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Chapter 2: Alicia and Chris

           "Faith is about taking the first step even if you can't see the whole staircase"- Martin Luther King Jr

Alicia!"
I called on her back when we ended our technical drawing class.

It's been two weeks since I got admitted in Tripston University to pertake bachelor of degree in engineering. Alicia and I happened to be the only girls in class. Such a coincidence. I've always wanted to be an engineer when I grow up and having only two girls in class didn't really agitate my decision and I'm happy it didn't.

Alicia, 18 in age, was admitted the same day with me and it happened that we really vibed so good that I didn't even get to figure out how. She was blonde with little rabbit shaped blue eyes which were orderly placed underneath her long well spread eyelashes. Her brows were always patterned like Ariana Grande's....something she did every day when she finishes her morning chores. I won't lie but trust me that's the last thing I could even remember to do regardless of my girlish personality unless I'm being taken out by some cute guy in college who I must have  had a kind of soft spot on. They were never perfect thou as much as I tried. My brows.

'I would have liked you more if you didn't have that funny sort of pattern in ya forehead'.....!!...a rare dude with some typa guts had the nerves to tell me this in my face after getting almost my whole morning drawing them just to have lunch with him! And did he just say forehead..that hurts! To this I swore with my whole life that I would never waste my energy on that shite ever again for sure. Infact I declared not to ever give in to outs or call them dates from any boy in school. These guys are so vague and ambiguous...  I was now determined to hate them for all my years in Tripston. I hate men! These humans just get the nerve out of me and make me feel diminished! Shite! I was telling about my friend Alicia.

Alicia Dominic came from Coast and had two pretty sisters who had this bewitching smile just like hers. She was the first born among the three but was surely a baby. She always demanded for love from whoever she had a crush on or loved and believe me you won't understand how you'd find yourself so much into her. She had a strange personality that only a few could understand. She hated everything and everyone who just didn't rhyme her character. Introversive too I can say but her boyfriend Chris Serra surely meant a lot to her.

Chris was dark skinned aged 20, handsome small bodied man. His favourite track was Chris Brown's by the name Indigo from his newly album which had everyone popping up on Brown's blog screaming and shouting on how much they love him. He used to sing this out so loud when he was around Alicia who would blash all day singing along....you would think her name was mentioned in the original.

Chris was kinda skinny but sizeable for a girl like me..oh sorry.. I mean for a girl like Alicia. He had medium sized red hair that ended right under his neck. His voice was super bass and I swear it aroused most of the girls around college. He came from the richest family in town, the Serras, and was the only student in school who owned Alfa Romeo which was just finished fifth in the latest reliability cars in the country. It had costed his dad millions to deport it from abroad just as a present for getting 2.0 GPA in school out of 4. He was the last in his class but his dad seemed to even be the proudest parent since he always said that at least he's above average and of course through his son all the students in his class are not getting a retake..such parents though!

Girls in college counting from seniors always strived so hard to get noticed by Chris Serra..."for sure money over education" they always said.. He always had signed up for Alicia's spicy attitude..he rated it that way and not even those other girls could change that from how it was viewed. ' They looked good together' basing on what both the envious and the admirers would say and were always rated couple goals of the semester.

Unlike us,Chris was a sophomore taking a bachelor in software engineering. The course looked good on him cause he really was so thirsty for the computers and laptops knowledge and at least that brought him close to his course...what I never came to understand was how comes he never scored so well in his course? Anyway it was never my concern since he wasn't even a relative or my bae. Alicia was the one who was supposed to be worried about that but she seemed not shaken by any of it. That must just have kept me out of the box and stop worrying about people's bae!

I hated Tripston already!Love was so hard to find though Alicia had counted Chris as the love of her life. Huh!! Me on the other side had made on outs with more than enough boys or call them men but they all just weren't perfect for me...I mean won't they just look at this God risen angel with well organized teeth like Rihanna and the perfect hairline like Alicia keys and strive to act right! Damn!! To make it more hard Gillard just had the gut to face me and tell me I cant draw my brows that perfect..hurts!... I would walk to class at least late than the others to be noticed but all I hear is ' move out of the way morone!'
Hey b**ch you blocking us from seeing the board!!'
They must be serious!!!...!!! I hate this place!!!... at least I could be admitted to Yudhill University.... Maybe I would have had Hogan my hood mate and we could have acted like couples...no.. Kwari polytechnic... Bruno has always been my champion ever since........

"Alicia, Alicia! Hey are you just ignoring me! Ali...." This time I called it with jaundice in it that was so hard to hide. I had to bring  back my senses..I'm losing it... After all I didn't come here to find love or get a marriage partner..I only came for my engineering course,get a degree,ride back home in a public bus and create a good and impressive termination for my parents..I would get the best job in town and build a big mansion for my da... "Amanda!! Were you calling me all this time to keep staring straight to my face? What's really wrong with you? I could have reached the hostels already!" Alicia was getting mad. I don't know for how long I've been staring but I only blame my stupid brain for always maneuvering from place to place....now I'm with Alicia next I'm with Bruno.. Bruno has always been a fantasy of mine ever since I..... before I get to it again..

"Sorry... actually I wanted to tell you something..."I hesitated.
"Come on...speak out I don't have much time.."she says rushing down the stairs almost tripping over others as I followed her fast enough to balance with her unmeasurable pace.
  " Alicia! Wait up...it's about Chris and Juliet!" I shouted at her while standing by the door out. I was just tired of following her and I was getting out of breath from the quick footsteps I've been trying to manage.
Alicia stopped the running game she's been trying to challenge me with and didn't even turn to look at me. I didn't mind.. after all when you hear your bae being mentioned with another girl...it's a heart ache already!!! isn't it?.
           Yeah it's a heartache!!!

                         Author's note:

Hello😍 thanks so much for your reads and comments on my first chapter.
What do you think about this chapter? Will I hate on men till the end? What am I planning to tell Alicia? Was Gillard fair enough to tell me of my poor brows?😏
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Marry Christmas as you wait for my next chapter!!😝ily!!!

All I want for Christmas by Mariah Carey