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Chapter 1

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"Nita!" I hear my younger brother calling me, obviously on his way to my room.

"What?!" I snap at him. This is the third time in fifteen seconds he has screamed my name.

"Mummy asked me to come get you for breakfast before we leave for school" I roll my eyes at the voice behind the door.

"We don't even go to the same school" I mutter to myself. "Coming!" I reply mildly this time. Despite the glaring fact that all my family members can be annoying sometimes, they are equally sweet and tolerable and I think they feel the same way about me. I smile stupidly at my thoughts.
It is the first day of school for the semester and just like every other first days of every new semester, the anxiety is there. I don't even get why we all get so nervous over returning to school to continue from where we stopped. Are we so excited about learning again? I really doubt that. We are obviously excited over the fact that we would get to see different faces other than the same group of people, I mean the faces we have been forced to stare at all day long literally, throughout the break and because we are tired of going about same routine everyday; we are excited to start getting pocket allowance of course and we are excited to get back to playing with our school mates. Who gets excited over being forced to learn from a textbook anyway? "Oh oh!" My subconscious raises her hand to say something. I mute my other thoughts to let her speak " you know, you are always excited to learn new things, learning form textbooks inclusive just that you aren't forced to do so" she reminds me like I don't know. I smile at myself while feeling proud. "And you are also excited to know just how love feels, just that you don't know who would make you feel that way" she adds taunting me as always with a smirk on her smug face. Way to go Xia, way to go! I shake my head trying to get rid of that thought for now. 'Xia' thats the name I gave my Subconscious, we make plans together when I am alone. I know that seems crazy, but hey, she is quite a decent person to reverie with sometimes.

"Nita!" This time it is my sister, Nicole who is screaming my name. "We would be late for school if you stay in there any longer"
"I am almost done, would be with you soon" I call out to her. I would have rolled my eyes without replying but no, I try my best to be cultured even when not seen and she is my elder sister after all.

Bonita is my name, Bonita Zuri Zenith. I am in class three of the Junior High in TIS in Port Harcourt. I always find myself day dreaming about love, being in love, how it would feel to have flowers given to me by a boy not my mother; giddy or somewhat normal? The kind of boy I would want as a partner; naive or fully grounded in the relationship world, social or antisocial, able to read me like a book even without me saying a word or do I have to spell everything out to him before he would understand, tall or shorter than me; I would want him to be tall though I find it cute seeing girls doing the tip toe just to render a peck to their partners on the evening Soap Operas.
"Oh my" I say almost a whisper but enough for me to hear myself clearly "I would definitely be late to school if I keep up with this foolishness". I heave a sigh and sit on my queen size bed covered in purple and white very girly beddings to fasten the buckles of my school Sandals just then, Xia knocks me back into my short lived reverie... what if I find a boy that fits into the whole package attributes; that is when I finally decide on just how I want him to be, and he doesn't like me back? What if I don't fit into his own features of his dream girl?
I consider myself as 'Okay' in appearance, I know whenever I am in the mall with my family I get to see some boys staring in my direction and of course staring at my sister as well, or could it be that they stared at me because I looked funny?
I am Swarthy in complexion with piercing black eyes, well defined pointed nose, full lips, beautifully defined cheek bones, cute natural nails and a moderate length 4c natural hair. With all these features on me, I just love to stay natural even though I have a few makeup items, I prefer just the lip gloss. I think I am tall even though I am the shortest in my family, people still call me tall, so I take it. "Shit" I begin to panick and I wonder what's wrong with me Xia is panicking as well and her smug face is now pensive. I smirk at her this time, it's my turn to wear the smug face. The door to my room opens and my sister steps in, Fury written all over her beautiful face. She closes our room door actually I share the room with her but we have our space to live as we wanted not like we are totally different but we just like our space. My corner is just like a little sanctuary to me, it give me all the serenity; when my little brother is not around though.

"Bonita, we would be late to school, mum has packed your breakfast and lunch for you, since you didn't come out for breakfast" Nicole says with a scowl before moving to her bed to get her backpack. I nod back at her because I really don't know what to say and I doubt if she even saw me nod.

"Let's go!" She snaps at me and leaves the room. I pick my matte black backpack, ramble to the dresser on the other corner of the room, switch on the mirror lights to have a better view of myself, I take out a container of hair wax and brush to style the edges of my hair before applying my mint lip gloss and replacing it back in my backpack. I give my twin in the mirror a shrewd pout, turn off the lights and storm out of the room.

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