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~GIWA~

327

That was my jamb score.

And believe me, my parents and Lola have been carrying me on their head and broadcasting my result to everyone they knew, bragging about how much of a boss they believed I was.

Lol, they were adorable.

I was even surprised the results came out that good. I mean, I didn't even give it my all. I was almost losing myself during the exam. Constant headaches amd body aches kept setting in, I thanked the good lord for actually helping me through it.

Although deep down in me, I felt, if I was physically stronger, I may, may just have done better. 327 is an epic jamb score anyway. I'm more than satisfied.

"Giwa, I'm about to go!" Lola whined, instantly calling my attention to her as she stood there, pouty sad faced, at the door of my room.

My face softened and I rushed over to her to hug her softly as she kept whining about not wanting to leave me yet.

"Keep soaring, Giwa. And keep being stronger, iyeh? All those your classmates, show all of them pepper!" She was telling me and I just laughed, taking her advice.

I smiled, quickly rounded up with putting on my school uniform and rushed downstairs so I, my parents and Nini could see Lola off briefly before she got into the car with Bolanke and drove off.

We waved her off as she left and she kept shooting her head out of the car window, blowing kisses back to us, waving goodbye, and screaming, "I'll be back, iyeh!"

I smiled, waving her off and laughing softly until she was out of sight, before Dad got me and Nini into his car and drove us to school that morning. Not before he and mum kissed us both on our foreheads and said sweet words to us anyway.

I felt quite happy and satisfied, if I may say.

These past two days I had spent with my entire family was truly everything. Truly. It was something I really cherished. In just these two days, they made me temporarily forget I even had problems. Temporarily got me out of that depressive state I was in before now. I almost felt lively.

For the first time since what happened, I actually walked into school confidently. I wasn't all happy and ecstatic. Neither did I feel like my life was completely back to normal, yet, I was okay with that... I guess.

I don't know why, I just did. Hiding out wasn't even in my plans again. I stood tall and held my head high, nose in the air and imaginary crown on my head, not giving a damn of what anyone thought.

I had a feeling the people that attacked me that night were my classmates.

But jokes on them, I didn't die. I wasn't even temporarily or permanently disfigured. Sure, I have a slightly painful leap in my steps because of the aching in my left leg, my lips are still visibly busted, and a bandage is wrapped all of my head, but still, even asides that, in the real sense of it, they had only bruised themselves.

They actually only hurt themselves. I mean, my parents had already sworn to find whoever they were and put them behind bars for the rest of their sorry lives.

So you see? The poor idiots have already risked their lives and futures, all because of their baseless hate for me. And what even happened to the person they attacked? She only came back stronger, fiercer, more confident, more powerful and also_

"Head girl!"

Oh, right. Smiles. She also came back with her post. The damn head girl of Castron High.

I was standing up amd confident, by the entrance of the assembly hall, cough, as the head girl should. It was just barely fifteen minutes to the morning assembly and some students and teachers were already slowly filling the hall.

Smiled curtly, I turned to the teacher who had just addressed me - Charlie Ba.

He looked like he was coming from insode the hall, a broad smile on his face as he walked towards me. However, that smile slowly faded as he clearly took sight of me, taking in my physically semi-battered state.

"Falade, what happened!?" He asked, shocked, eyes wide in shock.

I only smiled, weakly. "Forget it, sir. I'm okay. It's a long story I don't want to discuss right now. Thankyou for the concern though."

He looked at me still, initially refusing to act like it was 'nothing' as I said. He eventually just nodded and let it go asking about my well being and engaging me in a little chit-chat.

It soon clocked 7:30am, the exact time for the morning assembly to commence, and Yure had joined me minutes early at the door.

"Hi." He had said, looking at me, his eyes not hiding the sympathy in them as he looked at my state.

I only smiled at him. "My mum told me everything. Thankyou, Yure."

A little smile touched his lips, then slowly stretched into a fuller smile. "Friends don't say thankyou."

"Ofcourse." I agreed, and we both laughed together. 7:30 on the dot, we both got our hands on the large doors and shut it together.

