"I'm so sorry for being late." I begged Sunkanmi as I sat near him under the stadium's canopy.

"No worries, I've been trained never to rush a lady." I just looked at him. "What's doing you?" He signed but didn't reply. "Here." He handed me a nylon bag. "I figured you wouldn't go for break so..." I smiled.

"Thank you... I might have doubted you in the past Adekunle." He laughed. "Let me guess, I was a snob and what again?" I smiled. "Nothing." I singsong. "Come on girl."

"No boy." He frowned. "As anyone ever told you that you can be so difficult?" I laughed remembering how Juwon said the same thing. "Pretty much." He gave me a look that made me burst into a fit of laughter. "Oh God." He facepalmed himself making me laugh harder. "S...stop joor." I said between laughs.

"okay, I'm sorry. Oya, let's do something else."

"how are your parents?"

"they are good. Yours?"

"My dad's out of town and my mum's beautiful. Thanks for asking." I nodded stuffing the oreos into my mouth. "Dunni, calm down with that biscuit. So, wait, assuming I took you to a restaurant this is how you'd behave!"

"I'm not your girlfriend, so you can't even take me to the restaurant mister man." He laughed. "that's why I said assuming before this your head starts wandering off." He poked my head and I pouted.

"you do know I need my head to read sha?" he laughed. "I'm so sorry professor Dunni."

"that's more like it. I'm just too good."

"ehnn? To what?"

"I'm too good joor." I punched him but he didn't even move. "who is too good? I don't see the person." He looked everywhere but not at me. So that's how he wants to play okay na. I did the next thing that came to me.

I held his head with my hands at both sides of his face. "Me, Dunni, Here!" he just stares at me for a second and bursts into laughter. I shake his head, somewhat violently.

"what is wrong with you?" I shake his head at each word I said but he still just laughed. "Are you mad?" I shake his head again. "Do you really want to know?" he asked, amusement written all over his face.

"Dunni, you are holding my head." I removed my hands as soon as he said those words. He laughed again.

Why on earth did I hold his head in the first place?

There was an awkward silence around us and he seemed to have noticed it too. "What's your middle name?"

"I'm not telling."

"I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours." He said. "Deal."

"Akorede." He looked amazed. "triple A." he stated and I nodded smiling.

"Thomas." I laughed; I couldn't help it.

"you are laughing when I just made a nickname for you." I glared at him. He better not... "koko."

He said it, didn't he?

"you are laughing when I just gave you a nickname too." He laughs died down. "Tomtom." He yelled.

"I do not accept!"

"don't call me koko and I wouldn't call you tomtom." I proposed.

"Never, that name suit you too much."

"That means we will both have to accept the names."

"Deal."

"Deal!"

"Period."

"Period!"

"but?"

"No buts, we just settled that matter."

I figured that there was no going back on the discussion and I gave up on it. The idiot is too stubborn. We later ended up studying math and another agreement set in.

"Sunkanmi, listen. I know you know book but even someone in ss1 would agree I am right."

"since I know book, you should be the one listening."

"Never agree with me, you'd lose o!" I gave him a warning finger.

"Is a lie!"

"Olasunkanmi, I will talk my talk first, O ya je ki ori e pe! When I am talking you don't talk."

"O n wa wahala mi Adunni! O n wa wahala gidigan!" At this rate we would both not get to say what we want to.

"I would be the matured one and allow you to talk your nonsense." He began to explain his point and I'm not saying he's wrong but the question ends with "Find the two possible values of x". I just kept eating my munch it pretending to listen to him.

"Since x has the square, we'll take it to the other side to make it a square root." He interrupted me. "Dunni, I did the exact same thing. If it about the two values thing, I'd say it's a mistake on their path. Just accept..."

"Mister man, you got to explain your side, it's my turn, now fem." I glared at him.

"as I was saying before you so rudely interrupted, when square goes to the other side, that would make the answer x equals plus or minus the square root of four. Then x equals plus or minus 2."

"Oh... I didn't think it like that." He scratched the back of his head. "Wow! How did think of this?"

"It was actually when Mr. Soneye was explaining, he just mentioned it and it somehow stock to my brain."

"but you sleep in math class."

"me myself, I don't understand." He kept looking at me. "DUNNI! YOU ARE A GENIUS!" I held my chest making sure my heart didn't shift from its position. I carried the math textbook after I calmed down and used it on Sunkanmi repeatedly. "Are. You. Trying. To. Kill. Me!"

"Auch, I'm sorry.. just stop, sorry Dunni stop." He finally grabbed the book from me. "I said sorry."

"So that's what you'd have said if I died abi?"

"forget that one you can't die, what I was trying to say is that you are naturally brilliant and who knows you can be the next Albert Einstein." I laughed. "just because I corrected that small question?" I hissed. "I'm an average student and I don't need anyone to tell me that."

"You are not an average student. No one is average Dunni. It depends on the way you maximize your potential."

"You're bluffing."

"I'm serious."

"Sunkanmi, let's go to class."

"no, we are having this conversation."

"break is almost over o."

"let it be over."

"see, I appreciate the effort. But I've already got two best friends who lecture me every time, I don't need a third person."

"you'd need a battalion of people to do that because you are too stubborn." That was very offensive.

"You are mad."

"And you are a fool." He replied. That was the last straw. "I am tired of everyone telling me what I should and should not do, what's good and bad for me. you don't even know me that well and here you are trying to convince me that I'm not a dullard. And how dare you call me a fool. I'd rather go back to the time I didn't know you. Stay away from me Adekunle!" with that I stormed off.

The nerve of the bastard.

Like, can't they do without fight?

Was Sunkanmi wrong to say what he said?

Was Dunni too hard on him?

Do they always have to fight in the stadium? Annoying? Ikr.

Anyhoo, O ya je ki ori e pe! means Let your head be correct. 

O n wa wahala gidigan! means you are seriously looking for my trouble.

🇳🇬 Happy Independence Day, Nigeria!!! 🇳🇬

We give all thank to God for all he has done. 60 years isn't little.

God bless Nigeria!!! 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬!!!