CATTALEYA

Chapter 11

Walter POV
 
After talking to Leya and Zara on the stairs I decided to go to my class and Elena just kept tagging along at my back. I turned back in a swift motion which startled her.
"You scared me." she said and held her chest.
"I don't know why you left America just to school here......"
"Is it a crime to be close to my best friend?"
"What have they done to you Elena? The Elena I know isn't this clingy...." 
"So now am being clingy?"
"Yea!" i shouted which attracted a little attention to us. She started sobbing like she was gonna cry any minute from now.
"Look Elena this is Nigeria. There is something they call OYO."
"And what does that mean?" She asked non-chalantly
"It means On Your Own. Everything here you do it by yourself. I didn't mean to shout ok?" I engulfed her in a hug.
"So I want you to go to your class and copy your notes. You can ask some of your classmates to help you out. I have other things to do ok?"
"Ok."
"So I think I deserve a smile right?" She chuckled and then left, maybe to her class.

I actually didn't have anything to do, I just needed Elena off my back. I heard this school has an indoor swimming pool. Let's go check it out.

I asked for direction there. When I got there I saw a figure sitting on the bench and staring into the water. I walked closer and whispered 'hey' in her ears. She turned around scared. I bursted into laughter.
"Don't every do that again."
"You needed to see your face." I said in midst of laughter. She rolled her eyes at me.
"So Mister Busy, what are you doing here?"
"I have a name young lady."
"Whatever, what are you doing here?"
"Are you some kind of detective or police? I decided to come here. Do you have a problem with that?"
"Nope" She turned her focus back to the water. Well she has a beautiful shaped face, long lashes, full but small lips that is pink on the bottom. Nice shape that fit her small starture.
"Hello?" She said and pulled me out of my thoughts.
"What are you thinking of? Break is over."
"Oh...ok, I don't have a class now."
"Ok then see you later." She smiled at me and left. I ran my fingers through my hair. I can't belive I completely zoned out just looking at her. I stayed there as few more minute to clear my head a bit before I went back to class.

**Few weeks later**
    Cattaleya POV

Within few weeks of Elena stay here she has already started behaving like a busybody. Honestly, she has this bad aura around her. It was the fourth period to break. We didn't have any class, it was our free period. If there's an award for the most noisiest class. My class will definitely be in the top 3, I'm sure of that. I looked over to Zara, she bowed her head on her table and was sleeping.This girl love sleeping, She is actually sleeping in this noisy place. I picked up my phone and put it inside my Physics textbook.

 Phone are prohibited in the school but some people like me are just bound to break that law. I picked up my textbook with my phone inside and left the class to one of the empty classes that are not in use. In one of the empty classes, I saw someone resting his head on the table. I entered the class to find out who it was and what happened.

Lo and behold, it was Giovanni.

"Giovanni?" I said tapping him. He raised up his head and his face was covered with tears.
"What happened?"
"Nothing"
"You can't tell me nothing." I sighed. I'm not someone to poke around people's business.
"If you don't want to tell me, it's fine." I stood up to leave but he held me back.
"My parent wants to divorce." Wow, I didn't actually see that one coming. I hugged him and rubbed his back while he laid his head on my shoulder.
"It's ok, every thing will be fine." That's all I could say cause I can imagine living with just one parent. It's not that bad but at the same time it is.
"They want me to pick between both of them, who I want to stay with but I love them both to even pick one of them."

I didn't even get to pick who I wanted to stay with.
"Don't worry, everything will be fine." We stayed like that for some minutes. Then I broke the silence.
"Have you bothered telling them how you feel about the divorce?"
"Nope, they won't even listen."
"they will, you just gotta go right there and give them a piece of your mind." I said trying to fake black american accent. He chuckled a bit and pulled away from the hug.

I was enjoying myself in that position, why did he have to pull away.
"You make it round so easy."
"Cause it is."
"Hello....my parents are Nigerians." Yea, you don't dare question a Nigerian parent decision.
"It doesn't matter. There's no harm in giving it a try." The bell went for the end of that period.
"What do you have now?"
"I have chemistry. How about you?"
"Technical drawing."
"Ok then. I'll see you at lunch," I stood up and was about to leave when he engulfed me into another hug.
"What for?"
"Thanks for being there for me."
"That's what friends are for." I said with a smile and pulled away.

Imagine, I ended up not even reading the book I wanted to read but, I was happy to have made someone smile. As i approched my class, my classmates were going out with their books to the chemistry lab.
"Where have you been?" Zara asked immediately I got to my seat to pick me book.
"Did you miss me?"
"Why would I? Your as useless as the P in psychology.
"Ouch....I'm hurt." I said feigning anger.

**Break time**
I and Zara had bought our snacks and we were sitting on our favourite spot as usual. I was so engrossed in my snackes and Zara in her phone that we didn't notice when Giovanni sat down on the table untill he cleared his throat to announce his presence.
"Oh my, What happened to your eye?" Zara asked and by the tone of her voice you could tell she cared. She might act all tough outside but inside she's so soft.
"Is it that bad?"
"Yea, what happened"
"Nothing"
"Nothing? ok o, at least I asked." She went back to what she was doing on her phone.

We were eating peacefully till the bitch showed up.
"Hey, Giovanni." Elena said in her tiny annoying voice.
"What do you want?" Giovanni grumbled out.
"Can we hang out, maybe after school today."
"No"
"Why?" She whined out.
"Na by force ?(Is it by force)" Zara said still looking at her phone.
"I wasn't talking to you."
"I wasn't talking to you either."
"See asshole you better start learning to mind your business."
"Wo mi ri wahala o!! (see me see trouble)"
"Oya Elena you have over-stayed your welcome, please kindly leave." I said emphasizing on the please.
"And I wasn't talking to you either"
"Its enough girls, your attracting attention. Elena please leave, we'll talk later."
"Thank you." She said and walked away while Zara puntuated her sentence with a hiss.

Writer POV
I don't get why parents divorce. It actually affects children emotionally and in many other ways. Elena and Zara are about to fight world war 3😄.

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