[ TAKE A RISK BY CHRIS BROWN]

Nishola held the bottle of water in her hand tightly as they trotted into the basketball court. Their school had a match with Greenland today.

The hall was noisy and crowded as Yanmife and Nishola tried to maneuver their way through the crowd.

"Nishola! Yanmife!" Joyce yelled as Nishola and Yanmife found their way towards Joyce.

She was sitting at the thrid front seats, obviously her boyfriend kept it for her.

"I kept spaces for you guys" Joyce said.

"Thank you" Yanmife said excitedly as they sat down.

Many of the students were holding banners of different kinds. They were here to support Damien more than the basketball team.

That's what you get for being hot and talented.

Nishola felt her throat go dry after she sighted Damien in baggy shorts and slightly baggy top. He was talking to his team mates with all seriousness.

Damn! He's hot!

"Yeah, he looks hot in anything" Yanmife said with a wink.

Nishola's hands flew to her mouth.

"I didn't say that out did I?" Nishola asked.

"The hell you did" Samuel replied laughing slightly.

Nishola blushed, embarrassed. It was then she noticed a lot of the people that were sitted around her where at Joyce's party.

It had been two weeks since the party, except on the assembly ground, Nishola hadn't seen Damien.

Funny enough, her heart longed for him. She had an album of his photos on her phone.

Damien nodded at his team mates as they started doing warm up exercises.

Matthew waved frantically to where Yanmife and Nishola were sitted while the latter waved back. Joel also waved and winked at Yanmife.

Damien closed his eyes oblivious. Matthew jerked Damien.

"Ouch! What was that for?" Damien asked rubbing his ribs.

"She came" Matthew said with a smirk.

"Who came?" Damien asked his eyes searching the large crowd as his eyes landed on Nishola.

Surprisingly, she waved frantically at him before mouthing "goodluck".

"Now I wasn't expecting that" Joel said with a laugh.

"Are you sure you haven't spoken to her since the party?" Matthew asked.

"If any of you gets distracted during this match, you are dead meat" Damien said as he turned back to Nishola who's eyes were still fixed on him.

What he did next made everyone turn towards where Nishola was sitted.

Damien waved at her and then winked.

Nishola was startled as she continued blinking her eyes in surprise. She wasn't even expecting a reaction from him.

The crowd went into an uproar when Damien winked. Everyone wanted to know who he was winking at but no one knew who it was. They only saw the direction.

"Awwn..... "Yanmife cooed at Nishola.

"Stop it" Nishola said still embarrassed.

The match soon started and within minutes BIC was leading with just two points. Everyone soon grasped that, Greenland was no pushover, they made up points as fast as BIC made points.

Joel passed the ball to Matthew who immediately threw it to Damien. Damien shot the ball forward outside the circle as the ball entered the net.

76:71.

Damien jaw clenched as he shook his head. The first half was over.

"We aren't doing good" Joel muttered.

"They are catching up really fast and they are faster than before" one of the basket ball players commented.

"I noticed that too" Matthew said darting a glance to a grinning Gbadebo.

Damien sighed "They took drugs, teenagers really" Damien started.

"First, I know we all getting tired, we need to bring a huge gap between out so that even if we slack at the last minutes, we might not be able to keep up okay?" Damien said as they nodded.

"And yes, we do the formations for the first twenty minutes. MJ switch positions with Matthew, Joel switch positions with Friday. Kunle, I want you on full defense" Damien said.

"You got it cap" Kunle said with a smug smile.

The second half soon started and Greenland seemed taken aback by BIC's formation. The ball barely touched their hands during the first twenty minutes.

The gap was getting wider as MJ shot a five pointer. BIC students had started jumping up and down in happiness.

We were obviously going to win the game. Damien gave Gbaedo a smug smile as he shot another five pointer.

96:75.

"Is that you've got?" Matthew mocked Greenland basket ball players.

BIC basketball players laughed with joy, her strength renewed.

