Diffidence
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Chikaima Adike is a 16 year old girl living in Lagos with her father after losing her mum to a car accident. She meets Derek while in the terminal class of secondary school and has feelings for him.
This angers a bitter classmate of hers. From plotting to frame her during the terminal exams to filling her locker with threats, this enemy of hers will stop at nothing. While in the race to find answers, she discovers that sometimes what everyone needs is a friend.
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A cross between a stereotypical American high school and the average Nigerian teenager.
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