Oh well. I could confidently say that indeed, I was friends with Yure Adediji. Confidently.

I walked into a rowdy as hell classroom block. The usual - classmates, clouding the hallway, talking and laughing with their little cliques, flirting, gisting, playing, the usual thing my classmates keep myself busy with before the bell for the first period sends them all away to class.

I had stepped in with confidence, fighting down the insecurity and intimidation that was trying to take over me as I walked in.

To my stunning surprise, my classmates who were present were all..... talking about me?

Uhmm....

I walked down, watching them with eyes full of suspicion and slight confusion, wondering why they were just staying there, watching me as I walked down the hall, making all sorts of side talks and murmurs.

Should I get worried?

I probably would have..then I started picking up the side talks and understanding what this all was about. The tone of their voices were now too exxagerated to not pick out what they were saying.

"She scored 327!"

"How is that even possible!?"

"Who has ever scored that high!"

They were talking about my jamb result.

And how on Earth do they even know about the result? I hadn't told anyone else asides my family, and none of them have direct connections to my classmates. My parents weren't even familiar with other parents of students from Castron High, so it wasn't even possible for them to have heard from them.

Nevertheless, these people were still talking as if I wasn't even there.

"She really scored 327, I saw it!"

"327, ke! Issalie, abeg!"

"Ahh, haven't you checked the Jamb Hall of Fame. I saw it online, they'll soon post it on the school's bulletin board for everyone to see the top 10 people. Giwa is number one there! Score, 327! I no dey joke!!!"

Okay, now I get it. So apparently, the school had already posted the Jamb Hall of Fame already?

I tried not to smile too much. I smiled alright, but just made myself appear chic and not out of control. Like, it wasn't that much of a deal. Like, yeah yeah, ofcourse, I scored 327, no biggie.

"Chai, even after what happened, she still sailed through.."

What?

"I'm telling you, na wa for some of our classmates sha. After what those people did to her, she still came back and squashed jamb."

The conversation between two girls by me actually made me suddenly turn my head to them, surprised that they actually knew what had happened to me. They knew what happened..those two familiar girls from my set whose names I couldn't recall. They knew I was attacked and assaulted.

...and possibly, they may have also known who did it.

I just knew it. I just knew it had to be my classmates that were behind what happened to me that day. I couldn't just be sure of who exactly they were, but I had my suspicions.

However, before I could say one more word or act, the two girls had walked off quickly.

I wasn't able to follow them because immediately still, that moment, that was when I looked at the faces of my other classmates present in the hallways. Like, really looked at it, absorbing the strange looks on all their faces as they watched me.

They looked...pitiful.

They actually looked like they were feeling bad for me.

Were they?

Was that why they hadn't started attacking me with words and insults? Just like how they used to do whenever I stepped foot into the hallways, ever since what had happened.

So, they actually felt bad...for me..

They probably also knew what happened to...and felt bad for a whole me?

Wow.

With everything that had been happening, I had grown to believe that my classmates were empty humans without a heart. I sure was surprised that they actually cared.

Really, wow.

They said absolutely nothing to me, other than the looks of pity that I was starting to get irritated of. I ignored it, acting like I didn't give a shit, and walking still in my boss-like fashion, heading straight on to my class.

Ss2A was at the end of the block - something I felt was unnecessary. Nevertheless, as I had walked further in to the hallway and sort of got right into the middle, I was utterly shocked by what I saw.

I mean, I noticed the block was abnormally rowdy this morning. More rowdy than usual. I didn't understand why, but I didn't think too much on it.

But as I got to the middle of the block where the main drama usually happened...

I saw Ss2 boys and girls.

Right in our class block.

Blood of Jesus.

And they were really sashaying and bouncing around our hallway, confidently walking up to our classmates in cliques or groups and talking to them, broad almost rehearsed smiles plastered on their faces.

What the hell was going on?

Some of my classmates rudely shunned them and some of them were welcoming them with smiles, allowing them speak to them.

Some were even parrading some of them. I saw Aaron and Casper putting their arms all around that King Tobi girl from Ss2, walking, like literally hopping around with her and stopping every classmate to talk to them and King Tobi, and ofcourse, everyone paid attention to the boys

It only confused me even more.

