Dear Diary

Chapter 9

Song of the chapter Worst Behaviour by Drake

Saturday
Dear Diary,
           So we're done with exams now. Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!! Results will soon be out, I'm not sure I wanna see them. Oh and BTW Precious and l are no longer friends. It's because of that rubbish letter she wrote. Yunno Sapphire was still with it na. I couldn't get it from her and the next day, during break she started reading it to the whole class. Everybody was laughing and shouting, making noise. Precious was vexing, she was shouting at Sapphire to give her her letter back. Sapphire was like  "Come and take it na."
           And her friends were covering her, they were now throwing the letter to themselves,running around the class. Vivian and Justine were vexing because they  wanted to read and the class was noisy. They were now shouting,adding to the noise .
           Everywhere was rowdy and that's when Miss Ibeneme entered.
"What's this rubbish? What's the noise for? The time you are supposed to use to do final revision you are using to make noise."
Then "Sapphire, bring that paper you were holding."
Sapphire was like "Ma?"
"My friend don't be stupid. The paper you were throwing around. Bring it now or you will be in serious trouble ."
She brought it, I was so sure it's because she's not the one that will enter trouble.
Miss Ibeneme took it "What is this? Hei! What am I seeing? My dearest Josiah." In that her thick  Igbo accent.
The whole class erupted into laughter.
"Jesus. Jesus. It's only you that can help me. So Sapphire this is what you're doing..."
"No ma. It's Precious."
"Chimoo. Precious. You kwa? Oya both of you now follow me to the staffroom straight. What nonsense!"
"Ma please..."
"I said follow me. Do you think I'm playing with you?"
In mind mind I was just thinking Ye! Mogbe!
They shaa came back to write the remaining papers. When we were done for the day,  Sapphire called me,  rudely i might and WILL add that they said I should come too. My heart was beating. We knocked and entered. All the class teachers for JSS2 where there with our Year Head Mr Akanbi. They told Sapphire and Precious to go outside so it was only me. In my mind I was like "Yeba! I've jammed."
Mrs Eze was holding the letter.
"Kambili."
"Ma."
"Do you recognise this sheet of paper I am holding?"
"Yes ma."
"Where do you recognise it from?"
"Ma."  My voice was shaking. Jesus.
"Kambili don't annoy me. Who gave you this letter?"
I was so scared.
Mr Akanbi shouted "Will you open your mouth and talk right now! Stupid girl."
"Don't mind her."
"It's Precious ma."
"Very good. And who is the letter for?"
"Somebody in my bus ma."
"Hei."
"Can you imagine."
"Lekwa obele nwa."
"At their small age."
The teachers were just saying rubbish.
"So," Mrs Eze continued "Precious gave you a letter to give her 'Dearest Josiah' and you gave it to Sapphire."
Ye! Is that what that fowl told them?
"No ma. I didn't give her. I...I gave him."
"And he gave her?"
I don't know why, but I didn't want Josiah to enter trouble.
"I put it in his bag. He wasn't in the bus. Sapphire saw me. She collected it from his bag."
"But you just said you gave him the  letter."
"I told you they will start lying. What nonsense! Irresponsible girls." Mr Akanbi can be annoying ehh.
"Anyways,that is not even important. Miss Ibeneme please call the others in. You kneel down there."
When they entered he told them "Oya join her."

"Where do we even start from. You letter writer. Look at me you foolish girl. Your mates are busy studying for their exams, you're busy writing rubbish. Oya look at your French script." Miss Ibeneme threw it at her. "Read it out."
In a shaky voice Precious said "24"
"You are very stupid. 24 over what?"
"Si...si...six...ty."
All the teachers erupted in laughter.
"What a shame!"
"Simple French you cannot read and pass. You can only write rubbish. Olodo. Useless girl."
God! It was horrible.
As she finished Miss Daniels our English teacher started her own.
"Let me see that letter again sef. You know what is most surprising? That Precious Ezeh wrote four pages of foolscap. I don't believe she wrote that letter. In fact, Precious you must tell us  who wrote that letter for you. Is this not your script here? You couldn't give me up to one and half pages in your essay. And with all the typographic errors and nonsense English you wrote for me. Please Mrs Eze look at this essay. Do you believe that this girl could have written that letter?"
"Precious who wrote that letter?" asked Miss Ifeanyi
"Answer my friend!"
"Is...is....I...is me."
"You! Unbelievable." Miss Daniels scoffed. "It's you ke? I didn't know you could write like this. So you just chose to write rubbish for me abi? Eh Precious? You cannot talk now. Foolish girl. To write exam and pass is too hard for you. But to write rubbish letter," she took the script and started beating her with it "Precious will write four pages for boy. But she cannot write up to two pages in exam."
"Don't mind her. My paper you wrote this afternoon, if you like don't get over 40, all of you. That is when I will deal with you."Miss Ifeanyi said.
"Over 40 kwa? Precious is that one possible?"
"As for you, messenger. Angel Gabriel. Anyways this one is trying but look at you. This is not how your sister behaved when she was in my class."
"At all."
"Your sister would never get involved in this sort of rubbish."
"Look at her, look at you. In every way she outshines you. In academics, behaviour, character, socially, name it! You are no where close to her."
I wanted to tell Mr Akanbi that I already knew. My parents had already drummed it into my head.
"No where. And she's not even trying."
"You are just a disgrace  your parents and her."
"Stale gist," i said in my head. "stale gist."
"Someone will work hard and get a good name. Only for another person to destroy it. Are you not ashamed of yourself?"
"I'm sorry sir."
"Sorry for yourself and your parents who are paying your school fees only for you to embarrass them."
"I'm sure this is not the first time she is doing such. How many letters have you been passing eh, you better confess now. Talk jare!"
"This is the first time ma."
"Ehen?"
"It better be the last."
"As for this one, what will I even say to this, this witch. She devil."
"Ahh. Miss Ibeneme."
"No leave me. This is exam period. She does not want others to read. So they will not pass her. That is why she would create such a distraction at this time. You should have heard the noise. I'm surprised Sister did not hear it and come out of her office."
"I've noticed some things about her..."
"Haa, Mrs Eze you better be careful with this one. She is a chronic  pretender. She is just... See how she is looking at me with that her evil eye, you better look away, ekwensu. Short rat."
"I was very surprised when I saw her. I thought she was a good girl."

