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[ TAKE A RISK BY CHRIS BROWN]

Nishola held the bottle of water in her hand tightly as they trotted into the basketball court. Their school had a match with Greenland today.

The hall was noisy and crowded as Yanmife and Nishola tried to maneuver their way through the crowd.

"Nishola! Yanmife!" Joyce yelled as Nishola and Yanmife found their way towards Joyce.

She was sitting at the thrid front seats, obviously her boyfriend kept it for her.

"I kept spaces for you guys" Joyce said.

"Thank you" Yanmife said excitedly as they sat down.

Many of the students were holding banners of different kinds. They were here to support Damien more than the basketball team.

That's what you get for being hot and talented.

Nishola felt her throat go dry after she sighted Damien in baggy shorts and slightly baggy top. He was talking to his team mates with all seriousness.

Damn! He's hot!

"Yeah, he looks hot in anything" Yanmife said with a wink.

Nishola's hands flew to her mouth.

"I didn't say that out did I?" Nishola asked.

"The hell you did" Samuel replied laughing slightly.

Nishola blushed, embarrassed. It was then she noticed a lot of the people that were sitted around her where at Joyce's party.

It had been two weeks since the party, except on the assembly ground, Nishola hadn't seen Damien.

Funny enough, her heart longed for him. She had an album of his photos on her phone.

Damien nodded at his team mates as they started doing warm up exercises.

Matthew waved frantically to where Yanmife and Nishola were sitted while the latter waved back. Joel also waved and winked at Yanmife.

Damien closed his eyes oblivious. Matthew jerked Damien.

"Ouch! What was that for?" Damien asked rubbing his ribs.

"She came" Matthew said with a smirk.

"Who came?" Damien asked his eyes searching the large crowd as his eyes landed on Nishola.

Surprisingly, she waved frantically at him before mouthing "goodluck".

"Now I wasn't expecting that" Joel said with a laugh.

"Are you sure you haven't spoken to her since the party?" Matthew asked.

"If any of you gets distracted during this match, you are dead meat" Damien said as he turned back to Nishola who's eyes were still fixed on him.

What he did next made everyone turn towards where Nishola was sitted.

Damien waved at her and then winked.

Nishola was startled as she continued blinking her eyes in surprise. She wasn't even expecting a reaction from him.

The crowd went into an uproar when Damien winked. Everyone wanted to know who he was winking at but no one knew who it was. They only saw the direction.

"Awwn..... "Yanmife cooed at Nishola.

"Stop it" Nishola said still embarrassed.

The match soon started and within minutes BIC was leading with just two points. Everyone soon grasped that, Greenland was no pushover, they made up points as fast as BIC made points.