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Demilade groaned as he entered the living room only to meet it empty. He had spent all day in class thinking about what his father had told him earlier.

Mom's coming.....

He couldn't depicher the reason why, but he felt a kind of tingly feeling about her coming. Worse was that he couldn't explain it. He often wondered most times, if his mother knew of the inhumane things her husband did to me. Whether she knew, or she just paid a blind eye to all of it, he couldn't say.

"Oh! Demilade, you're back. How was school?" Aunt Tasha asked as she noticed his presence.

Demilade sighed. "worrisome, but is mum still coming?"

He could she the change in her expression, more of she was trying to hide something from him. "let me guess, she's not coming again ba . " he scoffed.

"you do know your mum loves you right?" she asked, totally changing topic.

"this is bullshit." Demmie cussed and walked out of her presence.

**********

The next day

"Ss2 students, it's like you guys are all mad Shey , what am I saying sef , you all are mad. Bunch of mad idiots."

"na only God na him know wetin we do oo." one of the ss2 students whispered to his friend beside him, careful enough not to get caught.

"aswear ba, we suppose they do sport now, see as them dey roast us for inside sun." the latter replied.

"as in, me sef instead.." "SS2 STUDENTS." he got caught of my the loud voice " Yes Sir." they all chorused.

"you guys are mad abi ..... Some idiots cannot still answer." the senior, Deji snapped.

One may ask who he is?! Oluwadeji Afolabi .. The head labour boy of Emerald High. He was that senior that most if not all of the juniors feared. Very ruthless to the core and tolerated no shit from no one, many juniors who had been unlucky to cross his part had their story to share.

"Ss2 students." he yelled once more, his eyes scanning each of them.
"Yes Sir."
"you guys are the first set to enter Ss2 ba ?"
"no Sir."

"So why then are you idiots not respecting yourself." he snapped. "see ehn, let me gist you guys something, this is a new regime, don't try yourself, I repeat, don't try yourself but if you know that you have two heads, you're free but let me bet you this school will not contain you and I."he stopped then continued. "Now, Ss2 students."

"Yes sir."

"Give me 50 hunches."

"oh!oh! I'm tired of this school sef." one of the ss2 students lamented to his classmate beside me.

"someone will be hunching under this hot sun." the latter whispered.

"You idiots are taking your time for me abi." he snapped.

"Oya oo, please let's respect ourselves and do it. Oya one.... two... ready... go.."

"One, two, three, four." they all chorused while hoping on one spot.

Deji eyes roamed round them, looking at each of them carefully, hoping to catch a culprit.

"eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen...."

"That boy beside Kelvin, it's like you're mad oo. Are you stopping for me." he yelled as he noticed that the boy had stopped doing the onespot frog jump.

"Senior, please my laps are paining me." the boy wailed in agony.

"do I look like I care?"

"oh!" the boy muttered to himself. He knew that was absolutely nothing he could do. Deji had a heart of stone.

"Twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two."

Deji felt a tap at his back, and turned around to see Susie smiling weirdly at him.

"Sup Lake, any prob?" he asked.

Susie muffled her laughter at the way he pronounced her name. In school, she was mostly referred as Moralake, her third name, some of her classmate instead of calling the full name shortened it to Lake La-Ke using the yoruba intonation but few like Deji referred to as Lake, using the English intonation. "you know I've told you to stop calling me that."

"but what did I call you nau . "

"you think I'm in your mood, anyways what did Ss2 students do for you nau."

Deji scoffed and rolled his eyes, glancing at their directions. "you mean those idiots, they don't want to have respect again and I've told them, I'm in for them this term." he sighed Wait sef, why are you asking?"

"nothing."

"your sister?"

Susie sighed and immediately, Deji grasped the whole thing. He left where he was and went over to where the Ss2 students where. "This is 350 hunches ba, you are going to 500, oya another 50."

Many of them groaned, they had started feeling the effect of the punishment. "abeg wetin we do nau?"

"I said another 50 oo, anyways, Moralayo Alapetu jump up."

Moralayo quickly got to her feet. "yee, my lap." she exclaimed in pain.

"Go and meet Mr. Igwe, your econs teacher."

Moralayo oblivious to his tactics made her way to go to the teacher's office but the sound of a familiar voice made her stop in her tracks.

"Layo." the familiar voice called out.

Layo turned to see Susie making her way to her direction. "Be fast nau, a teacher is calling me."

As Susie reached where she was, she scoffed and rolled her eyes. "no teacher is calling you, come to my class."

"Uhn... But senior Deji said.... " she trailed off.

"What part of no teacher is calling you, don't you understand. Follow me to my class."

"wait a minute." Layo thought. "did you help me?" she asked her sister, who had started leaving. She ran over to catch up with her. "you helped me, right?"

"I'm your sister, if I don't help you who will?"

Layo beamed. "Thank you."

*********

"I'm sorry, I'm using glasses, I can't press up." the girl replied, rather rudely.

Deji scoffed. "I'm giving you ten seconds, I want to see you pressing up."

Digiola sighed. "but senior, I've told you I'm using glasses, I can't do that."

"okay, no wahala. Hang then."

" which one is worse sef . " she muttered. "I'm using glasses, please."

"no wahala, sebi you're using glasses, plant then, sit on your head. Either you plant or hang, choose one."

"I did stitch......"

Noone expected the next action of Senior Deji. He had caught her off with a loud slap. The Ss2 students had stopped hunching now and instead focused on the drama that was set to happen. Senior Deji Vs Digiola .

