All At Once

After you

It was a new week, Monday 26th February, I got to class late as usual, apparently the halls were filled, consequences of being in a class of over 1000 people, you have a class by 8 and you come by 8, you will stand or if you can sit on the floor, better, lol.
"Hey Teekay, what's good?" I could see Teekay and other of our coursemates that were late standing outside, so I didn't bother going in, I just joined them.
"Belle! I'm good, you're just coming?" He asked me.
"Yeah yeah" I noticed there was a girl standing next to him "hello" I said to her.
" Hey" she answered with a smile. She was pretty, I've seen her in school several times and she seems rather shy.
"Have you done all your assignments and tests?" Teekay asked me.
" Mehn, I don't know anymore, I'm just tired of-" I was interrupted
"Wait, you're Belle?" The shy girl asked me.
"Yeah, and you?"
"I'm Oroma, nice to meet you" we smiled at each other. She has a nice body shape, dark brown skin, a face full of acne and was shorter than I am but she was gorgeous.
"I'll be right back guys, I wanna go check out something" Teekay said leaving us. We got talking and she was super friendly as well.

Now I just realized you don't know what I look like, hehe. I'm slim, not thin, not skinny, slim, at least I still have some flesh on me, but I'm not little, I'm a tall girl, 5'11 and I'm only 16 though I look way older. I'm light skinned, curly black hair and a weird foreign accent, I sometimes tell people am mixed or lie about my nationality and they fall for it, meanwhile I'm fully Nigerian, Igbo for that matter.
"Hey, do you know where I can fix my sandals, it just cut on my way her" I asked Oroma
"Sure, I think around hostel E, I can take you there" she said. We got to know each other and we clicked, it was like pure undiluted energy, I already considered her a friend, since I never had much here in school. We got there and sat waiting for the guy to be done fixing it. I called Noah.
"Hey baby" Noah shouted over the phone, someone was in a good mood today.
"Hey, how are you?" I asked him
" Good, good, have you gotten to school already?" He asked
"Yes, but I left class with Oroma to go repair my scandals"
" Oroma? Who's Oroma?"
"Emmys ex girlfriend" Emmy was Noah's friend so that would make it easier for him to remember
"We never dated!" Oroma whispered to me.
" Oh, that Oroma, okay, just be careful so she doesn't make you leave me like she left Emmy" Noah said. I always thought she was too good for Emmy anyways, he looked like a frog. News flew so fast in this department, mostly fake news too, I always tried to be careful of information I consumed. Just like the time Justin told people I was a whore just cause I said no to his advances, Justin is the course reps brother, deadass ugly and the class male bop, I wonder how girls fell for him and even Clinton, all of them make fun of me sometimes I don't know why, did I mention I have a large forehead? Yep, sometimes I walk down the hallway and I hear people whisper about it. It never got to me tho, in America it'd be considered bullying, but this is Nigeria, nobody cares so just grow up. I was bullied all through out secondary school, yes I was popular cause of my looks but people said awful things about me, like when they rumoured I slept with my biology teacher just because we were close and they also told the boy that truly liked me, Obinna, and he lost interest, he thought it was true, his loss anyways.
" No baby, I wouldn't leave you" I laughed "and besides, she's cool"
" Okay love, have a great day, I'd be going to my uncle's shop later, study for two" Noah said
"I will love, take care"
I ended the call with him and turned to Oroma
"Who was that?" She asked me
"Noah, my boyfriend, he's in our department too" I said showing her some pics
"Nice, I think I've seen him before"she said "do you think we should go back to class?"
"No, what's the point? We'd still stand anyways, and besides that's the only class for today right?"
"Yeah right, she said
It was already 10am, we hung around school, she knew a lot of people. From hostel E to love garden to shopping complex and then we finally took a hault at fine art department on a bench outside.
"Do you know those boys?" She asked looking at the 3 boys approaching us, they looked innocent and nerdy, I could recognize the tall one, Victor, he had saved a sit for me in class several times
"I know the tall one, Victor, he got my number somehow and he always keep seat for me" I said. The other two were Alfred and Charles
"Alfred lives in my area, that fat one" Oroma said and laughed. Apparently they were coming to meet us and we all sat together talking and getting along. It was almost 1 and I was getting hungry, but none of us had a dime, I had money but they were all budgeted and school food is sooooo expensive after all!
"Why not call Trevor? You're hungry, he likes you, go for it" Victor suggested. I just told them about Trevor and my straining relationship with Noah btw.
"Forget Noah abeg, if you call him now, can he pull up for you?"Oroma added. She was right, Noah would never help and I wasn't ready for another argument.
So at last, I did the forbidden, I called Trevor.
"Belle?" He chuckled "you called."
"Where are you?" I asked him, Oroma and the gang all listened with enthusiasm.
"I'm at home, any problem?"
"No, I'm just hungry, I was wondering if we could go out for lunch with your money" I said
"Really?" He laughed "You wanna go out, sure. I'd come pick you up, where are you?" His response were quite shocking to us, he didn't even complain or give excuses at all, he was already showing up for me, how sweet.
"I'm in school right now" I said
"Okay, I'd be right there, just wait" I hung up. Everyone was excited.
"See bring something back when you're coming oh" Victor said. I laughed.
"You'd fall in love with this guy, watch and see" Alfred said
"Who? Trevor? I doubt". I was taller than Trevor, the only thing I really liked about him was his generosity, nothing else