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Chapter 30- Shoulder to lean on

No rant today, I declare this part OPENNNN

This chapter begins with Erling's Pov shortly before the end of last chapter

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ERLING'S POV
(Erling Tobechukwu Kingston)

Amanda finally succeeds in opening her bottle water after hours of struggling and grunting

"Valentine is coming oh my fellow singlets" Idara yells hysterically as she settles her tray at her usual spot

"Wetin concern me concern Valentine" I retort lamely as I sip my half empty juice

I am NOT bitter about valentine and my relationship status, I just feel it is over hyped. I can't believe by this time last year I was planning the right words to say to break things off with some girl I met because I didn't want her to bill me for Valentine's. I'm not a stingy person really, actually not at all but the relationship was more like a testing ground. Neither of us actually had genuine feelings towards the other, at least I didn't

I went with the popular "it's not you, it's me" line and it totally went through- leaving out the fact that she dumped a bottle of cold water on my head that day- it was a piece of cake

"In my former school they always found a useless reason to throw a party, we could have like twelve parties in one session" Amanda says with an eye roll

"That one no be school na club" I reply her

"General parties? Or senior parties?" Idara asks

"Mainly senior parties but I always got invites cos the school owner's son was my classmate and very good friend" she replies

Of course, it's always them

If not for Aidan I'd probably be attending way less parties than I do, but having a best friend that is the obvious 'life of the party's you can't help but be in the party. Where is he sef?

I look over my shoulder for the frog face but I don't find him, Aidan might do every crazy thing in the world but he NEVER misses lunch time. He better be okay

I watch Edmond and Amir step into the cafeteria, drawing attention as usual. I know I draw a lot of attention too but at least I know I'm drawing attention- it's intentional people- but these ones, they act like they don't know they've got all the junior years staring at them in awe, fooling everyone with their 'good boy looks'

He walks closer to our table till he stands behind Amanda- if he puts his palms over her eyes I'm gonna puke- he shakes her chair rigorously instead- that's not totally disappointing

"Haaaa" Amanda yells in fright

He laughs, she laughs, Idara laughs, they keep laughing and that's all I hear. I roll my eyes in annoyance

"Uhm- I- uh-" he scratches the side of his head "I wanted to uh- how are you doing?" He says lamely

Okay this dude is so boring am I the only one that sees this??

I watch Amanda's features brighten as she speaks to him- is she blushing?
He returns the blush- on his hideous face by the way- while Idara goes on cheering them with her remarks and expressions

"See you later, gotta bounce" he says as he tucks the chair in

See you later? Do they meet somewhere after school? Or is it behind school?