CHAPTER TEN

"She's been asking for you" the first boy said and Micah raised his eyebrows pursing from taking a sip of from the cup in his hands.

"She came around my block too" Heraline added, folding her arms and relaxing into her seat.

"So what's the fuss about?" Sarki asked.

"Then I saw Poison chatting with her some days after. I saw them about three times together" the first boy replied and Sarki raised his eyebrow nodding his head.

"She's not stupid or dumb" Sarki said while everyone around the table turned to him.

"Look; whatever the issue is, you guys get home and settle it. You are killing the whole vibe here okay?" Sarki continued.

"I came here to have fun, I don't care if you came here for some other reason so please don't ruin my fun" Sarki continued standing up from his seat and moving his body to the music.

"Sarki my guyyy" a guy greeted by slapping handshakes with him and they both exchanged a brief hug.

"How you dey now?" he asked.

"I dey" Sarki replied.

"I see as you dey follow one babe talk that time, I hear say na Jeremiah's sister be that" he said and Sarki chuckled quietly.

"Na Jeremiah sister be that, wetin happen?" Sarki asked.

"Ha, come help me run am now. The babe set gan, naso everybody just dey look am since morning. Heraline dey drag am everywhere nobody fit even near am say dem wan collect number, sha come help me run am fess before another person go jam am" the guy replied nudging Sarki on the shoulder playfully.

"Get lost" a voice drifted into both of them ears and Sarki turned to see Micah staring at the other guy with a straight face. The fact that his ears were still trembling from the voice told him that Micah had just spoken.

"King" the latter called bowing his head lightly.

"Didn't you hear me?" Micah asked.

"And tell your people, I see anybody near her, they are as good as dead" Micah added while everyone stared in shock and surprise.

"King" Heraline muttered and Micah rubbed his forehead.

"Where's Jeremiah?" he asked and Heraline swallowed her saliva. She Knew that tone all too well.

"I'll send for him," Heraline replied, pushing herself to her feet.

Everyone knew that Micah was more than pissed already and the fact he hadn't flung the cup of alcohol in his hands at someone was evidence that he wasn't fully angry yet. Jeremiah was Micah's school son. No one knew the story or how they had even come to be in the first place as everyone knew one fact, Jeremiah was a precious person to Micah.

And someone had gotten the guts from God knows where to come and ask Sarki for his younger sister's number in front of him even going ahead to clearly state that he had just wanted to mess with her. Everyone could feel the change of atmosphere immediately and in order to avoid being in the line of fire, they all kept quiet watching Micah sip from his drink and scroll through his phone without another word.

"Where's my brother?' Jemimah asked and Bimbo shrugged her shoulders.

"He's probably playing some games upstairs or around the pool side" Bimbo replied and Jemimah nodded her head scrolling through her phone as well. She had noticed a lot of people looking at her and even some of the guys urging each other to come and approach her and had somehow rehearsed ways and manners to turn each and every one of them down and then suddenly she realised that although the eyes on her didn't reduce, no one was trying to walk up to her or something.

"Isn't that enough alcohol for a night?" Jemimah asked and Bimbo glanced at the cup in her hands and shook her head.

"Don't worry about me, I know my limits" Bimbo replied and Jemimah nodded her head.

"Obviously" She replied genuinely surprised. Before Bimbo came to drag away from Sarki, her mouth was already smelling alcohol so she had guessed that she might have taken two cups before then and just during the time they had sat down to eat, Bimbo had taken another two yet her words were constructed perfectly like she hadn't taken any drink at all.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Bimbo asked, standing up from collecting the tray of peppered chicken someone brought.

"My guts tell me you are thinking, where did Bimbo know how to drink and not get drunk?" Bimbo asked and Jemimah nodded her head.

"Then answer me" she replied, taking a chunk of the chicken wing and slipping into her mouth.

"I went with Jeremiah to this house party and he told me not to take any drinks, I somehow forgot that I got drunk and almost drugged. '' Bimbo replied while Jemimah stared at her in surprise and shock.

"Jeremiah got quite pissed" Bimbo continued talking while tearing the chicken into two different plates.

"Made me come over one time and made me drink so many bottles, we did that for some four five times till I could drink a full bottle or even two and I wouldn't even get drunk" Bimbo finished slipping a chunk of chicken into her own mouth while Jemimah stared at her trying to process what Bimbo had just explained to her.

"Jeremiah said, he wouldn't always be there so I had to be capable of looking out for myself too" she added and Jemimah glared at her.

"I know okay! You don't have to remind me that you both love yourselves to death" she replied while Bimbo burst into laughter while Jemimah smiled to herself picking another chunk of chicken.

Jeremiah had always been like that; overly protective, in the confines of their secondary school, he could look after her without her knowing or anything but here in CUA, the story was different so he made himself admit that he couldn't be her superman everyday and so he had to teach her how to avoid trouble. Jemimah mentally gave her elder brother the award of boyfriend of the month.

So who's going to teach you how not to get drunk? her subconscious asked and Jemimah rolled her eyes while trying Doyin's number for the twentieth time that night.

"I have to find Doyin, I have been ringing her number since and she's not picking it, '' Jemimah muttered pursing her lips.

"Let's find Heraline so she can ask them to find her," Bimbo replied, taking the last chunk of chicken and standing on her feet.

"I even forgot to ask Jemimah, did you dress like this to specifically seduce someone or what?' Bimbo asked playfully and Jemimah burst into laughter.

"I wish there was someone I could actually seduce" Jemima replied and both girls burst into laughter.

"But you do look really hot tonight" Bimbo commented again.

"Where's your phone?" she asked.

"Let me take full pictures of you" she added while Jemimah stretched her phone towards her.