Everyone knew Digiola was a fighter, though she doesn't look like one but once you step on her toes, they knew she was not to be messed with. She was the perfect definition of short but mighty.

Digiola held the affected cheeks as she smiled. "sorry senior did you slap me."

"are you mad?"

Digiola smiled once more before bursting into laughter. "you slapped me abi, but please I'll plant but why did you slap me."

"you must be crazy, are you talking to me like that."

Digiola scoffed. "please I'm not talking to you in anyway you're insinuating, I'm just asking why you slapped me."

"Hace! Ten Ss2 boys should bring their leather belt." Deji yelled, clearly annoyed by the lack of disrespect.

Deji smiled as one of the ss2 boys gathered the belt and brought it to him. "I'll kill someone's child today. Follow me."

************

It's been about fifteen minutes since the ss2 students got released from their punishment, well! All except Digiola, after her outburst, Deji had carried to a place they had no idea of. No one knew, her mates nor the ss3 students and that alone made Somto damn worried.

He had checked everywhere he could possibly could, the music room, biology lab, chemistry lab but all to no avail. He could only hope she was safe wherever she was. His next destination was to check the library, he hoped he'd see her there.

Somto felt a vibration in his pocket. He needed no soothsayer to tell him who it was. It was obvious that he was worried just as he was. He quickly hurried over to the back of the chemistry lab, a secluded area and brought out his phone.

1 unread message from Main Gee 😎💪❤

Main Gee 😎💪❤

Please tell me you've seen her 😭. I'm so worried rn. I hope she's safe, I don't trust that dude with her 😤.

Checked everywhere, bro. She's no where to be find. Currently heading towards the library. Let's hope she'd be there.

Main Gee 😎💪❤

Kk.... Call me when you see her. I'm leaving now, family calls.

No wahala.... .

He carefully returned his phone into his pocket and continued his search. His trip to the library was futile, she wasn't there.

"damn." he rubbed his temple his frustration. "let me check her class and ask around." he mumbled to himself.

Most of the students had left the school premises since sport was over around 30 minutes ago, only few and some prefects who were having prefect meeting remained. As he made his way past his almost-empty block, he heard some muffled tones coming from his class.

At first he decided to ignore it but as the sound got clearer, he could hear the familarity of the voice. He hurried over to the door, since the door were shut and the windows wee closed, he placed his ear on the window in a means to eavesdrop.

"please, I'm begging you, stop. It's okay. Shit, it's painful." the familiar voice whined.

"I'm going to take it easy. I promise it won't pain you."

"ahhhhh!" the latter gave out a piercing scream. "it's enough, please stop."

At that moment Somto was having none of it. He was a damn overthinker and his current thoughts were not helping matters. Mustering a bit of courage, he pushed the door rudely.

It would be safe to say he was met with a shock. "the fvck is happening here."

**********

"check in the room for your mother." was the first thing Mr. Wellington, Demilade's first said as his son greeted him.

Demilade gave a perplexed look. "my..... mother." he stammered.

"your father, I said she's expecting you. Check her room." his father snapped.

Demilade broke into a run as he ran up all the way to his mother's room. He couldn't believe what he heard. His mum was around!?

"mother." was the first thing he said as he walked into the room.

"hello big brother." a voice he had known to well replied.

To say he was shocked would be an understatement. More like me was scared, scared of the voice, scared of the owner of the voice who looked like his exact replica. "where's my mother," he snapped. "Damilare, I'm talking to you."

"yunno, she's my mother too." Damilare chuckled. " I should just leave even though I would love to see the expression on your face when you see her." Damilare said as he made his way out.

Demilade wondered what he meant by that but shrugged it off. He sat down on the bed and glanced around the room, the room he hadn't been in for about three months, the last time he saw her. He guessed she was in the bathroom as he could hear the sound of running water. Something caught his eye on her drawer, a journal he had seen to well. "suspicious." he muttered as he picked it up.

"Oluwademiladeayo." he knew that voice to well. He turned back to see her and the huge smile on his face changed to a frown.

Was this what he meant that he couldn't wait to see the expression on my face when I see her!?

"mother, what the hell happened to you." was the only thing his mouth could utter with tears streaming down his face..

A/N

I'm sorry I ghosted 😭😭 I don't even know why but here we have it 😊❤ thoughts?

Things are about to get 😂🔥 predictions? What do you think of the new character 👀💀 who else thinks he's bad news? 😂well, let's see.

Here's a little explanation for those punishments which I'm sure some are unfamiliar with. I'm sure some were surprised when they saw "hang" "plant." and yes! 😂😂 there are real punishments.

Plant - is to sit down on your head. 😂 your head on the floor and you fly your hands.

Hang - your hand on the floor and your leg on the wall. 😂 yunno, like how a lizard is on the wall. That's something similar to that position.

Pressup - it's just the normal pressup exercise but just that you don't go up and down, you just remain up like dat 😂if you remain down like dat, then that's an entirely different punishment; lion stand.

Hunch : 😂complex to explain but it's just like you're doing frog jump but you remain on a spot. 😭the lap pain after it ehn 😂😂

So there we have it; thoughts? 😂

Anyways, any guesses on what Somto saw? And Demilade too?

Lest I forget I changed the school's name to Emerald High.

I'd love to hear your comments, flood that comment section and don't forget to press that star.

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Dedicated to Teefabulous fabulous somebody. ❤

Happy New Year 😊❤ wishing y'all a prosperous 2021.

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