CRUSH

2ND DAY DRAMA.

Tap, tap, tap tap. I feel someone tapping my back but I ignore it and roll over on my bed. It isn't until the person smacks my back before I force my eyes open and tilt my head up to see my mum staring down at me on the bed. I groan knowing she's here to wake me up for school.

I see her open her mouth to say something but I don't allow her to talk before I pull the blanket over my head and continue sleeping. She laughs lightly before talking "won't you get up for school?" She asks me and I ignore her. She taps my leg again and I shrug her hand off me.

"If you don't get up now you'll be late for school, do you want to get punished on your second day of school?" She asks trying to pull the blanket off my body. The minute I realize what she's trying to do I wrap my legs around the blanket and yank it back to me, it's basically a tug of war now as we're both trying to drag the blanket to our side. "You really want to get punished in school today don't you?" She yells slightly.

"I won't get punished since I don't plan on going at all" I mumble back to her, she's disturbing my sleep jare. "Ehn you won't go to school? What should I say if your class teacher calls me?" I grumble again "oh God just tell her that I'm sick or that I had an accident" after saying this I yawn slightly and start fake snoring.

I feel a painful smack on my shoulder and my hand flies out to rub the spot "what nonsense are you saying? Accident? I reject such in my family" my mum says dramatically, I kick the blanket away from my body and sit up in anger, I know this woman won't let me sleep in peace.

I'm frowning as I get up and kneel down to greet her, she rubs my head and asks how my night was. I'm tempted to tell her that it was nice till she decided to wake me up but I dare not say that so I just shrug my shoulders before heading to the bathroom to get ready for school.

About 15 minutes later I'm wearing my uniform when I hear my mum shouting at me to be fast and come downstairs because time has gone, she calls me a snail and I ignore her. She's always complaining that I'm too slow even when I'm rushing like mad.

After taking a few slices of bread and a cup of tea my mum drives me to school and drops me off Telling me to have a great day. My mind flashes back to what happened the day before and my mood dampens. I already know that I won't have a great day. I'm almost reluctant to even enter the school but take a deep breath and walk into the gates heading for my class immediately.

I get to my class and greet my friends noticing that a lot of people who didn't come to school yesterday are now present and I frown as my mind drifts to a certain fact. I don't think I saw jack in school yesterday, infact I'm pretty sure he didn't come sef. I feel myself getting worried and I'm about to stroll past their class and use style to check if he's there when I freeze.

What the heck am I saying? Am I stupid or something? Why should I check on him? He likes someone else not me so I shouldn't care about him. I insult myself over and over again before walking back to my seat. My mind drifts off to him again and I keep wondering what he sees in Esther that I don't have, when I feel the negative energy running through me I bring out the novel wuthering heights and start reading it to get my mind off the guy.

Not only did I succeed in getting my mind off jack but I also succeeded in giving myself a headache because of the stupid way this book is written, it's so difficult to understand what they're saying and I keep finding words that I don't know the meaning of every line. I'm still hissing when semiat and hephzy run into the class, I wave at them and they come over to my seat.

"You won't believe what semiat just tol-" hephzy started but when she saw the book in my hand she stopped talking. "It seems that you're busy reading, don't let us disturb you we'll come back later" semiat adds and they turn around to leave but I open my locker and fling the book inside before jumping off my seat "busy? Doing what? I'm free jare so tell me" I say and they just burst into laugher.

"I thought you were forming serious student ni? You're not reading again?" Hephzy asked mocking me. "Better shut up before I kick you" I hiss at her and face semiat who just shakes her head silently "so what did you tell her?" I ask semiat pointing to hephzy and semiat just smiles shyly.

Shyly? Semiat? Oh I definitely know what that means and I can tell that whatever it is it surely involves quweey her crush and one of our guy friends. "What did quweey do?" I ask sitting down on someone's locker and they both look shocked. "How did you know it's about quweey?" Hephzy asked me and I raised my eyebrow at her.

"Can't you see that look on semiat's face?" I ask and hephzy looks at semiat before shaking her head "what look?" She asks me and I sigh. "That I'm a fool in love look that she always has on her face when she's talking about quweey" I say bluntly and hephzy starts laughing as semiat kicks my leg hard.

I hold my hands up in surrender "sorry but it's true" I say laughing too. She just hisses at the two of us and adds "do you want to hear or not?" She asks angrily and I nod quickly before she changes her mind. "So during the holiday we used to chat a lot and he told me that he likes me, he said he has liked me since we were in j.s.s 1 but he was too scared to say it"

Hephzy is practically squealing and I just nod my head. They both seem shocked at my reaction and semiat frowns at me "sho ni so nkankan ni? (Won't you say anything)" I look up at this and groan "fine congrats or kilo fe kin tun so? (What else do you want me to say)" she glares at me and I roll my eyes before getting off the locker and going back to my seat.

Hephzy has been silent since, she's just observing my reaction and she's about to say something when Esther enters the class and heads towards us with a big smile. "How is everybody doing?" She asks excitedly and we all frown at her. "wetin dey do dis one? (What's wrong with her)" hephzy asks staring at us for answers but we just shrug.

Esther just laughs "is it not favour? He saw me now and was asking why I came late, I told me that I woke up late and he told me he was worried that something bad happened to me" she just shakes her head "like can you imagine? He was worried about me" she adds and we already know where this is going.

Esther and favour like each other and everyone knows it, at this point I'm sure that even the trees know it and we're just waiting for when they'll get together and start dating, they make such a good pair and no one will be surprised if they eventually get married in future. It seems that everyone's love life is going great... All except mine. I bite my tongue at that thought and I feel my toes clench in frustration.

"Is that why you're blushing like pregnant mosquito?" Hephzy asks dryly and I almost choke on my saliva, she just burst Esther's bubble like that. Esther just claps her hand in anger "says the person who has been talking non-stop about festus since yesterday, festus this festus that" she says mocking hephzy.

It's true though, hephzy has been talking about him since yesterday, I'm surprised that I've not gone deaf with the amount of information I've heard about the guy. She's not the type to ever compliment guys so I guess that she must really like him. Well good for her I guess.

They're about to start arguing but I cut them off "it's okay abeg (please) we know all of you have been shot by Cupid's arrow so let's go to assembly I say bitterly before grabbing my assembly manual and heading out of the class. I hear their footsteps behind me but I don't even bother to look back as I just keep walking towards the assembly ground.

On the assembly ground I can feel their stares but I choose to ignore it, I'm not in the mood for questions right now and my mood only worsened when I spotted jack on the assembly ground laughing with his classmates. I'm still staring at him when he turns back at our eyes meet, I panick and quickly look at the ground instead.

Classes started today and I found myself already getting tired of school, I was hoping that the time would pass by faster so I could go home, all was going well until data processing period when serious wahala (trouble) erupted in our class.