Jemimah slowly closed the door of her wardrobe turning to Vickie, she chuckled as she pointed to her and Doyin again.

"Are by any chance talking to us?" She asked and Vickie folded her arms chuckling.

"Who else would be talking to?" Vickie asked.

"Annabelle is not a respecter of anyone. She has always been like that, from Day one, she's arrogant and very prideful if you ask me, that's part of her whole person and I absolutely love it" Vickie continued.

"If you were a fan of Annabelle, seeing Lashe on her live wouldn't be such a big deal for you, late last year, Lashe and Ibukun went on a trip to Hauwei, there was always a third person with them but she was always blurred out. There were rumours it was Harriet or Annabelle but the media, your lovely media, disgusting tiny bloggers like ButterFly Fairy, for goodness sake, she's just a campus blogger, why is she acting like GossipMilli?' Vickie asked no one in particular before shaking her head.

"Well, back to what I was saying, the media immediately ruled out the fact that Lashe and Ibukun would have anything to do with Annabelle, but as a faithful and loyal fan of Annabelle, I knew she was the one. Harriet isn't as tall as she is and the fashion sense of the person in the blurred pictures had a large disparity to Harriet's" Vickie finished shrugging her shoulders.

"You are really an Annabelle stan" Doyin muttered staring at Vickie in surprise while Jemimah nodded her head. It was the first time she was seeing Vickie talk too much, most of the time even though she was there, the other girls did the talking.

"What are we going to do about PHY 101 abeg?" Doyin asked as soon as Vickie withdrew back to her bed.

"I no understand shingbain in that thing" Doyin cried out and Jemima burst into laughter.

"Let's see how our day goes tomorrow" Jemima replied and Doyin nodded her hug wrapping her hands around Jemima.

"You are a lifesaver" she whispered and Jemima laughed.

"You'll sell me for food" Jemimah argued back and they both burst into laughter.

"I need to finish some stuff in my room," Doyin said and Jemima nodded her head.

"I'll come back later" Doyin added while Jemima waved to her watching as she stepped out of the room.

Jemima had barely sat on her bed when her phone buzzed. It was a message from Jeremiah.

Mom came by, she was in a hurry and she dropped your stuff at my place, you can come at pick it up after your classes tomorrow. Love you so much.

Jemima chuckled, her provisions and foodstuffs were indeed running out and she had texted her mom to notify her. She had also forgotten that her mom said she was going to branch by the school and see them. It was more than obvious that something happened at the company so she had to rush back. She quickly texted her brother to let him know she got his message.

Jemima was spending more than enough time on the school forum, CUA indeed was the school to a lot of celebrities, as for why some teenage celebrities let all the private universities in Lagos, Ibadan, and Ogun state and came to Akure to school was a pure mystery to her.

She kept running into profiles and posts of different people and the school forum was more like a mini Instagram except that only the student of CUA was on it. Whoever had come up with the school forum; Jemima just had to give it to the person, a smart ass wouldn't be enough to describe the person.

A pure genius.

That was what the person was.

Jemima furrowed her bros upon stumbling upon a profile; it was a blank profile with zero posts but somehow had over ten thousand followers which Jemima deduced was more than half of the school.

O. Micah.

She scrolled upwards and downwards but there was nothing on the page. Curious she quickly took a screenshot of the profile and sent it to their group tagging Paul and Peter, the duo seemed to know everyone and everybody. Her brows were further furrowed when she Paul replied almost immediately.

We'll see in school immediately.

Chuckling lightly, she soon realized that there had to be some very interesting gist about this person, maybe he was some big teenage celebrity she had not taken notice of. Her mind went to Vickie's evaluation of Annabelle and she couldn't help but chuckle. It was nice to see that she still had fans who stood behind her.

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Jemima folded her arms, her eyes running across the twins in front of her, "So who is going to tell me who this O Micah is?"Jemima asked.

"I figured out he must be some hot shot but no one is coming to my head or no one came to my head rather" Jemima continued.

"Ever heard of the Titans?" Paul asked and Jemima furrowed her brows.

"Isn't that one of the cults y'all talked about? The one who killed people without batting an eyelash?" Jemima asked and Peter nodded.

"Yeah, yeah"

"This O Micah guy is one of them?"Jemima asked again.

"One of them would be an understatement" Paul replied and Jemima folded her arms.

"I like this, I like this. Tell me moreee" she cooed and Peter shook his head.

"No one addresses him as Micah, his full name is Obaniyi Micah but everyone calls him King" Peter started and Jemima burst into laughter.

"King as in, a literal King?" she asked wearing an amused look while staring from Paul to Peter.

"Yes. He's the leader of the Titans" Peter replied and Jemima suddenly felt a chill down her spine.

"Leader? Wow, that's nuts" she commented.

