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Walking through the hallways, Geraldine hugs herself, looking straight ahead. You wouldn't see any student lettering due to the fact, it didn't break time, She couldn't only hear his footsteps but feel his presence too. What was she to expect? They both walked out of Mr John's office at the same time.

She could sight her classroom from a distance, although the only thing which was going through her mind was coaching SS2 students who were representing the school, as instructed by Mr John.

She continues walking, her thoughts are random, not focused on where she is headed to at all. She misses her steps, her left leg giving a sound, this makes her lose balance, shutting her eyes at the same time almost landing on her butt. Only to get held back by the strong grip of something. She slowly opens her eyes, hoping it wasn't what she was thinking, even though it clearly was.

Seeing those big brown eyes, she blinks twice. His facial expression revealed nothing but absolute seriousness.

Wondering why on earth she always tend to embarrass herself in front of him. She shuts her eyes, opens it up again, trying to put on a brave face. Making very strong eye contact with him. That moment she felt her heartbeat twice as normal.

Totally confused, not making a move, especially with the position they wherein, not just anywhere on the school premises. Geraldine who felt numb, finally speaks up. The first thing that got to her mind that moment was to appreciate him and get back on her feet, even though it was embarrassing. She had never been this clumsy.

But one look at his face again. She talks without thinking it through. The urge to say what she had in mind seemed stronger and did overwhelm her, especially with the way he looked at her now, she couldn't ascertain the look, but it wasn't pleasant at all.

"You know, I didn't need your help or any guy. I can always look out for myself." Geraldine raps, at almost the same time gasps in pains, immediately she landed on her butt.

He just dropped her.

Shocked, also he still had that gentle and innocent look on his face, like he had done nothing wrong. That moment she hated him more than she could ever imagine.

He dropped her?

What kind of human being was he? She stares at him with her mouth left hanging, unmoved, not bothering to get up, while he picks up the area of concentration she had on her, which was giving by Mr John, in no time he starts walking away. Shocking the hell out of her. She only stares at him, speechless and also in pains.

She could only thank God, no one was around to witness this, but why does he always get to humiliate her, the anger she felt that moment.

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Walking away from her, he held unto the area of concentration tightly. Everything which just went down was still fresh in his mind. He didn't regret it a bit. He wouldn't deny the fact. He felt so satisfied seeing such a miserable look on her face.

Who did she think she was? Always acting like she was the only abnormal person or would he call it crazy person around. Everyone had their own bad sides and issues.

Her's was getting annoying. Even though he didn't react to it, it got him mad. Although his facial expression never expressed that, Imagine going as far as aiding her from falling and almost losing balance just to save her from falling, only to get that response. Like he had her time. The only reason he was still putting up with her was because of Mr John, God knows he had no time to even bat an eyelid at her or any other person.

Now he could think straight, the fact he had observed her for a while, which he still couldn't understand why, she always got his attention. Even when everything she did annoyed him.

He stalked her during the mid-term break after getting into her profile by mistake. He just didn't know why he always ended up going back there, to view her pictures, even though he noticed she wasn't photogenic. Her looks and behaviour were totally different.

But her behaviour was becoming too irritable. How can a human being hold grudges for that long? He had thought about what she said to him that night, which made him do something never thought he could do. He felt bad, apologised, fully aware whatever she had against him was the reason they didn't connect well in the competition, and flopped really bad.

Instead of letting go, she was still getting at him for every little thing. It was becoming annoying and frustrating.

Jayden pauses immediately he sights Leo in an empty class. Even though he was backing him, he could still tell it was Leo. He looked serious, clearly arguing with a person, whom Jayden couldn't make out from where he stood.

The fact Leo wasn't in class meant a teacher wasn't available in their class at the moment, without thinking he walks into the empty classroom.

"I don't want any issue with Nathan abeg. Just free me!"

Jayden who heard this statement, fully aware it was an argument, but not aware of the other person in the room, only looks up.

Their eyes met immediately. He noticed the guy panic, inserting both hands into his blazers, that moment Leo turns back immediately. More like his instinct told him, they had company.

After making contact, Leo slowly turns around, breaking the eye contact and turning to the other boy who was his seatmate for not too long.

