Malaikah (mal-i-eek-ah) POV
I put on my black tie and then my jumper, finishing the look with my blazer. School was finally resuming after this long boring summer that I had to endure for 6 weeks. I slicked my hair into a high puff bun and put on my glasses so I could cut now and not be late.
"Mal, Jem and Jen are out here being bare loud bruv, can you hurry up." Miguel shouted, I rolled my eyes at the nicknames as he know they hate it. I rushed down the stairs after collecting my bag and phone. I swung the door open and screamed and so did Jennifer one of my best friends and Jemiah just rolled his eyes pulling me into a hug.
Jennifer and Jemiah were twins but they hate when I tell people that, why? I don't actually know, their weirdos but it's not hard to guess their relation, they both have very similar features but Jemiah is a little darker where as Jennifer is more brown toned. I met Jemiah first in one of my classes in year 7 and we hung out at lunchtimes together hence the reason why I met Jennifer she stayed with her brother a lot in year 7, and we just ended up becoming a little group. I missed them so much.
I hugged both of them again, I hadn't seen them physically all summer because there parents had taken them to Nigeria and then to Sweden to visit there families.
I looked down at my apple watch seeing it was touching 8 so we had to start going. "Come on let's go" I said to them as we descended the stairs of my front house. "Jiah I like the new hair" I said to Jemiah as i stroked his 360 waves "safe love". I blushed a little. I have been friends with these two since year 7 and were now entering year 11, Jemiah has always been quite flirtatious towards me but I never really acknowledged it, until recently, people usually asked us if me and him were in a relationship, I would say no as it was never a dat ting on my behalf, but he would always say yes. He would then tell me he did that because he knows bare mandem in our year like me and he doesn't want them to have me, which I didn't mind I hated dating people in my year anyway to childish but i felt like it was more than that.
I started to walk a bit faster so we could catch the bus and Jennifer caught up to me "you finally gonna admit to having feelings for my brother, or are you going to continue to deny it like I didn't see your cheeks go red when he called you love?" She asked wrapping her arm around my shoulder. I ignored her.
We got on the 96 towards bluewater. The bus was full unfortunately, urgh I hate tfl I couldn't wait to get my own car. As we walked to the back of the upper deck where there was seats, we got many people greeting us and the occasional glares which were mainly towards me.
Most females on my ends do not like me because of my status on the streets, I'm one not to be messed with because of my brothers plus I ain't no pussy, if someone needs to be put in their place I would gladly do it. Thats why I keep my circle small Jemiah and Jennifer have an older brother called Joel or J as that's what he's know as on the street and he's best friends with my brother Miguel also known as RM. I don't trust to many because they are usually trying to get to my brothers and that's both male and females, either way I am quite content with the little family I got.
"Yo musketeers" a boy named Johari said on the bus, "how was you mans summer?" "Can you relax with that wet nickname fam" Jemiah said, he didn't like that nickname none of us did to be honest, although yh most of the time you would see us together the nickname was CHALDISH to us.
"It was dead wby jo?" I said to him "it was fine darling missed you though" I scoffed "is that so?" He just laughed at that, he knew not to comment further because everyone knows I hate that shit. Don't come to me after summer saying I missed you when you didn't have to miss me, we could have made plans during the summer, I just find it fake!
Everyone got up once we got to school bustop, I was already feeling tired. Back to Welling secondary a school filled with idiots. I was excited to get this year over with. I walked through the gates with my arm tucked in Jennifer's ready to start year 11, we walked to the lockers we had last year and put our padlocks on it and then we walked to Kingston hall for our assembly.
"Good morning year 11s, everybody settle down" the hall went quiet as Mr Gogarty spoke. "Welcome back, to start this assembly off I would like to remind you of the importance of this year for you guys, this year is the year you sit your GCSE'S one of the most important exams you'll ever have..." I zoned out, I had heard the same thing over and over again from my parents my aunties my uncles the teachers I get it!
