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Amaka's Pov

"Would you stop pacing?" Enny asks me without looking up from what she's reading.

"I feel so stupid. Did you see the way he was even looking at me? I'm sure he's thinking I'm one crazy person." I exclaim to no one in particular. I was still pacing.

"You're exaggerating. Let's just go. It's already closing time." Joy says standing from where she had been sitting.

"Please can you borrow me your Statistics note?" I mimick myself. "Why would I even say that?" I continue to rant, flinging my hands up in the air.

Joy rolls her eyes and goes back to her former sitting position.

"OMG, Joy see something. 7-year old boy found buried under church's foundation." Eniola shows Joy something in the newspaper she'd been reading and they begin to discuss it.

I turn to them in bewilderment."Hello people. I am having a mental breakdown here. Who cares about some dumb old newspaper gist?"

They ignore me and continue reading the article. I snatch it away from them, "You guys now. This is serious." I say to them.

"Haba na Amaka. What is it for Christ's sake ehn?"

"I made a fool of myself. Why aren't you guys even bothered?" I ask them, confused.

"You didn't make any fool of yourself. How many times would we say it?" Eniola says sounding annoyed.

"But-"

"But nothing. Let's go home please. I'm hungry. And if you like forget Philips' note on the table." Joy says already heading out of the class.

We were the last people in the class. The bell had long been rung and the entire senior block was almost empty.

"Are you coming?" Joy asks from the class' entrance and I sigh.

I don't know why, but everything about the five seconds I used to talk to Philips made me feel stupid. Maybe it's because I kept on stuttering or that I only asked him for his note so i could get an excuse to talk to him. Or maybe it's because of how I stupidly scurried off.

Whatever it is, I just feel stupid. It's not as if I even like the boy o. What am I even going to use his Government note for now?

"See Amy maybe you should just drop everything. Forget about this boyfriend thing abeg." Joy says.

"Abi o. Just forget everything. Even the bet, forget it." Eniola adds in agreement with Joy.

"Oh so now I should forget? After you've finished disturbing my life with the nonsense." I ask them feeling very annoyed.

"Yes, forget it. You'll find someone when the time is right." Eniola says tapping my shoulder with a smile. She walks out of the class and Joy follows her out. I hiss and follow them too. Rubbish people.

We make our way down the stairs in silence. "Oh looks like your cousin waited for you." Joy says nudging me.

"Nonso?" I ask and Joy replies, "How many cousins do you have in this school?"

"What were you people doing upstairs since nau?" He asks immediately we get to him. "I've been waiting here since." He adds, sounding angry.

"Did we tell you to wait? Don't you know the way to your house?"

You could guess that that was Joy.

Nonso looks like he's about to say something but turns away instead.

"They're already here. Let's go." He says after he had rounded a corner. I wonder for a second who he's talking to when Samuel and Steve come into view.

A drop of sweet breaks out on my forehead as I expect to see Philips as well. 

"Hey." Steve says to us, well mostly to Eniola and she responds with a shy smile. I roll my eyes at their mushiness.

"What about Philips?" Joy asks the question on my mind.

"He has gone home." Samuel replies and I inwardly release a sigh. We start to walk towards the gate when Nonso says,

"We're trekking today o."

"You and who?" I ask.

"Three of us." He points at himself, Samuel and Steve.

"And Enny." Steve pipes in.

"Enny you're trekking with us?" Nonso asks.

She looks at Joy and I before nodding her head. Is this girl being serious?

Normally we all use bikes to go home. Which one is trekking again?

Anyway, that's their business.

"So are you coming with us?" Nonso asks me.

"Coming kor. I'm entering bike abeg. Who has that strength?" I ask adjusting the straps of my bag on my shoulders.

"Amy please now. Just come with us. Your house is not that far. Don't be a lazy goat." Enny says to me. "I'd buy ice cream for you." She quickly adds and my ears perk up. Ice cream.

I look up and see that the weather isn't bad for a little trekking so I shrug, "If you insist."

"Joy are you coming?" I ask turning to Joy since she was yet to say anything. I catch her sneak a glance at Nonso before huffing. "Sure, I'm coming."