"Do you have any idea of how he became the leader?" Paul asked and Jemima shifted uncomfortably in her seat.

"How?" she asked quietly.

"He stabbed the former leader, that was when he had just entered the 100 level" Paul replied and Jemima stared at him mouth agape.

"There were series of cultist fights back then, some refused to take him as the leader and off with their heads" Paul added and Jemima's hands flew to her mouth. It wasn't the first time she was hearing how deadly the cultists in CUA were but just one person couldn't be this deadly.

"He's one person you shouldn't mess with if you love your life but you don't have that problem to deal with" Peter muttered a sleazy smile on his face while Jemima dropped her hands slowly.

"That's quite terrifying" she replied quietly shaking her head.

"Where's Doyin?" Paul asked and Jemima shrugged her shoulders.

"She wasn't in class when the lecturer left. Maybe she had something urgent to take care of" Jemima replied checking her wristwatch.

"I have to pick something at my brother's place outside school. I'll see you guys later" Jemima announced throwing flying kisses at the two boys who burst into laughter at her actions.

Paul watched Jemima walk out of the lecture theatre with an amused smile on his face "Is her pretense really good or she's really ignorant?" he asked and Peter chuckled.

"Ignorance could cost her life you know" he replied and Paul laughed.

"I don't think so, she was under their protection the moment she stepped into CUA"

"And she has no idea"

"What do you she's going to do when she finds out?" Peter asked and Paul smiled broadly.

"Jemima had always been a bundle of surprises, I can't wait to find out"

By the time the bike man dropped Jemima in front of Jeremiah's lodge, it was already nearing evening. But despite that, the people wandering around the street were very few, unlike the other areas that had student lodges, the street where Jeremiah's lodge was; was too quiet.

From the very first time she had visited him, she had noticed that it had been too quiet, Jeremiah had told her a very quiet person and someone who loved silence owned the street. The students were always thoroughly accessed before allowing them permission to live in the lodges. It wasn't just enough that you had money, you had to fit into the criteria.

It was no surprise that although it wasn't the most expensive, it was the most sought-after lodge in the school area. She wore a smile at the gateman, letting herself through the gate and walking straight to Jeremiah's door, even though there were several rooms in the compound, there was no soul in sight. It didn't come as a surprise to Jemima though.

By the time she was standing in front of the door, Jemima realized that she had forgotten the spare key to Jremiah's house in the hostel, to be specific, she had changed the tote bags she was carrying at the last minute so the key was in the former bag. She sighed and rubbed her forehead tired from the day's lectures and from the fact that her trip was in vain. She quickly dialled Jeremiah's number. The latter picked up on the second ring.

"Jemima, what's up?" Jeremiah greeted and Jemima sighed into the phone.

"I'm in front of your house right now and I realized that I forgot the key to your place in the hostel" Jemima whined while Jeremiah burst into laughter.

"I specifically told you not to forget"

"I changed bags last minute so I left it in the other bag"

"Wait a bit, I'll ask someone to send you another spare key"

"You gave someone else your spare key?" Jemima asked in surprise.

"Just wait a bit" Jeremiah replied before ending the call.

Jemima stared at her phone chuckling and wondering who else asides she and Bimbo would have Jeremiah's apartment spare key.

Jemima didn't have to wait up to ten minutes when she heard the sound of a car, since the compound and everywhere were so silent, the sound of a car parking just outside the gate was too loud to be ignored. She had crouched down in front of Jeremiah's door waiting.

The gate opened and her eyes widened as someone stepped into the compound and started walking toward her. Without thinking, Jemima had stretched to her full length staring without restraint, for some reason she recognized the figure, it was the person's back and side view whom she had found so attractive at Heraline's party. Staring at his full brows and lips drew into a thin line, Jemima was at a loss for words.

"Jemima?' he asked and Jemima found her throat dry upon recognizing the voice. It was the guy who had called Abraham the first time they met, he was the reason she started considering adding a deep baritone voice to the things she wanted in a boyfriend. She blinked her eyes uncontrollably a small smile spreading across her face.

"It's you" 

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Happy new month peopleeeeeee. Welcome to my monthhhh, hehe. How are you all doing? Thank you so much for the care and love you send to me through mails and texts on IG, they mean so much to me.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but updates on Holding You Tight will be becoming very slower than before. Although I will try to upload chapters every month I cannot make any promises that being said, my surprise for y'all on my Birthday still stands, keep your fingers crossed for it. 

Will start dropping snippets on my IG account very very soon so stay glued to your phones. Let's get the comments to 1k and the reads to 5k. I've heard questions about why some characters have not shown their faces; you all will have to be patient to savour this meal, so just keep your fingers crossed.

My chest is doing anyhow, my babies are finally meetingggggg, hehe. I love you guys so much. See you soon, maybe an update would drop on my birthday, and maybe not.

Byeeeeeeee