African Teen

12:Conversations.

Days have passed really really fast
It's the countdown to JAMB and all the students seem to be getting the heat,extra hours in school,teachers running through lessons,every SS3 student is putting in extra effort,the principal wants us to put up our best performance and score higher than other schools and I,am tired.

Teni has settled in quite nicely,you see her with Ada and Mariam everywhere,Mariam keeps giving me these weird glances and smiles,I think she likes me,who knows?,girls can never be predicted, even Amaka says she likes Teni's vibe.

Rasheedat seems to be better,really better,she told me she spoke to her mom,and apparently, her mom had been going to see different counselors and had been looking for the right time to tell her daughter,she also apologized to her friends but still doesn't talk to them like before,we talk a lot now,not like too much,but enough that she tells me everything,she said she trusts me and I like that,that I'm trustworthy,feels good.
She's cool with Teni,they go to the Gallery together almost every day,both paying attention to the smallest details in the pictures, reading through all the lines of poems trying to find themselves, two hearts lost in art,it takes Rasheedat's mind off everything else,there's this new glow in her eyes,she's happier these days,confident.

Juice,what do y'all expect?,he started playing ball again a while back,against his doctor's orders,I don't even know how he still has energy,he played ball everyday until all sports were canceled for SS3 students,and now he's in his songwriting phase,he carries a notebook everywhere, writing songs, recording his voice on his phone,whenever I go to his house, he's playing the piano,singing,trying to create something, the amount of energy he puts into it is massive,amazing,I wish I was that determined to do something.

There's Tinuke,the sun,radiant,bright,hot,the earth revolves around the sun and my heart is revolving around her,with every text,every phone call,every picture she sends,every song she sings on our calls,my life becomes brighter.
I really wish I could see her everyday,be part of her day,be part of her smile,she told me I was the funniest person she had ever met,I wish I actually saw her laugh every time I said something she laughed at,but for now we settle for texts and calls,and this is why I can't wait for us to start our JAMB and get it over with,because I'll be getting myself a date.
She's really busy in school too,studying for exams,she tells me about everything, her friend, Mary, is a fan girl of BTS,she listens to K-pop almost all the time and from how Tinuke says it,it's really annoying,I've never had to deal with somebody who likes K-pop,but I'm not a fan of Korean songs,at home,her dad is always watching football and her mom is always sewing something new,her parents want her to learn something new and she chose fashion designing,so her mom bought her a sewing machine and paid for an online course,so if she's not reading,she making clothes,she's enjoying every bit of it and yunno,being creative.

And then there's me,yeah,me,what am I doing?.
I wouldn't say reading, I've pretty much covered everything, read Government and Literature from cover to cover,I've only been practicing English and CRS,more English,but of all the ample time I have,I don't read,I explore,yup,I put on my headphones, play music,I just discovered The Weeknd's Trilogy and I've been playing it nonstop,then I go online,start reading comics,I check through lots until I find the one that looks intriguing, I read and read until I feel I should do something else,I go to my Netflix account and scan through my downloads or check for other series I need to catch up on.
I don't think I do anything creative, and that's the problem,most times,I'm on Netflix, or Screen Rant,or reading comics,listening to music,watching movies on my laptop,reading superhero profiles on Wikipedia, reading ebooks,that's literally all I do.
Juice said I could start a blog and start writing geek stuff, but I don't even know how to build a website and I would need to be very consistent with uploads,seems like something I could work with in the future.
My mom said I have a photographic memory,that I can just read something, or see or hear something and I would remember it for a long time,she said I should keep on reading stuff,that anything I read can be useful,so I'm trying to read more books,watch more movies,I could become like a geek analyst or critic, you could come to my blog if you were looking for new books to try,the best movies or series to watch,the dopest songs or artists to try,yeah,it totally sounds like something I'd go for.