What the hell was going on?

"Senior Giwa, good morning!"

I was immediately distracted by a jumpy, female's voice that wasn't quite familiar to me.

Right in front of me stood Aminah. Aminah of Ss2. Their very own queen bitch. Miss popular of the century. The ultimate, royal highness of that set. Number one when it comes to showing people shege...and proving hotheadedness by chancing and disrespecting SS3s'.

The very one who even had the guts to oppose me during the Interhouse sports preparation period. Yes, that very one I had slapped.

There she was, in my front, beaming at me with the widest, fakest, most plastic smile I had ever seen in my entire life.

"Hi!" She beamed again, almost giving off a jumpy attitude that was confusing me.

Why was she here? And why was she talking to me?

"I heard what happened," her brightly lit face quickly changed into a fast, almost rehearsed sad pouty face.

"Sorry about that. I hope you're okay," she was saying to me.

All the way, her hands were folded at her back. Body moving in an almost playful motion, and light silver pupils expanding and glowing at me, like she was a cute, innocent angel.

Cute, little angel, my foot!

Aminah was absolutely gorgeous, a wild, dangerous kind of beauty that almost attacked you, with dark, very dark, almost charcoal black skin that glowed beautifully and blinded. Slit, silver-coloured cat eyes that you could see through, and a stunning figure eight figure that caused confusion.

However, she was only beautiful on the outside. The inside was nothing to write home about.

I wanted to be flat out rude and ask her why she was talking to me.

Against my will, what left my mouth was, "What do you want from me?"

Immediately, her fake sober face lit up. With the speed of light. She was back to that bright, wide, beaming, almost scary fake smile that plastered her face like she was a doll.

Her hands came out from behind her and out came a form, a paper, that she handed to me.

I scowled, confused, taking it from her hand and looking at it.

PREFECTSHIP ELECTION FORM

I, Aminah Khadija Hasfat, will like to apply and contest for the honourable post of Head girl...

I stopped reading there, completely understanding what this all was about, as well as why the hell a massive flock of SS2S' were running around our hallway this early morning.

The Student Elections for Prefectship posts. We would soon be handing over to these Ss2s'.

"I want you to sign my form for me, please, Senior Giwa?" Aminah was literally pleading with me.

Usually, to contest, everyone going for the elections would have to meet the Prefects in power for them to sign their forms and give their consent and approval. The person applying for a particular post would have to meet the present person filling in that very post to get their approval and sign their forms.

For example, if you were a boy going for the post of Head boy, you would have to meet Yure Adediji for approval. If you were a girl running for the post of Head girl..well, you just had to meet Giwa Falade for approval.

That was just how it was. If your form wasn't signed by the present Prefect in power, then, you would just be wasting your time. You wouldn't be able to run for the post.

"Please.." Aminah pleaded, looking like she was completely and utterly desperate for the post, eyes moping at me, begging, hands clutched together.

Wow, she really needed this.

The old me would flat out dismiss her and walk away since she had never even been someone I liked as a person.

But a softer part of me was willing to set all that aside and give her that dream.

"Gimme the form." I said to her.

She smiled so joyfully, almost jumping infact, and handed me her form and a pen.

I quickly put in my signature, approving her form, and handed it back to the girl.

"Thankyou so much!" She was nearly crying.

"The school government election is today by the way. It was scheduled to hold whenever you were back to school.." Aminah was telling me.

Wait, really?

The School Government election usually held a week before the main election. This particular election was only held for the posts of the Head Prefects. Why? Because only the school authority, as well as the present Head boy and girl have to vote the next head boy and girl into power.

Usually, the head prefects' votes alone contributed to 40% of the votes, while the school authorities made up the remaining 60%.

And the fact that the school had to wait for me, even when they weren't even sure of my return, to fix both election dates...Wow. It actually made me feel a bit of warm, knowing that even after what happened, once again, the school has placed me of very high significance.

Slowly, slowly, things may just be falling into place.

