Dedicated to EkehAnita

Some eyes could touch better than hands ever could.

-Unknown.

"Zarah be careful oh, with the way you're going you would soon fall" Adaora called out to .Zarah warningly from behind.

"Nah I won't, Don't be praying bad prayer for me abeg!" Zarah narrowed her eyes playfully at Adaora before skipping down the stairs happily like a five year old who just had just been handed a cotton candy.

The reason for her excitement was because of the free period they had and that Adaora had offered to take her in guitar lessons. She had always wanted to play the guitar and was hyper at the possibility of playing one.

"Ow!" She yelled, her facial expressions contorting into one that portrayed pain. She slumped on her knees as she missed a step and twisted her ankle.

Adaora rushed over with a triumphant look fighting to take over the sympathetic look on her face. She tried hard to suppress her grin and the urge to sing Zarah her a version of I told you so.

Crouching to her height, Adaora asked her if she was okay.

"Do I look like I'm okay?" She gave her a dirty look, a frown etched across her face.

"Sorry" Adaora replied with a grin.

"You  can go ahead and say it!" She grumbled, scrunching up her face in a way Adaora thought was cute.

"What?" Adaora asked, her grin still splashed across her face. She knew all too well what Zarah was talking about but she wanted her to spell it out.

"I know you want to say you warned me right? Well go ahead. After all you warned me" She forced out grumpily.

Adaora laughed and offered her a hand "No need to tell you since you already know then! You can stand can't you?"

Zarah glared at her hand before taking it "Of course I can... OUCH!" She winced, transferring her weight unto her left leg.

Adaora's brow crinkled in concern "Is it too bad?"

She nodded in the affirmative biting her lower lip, it had hurt way more than she expected.

"Let's go to the school clinic then, I'm sorry we would have to postpone our trip to the music lab"

Zarah made to protest but paused midway when a sudden sharp pain coursed through her veins, for a minute she had forgotten her sprained ankle.

Slumping her shoulders in defeat, she allowed Adaora to lead her gently to the school clinic.

Nice way to spend a free period!

She though sarcastically, pursuing her lips grimly

"The nurse isn't in, gimme a minute lemme fetch the health prefect" With that, Adaora disappeared in search of the said prefect.

Zarah busied her self with staring around the room with awe. The school never seized to amaze her, she didn't think she'd been to half of the school building's yet. She only knew her classroom and those on her block, the cafeteria, the staffroom, the office of the principal and vice principal and now the clinic.

She was about to visit the music lab before the unfortunate accident. She pouted and made q mental note of where she'd like to visit next.

She'd like to visit the library, the physics laboratory, chemistry laboratory, Computer laboratory, Agric lab and the Biology lab especially. Biology fascinated her and she had developed a keen interest in the subject the moment she first took it in SS1.

Left with nothing else to do, she began to wonder who the health prefect was as her eyes roved across the room. She wasn't left to wonder long because Nathan strolled in casually, his hands in his pocket as usual.

Her breath hitched and she raised a brow, she had expected to see Adaora trailing behind him but she was nowhere to be found.

"If you're wondering where your friend is, the maths teacher held her down" He said calmly, answering her unasked question.

It took a lot for her not to physically swoon as his soft, gravelly voice washed over her like an ocean wave, it was the most she had heard him say or all he had heard him say rather after his greeting to the teacher the time she saw him and his muttering her name at the cafeteria. Yes she was keeping count of all he had said and she couldn't help it, his voice was so...

Wait... What? She... Him... Alone... Clinic? With every step he took, her heart beat quickened, beating erratically against her ribcage.

"Don't be afraid, I don't bite' He said in a monotone as if bored of his life. If he had meant that to reassure her then he obviously failed, it did nothing to calm her racing pulse.

"Which ankle?" He sat down on a chair opposite the bed she was sitting on.

"Uh?" Zarah asked stupidly.

"Which ankle?' He asked again, irritation seeping into his tone.

She flushed "Em... The left one"
Her cheeks warmed up, she didn't understand what suddenly came over her and why she was acting that way.

He took the said leg in his right hand, examining it carefully. Zarah found herself staring at his long lashes as he bent over to take a closer look, scrunching his face in concentration in what Zarah thought to be a cute way. From up close, smooth was the word.