That being settled, we make our way out of the school premises. There are still some students, a lot actually, loitering around the school compound and outside of it.

I'm busy playing with a pebble I found laying about when Samuel falls in step beside me. "Hey." He greets and I smile in response.

"You guys still live at Elemu estate shey?"

"Yes, we still live there." I reply.

"Okay. I might come over on Saturday. It's been a while since I visited." He says and I nearly choke on my spit.

"Wait, come over to where first?" I ask dramatically.

Which type of play play talk is all this one?

"Your house na. To visit Nonso." He answers.

Oooo God. What will I tell this boy now?

"Erm... On Saturday? We might not be around on Saturday o but you're free sha." I shrug hoping to make him consider otherwise.

He's about to say something when Nonso's yelling stops him.

Samuel and I had been ahead of Joy, Enny and Steve so we turn to look back at what's happening.

"Do you have a problem with me? Just say it instead of always picking on me ahan." Nonso yells again. Sam and I exchange a look before going over to them.

"What is it sef?" Nonso says angrily to Joy and I'm itching with curiosity.

What's happening na?

"Guy calm down." Steve starts to murmur in Nonso's ear.

"No nau, guy reason am. Anything wey I talk, she go use am attack me." Nonso says in pidgin to Steve.

"Eniola what happened?" I quickly ask.

"We were gisting o. Joy was sha entering Nonso. You know, the usual something na." I nod. "The guy na started vexing." She finishes.

"Oh." I drag the word as I nod in understanding.

I turn to Joy and see she had her attention on Nonso. She gave him a look that said "what's doing this one?".

"Abeg let's go. Are you guys going?" Joy asks Enny and I. She doesn't wait for a response as she walks ahead of us. She stops a bike and hops on it. The bike takes off and she doesn't even look back.

Well, that just happened...

Nonso is still angrily glaring in the direction the bike just took off in.

"Bro calm down. I thought you liked her." Steve suddenly says laughing.

As if connected by some kind of telepathy, Enny and I face each other wide-eyed.

"Which stupid like? Guy, abeg don't even start."

"Deny it all you want bro." Steve taunts further.

"I don't. Fuck you." Nonso replies without hesitation. "Bike." He suddenly calls out and a speeding bike halts beside us.

"Guy, chill now. I thought we were trekking." Steve grabs Nonso's shoulder to stop him from climbing the bike.

"Free me, I'm tired. I no fit trek again." He says. "Elemu estate." He tells the rider and the bike speeds off almost immediately.

Wow. Why is he so upset though?

"Omo. E get as today be o. Amy you too you're going shebi?" Steve asks.

I sigh, "Yeah."

I have to catch up with Nonso.

I stop a bike and he rides off but not before I bid Steve and Enny goodbye.

Well, I guess there's no ice cream for me today.

The bike gets to my house just in time as Nonso was just entering into the gate.

I try to slide in before he closes the gate but he intentionally jams the gate in my face.

"Ahan na." I scream. I push the gate with force, expecting it to be locked but am surprised when it opens easily, causing me to almost fall on my face.

"Ha." Nonso releases his usual short loud laugh and I raise my head to glare at him.

We enter into the house and meet my mum watching "her program."

"Good evening, mum."

"Good evening, aunt."

We greet and slump on the same couch at the same time.

"Get out." Nonso kicks me out of the couch and I fall off on my butt. The cold tiles on my skin make me shriek.

"Good evening. Amy how many times have I told you to stop using your uniform to roll on the floor ehn?" Mum asks and I turn to glare at Nonso for the second time.

He smiles widely at me and stretches his legs far along the couch.

"Come on will you stand up from there. Using your sweaty body to stain my couch. Stand up from there, come on." Mum yells at Nonso and his smile immediately fades away. It's my turn to smile.

I live the sitting room to change out of my uniform and Nonso follows behind me.

"That your friend is annoying I swear." He suddenly says from behind me.

"Joy?" I ask stupidly.

"Whatever her name is." He says with a hiss.

"You like her shey?" I ask playfully.

"I don't."

"You do."

"I don't."

"You do."

"I do."

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A/n

I'm dedicating the next chapter to whoever can guess what Amy's mum is always watching😂

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