Close to perfection

CHAPTER11

Today is my first day at school, we woke up around 6:30 AM said Our Prayers and made breakfast.I laid on the sofa as we finished eating and Rufaida couldn't hold her amazement and asked
" Babe I don't get what you are doing"
"I want to sleep back" I replied stretching my arms.
"Wait don't you know we have a class by eight"? She asked
"I know" I answered.
"Then we will be late if you sleep now"
"But I'm sleepy".
"Sameeha please don't provoke me this morning is this how it will be going? Then we can't stay together and I will call Ummu to report you." She left angrily.
I laid there and slept off not knowing when she left for school.
"Oh my god". I said as I looked at the clock on the wall and saw what the time was 10:30 I jumped into the bathroom,took my shower and when I came out I dressed in my black and white uniform hurriedly.
I came out and a cab dropped me at our school gate.i quickly ran to our department and I noticed everyone was looking at me ,is this a second Nigeria? I asked myself rhetorically.I walked passed them and entered our class. "Where you coming from "? The lecturer asked surprisingly.
"Uhm ehm I slept off I am sorry" I answered truthfully.
"Wow, u earn my respect for saying the truth have a sit". He said happily.
I went and sat down next to Rufaida but she stood up and left the seat for me. I wasn't annoyed because I know she left the house angrily. After the lecturer left,I went to her new seat to apologize but she wasn't ready to listen. She then told me that she has already told Ummu what occurred earlier. "Why would you do such a thing"? I asked angrily
"So that they know what u did your first day" she replied unbothered
"This is an act of hypocrisy" I said
"Just call me a hypocrite, I will accept it she continued, if telling Ummu what you did for her to make you change is hypocrisy,then change my name to 'hypocrite" she reassured.
I took my bag and stood on the podium and said to the whole class
"Hello, my name is Sameeha, I'm from Nigeria and I will like to know all of you.lets all get along huh?" 5 students said they were also from Nigeria and the remaining 6 were from Belarus. Including Rufaida and I we are 13 in the class and I like it extremely well because I'm the kind of person that hate crowded class.
When we finished our class for the day, I headed home without talking to Rufaida and she didn't either. I got a cab and on reaching home,I got changed to a night wear,entered the kitchen and prepared spaghetti malenious for both of us even though I'm not sure whether Rufaida is coming home or not, she hates cooking and I can't let her starve just because of what she did to me .
I served myself and as I was eating she came in and went straight to the room eyeing me ,I know all her thoughts was that I cooked for my tummy alone, I smiled quietly and picked my phone..
Ring ring ring
"Hello Ummu na"
"Ummu please I'm truly sorry let me tell you what happe....." I stopped talking as Rufaida  seized the phone from my hand and ended the call.
"What do you think you are doing" I asked her concisely.
"Were you trying to tell her what you did, then go ahead and be the hypocrite yourself "? She said as she handed me the phone back and she entered the room.
"So she hasn't told anyone about what happened and I was ready to mess everything up" I thought to myself,I smiled and called Ummu again.
"Ummu sorry please my phone fell" I lied
"Oh eyyerh  babe you are still careless right"she  said
"It was a mistake Ummu" I said in a whining tone ready to cry
"It's okay, what we're saying before the phone fell?"
"Ehm ehm I was trying to say Ummu sorry for not calling you till now"
"Hmm so innocent, don't worry dear u don't need to call me every day unless something happened, I will always call you huh?"
"Okay sweety my regards to Ukhti and Abbu".
"Okay bye" and i hang up.
Rufaida bursted into laughter as I almost got myself into trouble
I eyed her playfully and said "babe you almost got me into trouble why"?
"You almost got yourself into trouble not me"
"I will definitely take my revenge" I said to her
"I will never make that mistake of skipping  class  Sameeha maybe you can avenge with something else" she said and came to grab my plate .
"Hey babe your food is inside the microwave" I told her and she headed straight to the kitchen and served herself. She came out and we continued eating together and I said
"I swear Rufaida you scared me to death today"
She laughed and said "that's the only idea that came to my mind because you really annoyed me."
"It's not my fault though" I said.
