𝐀 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞✔

𝙵𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚃𝚈

Dedicated to the author of How together with bullies Chloes_Ink

So before you let me go
Can we burn every photo?
Won't you let me hold
All the seconds you stole
Should have known it from the start

~Chloe~

"will you stop playing with your food?"

I looked up and everyone at the lunch table was looking at me, expecting me to stop. After staring long and hard into the faces of Molly, Antonio, Samuel, Zoe and Joel, I hissed and finally took a bite of my chicken.

It was lunchtime and I was seated with the full house having lunch. Actually, to put it more accurately, I was sitting all by myself at the table that was on the leftward part of the cafeteria, close to the entrance, when they all invaded my privacy by coming to sit with me.

We were all having fried rice and chicken; that was what everyone who came to the cafeteria was served. Fortunately for me, it wasn't my favorite food, so I avoided eating it like a plague. Not that I was allergic to it, or anything, it just didn't sit well with me; too many unnecessary ingredients: green peas, carrots, veggies, ugh—! That's why I preferred jollof rice, red and ready to go.

"What? So, you guys don't think it's unfair—I mean two days to our NECO exams and the principal thinks it's OK to bring in some new student called 'Gloria'."

"Hey, don't be judge-y, Tony Boo. I'm sure the school has some good explanation for this. What we need to focus on is our exams, OK? How did today's English papers go?"

Molly who sweetly tried to change the subject spoke up. Calling her boyfriend a pet name is definitely cute, but it still irks me a little that they are together and not just friends anymore. Sadly, for me, I'm still single, as they say, like a Pringle. Well, whose fault is that? You aren't just ready to mingle. Take a look at Samuel, totally checking you out right now, and all you can do is glare at him...And in truth, my face was in a tight smile, glaring at him for looking at me longer than he should have.

He smiled at me but I didn't even bat an eyelid at him; feeling self-conscious, he looked away and so did I. Shocking but, wetin Musa no go see for gate? No matter how high-principled and morally standard a school is, there is always a place of loopholes, and that my dear was what worked in favour of Gloria Kamari, a Hausa exchange student who became a member of our school in less than 48 before our exams were about to start.

Ever since she joined this school two days ago, this school had known no rest. There is no rest for the wicked though, but not like this. It's like everywhere she goes, trouble follows. Even in the exam hall today, when we all had to open the divider dividing each class, which was to enable us have a large enough hall to write out exams, she still manages to interrupt the whole mood for our exam by bringing a cellphone to the exam hall. It rang very loudly on her way to submit and leave the class, distracting and disturbing the rest of us.