"The school made adjustments to this year's election. They changed it up a bit. The elections are now open for all students, but they carry only 20% of the votes. The school authorities, teachers and head prefects make up the remaining 80%. Soo, You and Senior Yure still share 40% of the votes..." Aminah said, blinking at me and bringing me back.

Oh, really...

"Please, pretty please, vote for me!" Aminah pleaded, giving me a puppy dog face that looked like something she was an expert at.

I didn't even know that I had actually ignored her and walked out on her in fact, until I found myself paces ahead of her, looking back only to get a glimpse of her shocked, almost hurt face.

I got into class, right after having to sign about five more forms from different Ss2 girls contending for the post of Head girl.

How many if these girls are even trying to contest for the same post for God's sake? All these girls. Funny still, in the end, only one girl will get the post.

"Giwa.."

A soft voice that called me caught my attention as soon as I entered the classroom.

I didn't even know who called me, but when I looked to the faces of my classmates who were watching me, I saw the same look I had seen earlier from the ones outside.

That pity look.

Christ, they should stop giving me that. I am completely okay and fine.

A part of me was grateful to God that atleast I had caved into the soft part of their hearts atleast. Maybe I could have peace once more for myself, right?

I waved it all off, walking with my head high and showing them that indeed, i was okay. However, I got startled even more when I saw Miranda Archibong in my class, sitting by the seat that Hassana usually occupied.

I frowned, utterly confused.

Miranda? What the hell is she doing there on Hassana's seat?

The girl's eyes lit up immediately she saw me and she waved me a hi, smiling brightly.

I looked at the girl, wondering what she was doing. Miranda and I have never been friends. So why all these?

"I heard you were in school, so I was waiting for you.." she said to me as soon as I got to my seat.

I sat on my seat, scowling a little at the girl. "What?"

What, really. Why was she here? And waiting for me for that matter. I wasn't connecting the dots.

"I heard about your jamb score." She started, smiling at me. "Wow, Is it true? You scored 327?"

I sighed, rolling my eyes, then only nodding, hoping she would note my disinterestedness and just go away.

"Wow!" She exclaimed. "I wish I could score that high. I scored 221."

I nearly cringed hearing the score, but didn't say anything. Maybe my silence would make her leave eventually.

"You weren't at the Karaoke Wing it party, why?" She asked nontheless, not getting the hint.

I answered her not. That moment, I was opening my desk locker to get out my books for the first period. When she was tired, she would stand up and go.

"Sophia Williams came." She continued.

Okay, that kind of got my attention a little.

I had heard she showed up at the Karaoke Wing it party. The very party that I didn't attend. All around Instagram, my mates had been going live, posting pictures they had taken with the celebrity and talking about their experiences while chatting with her. All of them, clearly feeling themselves for having to actually speak to Sophia Williams that day.

Lol, the one time I decided to not show up for a party, what happened? A big celebrity like Sophia Williams turned up. I wonder what will happen with the next party I miss. Who knows? Michael Jackson may just arise from the dead.

"She's a really cool person," Miranda was saying.

Yeah, rub it on my face, Archibong.

"I talked to her and she was so nice." She continued.

Yeah, that's right. Continue rubbing it in.

"..and she also complimented my dress too." Miranda went on, definitely sounding proud of herself for receiving a compliment from such a big star.

"She's so amazing and beautiful. It's a pity Mena had to go ahead and steal one of her earrings." Miranda told me.

I looked at her.

"Mena stole one of Sophia Williams' earrings?" I involuntarily asked, and she nodded.

Na wa for that Mena girl. She was known for being the Sets' book thief and only but recently, it was discovered that she didn't steal only books.

And now she goes as far as stealing Sophia Williams' earring?

How did Sophia Williams even stay and allow someone to even steal her earrings? Was Mena really that skilled at this pick pocketing thing?

Before I even had the chance to say more, a group of people literally burst into my class like a freaking tornado, nearly even shocking everyone to the risk of a heart attack.

"Sorry, can we disturb you people for a while?" Aaron announced to the whole class, walking in with Chika Chioma and all the girls in her clique.

