Africanah

Chapter 2

     I woke up this morning feeling way too tired than I normally do.  I'm not so surprised, I slept at 2am because I was watching pll on Netflix that I forgot I had school later in the day.  Oh wait, I didn't forget I just did not care. There's no way I'll sleep in class it's so not possible.... I guess.  Oh shit! It's 6:25am now I really need to get up to have my bath or as Americans say "take a shower".  I got out of the bathroom  and headed straight for my room then I remembered it was  my cousin's birthday. Happy birthday Lase", I said cheerfully. Thank you🙂, he replied dully.  He doesn't sound very excited for a 16-year old I thought to myself. Well, that makes  both of us. My birthday is almost here and I feel no bit of enthusiasm in me and that's weird. I'm usually psyched about my birthday but this year is just different the reason, I don't know.  Maybe I just want to remain a 14-year old, maybe I'm not ready for the responsibilities that come with being a 15-year old,  maybe this..... Maybe that, I don't even know sef. I quickly wore my pants as I checked the time on my phone 6:52am, I have 8 minutes more to finish dressing up and walk to the gate to wait for my bus.

   As I walked into the school building,  I remembered my English assignment was due and I had not started talkless of finishing. When I sat down in my assigned seat in health class,  I brought out my Mac Book and opened up my English assignment and I shouted, not so loud though.
What!
Ahan, what rubbish is this
It was my group members/ex friends.....they changed everything.
I checked the history to know who exactly changed the names and it was boldly shown on the screen.
Iyana.
That bitch😤 she really got the nerve.  They changed everything, the assignment setup. I was supposed to be playing a certain  female character from one of Shakespeare's play and I already wrote down my lines they just needed to be typed but now they want me to act another character. No way! After all the work I did they want to change it.... It's like they are jonzing.  I'm not even mad because they changed it but because while I was doing my work they were busy fooling around.
"Um... Can you move your bag" she said.
I looked up.
It was her, Iyana.
Yh, I shifted to create space for her to sit.
As they sat we all kept quiet and silently asked ourselves the same question. Why are they here🙄?
They left our lunch table a few weeks ago to sit with "the popular girls".  So why are they back?
  Me, I didn't even care why they were at our table as long as everybody is minding their own business.
"Earth to ray"!  Jannah yelled as she pulled my earphones out of my ears. Bitch, it's time to leave you would have heard the bell ring but you are always listening to music.
Duh, with the people that sat beside me why wouldn't  I block my ears.
Bye Bonita, see you in Spanish.Jannah said as we both separated to our different classes. 
Jannah was the type of friend that you'd know will be with you through it all. She is a lil annoying when she wants to frustrate me but other times she is very understanding and thoughtful. Oh, did I forget to mention that she's the type of friend that is very defensive especially when people  start to look for trouble. She doesn't know this but she has helped me alot. With building my esteem,  standing up for myself and so much more. She's simply the best.

Here we go, I said as I saw the three girls walk into the class.
It was Nya, Niya and iyana, the three musketeers. A group I used to be a part of until I broke away.
I started feeling sorta nervous about challenging them for what they did because I was known as "the quiet African girl".  It's not like it's in my nature to be quiet I just believed the quote "silence is the best answer" was the  solution to everything but certainly not in this case. 

Iyana, I called out to her after 5 mins of arguing with my brain whether I wanted to do this or not.

Yeah, she turned to look at me.

"Did you change the play scenes"?

Oh yeah, me and nya did it.

My heart started to beat faster as she replied and I kept asking myself "do I  really want to get myself into this "?
Well, that's very wrong. This is a group project which means you don't get to do what you want because you feel like it. You clearly saw my name in front of the character I chose and you still went ahead to delete it and put your friend's name there because she wanted it.

"Ray, it's not that serious " she said with a sassy attitude as she rolled her eyes at me.
I was going to ignore the issue and mind my business. The pleasure of challenging her was sweet enough. Whether they'd want to change it is up to them but after she said what she did, I started to get pissed off.

"Excuse me"? I could feel the anger boiling. Or better still, as I like to say, the Nigerian in me was finna come
out. "You know damn well that it's not easy to convert Shakespeare's English into modern day english and I did all the work while you guys fooled around" I started to feel like I was talking too much.  I honestly don't have time for all this. 

"You're excused" she said as she rolled her eyes again.

Damn this girl is really getting on my nerves but she's not worth it.  I thought to myself as I plugged in my earphones and acted like I didn't care that they were viciously staring at me.

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