The president His Excellency Peter kwarteng, has ordered that every Friday the 13 should be spent at home. Also, among today's headlines, 17 year old Nicole Asare has been reported missing from the Elite senior high school. We'll bring you the details right af ...........
A hand reached out and turned the radio off.
'You won't get away with this!.... I'll make sure of it!.....they will charge you with kidnapping!' Nicole yelled. 'The police....' She sniffed holding back tears. '......they will find you soon and you'll be sorry you ever decided to lay a finger on me!' She was frantic.
'Ha! The police?' The woman in the black robe scoffed. 'I have my ways young lady.' she said and sauntered towards Nicole.
'And who said anything about kidnapping........?'
Nichole could see her smug evil smile even though most of her face was covered with most of her cloak and shadows.
'It's murder my dear'. She caressed her cheek and plunged the knife right through her chest. She threw her head back and let out out a loud cackle followed by chanting. She looked at Nicole again and froze mid chanting. As Nicole's dying eyes met hers the look of recognition in her eyes was unmistakable.
Her hood had fallen off.
"Good morning daddy!" I greeted as I got of the stairs landing.
'Good morning hunny. How are we feeling about going to the boarding house today?' I nodded and walked past him.
'someone's in a bad mood' I heard my brother Michael say.
I rolled my eyes and headed for the kitchen.
'Bread?' Jude offered.
I shook my head and walked past him straight for the cabinet we kept the cereals in.
I scanned the cabinet but didn't find it. I scanned again. I turned around and found Benjamin pointing at something. I followed the direction of his finger and there it sat gloriously on the sink. I moved faster than the speed of light and grabbed it..... It was empty.
'Who ate my last coco pops?' I fumed. 'Matthew did' Joshua, my 6 year old brother yelled. 'Matt! why did you...'
'Hold on!' I was cut mid yelling.
'Why are you yelling ?' Dad was the one who interrupted me.
'Matt ate my last round of cereal I had been saving for today' I explained fuming.
'So?'
'But daddy, Matt ate my cereal I've been saving for a week and i bought that box of cereal with my own savings.' I said with tears in my eyes.
'Leave him' my dad said.
'Leave him?' I thought
'But daddy it's coco pops' I protested.
'Drop it young lady I won't have you speak back to me like that, I'm your father.'
I rolled my eyes in my head and stood folding my arms in front of me. "I'm sorry "father" I apologized laying emphasis on father and stormed up the stairs almost slipping.
I checked and rechecked to make sure I'd packed everything. I couldn't afford to leave anything behind. I mean I did have mixed feelings about going to boarding school but I knew somehow that I'd be fine....it was worth a shot. Mum would have been the best person to cheer me up but she wasnt around to that so i had to brave it like i had always done for the past six years, without her.
I looked up at the clock and it was a quarter past 10 a.m. dad said we would leave at 11:30. Sigh... Ghanaian traffic
I put my stuff back in the bag and headed for the shower.
By 11:15 dad was yelling my name to come down and have something to eat because he wasn't making any stops on the way. I was almost done putting my hair in cornrows and had a comb in my month so I only managed to grunt something that sounded more like "huhhing" than the intended word.
I went down stairs and God my dad really knew how to stir one's appetite.
The fried yam was a light golden yellowish colour and the chicken could tempt a vegan to take a bite.
The shitor that went with it looked like heaven had a hand in making it.
My dad really knows how to make a last supper. Well apparently brunch....but you get the picture. I devoured that food like it owed me it's life.
10 minutes later my stuff were packed into the car and I was receiving the "talk" that is; the school related talk, before the "talk" (the sex education related one) from dad. 'Yes daddy I promise' I answered. 'Good. I love you very much always remember that.' 'I love you too daddy can we get moving now? might freak out and change my mind'. 'Of course'. he smiled and got in the driver's seat. In no time we were on our way to Elite senior high school in cape coast.
It was a mess. This Senior high school thing. Everyone won't stop asking questions, like you actually owed them answers. What was worse, I was still sulking over my coco pops. I would have got over it if Matt hadn't tagged along and kept making faces at me the whole journey. I told myself to let it go. Besides I'd get him back for it during vacation.
'Hi my name is ........'I zoned out after that sentence. A tall albino girl who had approached me was trying to introduce herself.
I was awe struck by her beauty. She had ginger hair closely cropped to her scalp. Her grey eyes were piercing. Those eyes that told you a story. A somewhat crooked nose with freckles. She had a wide mouth but it fit her face just right. She was beautiful.
I was lost in my own thoughts and didn't catch her name. It didn't matter 'I could always ask someone'. I thought to myself.
She ordered some of the students to take my stuff to my room and offered to take me there herself. She was really nice. But later I realized it was her job. it turned out it was because she was the house prefect.
'Hi.' I muttered to the girl who was leaning on the bed frame of my new bed. She smiled and nodded her response.
Ginger girl helped me with my mattress and left with a promise to see me later. I got on my knees and started to unpack my stuff unto my bed.
'Need help?' I raised my head to meet the eyes of the girl I'd said hi to earlier.
I smiled
'I wouldn't mind a second pair of hands. I'm Grace by the way.'
'My name is Nicole.' She replied. and got on her knees next to me.
As we unpacked in silence, I reached out for my pajamas the same time as her and accidentally grabbed her hand. I quickly withdrew my hand. Her hand was cold. Too cold for a normal human being especially given the weather. We went back to unpacking in silence still unable to shake the thought of her icy hand when we heard a call for all the form ones to get to the assembly hall. Nicole got on her feet first.
'lets unpack the rest later ok?' she muttered akwardly and walked out.
I stared after her. Something struck me as odd about her, but I just couldn't put my finger on it.
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