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PROLOGUE
Rachel's POV
You know how people like to act like they have self-control?
Yeah... I used to think I did too.
Turns out, self-control isn't something you truly understand until you're standing right in front of temptation... and choosing whether or not to ruin your own life.
There are a lot of spoiler alerts in my life. Here's the first one actually.
Spoiler alert #1
I didn't choose wisely.
And if I'm being honest, I really wish someone had warned me that fresh starts don't come clean. They come messy, complicated and full of things you never saw coming.
Because no matter how chaotic my first few days were, nothing... I mean absolutely nothing... prepared me for what happened after I got to Ekiti.
It started with one decision, one stupid, impulsive and completely avoidable decision.
And somehow... I still made it.
I mean I saw it coming, I just didn't stop it.
Moving from Lagos to Ekiti for university was already a shock on its own. I mean, Lagos is loud, fast, unpredictable and all but Ekiti State was pretty quiet... too quiet and the kind of place where people greet you like they've known you your whole life.
It didn't feel real initially. Felt like a cultural shock.
And yet, there I was, standing in front of my aunt's house in Ado, dragging in my boxes and a backpack.
'This should be a fresh start,' I thought but I didn't know I was walking straight into a test.
A test of my self-control, my pride, my boundaries.
Everything was about to be tested.
And the worst part was that I knew better. I just didn't do better.
My name is Rachel Martins, a 100-level student of International Relations at Ekiti State University.
And this is the story of how everything went wrong