Chapter Two(unedited)

6:00am

Have you ever felt tired even before your day began? That is me right now. There are so many differences between me and other kids. Let me show you examples, Since it's Monday, our first school day, normal kids will say 'yay! It's our first school day' and they will jump off their bed in enthusiasm. But me, I will say 'ouch! School starts today, I'm not mentally prepared for it.' This is the first difference.

6:50am

Mama may overlook all my wrongdoings and let me go unpunished but you see fighting,she never let it slide and that explains why I'm inside the school bus. Normal kids enjoy going to school by bus but I don't. That's the second difference. Mama knows this and that's why it is one of those punishments I receive.
The chatters,the noise,the laughter,both the real and fake laughter are so unbearable.
A fair girl sitting beside me whose name I don't know even though we've been in the same class for God knows how long has tried multiple times to start a conversation with me. It's not like I'm not a conversation person,it's just that her topic of interest bores me to death. She was going on and on about how excited and nervous she was about going into a new class,she also talked about how her mum forced her into wearing the seniors' jacket.
"Do you think the jacket looks good on me?" She asked with her eyes wide open. Well,I must admit it, she's kinda cute but her full talk is tiring.
"What topic would you have expected her to talk about? Is it how the League of Nation failed and there was world war 2? Or how corrupt Nigerian leaders are?" Oh no! That's my sister's voice on my head.
I turned sideways to see the fair girl still looking at me wide eyes.
"Oh! I'm sorry your Jacket is nice and it fits you well" I said quickly facing forward to avoid further questions.
"Thank you Em" she said with her face beaming.
What's wrong with me? I am being too nice today.
The bus kept stopping at every bus stop to pick up students. My mind traveled back to Saturday incident, many questions continued popping up but the most important of them all is 'who the lanky boy is'. He is not a student of our school neither have I seen him in our street.
As I was thinking about that,my eyes met a certain effeminate male,he smiled and started walking towards me leaving his previous position where he was standing with other students on the aisle of the bus with one of his hands above his head holding the railing of the bus for balance and the other clutching his backpack tightly. The smile never left his face as he advanced towards me. He pushed through other students still holding the rail for balance.
" Ashley,who was the boy from the mall on Saturday?" I spoke first and his face dropped.
" Asinobi, a 'good morning' would have been nice, 'Hope you slept well' would have been awesome." He complained looking at me like I was a child being corrected. I ignored his complaint.
"Answer the question Ashley."
"I'm sorry Asinobi,but it is not in my position to tell who the guy is,I think your sister will have a better answer."
" Oh I see, you're only a snitch when it requires telling on me,it's alright."
"Emerald, Did you just bring that up? For God's sake,that happened so many years ago." He gave me the 'you're unbelievable' face. I ignored him and kept my face as straight as possible.
"Are you angry with me right now?" Once again,I ignored him.
" Look Em,if you want something from people,you should be nice to them, that's the least you can do." I didn't utter a word,and he did the wisest thing ever,he left me alone. He turned around again and said to the fair girl beside me " you don't look good with your mouth wide open." I turned to look at her as she hides her face in embarrassment.

7:20am

The bus came to a final stop in front of Skyline Secondary School. We all alighted. Kids were waiting for their friends. My eyes searched for a familiar face but I didn't see her. I felt my chest tighten and my throat became dry. I stood at a spot and felt my palm growing cold. One of the kids nearly knocked me down and the other shoved past me to hug their friends. I inhaled and exhaled deeply,then headed towards my class.
I heard screams from different classes. If there was a newbie here,he or she would by now be wondering what the commotion was all about. On reaching my class,the screams were becoming unbearable. Good God! Do I have to deal with this again? Girls were running and screaming at same time. The boys,some were running while others were laughing. It was supposed to be a funny scene but it turned out to be an annoying one. Did I even mention some were crying? My sister was laughing her teeth off.
"Hey Em, you are here. Our crybabies are at it again." She was laughing and talking at the same time. She handed me a duster and I started cleaning my locker.
" Scarlet Asinobi, please can you help me dust and arrange my locker when you're done with yours?" Ifeoma,the school head girl asked. I have never seen anyone so obnoxious as this girl.
"No, I can't" I replied immediately without looking up.
"But I wasn't talking to you Emerald." She stated with her bulging eyes almost falling from it's sockets.
"She just called me Emerald" I scoffed raising my head to look at her. Ifeoma looked from me to my sister and returned her eyes on me.
"Don't think you can confuse me, I saw her laugh earlier."
"Ha ha ha." I laughed in mockery. "You see,I just laughed. Don't be too sure,we might have switched personality during the holiday." I said with a smirk. She stormed off angrily without looking back.
I turned to see my sister looking at me disapprovingly. " Please Scarlet,don't even start with your gospel,she got what she deserved." I stated matter-of-factly.
"I know, but that was rude."
"So,are you saying I should have have kept quiet and let you dust her locker?"
"No, that's not what I'm saying. I would have turned her down politely."
"My bad then, but I'm not promising I won't do the same tomorrow."
"I know." That was all she said and went back to ranging our books.

8:00am

We were all settled down now except for the prefects. Our crybabies invited some Nigerian land soldiers that came and conquered the cockroach terrorist group that invaded our class. The first day of school resumption is always a very busy day with all the cleaning. The school wasn't exactly very dusty because it was September and it was still raining.
The prefects of our school have been so busy. Since,all of them are our classmates,there were few of us in the class. The sanitary prefect haven't taken a break ever since she came to school.
Assembly on the day of resumption shifts from 7:00am to 10:00am. This assembly also last for about one hour as the attendance of the whole student present were taken so as to punish those who were absent.

9:55 am

Scarlet as the school regulator rang the warning bell.

10:00am

She rang the bell for assembly. The assembly lasted for 40 minutes instead of an hour. Announcements were made. Our Principal,Mrs Parker,a woman in her late 30s gave her 'School Resumption Speech'(I don't know if that's what it's called,buh I believe you get it).

10:40am

Classes started and lasted for 5 hours and 20 minutes. The 5 hours felt like 5 days because everything was moving slowly.

4:00pm

School dismissed and everyone was rushing home.
"The first day of school is so tiring that you loose the zeal for the next day." Scarlet mumbled.
Looking ahead of me,I replied "I lost that zeal one year ago."
As Scarlet was talking about some random stuffs, Mama arrived in her car and we rushed to meet her.
"Good afternoon ma." We greeted in unison.
"Afternoon girls,I hope your classes went well today." Without waiting for us to answer, she said; "Scarlet hop in, Emerald wait for your ride." with that, Scarlet entered and Mama zoomed off.
Sugar! I will go home by bus again. Just wonderful! This is what I get for slapping people.

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