Mellon

Chapter 3

Many guys around campus were attracted to her , she was definitely a beauty ,  dressing up elegantly , looking  way too spectacular but what attracted me to her most was her character , the way she dealt with everyone , most of all when someone annoyed her ,Mellon usually behaved like she heard nothing if some one was talking shit behind her back.

There was  this 'girl to girl' beefing around campus , whenever Mellon approached her enemies , if you said "Hello",  she would respond back,  but if you ignored her,  she would do the same .

Huh , the way she talked to people who seemed to be older than her , let it be the teachers and the other workers around campus , she seemed so serious like they were cracking a business deal in a hall , and that really turned me on but not the beauty because I've had enough of that around.

I can not remember how this turned out to be a conversation with her , but it happened somehow later on.

"It's like you have many enemies," I brought it up that.

"What?"

"Many enemies," I shrugged .

"Yeah I have enemies, who doesn't,you Joeh ?"

"I do have enemies , but not as many as you do ."

"What if I do , is it worthy a concern?"

"Not really , but the way you react towards them."

"How do I react?"

"It's really like you don't care if someone hates you or not. "

"That's how it should be , after all I came to this university alone , and I will be  leaving this campus alone , dont you even see how I react to Jamilah , today am not in moods to talk to anyone most specially her ."

Jamilah is a new entry to this group of three and that tallies to four , she was shorter than the rest of us , she spent most of her time with me that people mistakenly took us to be a couple ,what I felt for Mellon was more like a secret , greater than having Jamilah around, I could move around campus with Jamilah to the canteen back and forth ,do her course works , go shopping with her , fix her gadgets in her hostel but that was it . She dressed up more elegantly than Mellon I must say , maybe because she came  from a richer family, we came to believe that that whenever she came for classes in a new dress , you will never see that dress or pair of jeans again, to join our group Jamilah used to move around with a group of a guy and other two girls , but she must have left that group cause for us , we spent   most of our time at campus doing nothing , only gossiping and doing our homeworks unlike other students who had to balance work and studies,  for that we got a name "kilelesi "meaning that nothing doers .

"You know that turns me on ," I smiled when she explained how she doesn't care, " i like it ,i mean the way you react."

"Mmm......mmm!!!" .

After a brief silence ,she asked me something .

"I heard that Jamilah wanted you to pay her some money for the screen. "
screens these were more like plates we had to place on a white cloth to make designs out these clothings.

"Yeah why?"

"You really dont know why she wanted you to pay?"

"No."

"It's because I had used that screen and yet it was all her money she used to buy that screen , you were not using it,  instead you gave it to me to use it, that bothered her. "

"Oh I didn't know that!"

"She's jealous ," she said.

"You are kidding me , she's just a hard nut ,not jealous ."

"Hard nut!, no that is not being hard , it's being stupid and jealous."

"But do you really think I will pay her back , not even in my dreams." I responded proving am on her side.