KIKIOPE

Just when I was dreaming about my life in paradise, I heard the screech of my alarm, my eyelids opened slowly before I struggled to get out of bed.

I went into the bathroom reluctantly, after having my bath and doing my hygiene, I got dressed in my uniform, while packing my hair to a bun and yawning, I was still feeling sleepy until my eyes landed on the frame Khalid had given me on Valentine's Day.

I chuckled at what was inscribed on the frame.  Who needs a Valentine when I have a best friend like you?

A smile crept up my face as my mind went back to what had happened on Saturday when I'd been asked the truth question, my friends had all looked shocked and had turned to me as if I'd become a masquerade but Khalid looked more shocked than the others, but they eventually relaxed after I told them I wasn't the one planning to kiss someone but the characters in my book. They'd heaved a sigh of relief then but Khalid still gave me a suspicious look. Not like I had any intention of kissing anyone though, it was just for my characters.

I sat on my bed while still drowsy, I didn't know when I fell asleep again until I heard the horn from AY's car. Jumping out of my bed, I carried my bag quickly and dashed to the kitchen, I couldn't prepare breakfast again, so, I just filled the bottles and picked a roll of Golden Morn before walking out of the house.

"If you don't walk fast, I'll leave you!" AY bellowed and I rolled my eyes. He'd become a hostile person since the beginning of this term mainly because of the loss of his newborn baby who was yet to be found, no one knew if she was alive or not.

I dropped my bag in the boot before entering the car while AY sped off.

"Hi guys," I waved at my friends, and they smiled at me before I turned back to Bimpe who was beaming with smiles.

"This one that you're smiling like this, did something happen yesterday?" I twisted my brows while nudging her shoulders.

"Hmm, I finally got my full revenge on the one that calls me his daughter," she announced and my eyes glistened.

"Really? What did you do?"

"He wanted to beat my mom yesterday after she refused to give him food, can you imagine? Just as he raised his hand, I picked the pestle and hit him with it."

"What!" My eyes widened.

She shrugged, "Serves him right, it's not like he's dead, he's just undergoing what my mom went through, infact it's not up to a quarter of it."

I nodded," So, he's in the hospital now?"

"Yeah, struggling for his life, the pestle actually hit his head so, he collapsed then we dragged him to the hospital without looking back."

I sighed, "Hmm, and you think your mom won't check up on him?"

She shook her head, "No, I think she's coming to her senses now."

"I hope so."

We talked about some other things till we got to school, after AY left we all went to our respective classes before Bimpe and I walked to our rendezvous.

"So, you want us to drink Golden Morn?" Kunmi asked for the umpteenth time and I rolled my eyes.

"If you're not eating, we are available," I replied him before he picked up his own share of the Golden Morn while Doyin got back with the cups and Abee with the milks.

"Thanks jare," I replied before collecting it from them, not quite long, we settled down to eat.

"So, this week is our blackmail week, you know next week is the election and midterm break, so, we won't have time," Bimpe started.

"Which one is blackmail week?" Khalid asked.

"We didn't tell you guys, we have lots of implicating pieces on Bimpe's phone, and we are going to use it to blackmail them," Doyin explained.

"Implicating pieces like what?" Abee inquired before Bimpe brought out her phone to play the video for them.

"So, all this is going on in this our school?" Kunmi asked in disbelief.

"Noo, in your baby's school," Bimpe snorted, and he eyed her.

"What will you use to blackmail them? Do you need anything from them?" Khalid asked.

"When the time comes we'll know," Bimpe replied.

I dropped my cup on the table feeling satisfied before talking, "So, we'll be starting with Jubilee and Corper Michael right?"

"Yeah," Bimpe and Doyin replied concurrently before the bell was jingled, after washing our cups, Doyin decided to take it to her class and Abee followed her while we went to the assembly.

Good thing, they didn't waste much time on the assembly today, so, we were dismissed early.

"Hey Jubilee, what's going on between you and Corper Michael?" Bimpe asked immediately we sat on Jubilee's table and placed our legs on her chair.

"Get your filthy legs away," she shouted.

"Well, get your filthy body away too, abeg, answer the question, you and Corper Michael are an item right?"I asked.

Her pupils grew huge, but she quickly masked it with a frown, "What do you mean?"

"Here is what we mean," Bimpe clicked on the video we'd recorded and gave it to Jubilee who looked more than surprised to see the video.

"How ...how...how did you..." She stuttered with shock and fear written all over her face.

"So, you aren't tough at all and you're always playing smart," I jested, and she glared at me. So, the moron still had the guts to glare at me.

"And so? If you recorded the video, what does it mean? It's my life not yours, I have my life to live, so, I can do whatever I want," she burst out and I scoffed.

"Yeah, you can do it the way you like," I gave her a thumbs up, and she ran her hand through her thick hair.

"No one is saying you shouldn't do it the way you like but this video will go viral, don't worry you'll receive the copyright and even earn money from it," Bimpe said.

Jubilee's eyes widened at that, well, seems she was scared of the video going viral.

"What will you gain?"

"Fun," Bimpe and I responded in unison before laughing.

"Okay, what do you want? I don't want that video to go viral, it would be a taint on my father's image and my mom might just have an heart attack, I've been labelled as the bad child, so, I don't want to prove them right, please," she begged and I couldn't help but laugh along with Bimpe.

"So, now you can think about your family?" Bimpe mocked.

"Does your father have any image abeg let's first post the video to the school group chat," I turned to Bimpe and Jubilee quickly tapped me.

"Please, don't do that, what do you want?"