"Just a minute!" Casper followed up, shouting, brisking into the class, dragging along that King Tobi girl from Ss2, who looked like she was trying to control laughter.

I noticed Sean from our class, an art student who was an expert on shouting and making noise, just like Aaron and Casper. The guy was confidently bouncing in, an arm around another familiar looking Ss2 girl's waist.

Aaron was quick to pull the girl even forward and in seconds, he, Casper and Sean were addressing the class in loud voices as Chika and the girls were either laughing or butting in occasionally.

"You guys know the beautiful, Stella Chioma over here," Sean was the one talking, addressing the girl he was holding.

That's when that face clicked. That same soft beauty and light skin.

Stella Chioma was Chika Chioma's sister in Ss2. I wonder how I even forgot that. I even think Inhave had about one or two encounters with the girl in the past. Just like Chika, she was an angel.

"Stella is contesting for the post of Head girl and we're on a mission to get her to victory!" Aaron announced.

"Vote Stella Chioma as the next Head girl, every other person is counterfeit!" Casper announced to the whole class and all the girls, Chika and her clique, agreed on that notion.

Looks to me like the entire class was in on it too. They were all very receptive towards them as the boys hyped the seemingly shy, cute girl up.

I smiled.

"I'm not voting that girl." Miranda beside me snorted, making my head turn to her.

"None of those boys, except my cousin, voted me when I was running for Sports Prefect last year. Anyone they're supporting is cancelled to me." She made up her mind.

She said 'except my cousin'. Had me wondering which of those poor boys were cousins with Miranda Archibong.

Funny because I didn't vote for Miranda too. I mean, Prissy was also running as as the time, although Prissy had lost to two votes, coming as a runner up.

"Okay, okay, people. We all know who King Tobi is, naw!" Casper's loud voice took over, pulling King Tobi closer to everyone's view.

"Guys, how we dey ball na?" The overly confident, somewhat boyish Ss2 girl addressed my entire class so boldly, and they were suddenly all cheering the girl on immediately.

She didn't even wait for Casper or any of the guys to do the talking, she boldly came up front and started telling us.

"I'm Tobi Dorathy-May Kingston and I'm going for the post of the Social Prefect girls." She formerly started, before suddenly breaking down into a small laughter and switching to her normal, hippy accented deep voice. "Mae una vote me, abeg."

Everyone laughed and I couldn't help but chuckle myself.

"You've already won it, forget!" Aaron was so assured of that fact.

"You guys, Let's meet Giwa for her form!" It was Chika that alerted them of my presence and in no time, they were rushing over to my seat, all of them, clustering me, totally surrounding me.

"Giwa, you'll vote my sister, right?" Chika asked me sweetly, after I signed her sister's form, a genuine smile on her face.

I nodded. "Nothing is stopping me."

Stella, Chika's sister smiled at me and I smiled back at the pretty, light skinned girl.

"Thankyou." She said to me, her voice firm, surprisingly a contrast to her soft look.

Who knows? Maybe this girl was not as soft as she looked on the outside. She may probably ne one hard nut to crack. Perfect material for head girl, if that was the case.

"I'm not voting Stella oo." Miranda announced to all of them out of the blue, causing all their heads to turn to the snobby faced girl who just spoke.

"My vote is already on Aminah, so don't bother campaigning to me. I may also vote King Tobi if I'm in a good mood that day. As for Stella, tueh!" She adamantly said.

"Ewo, who was even talking to this one?!" One of the twins from Chika's clique fired back at Miranda, humor and mockery filled in her tone that made everyone else laugh even against their will.

I heard Miranda muttering something that sounded like "I just hate those twins" as the boys and Chika's girls exited the class.

I expected Miranda to leave any time soon, but this peat of a girl couldn't take a hint. Shortly after they left, her anger died down immediately and she was back to smiling vibrantly at me.

"What about your friends?" She asked me.

That question did something to me.

What about them?

For starters, they weren't even in class at all.

I instantly recalled Nini telling me about Prissy being away for the Sports competition that Ivandor was also away for and_

"Sorry about your friends leaving you though. You know, I never really fancied them Sha. Not Prissy, not Hassana, and definitely not Shade." Miranda said to me.

