Lanton POV

"No!!!!", I screamed waking up from that same dream. What does this dream mean? MXM, this was now getting out of hand. I ignored the dream and I looked at the time on my phone. It was already almost time to bath. I went to my bathroom and I took a long bath. I was thinking about how my life has changed in just a blink of an eye. I was now learning at Maranatha, so close to NayNay. I felt enthusiastic about the whole thing.

When I finished bathing, I went to my mirror and I liked the reflection of myself. So muscular and handsome, not trying to blow my own horn but I just knew it. I wore my favourite Gucci jean trousers, my Gucci t-shirt and my Gucci shoes. I just loved the label. I looked so handsome.

As I was packing my school bag I remembered that we were asked to bring waste materials for our agriculture project. MXM, how I hated that subject. If it wasn't compulsory at Maranatha I wouldn't be doing it.

I went to our store room to look for any waste material that I could find. Grandpa was the only one who went there from time to time but my mom, Kayla and I never went there. As for me it was my first time going there.

I opened the store room door, it was so dusty and dirty , it looked like a haunted house .I walked in slowly, I found a big box that was on top of an old table. I just thought that I could find something useful for the project. I opened the box and there were pictures and some jewels.

I took out this other big picture. As I looked at the picture, I felt so emotional. In the picture there was my dad, my mom and the little me. I was so tiny and chubby. We looked like a very happy and perfect family. Why did my mom and dad divorce? How could they throw away this type of life? I just thought that I could find more pictures so I kept on searching.

As I looked at the pictures, there was this other one that caught my eye. It was a picture of my dad with some other kid I've never seen before. The child was a boy, he resembled my father. Could he be my fathers son? No, no, then why is he never with dad when I go there? Could it be possible that this is the reason why my mom left my dad? No! Silly me my dad could never hide something like this from me, or could he?😨

My head was spinning around, I didn't know what to think anymore. My mind was all over the place. I kept on searching for more information. I was throwing everything on the flow. Everything was scattered now, I was clearly losing it. I was so eager to know the truth and my mom had some serious questions she had to answer for me. She can't just keep me in the dark like that.

There were no other suspicious pictures,  there were only pictures of me and mom. I didn't even see any picture of Kayla with dad or anyone for that matter. It was only dad, mom and I. I took that picture of dad with that other kid. As I was walking out of the room, something shiny reflected on the door and I turned to see what it was ,  I saw something glowing at the back of the old table. I walked slowly to it, at first I was nervous but I just knew that I had to see what it was.

I took the glowy thing,  it was a pink diary. It was covered in pink and purple glitteres. It looked all girly and I was so sure that I would find something in there. My heart was skipping a beat every now and then. I just took a deep breathe and I opened the diary.

It looked like my mom's hand writing, I was so sure that it was her diary. I read the first page was written about her childhood. I kept on reading and most of the things were written about her mom who passed away when she was only fifteen years old. She wrote about how she misses her mom dearly. It was an emotional note and tears were flowing on my cheeks . I opened the back of the book and what I read was so shocking. And I just didn't know how to react. I was so speechless and I wished I never came into that store room let alone this world.

I didn't have the courage to ask my mom about anything. I didn't know how and what exactly to ask. Everything was crystal clear, the diary answered all my questions. I was going to talk about this at the right time and I wasn't going to let my mom and dad get away with this. They betrayed Kayla and I. If I was old enough I would've packed my bags and go far away from these people I call family. But I just had to act normal and cool.

I took the diary and put it at a safe place in my room. It was the only thing that hold my whole life. I just acted cool with mom when we were on our way to school. I just acted like I knew nothing, like a fool they always made me look like. I almost yelled at her but I told myself to calm down, until the right time comes.

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At school I made friends with everyone in my class. Our class was united, they were no groups or something like that. I was so close with these two boys named Shawn and Ryan. They were the bad boys in the class. I don't know why but I just had a thing with bad boys those days. We became very good friends. Shawn was dark in complexion, he was the most talkative in our class.

Shawn

This was Shawn, the naughtiest boy I've ever known. On the other hand there was Ryan, the silent killer. He looked so innocent and silent, but he was a no go area. He was good at fighting and sometimes he would come to school with a hangover. He had tattoos all over his body and he was pierced too. I was a bad boy but Ryan was just on another level. This was him.

Ryan

Have I ever told you that I am an artist. I've a great passion in singing. I was good at it, extremely good. I wanted to release my first song last year but I was so nervous. I just needed to overcome my fear and start releasing my albums. The name I used for singing is Young Vinnly. I had a best friend called Vinnly Rolse, so he was my senior when it came to music. I just thought of giving him the honour and call myself the Young him. He had released many albums and he was becoming popular day by day. I was sure that I would release my first album that year.

Anyways, I prepared to go to school. I went to take Alvin to school. Hell yea!!, Alvin also transfered from his school and he came to our school. He transfered because he had to be at home all the time to monitor his siblings since his mother had gone abroad for a while. He just had to go to a day school and somehow I convinced him to come to learn at Maranatha. Unfortunately he was put in E class. This was how he looked like.

Alvin

We arrived at school and we had our lessons before the break time. The sirene rang, Shawn, Ryan and I went to the ground. It wasn't a must for everyone to eat in the Dining Hall in High School. At break time, everyone would do what he or she likes. I chose the ground because Shennie and her friends loved having their break there.

After running about every corner of the school ground searching for the girls, we finally found them sitting under a very tall tree. I didn't know the name of that tree. Shawn and Ryan already knew about me and Shennie, so they were always more than ready to escort me, everytime I wanted to see her. But as for Ryan it was not all about escorting me, I knew that he had a thing for one of NayNay's friends.