He had concluded that the only thing Xavier came to school to do was to press girls boobs and ass. Mere looking at him, you could tell he was a tough guy.

"Xavier, I will double the money," Leo says. There was a way he made this statement, which gave Jayden an incline of what was going on.

Jayden noticed Xavier paused, staring at him, while Leo talked. When Leo noticed the awkward environment he speaks up.

"Don't worry about him, he doesn't snitch," Leo says.

Now Jayden definitely didn't know what that meant.

"I clashed with my guy because of this, I don't want it to happen again. Sorry I can't supply to you anymore." Xavier says.

Jayden noticed Leo's facial expression change at that moment.

"I told you to be discrete, but he found out about it. Not my fault." Xavier says in a carefree manner. both hands in his pocket.

"Okay, I would triple the amount," Leo says anxiously, looking distressed and confused.

This alarms Jayden who hadn't uttered a word ever since he joined this.

"Leo this isn't about the money. Nathan instructed me not to sell to..., "

"Fuck Nathan, what does he have to do with my life?" Leo asks in a loud tone, anger evident on his face. Which was all new to Jayden, because he hadn't seen this side of Leo before.
"I pay, you deliver. Fine!" He says now calming down. "Just sell to me for the last time, will find another supplier if that's what you want. You don't know how to do business." Leo hisses giving Xavier a look. Meanwhile, Xavier's facial expression stays hardened.

"Please!"

"Please!" Leo repeats. Just by looking at him, you could feel pity towards him, because he looked miserable.

"Please!" He pleads again.

"For the last time, also keep it low." Xavier finally says. Meanwhile, Leo slowly turns to Jayden, who only stared back at them. He watched Xavier sluggishly deep his hand into his blazers, hand him a squeezed paperlike material, while Leo hands him a couple of five hundred naira note. In no time Xavier hands him some back.

"Still the same rate. But this is the last time." Xavier assures.

"Thank you!" Leo says, smirking and turning to Jayden who just stood speechlessly.

"Let's go to the class," Leo says in a carefree manner, like nothing had just happened. Jayden doesn't utter a word, he only leads the way.

Jayden spares him a glance, immediately he noticed Leo was serious about them heading to the class, he follows his lead.

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Ashley, stares ahead while he walks alongside Xavier who was just all about a junior student, he was suddenly interested in, they both knew what he meant by interest. It was a bang and leave situation. Xavier was just Nathan in another form. Even though Ashley most times felt bad after dumping. He knew his friends, especially Nathan and Xavier didn't give a fuck about anybody or anything they did.

He recognised her school bag. Also, her walking steps told him she was the one. These past days she had been acting strangely. Whenever he saw her, before he turns his head in another direction and looks back again. Cherish was nowhere to be found. He thought he had cleared that tension, that she wasn't scared of him anymore. Even though it was obvious she was scared of his friends.

Most times he tried initiating a conversation with her in the cafeteria, which was just so low if you look at it from his classmates perspective. He was not just a senior student, but the Senior Prefect boy. She wasn't his sister or anything close to her. So that bond he was trying to form was not expected of him. Even Nathan had been throwing shades, even though it wasn't done directly.

According to Nathan, he just asked him to help shut her up, not to start going over her like a lost puppy. No matter how hard he tried to do it, he knew Cherish meant something to him. The last thing he wanted was to be mocked by his friends regarding this development.

He noticed her stop walking, more like she was struggling with something. Looking closely he noticed her blazers got stuck with a door, which she struggles to let go of. One look at Xavier who was still all about whatever he was saying because Ashley had stopped listening for a while. He slowly turns to her direction, immediately they got closer.

More like it was a magical moment or something, she turned in his direction that moment. More like Cherish knew she was been watched.

Their eyes locked that moment. He felt himself pause, he tries to speak, but no words seemed to form. He noticed her look away quickly. Her facial expression changing that instant. More like she was uncomfortable or something.

Surprisingly she doesn't even greet, she walks away.

"The respect is gone." Xavier's voice brings him out of his fantasy. It meant Xavier was watching everything.

"Huh?" Ashley asks, in a bit to pretend like he heard nothing.

