African Teen

1:Collect numbers much?

January 13
First day of second term

I don't know why I'd even bother coming to school on the first day of resumption, but, I mean, Juice came, so that means I won't necessarily be bored to death and so as I walk through the school gate, my first objective is to find the mumu I call my friend

He's not too hard to find anyway, he's at our usual spot, yeah, we have a spot, where we can get away from the yelling, psychotic students attending our "sophisticated" school, our "spot" is just an old school store that nobody uses again and apparently, none of the school's top cliques were fast enough to get it for themselves.

"Sup", it's always advisable to start with 'Sup' in case he's in a bad mood
"Baba don't sup me", Yep, that's the bad mood,
"What happened ohh" I proceed to ask,
"Ok, you know last year when I took that picture where I was only wearing boxers?",
"Yes, continue ", I remember because I took the picture,
"Well, turns out during the holiday, my brother took my phone and sent the picture to our class' group chat and now everybody has the picture ", that was the last thing I heard before I started laughing,
"Wait, everybody has the picture, how didn't you know, shebi you're on the group"
""He left the group as soon at he sent it, oh, I'm definitely going to kill somebody today", Juice has four brothers and they all don't get along very well, that's if you ask Juice tho, from my perspective, they're pretty cool, that's if they aren't fighting or anything
"Ehn, you can just manipulate it, you know what you'll do, just manipulate some juniors to do it, make it like something viral, shey you get, so you can even use that one to add to your popularity". Did I mention I'm a genius, and I can already see a smirk on his face
"Yeah, that could actually work, and I could call it the 'boxers challenge',and you know what, guy, you get sense, and that's why you can't die yet",
"I know, I know, you need me in your life, so you don't end up in an asylum or something "
"Asylum ko, I look like I'm mad abi", I'm about to say something but I see his eyes trailing off to somewhere else, did I mention the "spot" has a great view of the school, I turn my head to see what he's looking at and that's when I see her,
"Guy, that's a 10 out of 10", obviously Juice would have rated her,
"Isn't that the girl from last year's summer lesson?", that was all I could ask,
"Yeah, but she said she wasn't coming to our school, what's she doing here then?,and she's with her mom too, and they're going to the principal's office"
"Dude, I can see too, yunno"I tell him,
"Obviously, guy, she's like stupid fine now fa, you need to go for it", I give him a sarcastic stare
"Of course, I could hit on her mom too shebi, that would be perfect "I reply,
"You know I didn't mean it like that, besides, if you don't get to talk to her, you could get her number from one of the other girls in our class"
"Nope, if I'm going to be hitting on a girl, I'll have to collect her number myself, why are we even talking about hitting on her, we don't even know each other that well, what if she listens to fuji and watches Yoruba films? ",
"She doesn't dude, I've caught her singing Post Malone or Khalid on more that two occasions, besides, does she look like she watches Yoruba films, huhhh? ", well he had a point, Juice had a way of convincing when he wanted something,
"Dude, she's leaving the principal's office, without her mom, this is your chance bro, its now or never", he was right, again,if I didn't ask her now, I might never have the chance to again
"Pray for me fam",
"Yeah yeah, just be fast "that's the last thing I hear before running over to see her, I slow down when I get closer to her, it's as if the closer I get the more beautiful she gets,

"Hi",
"Hi", her voice is killing me, somebody call the ambulance,
"Err, Happy New Year", off to a poor start if you ask me,
"Thanks, same, you're Damola?", she even remembers my name, could this day get any better,
"Yeah, we met at last year's summer lesson, how are you doing", I'm trying hard to remember her name,
"I'm good,how've you been as well?", I remember now
"Oh well, I'm still alive, you're Tinuke?"
"Yeah, glad to see you remember, even though we didn't have conversations or anything"
"My bad, I don't actually get to talking with people much",
"Me too, I'd rather be alone listening to music than talking about things that aren't important",
"Glad to see we're on the same page, oh, are you planning on attending our school?, saw you entering the principal's office with your mom", that sounds like I was stalking her,
"Nahh, my mom just came to thank the principal for my improvement since after the summer lessons"
"Ohh, cool cool, its nice that we got to have a conversation, you're a really nice person "
"Thank you,and uh, thanks for actually coming over to talk to me", she smiles, can we just get married already?,
"It's nothing, uhh, can I like, um, get your number?", can't believe I just said that,
"Sure, sure", she brings out her phone, opens it and gives it to me
"How bout you give me yours", I type my number into her phone and as she's saving it, I bring out a small notepad I always keep in my pocket, (since I can't just bring out my phone in the middle of school), and a pen
"Your number", I say with my best smile
"Ouu, collect numbers much?", I let out a small, awkward laugh and then proceed to start stammering
"Noo...i..I dont..I mean, I do, just not too often", she smiles and touches my hand ever so slightly,
"Damola, don't worry, I'll text you, aiit, trust me", if this is a dream, I don't want to wake up,
"Alright then, see you later then I guess, hope you have a nice day",
"And you too, Bye", she's still smiling,
"Bye"
I look over to Juice and I see him acting like he's choking,
I raise a middle finger and start walking to him.

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A/N
Alright that was the first chapter
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