Life At Bright High

Chapter one

Amanda's POV

Today is a really big day for me.. Like really really big and I'm nervous I'm entering ss1 and Adaobi said she wasn't around today which was odd because she never missed the first day of a term and I was always the one that came a week after. I sighed.. this was going to be a long day.

Life in bright high has always been the eventful. I've been in this school since Nursery one and in primary four, Adoabi transfered to our school. Since then she's been my BFF.

I laughed inwardly as I remembered the first day she came and I lied that I was from Benin Republic. I had and still have quite a reputation for lying...

Our is a private school only by mouth it doesn't look anything like one. As I looked in front of me I saw our makeshift cafeteria.. An unpainted small building that contains only four picnic benches and two tables for the food sellers. I shook my head, "that principal will be thinking it's okay just because he changed the name from canteen to cafeteria", I thought.

"I don't know why that fish didn't come to school today!! today of all days" I grumbled as I got closer to the stairs.

I could see Pelumi from a distance but I avoided her since I hadn't paid her the 20 Naira I was owing her since Js3.. I seriously didn't like that girls trouble and I knew she would remember once she saw me. She had a small stature like me but her trouble was far bigger than her size. I'll leave her story for another day.

While trying my best to hide I heard someone calling my name... I turned to see Deborah running towards me and I was panicking I had to make a choice!! Should I run or stay.

By the time I decided to run it was too late I was already crushed by her hug. She started dragging me to a class where every other person was. As she dragged me I was examining her to check if her weight reduced during the holiday.

I scoffed "like that'll ever happen, If all the gyming she said she did during the holiday didn't help her then nothing will". She looked back almost as if she was reading my mind.

Deborah was a dark, very very veryyyy 'chubby'.. I'm saying chubby because if I say fat she may somehow sense it and kill me. She was the girl that cried for no reason. Though she was funny, she usually insulted people for mostly nothing. She was kind of the friendly class bully. She was always taking panadol for another person's headache. I was a little bit scared of her... not that she needed to know that.

"Ahh Deborah you've lost weight", I said teasing her. She looked back at me, she obviously knew I was lying.

"Ehnn continue whining me, everybody's saying I'm fatter". I laughed as she kept dragging me up the stairs. Before we reached the class she was already gisting me about the five new comers.

We got to the empty class and saw everyone gisting about their holidays. I peeked at the new comers, I was really happy we had new students. Just then, I saw Bola making her way to them. I knew it will surely be Bola... that girl's oversabi is too much.

I watched her as she introduced herself, she started asking each their names. She started with a small, dark, cute girl who said her name was Dorathy Adeniyi and just like that she caught my attention.

"Is she in ss1?" I asked Deborah who was now sitting beside me and she just nodded.
"science or art?" I asked again.
"she's in commerce class but you know art and commerce are in the same class, white, while science is in Green" she stated.

I walked over to Dorathy, "hey I'm Amanda Iwobi, what's your name?". I knew her name already but I just wanted to talk... I'm a talkertive so it's in my blood.

"I'm Dorathy, but you can call me Dora" she said and I smiled. I looked at the other people and asked their names.

A girl replied, she was about the same size as Dora but didn't look really young "I'm Gift Umbong". Two others were Sampson Jackson and Blessing Jackson.

"Are you guys twins?" I asked them.
"No we're siblings, we just wrote common entrance together so we're in the same class.

I looked at the last girl who was busy reading a textbook. "okay what's your name?"
"Caroline Bamidele" she muttered, her voice barely audible and her eyes not even leaving the book... Why was she even reading a book we were always free on the first day of resumption... I guessed she was an 'efiko'. I wandered what I said that made her reply like that.

"Okay, nice name", I replied anyway.

Some hours later the closing bell was rung by someone in ss2.

I went home to change then I headed to Adaobi's place. I started gisting her about everything that happened, I even added jara so she'd regret why she didn't come.

I told her about Dora and the harsh response from Caroline. She didn't think Caroline was harsh anyway she thought she was just not outgoing. I left when she was coming the next day.

Oddly, after the first few weeks Adaobi got close to Caroline while I got close to Dora.

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Translations

Whining- deceiving

An Oversabi- Someone who does things without being asked to

Efiko- nerd

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