The bridge of his slightly crooked nose was sharp and long and she resisted the urge to run her hand over it, she had never seen a broken nose this beautiful, he probably broke his nose while he was younger from the looks of it.

She ran her eyes from his cheekbones to his perfect brows and his enviously beautiful brown hair, she so desperately wanted to run her hand through. Her mouth parted involuntarily as she stared with undisguised admiration and awe at his spot ridden yet drool worthy face.

She sucked in a breath as a sharp pain stung her, she blinked repeatedly and averted her gaze to the source of the pain, her leg.

"Sorry, didn't mean for it to hurt that much but don't stare like that, It's getting uncomfortable"

She looked away embarrassed.

Zarah! What the hell just happened? You don't go about staring at people you just met like that! She chided herself

Besides, he was no match for you, you'll never be good enough for him no matter how you try. A small voice reminded her.

Yeah, they were from two entirely different worlds. She thought bitterly. I'm like trash compared to him considering his looks, social status and economic status, she was not to be found anywhere near him.

No matter how hard she tried, her mind kept wandering back to his face. She couldn't get the image out of her head.

How stupid of her to even think of admiring him.

She tried to concentrate on her leg. His hands worked like magic and surprisingly she didn't feel any pain as he did whatever he did with her leg. She watched his hands work on her leg with intrigue and fascination.

"No big deal" He finished, wrapping it up in a bandage. "It should be perfectly normal in an hour or so. The bandage is just for show off, it's not necessary. It's just to fool the mathematics teacher that it's more serious than it actually is. Just remember to unwrap it before you get home so your mom won't fret"

Zarah blinked, staring at his blank face intently. She had difficulty in processing his words, it was the most she had ever heard him say. It was difficult not to swoon, his voice was..

"Hello!" He raised a brow staring at her confused face.

"Huh, oh yes... Okay, uhm... T -Th -Thank y -you. I totally understood that" She stuttered nervously with a flustered look.

The corner of his lips turned up slightly in amusement which was one of the first time Zarah had seen him with an expression on his normally blank face. He walked out of the room without as much as an after glance at her.

Zarah let out a breath she didn't know she was holding, she stood up and tested her foot on the floor. It felt foreign but seeing that she could manage it to class, she padded out of the room.

Nathan was leaning against the door watching Zarah with an amused smile stretching his thin lips as she padded towards the class like a baby duck that just took it's very first step. When he was sure she was gone, he stretched to his full height and went in after her.

"Don't stare like that, it gets creepy" Adaora deadpanned, she threw the novel she was reading on her table noiselessly.

"Huh?" Zarah asked, flushing slightly. She was embarrassed at the fact that she was caught staring again.

"At who? I wasn't staring at anyone"  she decided to play dumb but the look on Adaora's face told her she was having none of it.

"Save that for someone who actually believes" She took out her Physics note from her table.

"You were lucky Jade's not in this class and that she didn't catch that awestruck look on your face back then. Trust me, you don't want that to happen, she's pretty obsessive over him" She explained as she took out her pen, calculator and mathematical set too and made to go. She paused at an after thought and threw at Zarah over her shoulders.

"It's time for Physics class, let's go. Wednesdays are mainly used for practicals so we have to go to the Physics lab"

It was then, Zarah noticed that the class had emptied out and she and Adaora were the only ones left in the class.

She quickly gathered all she needed for class and trailed out after Adaora. Zarah paused her lips as they walked down the corridor, wondering if Adaora would get angry if she asked her a question.

"I know you want to ask something, so out with it" Adaora said as if reading her mind.

"Em... About what you said about Jade and Nathan earlier on" She shifted uncomfortably on her feet "Are they... Uh... Are they dating?" She asked quietly.

Adaora gave her a knowing look.

"No they aren't. Their relationship is a little bit complicated, Jade is the only girl anything close to him and I think he cares about her. She just deludes herself with the thought that he likes her although everyone know he does not.

Zarah nodded slowly, assimilating all she just heard.

" But my advice is that you stay away from him, he's not good for you. Do not involve yourself in their mess, You'll only get yourself in trouble"

A/N

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