"Rachel there's water everywhere!"
Dora screamed from outside.
Well that explains why we were leaving the house late, I mean it's already past 7 and we hadn't left yet.

I ran outside to see what she was saying, I flung open the living room door and stood at the veranda, smiling at the water in front of me.

"Are you crazy? Why are you smiling at the flood?"
I turned so fast that it's a miracle my neck didn't break. She looked up at me warily,
"I'm going to miss at least part of Mr Akintunde Maths class and hopefully I miss all of it."

I hated maths, I loathed the subject. I hate finding x and I hate that they always create more complicated ways to find the goddamn x. What am I supposed to do with it? I see my parents work every day and nobody has ever told them to use their Pythagoras formula or the quadratic formula. I genuinely feel that maths should have stopped at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

"Hopefully not, I'm supposed to be leading the assembly!"
She humphed and folded her arms. I rolled my eyes at her, she can be such a brat sometimes.

"Then swim Einstein." I puffed.
"Rachel!"
I heard Zuoh shout my name from her house. I turned to face her and waved happily.

"Hey! You up for a swim?"
I asked jokingly and she laughed. Baniaz came from behind Zuoh.
"So when are you guys leaving the estate?"
Baniaz asked, hands on the fence separating our houses.

I approached the fence too and smiled down at them. I was 5 ft 10 at that time, very tall for a 14 year old, or so I was told.

"Probably today I don't know, I don't even know where we'd go."
"We are going to my grandpas house."
Zuoh said.

Their grandparents sounded like fun and plus they were young. I wasn't even close to mine, I had only two anyway. My Dad's mum and my mum's dad, I wasn't really close to my grandma but I was closer to her than my grandpa.

Zuoh's grandparents sounded like fun but she had a very fucked up family tree, very fucked up one I tell you, but it doesn't change the fact that they were dope, young and rich. So staying with her grandpa during this crisis was like going on a vacation, I envied her.

"Lucky you, I'd probably be with Auntie Bimpe." I said with a little bit of disappointment in my voice but nobody noticed.

I grew up with Auntie Bimpe, I knew her as my mother because my mum wasn't around for some part of my childhood because of law school. I love Auntie Bimpe, she could be annoying but she was the best and she always tried to make me happy.

The reason why I was kind of disappointed was because of the fact that Aunt Bimpe was Yoruba. If you don't know, Yoruba women carry trouble at their back. Aunt Bimpe can make you labour for a whole day and it wouldn't still be enough for her cause you'd still end up being insulted and called lazy.

Zuoh and Baniaz laughed at my predicament obviously knowing that I wasn't really going to enjoy my stay there.
"Have fun!" Zuoh said making Baniaz snicker beside her.

I tried reaching for them so I could give them a well deserved beating but they managed to escape. I groaned
"Fish biscuits."

•••••••••••••••••

"Welcome ooo, this is when your own school starts abi?"
Mr Akintunde asked Daniel and I as we strolled into class and as if God really decided to make me His most cherished possession that day, the bell rang for the ending of maths period.

"You guys got lucky because you were about to kneel down for the remaining of the class."
I was doing the happy feet dance in my head and I was chanting Thank yous to God and the universe and anything thank-able for making that day start the way it did.

Mr Akintunde walked out of class and Mary turned to me,
"Why did you come to school late?"
"There's flood in my estate."
"Ah! Are you serious? How-"

Mrs. Olabotun came in interrupting our conversation so I hurried to my seat to arrange my things for the day.
"I'm having trouble with my timetable you guys, so B class Economics students are going to be joining us today and besides they are just few."

I was beyond shaken by what she said, Khalil was in B class! I was sure my eyes were as big as saucers and I was more sure that I looked constipated because my classmates were staring at me like I was about to die of a heart attack.

I turned to look at Daniel who was already smiling at me and I shook my head slightly, this isn't good, how would I survive?

And just like that B class Economics students started walking into my class with their chairs and notes in hand, I couldn't blink or say anything.

"Hey snap out of it, it's not like he's God or something."
Mary said noticing my dilemma, I glared at her and scream whispered,
"You don't understand!"

"Yeah it's true, I honestly don't. You don't like him, you guys talk like everyday online so what's the big deal if you're in the same room huh?"
She said smirking at me, clearly enjoying teasing me.

"Just relax okay, it's not like he is gonna seat here or anything."
She said turning away from me and facing her front. I took in a deep breathe and nodded, she was right, he had his male-
"Mary!"
I died, I dropped dead on the floor in my head. Khalil was walking over here with his chair and note in hand.

"Thanks a lot Mary for jinxing it, I hate you."
She turned back at me and smiled sheepishly at me and said
"I kinda forgot to tell you that Khalil and I made a pact in ss1 that whenever we have combined classes we'll be seat partners."

I glared at her and in my head her head popped and her brain was scattered everywhere continuously.

"Thanks for telling me now, dick."
I groaned and Khalil finally got to us, putting his seat beside hers and they just started talking.

Mary was a social butterfly, it was easy for someone to talk to her, she was friends with everyone and anyone, that's why it was so easy for her to start chatting with him and not feel a little scared.

The class started and they didn't stop talking, it was hell because I wanted to actually listen to our teacher, I loved Economics because of her, but I couldn't because I was just admiring the boy in front of me.

I couldn't pay attention to anything it was like I was love-struck, I was stuck staring and admiring his back and the side of his face meanwhile he didn't even turn to look at me once, well it didn't matter to me, I could admire him all day but unfortunately I had only 40 minutes to do that and before I knew it the period was up.

They started to leave, when I noticed Khalil standing up, I opened my locker just to hide my face from him and seem like I was busy but that didn't work out instead he touched my hand!

I freaked out, I looked up so quickly which made me hit my head on my locker, well you can't really blame me, the feel of his hand on mine shocked me, literally. It was like a burst of electricity I couldn't explain. I was so confused as to why his touch could do that to me, it was just one touch.

"Owwww"
I said retracting my hand quickly from his to rub my head but in truth I did it because of the strange feeling he gave me and plus my head hurt.

"Sorry are you okay?"
I finally looked up at him and gave him  an awkward smile.
"Mhmm"
He smiled back at me meanwhile I was trembling with anxiety on my seat.
"I just wanted to say hi."
That made me warm, he wanted to say hi? How would I reply to that?
"Oh Okay!"
My voice higher than usual, nice one Rachel.

He looked at me like I was on drugs or something and simply nodded his head before turning away, carrying his things along with him.

Immediately he left the class, Mary and Daniel doubled over with laughter and I rolled my eyes at them, sighing and then proceeding to put my head on my table.

"'I just wanted to say hi, oh okay!!'"
Daniel said mocking the conversation that just went down and I groaned.
"Stop!"
They didn't listen of course they kept laughing.
"You're usually good with flirting I've seen you in action, what happened?"
"I don't know you guys..."

I looked up a little from my position staring at the two of them,
"... was it that bad?"
They looked at each other and burst out laughing again, I groaned and put my head back down praying to God that the ground open up and eat me up whole.

A/n:
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I know, I know long time no update, I'm sorry, I'd try more.
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