"Good morning" I greet the security guard who helps me open the tall black gate.

"Good morning" he greets back absent-mindedly.

I'm welcomed by the crowd of students rushing towards the auditorium for the morning assembly.

"Amy!!!"someone yells from somewhere above me

That's my name. I don't need to look up to know who's voice that is. I'd recognize it on my death bed. I still look up though and my eyes are greeted by the extra white teeth of my best best friend, Joy. Joy and I have know each other since forever. She's like the one sister I never had. We attended the same primary school and our parents decided it'll be nice to send us to the same secondary school

"Amy" someone else calls from beside me.

"Hey"

Eniola and I are not very tight. We are just friends. Not best friends. Ok maybe we are. We talk about basically everything. But we're not as close as Joy and I.

"See the time you're coming to school"

"I know. I woke up late."

"You're lucky Mrs. Akinwumi is not on duty. She would have flogged you ehn." The thought of that woman, who's probably the scariest person I've ever encountered, sent shivers down my spine. I wonder how she does it. How she makes everyone fear her.

"Let's go for the assembly. It already started." Eniola says bringing me out from my thoughts.

"Yeah but I need to drop my bag upstairs"

"Ok you'll meet me there then" she says heading to the auditorium while I go upstairs.

While at the foot of the stairs,my only thoughts are "not these demon stairs again..." I mean there are so many stairs to climb. I groan as I advance up the stairs.  I climb with my mind all over the place not noticing them. By them, I mean the three dickfaces of IGHS. Well they aren't literally dickfaces. On the contrary, they are extremely beautiful.

"Aunty, how far now" one of the three greets. His name is Stephen. Steve is the only friendly one. We get along a little. We used to be good friends but I guess things change. "I'm fine" I answer quickly trying to shuffle my way through them on the very narrow stairs. The other two either don't take notice of me or summed up that I wasn't worthy of their attention. I don't care though. I don't need their attention. And just as I was concluding those thoughts, Philips, the lead dickface and the cutest of the three says something. I imagine he isn't talking to me so I continue on my way.
"Amy" a very lovely voice calls my name. That's Philip's voice.

"Yeah?" My voice comes out softer than I intended.

"I said Joy is waiting for you upstairs." Oh so he was even talking to me.

"Ok." I tell him rushing up to meet my best friend

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After our very long greetings, Joy and I finally head down to the auditorium. The hall is quite spacious and is beautifully decorated here and there with motivational quotes and the likes. We make our way to where the other SS3s are lined up. A few excited squeals are heard at the sight of Joy. Nobody even notices me. I'm not complaining. Joy is really popular so she has a lot of friends. I, on the other hand,well I'm just someone else that attends IGHS, nothing special.

"Seniors ahan, can't you see your principal is addressing you?!! Instead of you to be correcting the juniors making noise." Mr Waheed, the vice principal says admonishing the girls that had already started gisting.

"Sorry sir" Beatrice, the health prefect, says laughing. Why is this one laughing now. "Sir you're looking very handsome today o" she continues. This one has come again.She always does this thing where she flatters teachers unnecessarily. The mumu teachers too will be blushing. "You ehn, Beatrice, you" the man says laughing."If I catch you. Oya listen now all of you." He says shaking his head as he leaves, muttering something along the lines of "this children will not kill me"

The assembly finally comes an end as we all march up to our respective classes.

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A/N

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