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My Locket's destruction

I couldn't take it anymore! Just seven days after the school's resumption and everything was falling out of place.

Chiamaka keeps making threats just so she can get a seat next to Zane. I normally would have let her but I didn't because I can't see the board clearly from the back seat.

Zane and Daniel aren't getting along well anymore for odd reasons and it's become obvious that Kemi has a crush on Rosemary.

I'm jealous to be honest, I've never seen him give so much attention to a girl before except me, especially because he doesn't get along that well with them. I know I'm being selfish but it really does hurt.

"Kemi do you, umm, do you like Rosemary?" I whispered to Kemi during a free period.

"No! Why would you think that?!" He asked. I raised a brow at him.

"Okay, so maybe all the sketching of her may have made you to but still".

"But you're always staring at her".

"No I'm not. I'm always staring at her hair. Did you notice that she has awesome hair and it's really shiny". He beamed. I slapped my palm on my forehead.

"Really? Hair?" I asked.

"Yeah, if I had that kind of hair it would be awesome. Plus I've never sketched a white before and that's why I decided to sketch her". He explained.

"But you're always sketching her". I pouted.

"That's because she keeps nagging me to all the time. To be honest Tega, she's really annoying and chatty. I don't like her". He whispered.

"Okay, but since when did you start caring about hair? You're a Nigerian guy, your hair's not supposed to be that long or shiny". I said, still raising a brow.

"Yeah, too bad, but Tega, would you like to change seats with me?". He asked, smiling wildly. I guessed he asked me that because of Rosemary. Too bad.

"Nope. Here's good". I said, snickering.
He groaned like he always did when he was a bit upset or annoyed and I laughed more.

"Tega what do you think of this". Zane asked. I turned to see what he put in front of me.

It was a drawing of a Dragon Ball Super character, Goku and beside it was an anime girl. His drawings were almost as good as Kemi's.

"Wow, did you draw this... By heart?" I asked. He's so gifted.

"Of course, do you like it?" He asked.

"Uuh, yeah! Of course I do". I said in total awe at his drawing. He smiled and looked down at his drawing.

"Zane!" I heard a voice call. I knew that voice very well and I didn't miss it.

"Can you lend me your–Oh wow! You drew this?" Kosi asked.

"Yeah". He smiled shyly.

"Can you draw something for me?". She asked, sitting on his desk.

"Yeah".

"Can you draw, umm, an anime girl and boy in uniforms?". She said, batting her really short eyelashes. I rolled my eyes at her.

After some moments of talking to Zane and Daniel, She finally noticed me and eyed me up and down in disgust.

"What are you doing here?". Some times I wondered how dumb this girl could be.

"This is my new seat. Obviously". I said, rolling my eyes at her.

She gave me a hard glare. It seemed like most of the girls in my class see me as a threat just because I got a seat next to Zane.

Why does everyone hate me?!!

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I wash my face and try to calm down. It's not working. Kemi's outside the girls' bathroom pleading with me to stop crying and come out.

What I lost can never be fixed, my most priced possession. It got destroyed just because of a piffle. Why can't my happiness ever last long. It feels like entering a secondary school has become a curse.

It happened few minutes ago, the school's bell ringer rang the bell for dismissal and immediately, the senior prefect barged into our class with a cane and chased all my classmates downstairs, I took permission from the her to let me get my books, she let me because she was a friend of mine.

I carried my bag to go out of class after I was done packing my books to participate in the afternoon assembly. Chiamaka and her two friends; Melinda and Adaeze stood in front of me, blocking my path.

Chiamaka still threatened me for the seat and she must have noticed that i wasn't the least scared of her threats.

She looked at me flabbergasted because everyone feared her. She took a closer look at me and said, "I've noticed how protective you are of this nonsense necklace you always wear on your neck. You're in JSS 3 and you still wear childish things", as she said that she walked towards me.

I covered the locket with my hands and moved back, knowing what she wanted to do.

I hit my back on the wall and was about to take my left and run out of the class when Melinda grabbed hold of my shirt, Adaeze holding my hand and then in a blink of an eye Chiamaka dragged the locket out of my neck.

She separated the rope from the bottle cover, threw the bottle cover on the floor and jumped on it, damaging it.

She picked the picture in the cover. I immediately and forcefully pushed myself towards her, screaming and begging her not to tear the picture but was pulled back and held tight by her friends.

She ripped the picture into pieces and threw the bottle cover out of the window. Adaeze and Melinda released me from their hold and followed Chiamaka.

"I'll be waiting for my seat tomorrow morning". She said, as she walked out of the class.

I could not believe what had just happened. Tears gathered my eyes as I knelt down and gathered the pieces of the picture she left on the floor.

It came out as muffles first but soon I was crying loudly gaining the attention of those downstairs.

As soon as  the afternoon assembly was over, all my classmates rushed upstairs to our class and to their suprise, they met me on my kneels, crying.

Everyone went to their seats and packed their things as no one cared to ask me why I was crying. I managed to see KC, Daniel, Zane and Kemi walk towards me in a blur. KC, Daniel and Zane kept pushing me to tell them why I was crying but I knew they wouldn't understand.

Kemi watched them as they gave up one by one and walked out of the class unsatisfied. He knelt in front of me and hugged me, telling me to calm down as he knew exactly why I was crying, seeing that I was holding pieces of the photo in the locket I had showed him one day.

I stood up and ran to the girl's bathroom and cried out more as Kemi kept pleading with me to come out and stop crying.

My parents banned me from going to Enohor's room because they had noticed it had become a habit of mine after she dies and that was the only belonging I had of her.

Life could be so cruel!