"Why would the respect be there, when you keep on following her around. Imagine Cherish too." Xavier asks.

"Like she greeted you?" Ashley attacks. That was the only comeback he could think of. Besides he wasn't in the mood to argue with Xavier of all people.

"Betty, Betty!" Xavier suddenly calls out to an Ss2 girl, who just walked towards their direction smiling. Trust Xavier to forget about everything once he sees a girl.

"Senior Xavvy. Senior Ash!" She calls out few steps away from them. Ashley who wasn't in the mood to flirt just gives her a gentle nod coupled with a smile. To him, the girl didn't know what she was getting into. With the way she was smiling with them, in only she knew she was just their next target for straight use and dump.

The only girl on his mind just walked away a few minutes away. He wanted to kill the feeling, but instead, he kept on falling deeper and deeper. This wasn't what he bargained for. He thought it was just a mere crush and would fade away. But things weren't going the way he had imagined.

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Cherish tries walking as fast as her legs could carry her. She knew the kind of person Senior Ashley was, he didn't mind follow her down to her class if he wanted to. Besides, he didn't even talk to her, so it meant he had nothing to say to her. But despite that, she couldn't stop herself from running away.

She wasn't scared of him, not at all. She thought she was before now, not thought, she was frightened by his mere presence, but the fact he seemed calmer with her these days was what made her more confident. But there was just something she noticed whenever he tried talking to her.

She always felt hot, like she was going to die of anxiety, fear of looking at his face, making an eye contact with him was way worse because her heartbeat seemed to skip a bit whenever it happened. This was becoming terrifying. So any opportunity she got whenever he tried talking to her. She always escaped.

Since the incident with Nathan, she could swear she has had peace of mind, in the aspect of there was no Nathan to disturb her or Ashley to punish her, although it has converted to him always trying to talk to her. Which made her always uncomfortable. But in the hostel, she didnt stop getting it hot from senior Ukeme. These days it seemed like Senior Ukeme hatred for her had increased, she didn't know what she ever did wrong to her. Senior Ekanem had totally acted like she didn't exist since she got back from the competition. She really thanked God for that competition, although Senior Eno had followed in her footsteps.

Senior Eva as usual always tried to save her from them with any opportunity she had. Which made her almost have a clash with Ukeme and Eno, but as usual it came to equality, since all three of them were classmates. Things with Senior Eva had been weird. They hadn't really had that conversation again. The feeling of knowing a senior you always looked up to as a big sister was into you. It was one hell of a ride.

As for Zara, she doesn't know what was up with her these days. She was been too secretive and jumping around secretly. She could be here in a minute, another moment she was nowhere to be seen.

"Cherish!"

Talking about the devil. Cherish slowly turns to Zara who walked up to her cheerfully, with her school bag hanging by her left.

"I thought you were in class already." Cherish says slowly, remembering she had left the hostel, thinking Zara was in class already. She noticed Zara tense up, which followed up by a small smile immediately. Cherish attempts to talk, but the jingle bells puts her to a stop.

"Let's go for assembly," Zara says immediately.

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Jewel had decided to attempt morning assembly today, even though she had formed a habit of not attending at all. Which was rebellious. As usual, she heads to the hall, by herself, her both hands inside her blazers. Her eyes on the floor.

She almost screams immediately she bumps into someone.

"Jesus! Are you blind?" She asks taking in Leo's presence. What could she expect from his likes.

She took note of the fact, he didn't react, talk nor apologize, he only stares at her, like a lost puppy. Making her blink twice.

She attempts to talk again. But on a second thought, she decides not to utter another word. Which was something Jewel would never do. She attempts to walk away, but Leo enters her way, thereby restricting her.

She had to look at him again, wondering if he was okay at all. She doesn't talk, she moves in another direction, he blocks her again. Now this made her give him a look. She moves again, he enters her way.

"Come are you okay? What's bringing this one?" She spats out trying very hard to offend him, thereby making sure she sounds rude.

Funny enough he just stared back at her. This was becoming alarming. She couldn't help but wonder if he was okay at all. His face displayed no emotions just blank.

She attempts to walk away, he stands in her way again. This scared her. She could tell she was panicking. She was suddenly feeling threatened and attacked.

