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1|𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐞

Hi dear reader,
Thanks for giving this book a chance and opening '1|Just Me' to read, I'm grateful.

Enjoy!!!

~Zirachi Joy Mark~

Z  I  R  A  C H  I

.......He was handsome and she knew it right from the onset. From his tempting eyes that made her.......

"Zira! Zira! Zira!"

She yelled out my name in an attempt to get my attention. By the she I mean my annoying best friend, Grace.

But all her efforts in trying to make me engaged in the conversation was to no avail, as I still had my nose stuck to this beautifully written piece by my favorite writer on Wattpad.

"Zira naw are you even listening at all?" Grace asked with folded arms and a raised brow.

"Yes I am" I answered not taking my eyes off the phone, as I swiped up moving on to the next chapter.

Not until I noticed the silence in the room, that I knew I've been wrong all along. My best friend came visiting and here I was pressing my phone.

"Okay fine" I said as I dropped my phone and gave her my full attention. "As you were saying" I gestured for her to go on.

"I feel like am the only excited one here, like I just can't believe it" She paused, taking in deep breaths excitedly." We're resuming at Golden High on Monday" She squealed.

She was so right, we'll be resuming at Golden High on Monday, but it all felt surreal.

Golden high was the best,a pure definition of a proper learning environment, only those at the upper class of the society could afford it, and a few lucky ones like I and Grace were opportuned to have been sponsored by prominent people.

I did my research and wasn't really surprised at it's high ranking, the awards, competitions, sports and other accomplishments. The school was always the talk of the town and so it wasn't a new name, GHS.

I knew very well that even in the next five years we wouldn't be able to afford the school fee. But now, I and Grace were being sponsored by the Matthews, it was more like a scholarship.

They are the definition of wealth, they flaunted their money in whatever way they seemed pleased. And no one had the right to question them.

Why? Whoever could do that under their roof, sure has the guts and maybe another well paying job as a substitute. There was this fear instilled in every worker so, if you want your stay at their mansion to last long you mind your business, and do your job.

My Mum and Grace's Mum are among the domestic workers, we reside at the other side of the mansion which is the workers residence. More reason I ignored her earlier because we literally see each other everyday.

"I tried on the uniform and it was my perfect size"

Grace said as she typed on her phone. This was the same girl that was angry at me for ignoring her, and now she's doing the same by typing away on her phone which made me more curious on who she was chatting with.

I stretched my head towards her phone in an attempt to see her chats, but she quickly shoved her phone to the side of the bed.

"Don't you think it's rude to read others chats?" She asked as she shifted to the other side of the bed, and resuming her chats with the person whose identity was unknown to me.

"Wow girl" I said amazed "So reading my best friend's chat is now rude!"
I said slightly annoyed as I layed more emphasis on the rude.

"It's just..... I'm." she sighed, as she kept her phone aside.

Her reaction was different, she didn't create silly bicker like she would have normally done, but instead a deep sad frown clouded her face, with the manner her hands fidgeted while typing her phone my suspicion increased.

"Are you okay?" I questioned. She jolted in a shocked manner, immediately using the back of her palm in cleaning from her eyes what seemed like tears.

"Seriously I'm fine" She gave an assuring smile. But my eyes weren't deceiving me when I saw her throw a quick glance towards the direction of her phone.

What was really wrong ????

"Ehh ehh before I forget. Lara gave us an invite to accompany her to the salon" She said

"Hmm more like you begged her"I said.

She gave a slight frown. I didn't really mean for that to come out rude but I was just stating the facts, I'm so sure Grace most have begged Lara so she could accompany her.

"Oh please Zira. You know occasions like this are very rare and Chioma is coming along....."She continued.

This was one of the problems I have with Grace, she always does all she can to please the likes of Lara. And I know you must be confused on who Lara is, well here's an intro.

Her full name is Omolara but she hates it when she's called that, according to her it's too long and sounds local. So, she goes by Lara. She is the one and only daughter of the Matthews. And that's why she's treated as a princess. I and Lara never got along as I feel she's using Grace.

Grace always found it as an opportunity to do whatever she's asked to do by Lara.

And talking about her friends, through the trio that I had more believe on the saying Birds of the same feathers flock together.

"And she's also attending GHS. Don't you see that all this is an opportunity?" She asked

"No! I do not" I answered

"Whatever." She raised her hand up in mock surrender. '"You wouldn't want to carry this old hair to GHS" She said as she stared at my cornrows hairstyle, which truthfully was really rough.

"Oh my" I said out loud as I took another look of the hair through my phone.

"No be only oh my, get up and get changed into something better, or do you want to go to the salon looking like this?" She asked as I took a look at my oversized t-shirt and black shorts.

"Okay fine I'll get changed into something better" I said as I stood up from the bed.

I stopped on my tracks at the sound of Grace's ringtone, I knew it wasn't my phone because I wasn't a K-pop fan, as the song that blasted from the phone sounded like Korean language.

Staring at her she didn't move an inch, as her eyes stared intently at her phone. I noticed she was at the brink of tears. Not long after the ringtone ended it came up again which meant the caller wasn't giving up.

"Won't you pick up the call?" I asked but she didn't reply as she hurriedly left the room.

The question that kept playing on my mind was

What's wrong with Grace?

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'Our Stars' is backkk 💃💃and I'm so excited.

I apologize for the hiatus which led to me deleting the book at first 😓.

I was so busy with school work and my phone was faulty, almost lost this account due to those circumstances but thank goodness all went well.

And to my new and old readers, I want to say a big thank you for sticking around and being here.

So please read on......Next chapter.

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Vahnyy✨❤️🌹......