Saved by my nightmare (A Nigerian Story)

CHAPTER 7

"He who takes up arms against us is none of us, and he who cheats us is none of us"

This chapter is dedicated to @prettysmiles1999 for creating a story unlike any other. The whirlwind romance of Adam and Suha

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بسم لله الرحمن الرحيم
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Lagos, Nigeria.
2012

"Hey you there, Aduwo girl "

' Junior boy come here"

"kneel down there",

"Ahoy get me that clipper".

Maliya walked through the school gates, her ears catching the various conversations between the personnel and students.

As usual, she walked up to the naval personnel who was searching bags for contraband materials.

Some bottles of water laid on the sides of the pavement just beside the gutter to her right, apparently bringing water to school had become illegal.

She queued up behind some girls who were far along consumed by their dose of early morning gossip.

" You no see say dem they don start to dey seize water" the shorter of the duo said, eyes twinkling with the knowledge that she had more information on the topic of their gossip than her gossip buddy did.

"It's true sef, why did they start seizing water" her friend asked, eyes almost as widely opened as her ears were.

"That stupid senior Vivian in ss3 Damisa poured sniper and dettol in her water and brought it to school, Kristabel told me that her sister saw senior Vivian telling senior Amaka that she wanted to kill herself.

Sha, me I don't think she wanted to kill herself oh, if she really wanted to die she'd have drank the thing at home but maybe she just wanted people to pity her" The taller girl had a smile on her face, she was so engrossed in their topic of discussion.

"Senior Amaka collected the bottle from senior Vivian sha, then senior Divine in ss 3 Ekpe entered the class and asked senior Amaka for water since commandant closed dining hall tap.

Instead of that wicked senior Amaka to tell her that the water was not good, she gave senior Divine like that to drink.

Then during break, senior Divine started convulsing and fainted, then all them Senior Emeka, Senior Benjamin and that wicked acting labour prefect boy carried her to sick bay, but today I know commandant will expel that useless senior Amaka, abi she likes punishing bah? She'll soon see pepper" once the girl was finished talking, her friend began.

" It's good for that senior Divine sef, she's the one that punished all of us last week that she said we should hunch and do jigi-jaga.

You know they're badging prefects today bah?" She asked, to which her friend who was now third in line nodded.

"I don't think they'll give that senior Amaka badge again, I somehow pity her sha, she was acting assembly prefect since last year. But what she did was wrong. Nawa for all these ss 3 seniors sha oo" finally taking a break, the girls quietened, focusing on the line moving in front of them.

Once the naval personnel had finished with them, Maliya opened her bag.

"Is this thing not contraband" the guy asked Maliya, pulling her red scarf out of her bag.

"Sir, I use it to pray in mosque, and wear it when I'm going home" the guy looked at Maliya weirdly.

"Are you a moslem?"wanting to correct his question but not wanting to come off as rude, Maliya scowled.