Tomiwa POV

I avoided everyone. I had let my friends down, my parents down, and I just wanted to be home alone with my thoughts. All I could think about was how to ace my test. We had three papers today and I just wrote whatever came to my mind not caring if what I wrote was correct or not. Tomorrow was for just further maths alone and I was currently trying to prepare for it regardless of the hunger in my stomach.

If ax-52d=12, what is the value of x?

"Huh? How am I supposed to know? X is right there in the equation." I mumbled to myself because I was finding it hard to get my head round this further maths equation. I groaned in annoyance leaving my room and heading to the kitchen to eat noodles, since it's the only thing I have energy to cook. I was still the only one at home, I haven't heard from Miss Okiki in a while and I am grateful for that.

My bother on the other hand was taken to the police station for causing such a scene in our school. Unfortunately Daniel played his cards right so he didn't end up behind bars like my brother. By the time I realized I was still cooking noodles half of it was burnt already. I groaned in annoyance realizing my mistake but I was already too tired and hungry to cook another one. I just settled down and I did my best to eat my half cooked/ half burnt noodles, not like I had a choice.

Once I was done eating, I let out a loud burp. Contented with my food, I went to wash my plate. As I was rounding up, I heard the sound of the door bell. Without even thinking at all, I went to attend to it even though my guts were telling me to do other wise. I checked the peep hold to see and it was one of my neighbor smiling at me and waving. Since it was my neighbor, a known face, what ever alarm that was ringing in my head was turned off. I opened the door widely to let her in but I was shocked to see Daniel Egiro standing there in full flesh.

Fuck!

I quickly rushed to slam the door shut but that didn't work because his foot was blocking it. All the color had drained off my face now as I began to panic real bad. What was I supposed to do? Fuck! Fuck!! Fuck!!! Not today, not today, any day but not today. I have a test to prepare for tomorrow. And the worse part was that I was still finding it hard to overcome the trauma of my brother being behind bars.

"Now this isn't a way to treat your boyfriend. Is it? Huh Tomiwa?" He said, finally focusing his way through. The door swung wide open and it caused me to groan in pain behind the door. He locked the door immediately he entered, putting the keys in the pockets of his jean. I groaned in pain rubbing the shoulder that the door had hit forcefully. I would be lucky if the shoulder isn't dislocated.

"Now now does that hurt so much? Come let me make you feel better." He said, before he got the chance to touch me, I ran. And I cursed my short legs for not being able to get me to my destination. Before I could get to my room or even hide in the four walls for safety, I was captured by him again.

"Not so fast Tomiwa. You running only make this more enjoyable for me."

With his stronger and more broader hands he pinned both my hands together above my head. Confused and scared, I trashed around with my legs as tears were streaming from my eye. If I had seen this coming, maybe I wouldn't have dressed in an over sized shirt and a panties. His free hand were fiddling with my panties, and when he couldn't have access, he tore it like the wild beast he was. In that moment I knew I was done for.

Ebuka POV

Something was off about Tomiwa, and I was going to find out just what it was. She had been awfully quite ever since the DGT competition and it has been eating me up. The fact that I haven't gotten a chance to ask her because of the test we were doing was eating me up too. But thank God all this test ends in two days from now.

I could tell from a mile away that she didn't have enough sleep and if she did then she probably had a bad dream. I want to believe its a bad dream but my guts keep telling me there is more to the story.

"Mr Ebuka, is there a problem with the test questions? You seem to be more interested in staring at Miss Tomiwa rather than writing."

Shit!

"Umm no. Not at all sir. I was just trying to remember a formula." I responded and faced my book, not daring to look up. I can't believe the invigilaotor had caught me staring. I can't believe I was so lost in thoughts thinking about Tomiwa that I forgot I was still in class writing test. I looked at my question paper and answers one more time trying my best to finish the last question. Fortunately for me I still couldn't recall the formula for it at that point. I just gave up on the question and went to submit.

I got outside and stood there for a while confused on what to do. Do I stand there and wait for Tomiwa to finish or do I go and get her something to eat before she finishes her test? I ended up doing the former since I was just constituting nuisance by just standing at the hall way. I got her Chinese fried rice with turkey, some ice cream, a chiled carton of cranberry juice, bottled water, and banana flavored bread with chocolate chips and coconut toppings.
My tummy growled loudly at me and I realized that I was just buying food for Tomiwa and I wasn't buying for myself.

With that in mind I decided to buy coconut rice for myself. The sound of the bell to signal the end of the test and the beginning of lunch break made me realize I was spending too much time there. I dashed back to our classroom to find half of it empty. What's worse was that Tomiwa was not on her seat. I went to her seat and sat on it and rubbed my bum on it. It was still warm which meant that she just left or she has not gone so far .

"What are you doing?" I heard the sound of her voice, startling me. I jumped out of her seat in reflex before dusting off an imaginary dust off her seat. She raised her eye brows at me in a questioning manner and I cleared my throat awkwardly. To avoid answering her question I presented to her the food I got from the cafeteria saying...

"Yeah... so I got you a little something. I figured you're probably hungry and I don't want you to stress going downstairs."

"What is all this?"

"Urrrr food?" I responded wondering why she asked me that when she can clearly see the food. We both took our seats and I gave her the Chinese rice along with the other things I bought for her. Once she was done eating, she burped loudly. Thank goodness it was just loud enough for me to hear.

"Ewwww! Could you cover your ---burrrrrrah"

"Hhmahhh! Look at pot calling kettle black. Did you just bulp loudly now? Yours is even worse sef." She said laughing and taunting me. Thank God for my extremely dark skin if not my whole face will be burning bright red with embarrassment. I felt so much exposure having Tomiwa laugh at me for burping so loudly. I was only trying to correct for burping like that. It just so happened to be that same time my body decided it wanted to burp too.

"Okay, okay, can you stop laughing please? It's not funny ."

"Oooooh but it is. Ha! This is the highlight of my day." She said smiling and I couldn't help as my face slipped into an unconscious smile. This is also the highlight of my day. Putting that beautiful smile on her face is the one thing I look forward every time I see her. Before I could get lost in thought thinking of a new scheme to make her happy, she spoke bringing me out of my thoughts.

"Thanks for the food Ebuka. It means a lot."

"Oh no, it's alright. Umm how was your test by the way? You look like you were having a tough time, did you get to study at all?"

Her mood changed in an instance. Did I say something wrong? Oh no, her eyes are getting glassy. I definitely said something wrong. No, no, no please don't cry, the last thing I want to do is make you cry. My thoughts screamed out loud and I eventually voiced my thoughts.

"Hey, hey, hey please don't cry. We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. I am sorry I asked. I was going to bring up the issues of you running off stage, you know when we needed you the most for the DGT. But I guess that's not important."

"Yeah... no it's fine. I just... I really don't want to talk about it okay? And I'm sorry I bailed on you guys last minute. I kinda froze."

Whao....it was what I thought. Even though I was curious to know more, to know the reason why, I knew I couldn't ask her anything again. I needed to lighten the mood and that was just what I did. I sang the first song that came to mind which was The City Is Yours from the movie Annie. She smiled at me and sang along, I guess she wasn't playing when she said she knew all the songs for the movie by heart.

Here she was, singing along like she was Annie herself. Gawd she is amazing. It only broke my heart that at the end of the song a stray tear fell from her eyes. It was from that day forward I promise my self never to make her cry.

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