The question was What did she do to Leo

"I will shout oh!" She blurts out without thinking. That was the only thing she could think of saying.
She doesn't move scared he might do something scary. Because the person standing in front of her didn't look like the Leo she always sat in class with. This one was acting scary.

The fact she knew they were the only ones in the hallway made her panic, everyone was supposed to be in devotion. That moment she wished she went earlier.

"I swear to God, I will push you so hard if you dare stand in my way again!" Jewel says trying to sound confident. Even though she was frightened. Her mouth was her only defence mechanism, and she always did well to use it properly.

Quite shocking, he moves. That moment she released a sharp breath of relief.

"I will just be seeing all this nonsense." She says still trying to act like she wasn't been intimidated. "Because you are taller than me, you think you can intimidate or scare me," Jewel says now working away, her heart beating. "I don't even know what I did to you. Imagine levels. Next time you pull this stunt, I would give you a hot slap on that stupid face of yours." She says moving away, and lets out a scream immediately she gets pulled roughly.

Seeing the look on Leo's face, she wanted to faint that instant. Different thoughts running through her head. What did she do to him? Why was he being so scary? Was it because she just called his face stupid. She had never had this encounter with him or any other boy before.

In a nanosecond, he pulled her towards him roughly and claimed her lips catching her off-guard.
She was shocked. Her heart flipped, her eyes widened and her body stilled from the action.

After a while, she got a hold of herself and began to kiss back.

Slowly he pushed her towards the wall until her back was resting on them. He bit her bottom lips and she gasped, giving him the access he wanted into her mouth. With how rough he was, she tries so hard to be steady on the floor.

He shoved his tongue into her mouth and she moaned. She felt a jolt of electricity down her spine.

After a while, she realised they were kissing in the hallway and could be seen and caught if they kept kissing. She slowly pushed him away, trying to calm her racing heart.

They were both breathing hard, unable to stare at one another. Normally, she would have slapped him, but instead, she just looked at him, short of words, in shock. Trying to contemplate what just went down.

What shocked her the most was him walking out without even uttering a word to her, like she didn't even exist or something.

What just happened?

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"I missed you!" Geraldine felt someone whisper into her ears. "Don't feel too important." That statement enough gave her an idea of who was talking.

They were currently in the assembly hall. The vice principal was giving an announcement.

"Stop feeling yourself!" He says. This brings a smile to Geraldine's face. She didn't know what to say to a very dramatic Jason. She only releases a small smile. Taking his full-face into view. If there was something she noticed, Neither Jayden, Jason or Jewel looked alike in any way. In looks and in behaviour. Even though Jason was somewhat annoying, he was low key carefree.

"Stop talking. You guys are supposed to set an example." Ukeme's voice is heard. Geraldine sure knew she was referring to the both of them. She doesn't respond, to make her feel like a fool. Ukeme was right, so there was no need responding. Although she knew the only reason Ukeme spoke was to spite her.

Jason on the other hand, picks up her new braids, tangling both together. Only God knew what he was seriously busy doing with her hair.

Slowly taking her eyes forwards, she meets Ekanem's hot gaze. The anger on her face was evident. This wasn't the first time, since they got back, Ekanem had been burning her with looks. Now this one was the height of it. The fact she stared back didn't even make her batter an eyelid.

There was something more. Geraldine noticed when she moved away a little. This time around, Ekanem wasn't giving her that burning look, but Jason.

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Omg!!!!! Leo freaking kissed Jewel. Na dream? Also how possible is that?
Analyize what happened?

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Next Chapter we will get to understand more things

Oh God Jayden let Gidi fall flat on her butt🤣🤣🤣🤣 Really between Jayden and Jason, who get chill pass.

Honestly, the guy doesn't have anybodies time. Try to imagine him in love or a romantic guy?🤣

Hmmmn, now we understand what's going on between Nathan and Leo or don't we.

Ah, about Uncle Ashley, any word for him?

Hmmn, what do you have to say about Cherish and her behaviour.

Hehehe, Jewel for scared🤣🤣🤣 Thought she has big mouth.

Hehehe, Gidi and Ekanem again. Now she is stoning glares at Jason too. What's popping? Is there more to this beef.

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