One; my friends haven't left me...I think?

And two; What exactly was this girl's point? Is this what she came here to tell me?

"Shade Onam is at an interview for 'Good morning Naija' in case you wanted to know. I saw it trending online," she stopped, scoffing. "That one is just too proud on her own, sef. Always acting as if she's too big to talk to people. Not like Sophia Williams. I wish she was the one in our set, sef, not Shade Onam that is busy forming foe all of us."

I don't know why, but that statement annoyed the fuck out of me.

That wasn't true.

Shade wasn't 'proud'. She was very down to earth. I realised that I truly may have been misunderstanding her too in the past, but.. she's a really nice person after all.

Miranda was probably just bitter because she and Shade didn't talk on a norm. But, oh come on! Does she really expect Shade Onam to be 'paddy paddies' with every single human in the set? Come on!

"And that Hassana too," she snorts in something I percieved to be envy. "Everyone will be hyping her as of she is the most beautiful girl in the world. She's way too overrated please! And that Prissy, her own, just because she is good at sports, she just_"

"Miranda, leave." I told her, seriously.

"Ahh, what did I say?" She exclaimed softly, mellowing, confused. I couldn't tell if she was being serious or if she was naturally daft.

"Leave my class. I'm not going to sit here and entertain all these baseless gossips you're trying to pull me into. Thankyou. Now, be gone." I said to her, gesturing to the door.

Miranda looked hurt and hesitant for a while. Eventually, she stood up.

"Okay oo.." she was saying.

Yeah, be going.

"I only just came to tell you the names of the people who gang beat you that night." She said.

I froze.

"It was Ajiro's plan." She told me straight up, exposing the girl I thought was her friend, in one second.

As if I knew!

"She planned it a long time ago with some of my class girls, but I didn't know they were serious. I think some Ss1 girls were also involved too..."

Ss1 girls??!

Wait, what?

"Kaniru was in on the plan because, according to him, you embarrassed his sister in Ss1 on the first day of School. He said you made ber walk back to block with no socks and a messed up hair.."

Wait..what?

My mind dated back.

What the fuck?

I mean, my mind dated wayyyy back to the first day of school last term. That day I inspected the Ss1 girls after assembly and forced all the girls on coloured braids to loosen them right in school and also made all the people on black socks to get them off and walk back to their blocks, bare foot with their shoes in their hands and socks thrown out the window.

"Kaniru has always had a problem with you since forever.." Miranda was telling me.

"But he was saying that you crossed the line when you messed with his sister that day. He swore to get revenge on you. I know that because I'm close to him." Miranda said.

I knew she was close to him. That particularly shocked me, wondering why she was easily giving him away and exposing him to me like this.

But no problem, I needed a snitch right now.

So, with all due respect, continue, Archibong.

"And you know, Ajiro has always had a problem with you. Right from time, she has always sworn to have you beaten mercilessly before she graduates. All the other class girls were always saying that they would join her. But it was always all jokes. I never thought they'd really go through with it until I heard what happened to you. The girls in my class were almost bragging about 'deforming' you and I was so shocked." Miranda told everything.

She left the class after spilling everything to me and left me in total shock.

One of how easily Miranda found it to exposing her friends so easily. Or rather, exposing the people she treated as friends so easily.

And two...how much these people hated me..

Ajiroghene and Kaniru George, those two have definately crossed the line this time.

They have, haven't they?🤧❤️

Sooo, this chapter was so fun to write cause it reminded me of secondary school and that time when Ss2s' were going for post. They packed our class block dieeee!!!😂😂I won't lie, I also did it when I was in SS2 too soooooooo😂😂

Btw..who ran for post though???? And in you were in CH, Team Aminah or Team Stella for Head girl!???

Anddddd....327 in Jamb!??😩😩❤️
Who else wishes they were her!????
Loolll, if you get mind, drop your jb score though 😂❤️

Okay, that's all for today oooo. See you guys whenever. Tbh, I don't know when else I'll be updating (school) but it should be within the week soooo....Adios❤️❤️❤️❤️