Perfectly Imperfect

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Dedicated to Iyanuoluwa-Temi my cover plug.

There should be a song for all chapters(hopefully) but if there's a song that sums 99.9999999% of this book up, that would be Scars to Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara. I think more than 70% of the human population has heard that song.

~Kunmi~

I watched my mom in sheer horror, willing my ears to unhear whatever it was she just said. Mom repeated herself and I blinked hard.

"Kunmi, I've gotten your transfer papers ready.'

Transfer papers?

'What transfer? What papers Ma?"

"Your transfer to Crescent High. Must I always repeat everything?"

I dropped my spoon and stared straight ahead. No way that was happening. Transfer schools? That was the last thing I would ever do. What would I do in a new school anyway? How would I survive? It took me a whole year to fully settle into my current school. A whole year to make friends. A single friend. Omotara! And now Mom was telling me to change schools. Just like that.

Without any prior warning.

That was equivalent to telling me to die.

"Mom," I called out calmly but Mom barely spared a glance my way.

I swallowed an imaginary lump.

"I don't want to transfer schools. I can't transfer schools."

I could feel the tears starting in my eyes. I blinked. Once. Twice. Thrice.

The waterworks were going to start again.

"Kunmi. This is not an argument. This is not a debate. You are going to Cresent High and that's final!" Mom said, narrowing her eyes at me. Dad was yet to say anything. If there was someone who could alter this situation, it was him.

"Dad, please I don't want to change schools. I can't..."

"Kunmi, must you always query me every time I talk? Must you always try to talk yourself out of everything?" Mom finally snapped, dropping her fork on the table and I felt tears roll down my face.

"Mom, don't get yourself unnecessarily worked up because of Kunmi. You should have known by now that she's going to try to talk herself out of this."

My elder sister, Mayowa said and I scowled. Don't get yourself unnecessarily worked up because of Kunmi. Just say Kunmi is not worth your attention.

I heaved a sigh, a thousand thoughts swirling in my head. A new school! A new school!! A new school!!!

There was no way I'd survive.

"Kunmi, don't give your mom hypertension. Just go to the new school. She wants the best for you."

The best for me? How come they all knew the best for me and I did not know? Wasn't this my life?