The Final Year (PROJECT 2.0)

Shattered

Caution 🔞🚫: abuse ahead.

The  WASSCE exam is a month from now and with what i had seen and gathered from my findings, not everyone is prepared to sit for the exams. With the way they are taking everything in a lazy and carefree manner, you would never think they are finalist students.

I have been so busy, with my books lately, it's been two weeks after the bullying incident and i can say i had single handedly and successfully avoided the elite group.

It was not an easy thing to do at first but i have mastered the act perfectly. Theresa and i still live in the same room and i fear that one day she would throw me out because of my closed off attitude.

In the morning once i wake up, i would just say a word of greeting or two to her, hurriedly take my bathe and prepare myself for school then I'm off. Unlike before whereby we go to class together.

She tried breaking through the wall i had built and i think she gave up along the way when she realised i was impenetrable.

I love her, i really do and she knows this but i think i have come to a junction whereby i have to focus and take care of myself first before attending to anyone's need.

I stayed away from the guys completely, i want my peaceful life back. I don't mind being the target for Akeju's bullying, i can take it... But i can't take the whole school being against me.

Faramade's confession had left me in a sort of a dilemma. How can he even come up with that? How can he say that when he knew how his best friend feels about me?

More reason to stay away from them. I don't want to be that girl that causes a fight between two best friends. It's just insane to think that Faramade is...

God! Why didn't i notice it?

I shook my head drastically, sniffing a bit due to the coldness i felt around me. It was prep time and i am trying to get some details i missed in Physics last time we had the class. Missing the littlest fact about some formulars can lead to a costly mistake.

The silence was deafening and i won't be surprised if i am the only one in the whole block. I choosed the secluded Ss2 block to read and of course get away from the ever annoying Ejiro. He had been infuriatingly annoying recently on issues that does not concern him.

Like on how he thinks i am treating the elite wrongly and on how i need to drop my childish acts before it destroys my relationship and friendship with them.

I rub my eyes tiredly, a yawn left my lips as i stretched my body, i let out a satisfied moan as i felt some bones on my shoulder blades pop back to their position. The cramps i felt on my upper back a while ago disappearing due to that single act.

I drummed nosily on the desk with my black pen while i read through what i just wrote down. I jump on my seat when i hear a sudden thud from outside, i stop what i was doing listening closely for any sudden movement but i got none.

Shrugging along, i turn back to my book. It's probably a rat... But when did SJC got infested with rodents? We have students who had never been in close contact with a rat well expect during practical class in the biology lab, they better do something about it before a feeble minded student run into one and pass out on the spot.

I return to the book i was reading, going through the notes i had made from the past one hour i have been here.

I flipped to the next page when i hear the click on the door as it got opened by someone. I shifted uneasily on my seat when Akeju walked in, closing the door after him.

What is he doing in here?

I closed the book i was holding in a slow manner as he stood by the wall, watching me. His head tilted to the side as he stared at me like a unique and rare artefact. A kind of attention i had never gotten and I am not willing to get from him.