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#24 - Me and The English Language

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I was frozen. Seconds ago I was falling to my doom with my eyes shut but now I was confused. There was no pain spreading through out my body or chorus of laugher. Just the usual noise of the school.

My eyes fluttered open to see bright light from the sun, then I realized I was hovering over the ground. Last time I checked there was sudden development of magnetically powered hoverboards, more so in Nigeria of all places, to catch me. Then my very slow brain took its time to finally register that someone had caught me.

Quickly jumping out of their arms, I regained my balance and spun around to see my Savior. And the moment I took in who he was, I silently prayed I had never stood up.

Joseph Ushie had a confused but concerned look on his face as he watched me. My tongue was dry and a sudden cough began to grow in my throath. But I ignored the warnings and went for my prize.

"Thank you for-" My cough spluttered out like a whale when water came out of its head. I sounded like I was barfing as I coughed continuously, Joseph rushed to my aid and patted my back, asking if I was okay.

I quickly evaded his touch and rushed into the class, still coughing like a maniac. Oh lord. What did I ever do to deserve this, I've been a good girl all this while Jesus, why? Today I had not only fallen into my crush but had convinced him I probably had a contagious coughing disease. Thank goodness Corona would come a year after this book.

Wham

My hand flew up to my head which was beginning to ache again, a fresh edition of English Language Volume 2 layed before my feet. Who had thrown a book at my head? My question was soon answered the moment I saw Maureen beside the class door, reaching down to pick something. And only to imerge with the object that had caused me quite an amount of pain, in her hands.

Maureen had attacked me with a book. I knew she had anger issues but that was just too much. So what if I walked out on her, why was she being such an animal about it.

I couldn't think to myself much longer because the moment I reached my seat, out English teacher, Mrs. Nwosu had walked in. The woman was a snake when it came to talking in her class and she never hesitated to use her big stick to correct us, whenever she had to.

"Where did you go to?" Whispered Glory as we all reached into our bags or lockers to get out our English notes and textbooks. I shrugged non chalantly at her, fully knowing that before the next class, the bees would have gotten to her.

Mrs Nwosu taught like a dictator, she was strict and straight to the point, yet for some reason we all just loved her. We were fond of her spontaneous questions that had us reading the night before, but for the first time ever, I didn't read.

As the realization dawned on me, I started getting queezy, she'd never asked me a question before, so why start now. "Kolupo? Isn't that your name?"

I swallowed loudly as I was forcefully pulled into reality. She was calling on me. It was then I knew the devil was truely working.

It took me ages to finally stand up from the seat and face my peers and then she shot the question at me, 'Modal Auxiliary'. What the fish sticks was Modal Auxiliary?

Dumbstruck, I looked down to my table in defeat, hoping she wouldn't ravage me with insults. But I stood corrected, she began with my hair. She called it out for looking nice even though it sat upon an empty head.

Then my neatly pressed uniform which covered my stupidity. I hated the next hour because Rainy knew all the answers to every question and I just knew deep down that she was trying to mock me in some kind of way.

Right after English was lunch. And I had remembered to make my self some spaghetti, dicing 2 hotdogs into it. Nothing could ruin spaghetti. Nothing at all.

"Stop na. Stop-" The squealing was cut short but continuous giggle. I scanned the area and came up short until I finally turned around to see the most irritating sigh in the world.

Maureen was sat on a table at the back with Joseph inbetween her legs tickling her. For a second there I almost threw up. Maureen laughed so hard, she was red in the face and constantly hit Joseph on his shoulders in mock hope of stopping him.

I turned back to my spaghetti and let my fork drop into my food flask. My spaghetti was no longer appealing, my stomach ached with this unsettling feeling that spread to my chest. They'd ruined spaghetti day.

I quickly covered up my food and put it away for later. It hadn't been open for long so there was a big chance it wouldn't be spoilt by Language period. I would eat then.

My favourite novel by Iris Johansen Ugly Duckling, sooner than later sat on my lap as my head was placed on my desk, my eyes swimming over the pages, accepting the words like food.

A tap on my shoulder was not enough to get my attention so I wasn't quite surprised when someone poked me twice in the side. Okay, lemme let you in on a little secret. I was mad ticklish. That means even the slightest poke was enough to get me jumping out of my seat.

My novel toppled to the floor as I flew side ways on my seat. My head snapped in the direction of the infiltrator and I let out a sigh at the sight of my new boyfriend.

He happily took a seat beside me, a very dumb smug smile played on his lips at his new realization. "So you're a virgin?" My face twisted and morphed into the ugliest look on Earth but I didn't care at the moment because I was mad confused at the question.

What kind of question was that? A virgin? Where did that come from? I wasn't one to take silly questions or behaviors from people so this was one to cross my line.

Before I could utter a sentence, Daniel continued. "Don't you know that it's only virgins that are ticklish like that." He let out a loud laugh, "That's your mumu button." I couldn't help but laugh along at his stupid theory.

Lightly shaking my head, I reached for my book but was thrown off guard as Daniel poked me again. My hands flew infront of me, one of them retreating back to my sides to protect me. "Don't try that o."

Even though I tried to sound scary and serious, I was basically laughing as the after effect of the poke was still wearing off. My eyes widened as Daniel's smile widened.

Out of nowhere, he jumped at me and rushed for my sides. His hands poking and tickling like a maniac. I bursted out into fits of laughter, slapping away his invading hands to no avail.

The sound of the bell wasn't enough to make Daniel stop but the irritated cough from Maureen sure did it. He threw her one of his annoying smiles and turned back to me. He grabbed my hand and pulled me into a full on hug, even kissing me lightly on the cheek before leaving the class.

Maureen was glaring. My cheeks were on fire and I was sure people were staring. But what really caught my attention was Love and Glory both chorusing in surprise and irritation and disbelieve all wrapped in one.

"Kolupo has a boyfriend?"

Oh shnitzel.

Ss2 Ekpe. At its usual chaotic state. So that's actually SS3 Ekpe in the above picture. I couldn't find one of ss2 and so I took a pic of my class. 😁 View the pic guys.