Don't come to school tomorrow

"The quiet kid"

Before today, I had never really spoken to the quiet kid, I just went my own way, He always used to sit with his transgender friend but two months ago, we heard his friend had committed suicide, now he sat alone on the last desk that faced the window which you could see the parking lot.

I woke up in the middle of my exam, I had slept off because I was done answering the questions a long time ago.

We were writing our second to the last exam, chemistry and I could see him sweating, The quiet kid, I'm the class captain so I know my books well so the exam was straightforward.

My father told me to stay away from LGBTQ people because they practice things that are not of God, he says if women start marrying women and men start marrying men, the world would end in a couple of decades, I don't know about that though.

But today I wanted to help him, he looked like he had been through a lot and could use some help.

I submitted my scripts and rather than walk out through the front door, I went to the back, stopped at his seat, and threw the squeezed paper with the answers on the desk.

He looks at me dazed, I look at him and give him a big smile

"Dabelu, you should be out of this hall right now!" Mr Jenkins shouted

Mr Jenkins was our Chemistry teacher, he was a fat man with large spectacles that came with a rope that Hung around his chin, he was pretty harsh, but not to me tho. I had been a pretty good student all my life, my father says Nigerians in America have to work 5 times harder than anybody else.

So I pretty much had a very good record and Mr Jenkins hardly even spoke anything but praise about me

"Sorry sir," I said and turned back and walked towards the exit in front close to the teacher's desk

Sulli sneered at me, she had seen that I gave the quiet kid a paper, she maintained eye contact with me from the moment I walked past her desk which was directly in front of the teacher's desk where Mr Jenkins went through his phone with his glasses halfway his face and his legs crossed.

I smiled back at her and looked away, you see, I and Sulli have a love-hate relationship, minus the fact that we kissed each other at truth or dare when we were kids, we always competed for 1st place, she wanted to go to Harvard to study Microbiology after high school, she always used to talk about finding the cure to cancer.

when I got first place in class, she'd get second, other times she would get first place and I second place.

Another interesting thing is I have a really big crush on her, but the African and Asian relationships aren't number 1 on Asian women's list, white men are first on that list and Berny had been trying to invite her for prom since the term started.

Berny is a big muscular white kid who plays Football, and for a white kid, he is really good at it, got him the name Berny Lightning for how much he could run and dodge.

My best friend Andrew snapped me out of my thoughts as he busted out of the class too, I helped him cheat so he got out early.

Andrew is an athlete, he always carries a very big brown bag with knuckle guards and all that fighting stuff, he does Judo.

"Aye, stop looking at her and ask her to prom man, our last exam is tomorrow after that is prom and we're graduates," said Andrew as he tapped me on the back as he caught up to me as we left the exam hall, he may have tapped me at the back but to me it was a big slap.

"she's out of my league, Berny wants her and sooner or later she's going to give in" I replied

"Maybe it's just because you are a pussy" replied Andrew

Now I put him on a playful choke-hold and headed to the school parking lot so we'd get Andrew's car and go home.

By now many other people were finishing their papers and were also outside with us, I could see Berny and his clique following Sulli around with the "Will you be my prom date?" cardboard and her trying her best to get to her friend's car so she could escape from him.

Andrew had a red 1980 Ferrari Mondial, it was one of the only things he had of his father who died serving in the Vietnamese war.

As we walked towards the car his girlfriend Allison ran towards him and he picked her up and kissed her.

Allison was a slim brunette, she was at least 5 foot 4 and always liked to wear short skirts and jackets, but for a short girl, her vibe was immaculate, she was the type you'd want on your side.

"eww, get a room guys," I said and as I turned back to take a peek if Sulli had accepted Berny's proposal right there in front of me...was the quiet kid.