currently not feeling too well and I've been having serious block but God Dey❤️✨

Don't worry, next chapter won't take so long❤️✨