"Hey ladies", Shawn and Ryan said to them.

"Hy guys, take seats", they all said at once and obviously I set next to NayNay.

"Hey babe", I said with a grin on my face, it was my first time calling her that and she was totally amused. She just covered her mouth with her hand.

"Aibo!! Lenti we didn't agree on you calling me that", she said biting her nails.

"Nomatter what you say, I know you like it babe", I said with a smirk on my face.

"You've got too much pride", she rolled her eyes.

"NayNay!! How many times do I have to tell you that I don't like that at all!", I yelled at her with love not anger.

"Shushh, you are over reacting now, keep it cool", she said as she touched my lips with her forever soft cute little hands.

"Ok, just stop doing that. The next time you do that I will walk away from you and never look back", I tried using emotional blackmail and it worked perfectly.

"Why are you saying that now Lenti, I promise I won't roll my eyes again", she said with so much emotions.

"I was just joking, even if the sun rises from the centre of the earth I will never walk away from you on purpose", I said so calmly with all my heart.

"Don't ever say that again Lenti", I now had glassy eyes.

"I won't babe, stop this now", it felt so good calling her "babe" and it was just destined to be like that. My NayNay babe, sounds nice right? I was just overwhelmed. The break time finally ended. We all went our separate ways. We learnt Geography and History, I was so good at history. I love African history the most, I had strength in that part. Our lessons went smoothly and it was finally time to go home.

I waited for Alvin and Shennie at the gate. Alvin was the first to come out. He came to me.

"Hey buddy!", he said giving m a bro side hug. I just loved this soul.

"How are the girls", I said with a smirk on my face.

"Pretty than ever, but not more than my Princess Princess", I laughed my butt out. I liked this couple. Alvin finally proposed to Princess months ago. He took longer than I expected. They really made a cute couple though.

"You are whipped my man", I laughed.

"Share the story, so that we can laugh together", it was NayNay's sweet voice. I was so caught up with laughing that I didn't even notice her presence. Funny!

"Babe!!", I said hugging her so tightly. If this was how my high school days were going to be, then I would want to repeat high school over and over again.

"Lenti!", she murmured as she hugged me back. People were giving us icy stares but I didn't give a damn about that.

"You are ready?", I asked as I took her soft hand in my palms.

"Yea, let's go", she said with a curved smile. Someone them cleared his throat. Ohh, I had forgotten that I was with Alvin all this while.

"Oh, hy Al I didn't see you there", Shennie said as she shook Al's hand.

"How are you NayNay", he said trying to piss me off. I always told him that I was the only one allowed to call her that.

"Don't start now, are you going with us?", I asked Al.

"No-no-no! You two go, I don't want to be a third wheel", he said raising her hands up in the air. He had too much drama.

"Ok, we are going then. See you at home", I said as I took NayNay's hand and we walked away.

"Ugh", NayNay sighed as we were going to the bus stop.

"Anything you want to tell me?", I asked her with a raised eyebrow.

"Umm, not really. Just that I feel blessed to have you in my life Lenti", she said so calmy and sweetly. Ughh! She was going to be surely the end of me.

"The feelings are mutual babe, I could never trade this moment for anything else. I feel like you were sent from heaven just for me", I said with a focused gaze.

"Thank you so much", she said as we were going inside the bus.

"Do you have a memory loss NayNay?", I said wincing.

"Why, what!", she said with excessive swallowing.

"Haven't I ever told you that I don't want to hear you saying thank you to me? I haven't changed my mind on that. So say the right words now", I said as we set down at the back seat. That was our favourite spot in the bus.

"Ugh, I thought that it was something big", she sighed.

"To me it's something big", I said looking deep into her eyes.

"Ok, I love you...", she whispered in my ears.

"What? What did you say? I didn't hear it babe", she closed my mouth as I called her babe.

"There are people in here Lenti, what if someone knows me or my mom?", she whispered again.

"So what? Let them hear. If it were up to me, I would shout out to the whole world that you are my girlfriend, my NayNay", I babbled doing crazy gestures with my hands, NayNay just laughed at me.

"I'm not your gf Lenti, remember I didn't accept your proposal", she giggled.

"Remember you were already my gf in Pri-School and we never broke up, so you are still my gf and that Kyle guy was a nobody", I said in fast forward, then I realized that I had made a big mistake.

"Kyle? What? Who told you, I mean how did you know?", she was alarmed by the whole thing.

"Umm, ugh", I stattered.

"Umm, for how long was I going to hide it from you. Stupid me!", she sighed.

"I didn't mean to say that NayNay. I'm sorry", I apologized but it wasn't sincere, I meant everthing I said. Kyle was a nobody.

"No, Lenti don't say that. It was all my fault. I shouldn't have done that. I was just young and stupid. The thing I felt for Kyle wasn't love at all, it was just lust and I regret ever dating him. I felt like I was betraying you every moment I spent with him. You are the only one my heart beats for and I don't ever want that to change", she said with so much love and I believed her. The trust I had in her was just too big. My heart forgave her right there and then.

"I never blamed you for anything that happened the past few years. It was part of our lives, it was meant to happen NayNay. Let's forget about everything that happened in the past and focus on the present and our future", I said as I touched her shoulders. We eventually arrived at our bus stop at home. We got off the bus. NayNay missed a step and she almost fell down. I caught her before she fell down and our eyes locked together. I looked deep into her eyes and all I saw was my bright future with her. My heart beats only for her.

"Are you okay?!", someone asked but we were in our own universe, I just noded my head.

NayNay was still in my arms, I felt her breathe so close to mine and what happened next was history. You can just tell what happened right?

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Can you tell what Lenti saw in the store room?? Find out in the next chapter. Do you think that their love is perfect?

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