African Short Stories: Working Relationship
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  • Reads 250
  • Votes 14
  • Parts 11
  • Time 57m
Ongoing, First published Dec 28, 2017
Meet Ayoku.

She's just your average Nigerian teen. Struggling through high school. Living a life that she feels is as unimpressive as they come. Then there's the sad fact that she's super stuck in the friend zone with the one boy she's in love with while he seems to notice every other girl but her.

Well a teenage girl's life can't get any more average than that really.

Until she meets Mr Royce. 

The new art teacher- he eats like a British monarch, insists on calling her "Ama" and his way of thinking could be the most vulgar phenomenon since Fela. All he seems to do that stuns everyone around him, especially Ayoku, is simply exist.

Yet on the verge of turning 16, what's a girl to do when she's caught in a love triangle with two instant archenemies- both artists and both players in every sense there is of the word?
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ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ sᴇᴇ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ sᴇʀɪᴇs(sᴛs) "𝑈𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑤𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡, 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒, 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠." - 𝐿𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑛 ______♔︎_____ 𝐎𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐦𝐢 𝐈𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢 is a 16 years old whose low-self esteem and beliefs of her being a 'freaky wimp' is masked behind the sassy, bold and outspoken attitude she constantly puts up at school. But when the ever so calloused Otamayomi breaks down in the presence of the gentle melophile boy, things take a drastic turn from there 𝐀𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧 is the story's male lead who can't seem to find happiness because he's let guilt, caused by a dark past overwhelm him for years instead and lets his pain out in deep knife cuts and sad music. Two broken teenagers meeting in a world of depression and pretence are probably destined to help resolve each other's problems before their own. For Aidan and Otamayomi, it all started with a phone swap. But in the midst of all that, were other teenagers whose stories had remained untouched.