Jemimah scrolled through the pictures throwing flying kisses towards Bimbo as they walked downstairs.

"Instagram worthy pictures, that's what I took, feed your eyes ehn" Bimbo boasted and the two girls burst into laughter again.

"Heraline" Jemiamh called as soon as they saw her.

"Have you seen my friend?" she asked and Heraline shook her head.

"They are already checking the third floor and CCTVs cameras, I feel like you'll disappear as soon as we find your friend" Heraline replied and Jemimah nodded her head.

"We stay in school hostels, the gates get locked by 12am," Jemimah replied.

"Let's take pictures before they find Doyin '' Heraline said, bringing out her phone and pulling Doyin closer to her while they started posing and taking pictures.

"Hey baby" Heraline suddenly called out and Jemimah watched in amazement as Heraline rushed into the arms of someone raining kisses all over their face. Her eyebrows rigged together upon realising that Isa was the one Heraline was hugging.

"Who's Isa to Heraline?" Jemimah suddenly blurted out and Bimbo laughed.

"You just watched Heraline kiss him like that and you are asking what they are?"

"That's Heraline's boyfriend's baby girl, the only one capable of turning that girl into a clingy cat," Bimbo added and Jemimah chuckled.

Isa didn't know because of the universe whatever, he knew her because Heraline knew her. She chuckled lightly wondering how she had fallen for such gibberish.

"Helloooo '' someone booed into Jemimah's ears and Jemimah turned to see someone holding a drunk Doyin. She quickly rushed over collecting Doyin from the stranger and wrapping her hands around her waist to steady.

"Jesus, Doyin, how much did you drink?" Jemimah asked and Doyin burst into laughter.

"I kept losing so I had no choice but to drink,'' she replied, her voice slurry and Jemimah shook her head, slipping her phone into her pocket.

"Your friend is drunk '' Heraline muttered pursing her lips.

"Why don't you let Isa go and drop you guys?" Heraline asked and Jemimah raised her head to glance at Isa.

"You've met my boyfriend at the bar right?" Heraline asked with a grin and Jemimah nodded her head.

"Yes I did," she replied.

"Babe, where's your car keys?" Heraline turned to ask Isa who immediately slipped his hands into his pockets.

"Don't bother '' Jemimah announced stopping the movements of the duo.

"The driver that brought us here is still waiting outside, '' Jemimah added and Heraline raised her eyebrow.

"You had him wait?' Bimbo asked.

"I paid him to wait," Jemimah replied, turning to glance at Heraline again.

"Thank you very much for inviting us to your party, Hera. I enjoyed it and Doyin obviously enjoyed it too. Have a good night" Jemimah said, pulling Doyin with her while walking away. Bimbo watched Jemimah help a chattering to no end Doyin and turned to glance at Isa.

"And what did you say to Jemimah at the bar?" she asked and Isa furrowed his brows.

'What did you think I must have said to her?' Isa shot back and Bimbo shrugged her shoulders.

"If I had an idea I wouldn't ask you but I'll just let you both know in case Heraline doesn't have an idea, Jemimah hates a lot of stuffs, from random stuffs to a lot of things we could consider normal but there a top ten list that we all avoided in sec school" Bimbo replied.

"You went to the same sec school with Jemimah?" Herlaine asked and Bimbo chuckled.

"Stop asking me the obvious Hera, '' Bimbo replied.

"Making a fool out of her, Jemimah hates it the most. Not the most but definitely in the top ten, she despises it." Bimbo added, shrugging her shoulders while picking another cup from a tray someone was passing around.

"I know Jeremiah didn't ask you to give Jemimah an invitation letter, he wouldn't. There was no way on earth he would have allowed it. But you found some way to make him busy that he barely remembered to ask you about it. For whatever reason you invited Jemimah to your party Heraline, I wish, I desperately wish you do not plan to include her into any of your clan cult games" Bimbo continued shaking her head and taking a sip.

"I desperately wish you do not plan to make her a chess player because Jemimah loves Chess and excels at it, she excels at everything, everything she ever tries. You would be throwing a stone on your foot if that's what you are planning" she finished raising her cup up.

"Nice party by the way" she muttered before flashing the duo a smile and walking away.

"You know I also wanted to ask Jumoke, why did you give her an invitation?"

Heraline turned to her boyfriend with an amused smile on her lips "Are you pretending not to know or you really do not know?" she asked and Isa chuckled.

"King is not going to spare you" Isa replied and Heraline chuckled.

"Even if I had a thousand lives, I wouldn't cross him" Heraline replied, wrapping her hands around Isa's waist and standing on her toes to press her lips against Isa's but the latter turned his face to the side just in time.

"What did you say to Jemimah huh?" Heraline asked unsurprised that Isa had turned his face.

"A joke that turns out after all is not that funny" Isa replied with furrowed brows.

"We'll find her later and apologise" Heraline muttered quietly reaching for Isa's lips again and this time around he didn't turn his head. Wrapping her hands around his neck, she kissed him fervently like her life depended on it.

"Fucking get a room!" 

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Hello guysssss; I deeply apologize for being such a pain in the ass by not updating for a full week even after I promised extra chapters. It was really inevitable but here I am with another update and don't worry. I have the updates for this week already all I need to do on Friday is to click on publish so don't worry about updates for this week.

This chapter will be needed a later part of the book so make sure you don't forget this part. I'm curious because of the suspense in this chapter. I have no idea what Bimbo was talking to Heraline and Isa about, I'm even further confused on what Isa was talking to Heraline about. All in all, I know I'm in for some really dirty games, not me per say, y'all.

Who likes Isa?

And the part where Bimbo told Jemima how Jeremiah made her learn how to drink is the sweetest part of this chapter. Jeremiah is still a sweet human being.

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