"With this set, you can't even know. The good ones have mixed up with the bad ones. Polluting themselves. Look at these ones now, just on JSS2. When they get to the senior class,who knows what they will do."
"Or rather, what will they NOT do?"
"Look at this one, see you better wipe off those crocodile tears from that your ugly face before I land you a slap. All the way from JSS2 to SS1."
"Hei SS1. How did you land there? God it's only you that can help me with this class."
"Listen to this 'I dream about you, I think of you all the time.' Why won't she fail? When I am teaching she is thinking of Dearest Josiah." Miss Daniels laughed mockingly.
"There is no space for book again. Oho. Listen again 'I imagine you doing things to me.' Precious what things? You must explain these things to us."
"She cannot talk again."
"This is even more serious than I imagined."
Mrs Eze snapped her fingers at her.
"Tufiakwa! It's the parents I pity the most. See what the children they sent to learn are doing."
"Some of them did not train their children properly. They brought their spoilt brats for us to train for them."hissed Miss Ibeneme
"That is true." Miss Ifeanyi said

"So Mr Akanbi, where do we go from here? Do we take them to   Mrs Orakwe? Or Sister?"
My heart started beating. Kom. Sister. Kom. They will call our parents. Kom.
"See them. They already look scared as they heard Sister. Let us take them to her office."
That was how I knew that Miss Daniels is really a witch.
"Oya get up. We are going to Sister's office. I said get up." She taunted.
"Leave them." said Mr Akanbi.
Thank God!
Then he proceeded to lecture us for hours, I was just nodding my head. My knees were painting me. Everything he said was flying out as it was entering. 
We apologised and promised to change. They said they would be watching us and Mr Akanbi said any other bad report about any of us would get to Sister. And she would hear about this one. He finally told us to go.
Once we left that side, Sapphire just hissed, shoved me and walked past us. Precious started blaming me, that it's my fault, that I gave Sapphire the letter, I'm a sly, a bitch, backstabber, weakling. It was like film. She said I should not near her side. When I went to get my bag, people were surrounding Sapphire and Precious. Sapphire was telling them to fuck off. Precious was shouting. I quickly took my bag and left before they came for me. Marho later saw me.  Because well, I was sitting at our normal place. I told her what happened. She said that the gist has already spread i mean, i trust HRC girls. Second to none when it comes to sharing gist. And it's good for Precious that shey she warned her. And it's good teachers now know Sapphire's true colours. So they'll stop supporting her every time.
We shaa agreed to meet during the  holiday.
The school bus now came late again. By the time I got home, I was too tired to do anything.  I just went to bed. Thank God they shaa didn't tell my parents, if not ehh.

Hey guys,
Been a while ayy😉
Anyways, I'm so sorry for not updating sooner. I had a bad case of writer's block. Also I've been thinking of new ideas for new books. Who's excited 🙋.
And I've been having some lil issues with Wattpad. I'm sure you noticed this chapter wasn't in italics. Once I get it fixed, I'll change it. I also wanted to get more reads at least 200, since that would be very encouraging 😁. So thanks for reading this far, you are a darling 😘😍.
Which one where you by the way, messenger,letter writer or aproko.  I was and still am aproko, but my own no reach Sapphire level oh😆

For my Non-Nigerian readers
Chimoo! means My God!
Ye! Mogbe! Yeba! These are Yoruba slangs and sayings. Basically means I'm in trouble.
Lekwa obele nwa  Look at these small children
Olodo blockhead, idiot, basically a dumb person
Ekwensu means devil or Satan in Igbo
Tufiakwa! I actually don't really know what this means, I know people say it when they're disgusted, irritated, shocked. It's shaa an exclamation 💁.
Please if I'm not getting any translations right,let me know.
Forever your lazy ass writer