BFFs: troubles within A Year

6. Goodbye And Nooby

Halima's POV

I really feel bad for Sophie. She made just one mistake and she is going to suffer for a lifetime for that one mistake. I go to beg daddy and mummy to please intervene and attempt to convince Aunty Fauzzy to reduce the punishment.

Aunty Fauzzy is known for being strict but now she's just being unfair. Since my dad is Aunty Fauzzy's immediate elder brother, they are quite close. He calls Aunty Fauzzy to the dining room and closes the door. They talk for what seems like hours and when they finally come out, my dad gave me a satisfied look which makes me relax. I just hope it's translating to what I want it to translate to.

We were waiting in the parlor when they all come in from the dining at once and tell us all to sit down. After a long sermon and quoting of Ayyats from the Holy Qur'an and some Ahaadith, Sophie is forgiven with one punishment which is that her school will be changed back to Glisten and she will be in Jss3. She agrees. It's not like she has a choice anyways.

Aunty Fauzzy, Uncle Marafa and Sophie bid us farewell. Sophie's her phone will be siezed for a month and she will be grounded during that month.

We bid her farewell and they leave, which means that is it.

We are all glad the drama is over and everything will go back to normal again. We spend the night at my place and Teemah calls Ya Sa'eed around 5am and begs him to tell Amal to give him her uniform. He brings it around 6am and we are ready for school by 7am. My parent's driver takes us to school.

We go straight to class and since it is a Tuesday, we have our assemblies in class. When are done, Fiddo comes and tells us that there is a new girl coming in later. She tells us all she found out about the girl.

She said she saw the girl writing her exam in the library. It's not like they'll use the exam to grade her anyways.

We are quite excited to see her because according to Fiddo, she is extraordinarily beautiful and she has pure black long hair. She is Fulani just like Teemah is.

We go parading the school looking for Amal and once we find her, Teemah collects what she told her to bring.

While we are at the corridor of Ss2, a captivating, gorgeous, beautiful and breath taking girl comes in from the stairs. She is a brown skin girl, a little slim and very tall. She has a pointed nose, large eyes that are outlined by her long black eye lashes and dimples on both cheeks. She has long black hair. She looks just like a fulani, if not even shuwa Arab. She looks like one of those models we always see on TV.

And with the white flowing gown that complimented her skin and her hair left bare open, she looks like an angel from the sky. She is wearing extremely long heels which makes me think, how can she walk with those things?

She approaches us she asks where Ss1 Diamond is and her voice is sickly sweet. That is when I notice that she's actually wearing make up. Since when do Aflon allow make up? We direct her to our class and offer her a seat. As we go back outside the bell for the first period rings so we just go back inside. When the Mathematics teacher asks the pretty girl to solve a quadratic equation on the board, she can't even begin with the solving talk less of giving the answers to the equation.

I hear some girls say, "At least we have something she doesn't, a brain."

I don't know if she was hurt but I really feel for her. Everyone in the class is laughing at her. After the class she excuses herself to the restroom. I follow her and I am surprised she isn't crying, or at least let me say sobbing. Instead, she is saying something I can't hear from where I am.

I move closer and I start hearing more.

"They are just lucky today is my first day at school if not i would've ripped their faces off so that when they laughed, they would feel immense pain instead of joy. Stupid insolent imbeciles," She mimicks our classmates  "At least we have something she doesn't have, a brain, blah blah blah." She hisses.

"Let me just spend three more days here and by the time he comes back again. They'd all regret what they did today, every single one of them."

I am surprised at her words. I silently creep out of the place making sure not to make any noise since i now know she is bad news.

When i am sure I am no where near the restrooms, I start thinking about her words.

"And by the time he comes back too..." these words keep repeating themselves in my head. I wonder who she's talking about.

I go back to the class so that I won't be late to physics class. When i reach there, i sit on the seat I reserved for me and Teemah. Without her asking I tell her everything. She's even more shocked than I am.

Teemah is more of a girls person, not that she's a lesbian. She just prefers her own type to the opposite. She never crushed on anybody since his death.

I on the other hand always change crushes. Right now, my celebrity crush is Karan Luthra. He acted in This is fate. He is fair, a little bit short and robust, he has a six pac and ome sided dimple with a very big ego but that is why I love him more. I like guys that can walk up to any girl and say their feelings out loud, whether it is good or not.

Back to the point, she also wants to know who the "he" is. And she promises me that she would stay clear of the girl whose name i forgot to mention.

She said it in Physics class when she was asked to introduce herself that she is UmmuKalthum Aliyu. Teemah said that her name fitted her face and everything but not her behavior.

We sit to eat during break, and UmmuKalthum comes and joins us. We don't mind since we aren't scared of her. It's not like us to be scared of a girl we just met but it also isn't us to mess with potential fire that we know nothing about.

She insists that we call her Ummu for short and we don't argue though we are thinking of another name for her because Ummu didn't fit her at all. It is more of an old woman's name than a model-like girl.

When she leaves to return the plate she ate rice in, we decide to stay around her thinking that maybe she will talk about this "he". She seems quite dumb because she just met us today and guess what, she's already blabbing away about how rich her elder brother is. We just have to act smart and we'll get exactly what we want.