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IFEOLUWA
As I walked into the Gates of Celestial Gates high school, I knew this was going to be a very promising term.
     I, Ifeoluwa was now a senior. And I'm some months, I will be sitting for my WAEC. I just couldn't wait to get the hell out of this prison called secondary school.

"Ife!!!!" I looked back to see my best friend running towards my direction and embracing me in the tightest hug ever.

"Semiloore what's up?" I asked, as I released myself from her crushing hug

"I'm good o babe... I can't believe we're in ss3 now!" She shrieked causing me to laugh at how she was acting like a baby.

"Abi naw, senior Semiloore " I said, teasing her making the both of us to laugh

"How was your holiday?" She asked as we made out way to the admin block to collect our time table for the new class.
The whole school was rowdy. Typical first day of CGHS. Each student was given the grace of the first day to settle down in their various classes, copy their timetable,list of books and carry their desks to their new classes.
Hostel students were also supposed to settle down into their rooms today. It has become a tradition in our school that no educational activity took place on the day of resumption so we had the whole day to our selves to play and of course get ready for the next day where we would resume fully.

"My holiday was okay sha...and what of yours?" I asked,redirecting the question back at her

"Ehhh...Ife you can't believe what I heard o"

"What did you hear this time o, Mrs hearer"

Semiloore has always been much of a gossiper. But I knew her for one thing. She'll never spread false news. Though she always pokenosed into things that weren't her concern, she always did her research before saying anything.

"You can't believe that Dennis is coming to our school this term" she continued

"Who is Dennis? " I asked

"Don't tell me you don't know Dennis?...Dennis na... Honorable Ajayi's handsome son...Almost every girl in Lagos knows Dennis so how can you tell me I don't know him?"

"Senior Ife!!"

"And here she comes again " Sewa said,rolling her eyes causing me to laugh.

"Sarah how far?" I asked the short, fair girl currently standing before me

Sarah is my junior and also a very good friend of mine. But Sewa for some reason doesn't like the girl because she claims she's too fake and she forms.

"I'm okay o...senior Sewa good morning"
Even though she knows my best friend doesn't like her,she always tries her best to make peace. But Sewa isnt getting any of it since she says the innocent girl is just using that card in order to gain pity from people.

"Ife me I'm going to copy my time table o" Sewa replied, not giving Sarah an answer before leaving the both of us alone in the school hallway surrounded by noisy students

"Remind me why she doesn't even like me again gan sef?" Sarah said, breaking the silence, causing both of us to laugh at her joke.

"Don't mind her jhare... she'll come around" I said giving her a playful tap on her shoulder

"Ah...senior Ife do you want to stain my white shirt ni?" Sarah said dusting her white shirt even though there wasn't any stain on it.

I continued to look at her in astonishment. The Sarah I knew didn't really care about her looks. She did a little but at least not this much.

"Ehnehn?...Tell me more o... So what happened o...they are already toasting you abi?" I asked jokingly.

"I have to be in my best today o. My crush is coming today" she replied, smiling like a love struck fool

"Your crush keh?"

I was surprised to be honest. I never imagined Sarah could have a crush. She was a complete nerd. She didn't care about boys as all she did was read. I'm serious. If she wasn't reading her school notes, you'll see her with a novel she borrowed from our school's giant library or maybe somewhere in a corner in the school,reading a novel on Wattpad through her iPhone 8.
I dragged her into our school's hall since we were not too far from there.
I dragged her to one of the empty seats as I started to bombard her with questions.

"What's his name? How does he look? Have I ever seen him before?" I asked her as she continued to laugh at how eager I was.

SARAH
Senior Ife pulled me into the empty hall as we made our way to one of the chairs.
"What's his name? How does he look? Have I seen him before?" She started to ask me eagerly as I kept on laughing at her.
Senior Ife has been a great friend of mine since I was in js2 and she was in js3. Alot of people in the school didn't like me because I got the attention of a lot of teachers because of the way I read,making me the favorite student of most teachers. They tried to bully me but senior Ife was always somewhere near,ready to save me like my knight in shining armor. Ever since then, we've been very close friends.

"Well...he's just resuming today. His name is Dennis"I said smiling at her.
She looked at me for a moment before hissing then clapping her hands three times in mockery.

"So...All the girls in CGHS now have a crush on this guy now? Abeg why am I the only one who hasn't seen him before? Is he that cute?"she said, making her way to stand up

"See you o!" I exclaimed "Is Dennis that cute? Na Dennis you talk wey you no put brother for front?" I asked her in pidgin language also standing up

"Abeg let me hear word jhare....Dennis kor...dada ni" she joked as we burst out into laughter

"I'm serious o. He's cute like mad. Like madly cute. Crazily cute. Extraordinarily..."

"Abeg get out jhoor" she cut me off before I could continue exaggerating as we burst into another fit of laughter.

IFEOLUWA
This girl is not serious at all o. She continued ranting to me about how cute her 'new crush ' is as we came out of the school hall.
I almost forgot my reason for coming all the way up here. I had to get my timetable from the admin block and get back to Sewa. I'm sure she must be angry at me by now.

"Sarah I have to go now... we'll talk later okay?" I said,to excuse myself

"Okay na...later sha."

"And I would like to see that your crush o. Maybe he's not even cute like that" I said,giving her one of my fake disgust looks as we laughed it off.
We said our goodbyes as I made my way to the the admin block. I copied my timetable as I later found out that sewa had already copied hers from one of the Juniors there.
I could've just gone to the class and copied it from her anyways but I knew she'll be angry at me so I just copied mine,myself.

"Tofunmi" A thick voice called from behind me

Tofunmi? Only one person called me that...my mum. But this definitely wasn't my mum's voice.
Wait.
If it wasn't my mum. Then the only person who could call me tofunmi was...

I quickly looked back to check the person who called

"Ayomide?"
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