Bimpe turned to her, "You're contesting for the post of the Chief Comportment officer girl right?"

She nodded.

"Drop it."

"But the manifesto is next week."

"And so? It's not like anyone would vote for you gan, so, just see it as saving you from disgrace," I replied and she sighed.

"Two, stay away from Corper Michael," Bimpe continued.

"What!" She snapped her brows shut.

"Is it hard to do?  His thing is already sweetening you abi?" Bimpe eyed her and she shook her head.

"If we should see you with him, you just talk to him and see if the video won't become the hot gist."

She swallowed her saliva before nodding, "Okay."

"Good, today, you're going to be Oju Igo's slave throughout."

"What! I can never do that, she's my personal maid, you can't expect me to start running errands for someone my parents are paying, it can never..."

"Not enough people are online now, but we can still send it, it'll become the school talk for the rest of the term," Bimpe said as she typed on her phone.

"Okay!" Jubilee shouted as she raised her hand while other students glanced at her in wonderment.

"You're the one attracting people to yourself," I told her, and she dropped her hand.

"I'll be her help."

"Not help but slave," I corrected her and I could see she was resisting the urge to eye me.

"Good, after serving her, you'll serve us throughout tomorrow," Bimpe continued.

"What! This is getting too much, it's..."

"Let's try it with our class group chat first before sending it to the school's..."

"Fine," she said quietly.

"What did you say?" I pestered.

"I said fine, I'll work for you guys, is that all?" She lifted her brows and Bimpe wagged her index finger.

"What more do you want again? After all this?"

"You claim to have rich parents right?"

She nodded.

"You're to send ₦30000 to us if you want us to delete the video," Bimpe enunciated.

"What? That's too much, how do you expect me to get such a ridiculous amount, you guys are..."

"Sent," Bimpe said.

Jubilee's eyes almost bulged out as she grabbed Bimpe's hand, "What! Don't tell me you sent it? Did you send it? I'll pay the money, I'll do it, please, pull it down, I can't take the disgrace, I..."

"Stop rambling jare," I said on top of my voice.

"I only sent it to Kikiope in case you might want to try anything funny," Bimpe told her, and she placed her hand on her chest before heaving a sigh of relief.

"Thank you," she sat down.

Just then Ìyá Ìbón walked into the class, Longwire ordered us to greet while Bimpe and I walked back to our seat, Ann rushed out of the class that instant only to get back when we were instructed to sit.

"Did you just vomitted?" Ìyá Ìbón asked. Bimpe and I erupted into a loud laughter but Ìyá Ìbón ignored us as she was still focused on Ann.

"No ma," Ann replied before going back to her seat without waiting for her response.

"Did I tell you to go?" Ìyá Ìbón hollered and Ann quickly walked back to her.

"Why are you wearing cardigan in this hot weather? I've been noticing you for a while now, you're always in this cardigan, why?"

"Nothing ma," Ann replied quietly.

"Off the cardigan," Ìyá Ìbón ordered.

"I just hope this woman will not kill us today," Bimpe joked.

"Abi oo, early in the morning, Monday morning for that matter, o..."

The noise from Ìyá Ìbón cut me short before I turned back to her.

"I know you have a flat tummy so, how did it become big? Do you have a big stomach or what? So, you've been hiding under this big cardigan abi, move closer to me," she instructed and Ann obeyed, after checking all what she needed in her body, she turned to Bella, her seatmate.

"She's been sleeping a lot lately abi?"

"Yes oo, sometimes I do wonder if she was bitten by a tsetse fly and yeah, she eats like a pig too," Bella blurted and I felt like slapping her.

Ìyá Ìbón turned back to Ann who was now fidgeting, "So, you're pregnant abi?"

Noise filled the whole class at this as everyone started murmuring.

"No...ma," Ann stuttered.

"So, I'm blind abi, your stomach that is already getting bigger is a result of food right, so, you're pregnant in this school and no one know about it."

"Yeh, I'll finally faint," Bimpe joked as she made a fainting gesture.

"You're not okay, it's not the time to joke, Ann has been caught," I told her, and she nodded.

"In this school, you get pregnant, how old are you, you're in which class? When we'll be teaching you about sex education, you won't hear, look at your life, finally, you're miserable, you'll live in shame for your whole life and your future will die."

"Ma, stop cursing her, getting pregnant is not the end of life," I voiced out after getting provoked by the gibberish she was spluttering.

"Better shut up there! Why won't you side her when you're not different, I'm sure your own womb is already damaged gan."

"It's your womb that will get damaged," Bimpe and I shouted in unison and noise filled the class once again, all the while, Ann was already crying.

"Did you just talk back to me?"

"No wonder you can't speak good English when you were also chasing guys around back in school," Bimpe snapped and Ìyá Ìbón glared at her as she moved closer to us.

"You lack home training, but I can't blame you, you don't have mothers to take care of you, they are busy looking for men to sleep with," she retorted.

"With all due respect ma, you're an animal, for referring to our mothers as sluts, you're nothing short of an animal, you're just an harlot, your brain is clogged," Bimpe snapped.

Her mouth hung open in shock while the mumbles from the whole class increased.

"Close your mouth before a fly lands on your tongue," I snarled.

"Did you just talk to me like that? I promise you, this is your end in this school, you're going to be expelled but before that, Ann follow me," then she stormed out of the class while the noise from our class increased, while some were talking about how we insulted Ìyá Ìbón, others were discussing about Ann's pregnancy.

So, what's Ann's fate?
To those of you thinking Kikiope wanted to kiss Khalid, well you're wrong😂😂
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