Once assembly was finally over we were sent to our tutor rooms to collect our timetables, me and Jemiah where in the same tutor but Jennifer was in another one. We told Jennifer to meet us at the stairs at break. When we made it to tutor we saw new members of the school and sixth formers. I leaned in to Jemiah and whispered
"why are there sixth formers here?".
He looked at me with confusion, "where you not listening in Assembely?"
I shook my head no
"I zoned out after he said it's the most important exams"
he kissed his teeth at me "stoopid, but anyway the sixth form buildings are being rebuilt so they had to integrate them with the year 11s"
"oh, okay".
We sat down at our usual table closest to back window and we talked about nigeria and Sweden, it was so funny he was complaining that in Nigeria he had to cook pounded yam and it was to hard, and how the electricity would randomly go off during his fifa matches on ps4 and then he complained that in sweden there was nothing to do or see. I laughed so hard at his facial reactions mostly causing my eyes to tear up. Then suddenly the only thing heard in the classroom was my laughter. I stopped laughing and wiped my tears only to see most if the girls staring at this sixth former who had just walked in. I looked at him but my eyes where still blurry so I could barely see and just looked away not caring i tried to return to the conversation with Jemiah but we were interrupted.
"Wag1 Jem my yungbuck" this guy says using Jemiah's tag and coming to sit down next to Jemiah, I didn't even bother to look at him annoyed with him interrupting us.
"Yo, you good yh?" Jemiah replies
"Yh man coolin, who's this?" He asks
"This is Malaikah, Miguel's sister" I looked at Jemiah with annoyance like did he really have to say that.
"Oh swear down, I'm with RM and J 24s how have I not seen her before" the boy said, saying the last part in more of a whisper tone but I still caught it. I glanced at him finally and was shocked at what I saw, this boy was fine he was darkskin with a full beard and 360 waves he was smiling or grinning so I could see he had pearly white teeth and two grills, and boy was he glistening. I had to stop staring at him and say something.
"Hey" was all I could say. He smirked at me.
"What you saying? I'm Antz." I laughed, what kind of name was that.
"Is that your full name?" I asked because if that's his name his parents don't love him.
"Lol na that's my tag but I don't tell my Gov to anyone and everyone, only special people"
"Ohh, your about that life, makes sense since you know my brothers and Jemiah." I said.
"Yhh, how come I ain't seen you about?"
"I don't go out much unless I have to more a stay at home and study and chill in my own space kind of gyal"
"Hmmm, your a homebody, say nothing" the convo ended there I looked at him and then Jemiah and then him again and just decided to turn around and face the now talking teacher.
Tutor went as quick as it came and me and Jemiah made our way to english literature. I was excited about the lesson, I loved english it was just so chilled, we read we analysed and it was fun and easy, I didn't have to try so hard and I was still scoring 9s even though I did in majority of my subjects but in other subjects I had to try much harder. We started reading Macbeth by Shakespeare and it was so interesting, I ended up finishing it through the day figuring out his harmatia is what killed the protagonist, it got me thinking about these gang members who stay out on road, my brothers there money hunger could cause their death, I honestly don't know what I would do if my brothers got hurt I didn't like to think about it.
I made my way to PM registration and saw Antz already sitting in the seat from this morning, I went to sit down in my seat at the table. "Hey" I said greeting him
"yo, you good yh?"
"Yh I'm good you?"
"I'm better now" he said smirking at me, I was confused.
"Urm okay lol"
"Yhh give me your phone for a second" I looked at his hand that was out waiting for my phone, I reluctantly gave it to him. He typed something in and then called someone, the bell rang signalling school was over. He gave me back my phone.
"Inabit Malaikah" he said as he walked out I waved bye to him then realising Jemiah didn't come to tutor. I shrugged it off, he probably went home early or something. I walked towards where I was supposed to meet Jennifer and glanced at my phone I saw a new number saved as Anthony❤.
Hi I hope you like it I've been really scared to write on watpadd but now I felt inspired by a book called all you need also about London. I'm open to critics I think it's very important for me to know if people like the book or not but anyway I'm going to get pictures of the characters as soon as I can. Thanks
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