" who's fault was it"She asked. I kept quiet and she continued "let me tell you something as you see our department they don't joke with attendance,Also the lecturer You met todayHates it when a student comes to his class late, So Sameeha we need to be careful because when we miss three attendance straight Without exeat,then we will be on the probation lists and from there will be expelled .This university is nothing like Nigerian university even though some of the universities are just like this when it comes to discipline".
"And who told you all these"? I asked
"Yaya sameem" she replied and continued You know he graduated from the school so he told me about everything since when I was in English department and when I got accepted to law department he expanded his Guidelines and showed me some of the lecturers to be careful with. She Went on to say you know my brother was a very intelligent student of the school, he was the overall Law student in the whole of Belarus universities Which is why they held his certificate to work in the country but he insisted on going back to Nigeria now he's in the Nigerian law school of Abuja." She expanded.
"And who asked you for this long information" I asked Mockingly .
" I just felt like sharing it with you" she said and stood up
" stop telling me things related to your brother I don't like it" I warned and left the parlour to bedroom too.
As we were sleeping around 7:30 PM Rufaida's landlord called her and said if her house remains vacant for two more days then he will accept A new tenant and refund her money Because he don't like it when the house is empty. She pleaded with me to come live with her in her house and I asked her about my own house she told me the landlord of my house has no problem as far as his money will be paid.
I called Abbu And he told me to go live with her  As her house is more closer to our school.We packed some of our stuffs and left some to be spending the weekends there. We moved back to Rufaida's house the next day and we started going to school from there.
Time goes by and we are already in our mid semester. "Why don't we go to a park to spend the break"? Rufaida suggested
"Okay then" I accepted and we started making preparations to go for picnic the next day. Pripyatsky national park is where our picnic will hold, we were all looking forward to it.
the both of us Dressed Elegantly in a Belorussian outfit which made us look like one of them as we were both fair in complexion and we kind of look alike. As we were taking some pictures on the grass, A fair and handsome looking guy came towards us and broadly smiled at us,Rufaida smiled back and I got angry at her for smiling back  to an unknown person and she said
" excuse me elegant lady he's my brother's friend Ahmad"
"Oh" I said
"You are Rufaida's best friend I guess" Ahmad questioned looking into my eyes with his lips broadly smiling
I eyed him and said "and must you look straight into my eyes before telling me you recognized me ?" I asked and left them there without turning back. Honestly I wanted to talk to him since when I saw him smiling at us but the moment I learnt he's that brats friend, I changed my intention.
"So your friend is a no nonsense type"? Ahmad asked Rufaida
"Don't mind her,she's not always like that it's just that they are not in good terms with my brother"
"Yerh I know he told me about her" I said as he started laughing
"Ya Ahmad why are you laughing "?
"I remembered how your friend decorated your brother's white shirt with zobo,you need to see his face when he arrived that day, if I'm not mistaken, I saw a tear dropped from his eye." He said as he held his stomach which is painful from laughing hard.
" I will tell him how you are laughing at him at his back" Rufaida threatened as she was also laughing
"No please spare me his troubles, I can't deal with him only your friend can".
"Are you ready to go or you are not done laughing "?
Sameeha asked as she was bored of sitting alone and she can't join her enemy's friend.
They both started laughing again which provoked sameeha and she started walking,they followed her and begged her to hop in Ahmad's car as he was going to their street but sameeha said no, she better trek there than enter his car. Ahmad pleaded and promised to not talk on their way but all these to no avail, she rejected his offer and that disappointed him. Rufaida apologized on her behalf and told him next time she will not listen to her friend but to him, He smiled,said his goodbyes and left wondering about Sameeha's stubbornness. He laughed all alone as he drived out of the park.
"You are too bad"Rufaida said
"I know"
He's so different from my brother,He looked unhappy, what's there if he gives us a ride?"
Instead of Sameeha to answer her ,she threw a little out of what's on her thought and said " I know you guys were gossiping about me and yet you are here making me look like the villain"she said as tears started rolling down her eyes.Rufaida was surprised to see Sameeha crying over this small issue not knowing the reason why her friend was crying in none other than missing her chance to befriend Ahmad just because he's her enemy's friend.
"I hate your brother"
"That's your business" Rufaida shrugged and called a cab for them and they headed home.