The match soon came to an end with BIC winning, 107-80.

It was a glorious win. The crowd went wild with happiness as the players hugged and congratulated  themselves.

Yanmife flew towards Joel mumbling all kinds of nonsense leaving Nishola standing by the staircase watching Damien.

"You are going to stare at him for how long?" Someone whispered in Nishola's ear as she jumped slightly.

"Snr Matthew nah, you scared me" Nishola said shaking her head.

"C'mon" Matthew replied grinning widely as he pulled her along.

Damien dabbled his face ignoring the voices congratulating him.

"Congratulations"

A voice breezed into his ears as Damien slowly removed the hand towel from his face.

"You enjoyed the match?" Damien asked his eyes twinkling.

The other players turned to face the duo.

Since when did their cap care if someone enjoyed the match or not? But seeing a really beautiful girl smiling at him made me start thinking.

"You guys are really good, Greenland are tough opponents but well they aren't enough to beat you guys" Nishola said.

"Thanks junior"

"Thanks you jare"

The basketball players muttered all kinds of thanks as Nishola blushed a little.

"Water?" Nishola asked stretching the bottle towards Damien.

Damien collected the bottle from Nishola, his fingers slowly tracing her thumb.

Nishola felt electricity course through her body as Damien's fingers slowly grazed her thumb.

Damien peeked at Nishola through his long lashes. She was dressed like every other student, looked like every other girl in BIC.

Whatever attracted him to this girl big eyed girl wasn't small.

Damien's stomach rumbked silently.

"You didn't eat this morning?" Nishola asked.

"I had a match" Damien replied.

"So? You should eat, whether light or very light" Nishola chided.

"Okay, okay, I will next time" Damien replied.

"Wait for me, let me get changed" Damien said as he walked into an compartment.

Nishola nodded as she sat down swinging her legs slightly.

"What are you doing here?"

Nishola turned to the speaker. Her eyes widened immediately.

"Snr Karen" Nishola said slowly.

"Where's Damien?" Karen asked softly.

"He went to change" Nishola replied.

"Ohh, I know you" Karen said staring at Nishola.

"Me?" Nishola asked in surprise.

"I saw on Saturday, dragging Damien into your car like your life depended on it" Karen said her voice laced with hatred.

"You are his junior and met him by accident, even if you were drunk, there were lot of guys there, you couldn't pick any except for him. Won't you agree with me that you are shameless?" Karen said.

Nishola swallowed her saliva not saying anything. She clenched her fists and stared at the floor.

"Just because he helped you that, don't start clinging to him!" Karen yelled "Get lost" Karen added looking at Nishola with contempt.

"What are you doing?" Damien asked with a cold voice.

"Damien, you are here" Karen said softly with a smile.

"What did you say to her?" Damien asked as he walked towards Nishola.

"She should stop clinging to you because you helped her during Joyce's party. I was looking for you that night until I  saw her drag you into the car" Karen replied.

Damien nodded slightly as he stood  waved for Nishola to come closer. Nishola pursed her lips before wallking towards Damien. Damien hitched his breadth as her perfume waffled into his nose. He adjusted her jacket and dusted imaginary dirt from her jacket.

"She's clingy?" Damien asked staring at Nishola.

Karen didn't dare reply when Damien used that tone.

"Sorry to break it to you, I like her being clingy, I enjoy it" Damien added.

"Da...... mien" Karen stuttered out.

Damien swallowed his saliva as he turned to Karen.

"Naturally I hate clingy girls but there's always an exception yunno" Damien said.

"Its not bad, she's not your girlfriend, we can always compete, I can still be an exception" Karen said confidently.

"You don't get it do you?" Damien asked before shaking his head "No, you don't" Damien added as he pulled Nishola closer with her tie before clamming his lips over hers.

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I know you didn't see that coming..... Did you?

Of course not..... You didn't see it....

I can't laugh.... A lot delusional people are in this world, agree with me?....

You are still curious about Tofunmi right? I am too....

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