For Akewasi
Hoping she knows how talented she is!💙

This chapter happened the same day Chikamsi's pov was introduced, which is the same day Eniola confronted the maths teacher, and James said or did something you all commented on😗😂
You'll soon see why I'm telling you all this.
                   ♪Gracious♪
School was over, and Gracious had already told Lumen to leave without her.

She had some assignments to complete before she went home.

Nobody was around, except the school security and and the General Head Prefect.
The stalls in the female toilet were empty, she put her bag down carefully on the countertop and took off her shirt, unbuttoning the customized white school shirt carefully.

The blue thread she had used previously to shape her shirt was already wearing out, leaving small traces of blue peeking out from the sides of the material.

Gracious made a mental note to fix that later, and proceeded to undo her corset.

There wouldn't be any need for it now, and this was one thing only she should remove, if James took it off, there was no guarantee he would give it back.

Gracious couldn't afford that with the amount of money she had spent on it.
She turned this way and that in front of the oval shaped mirror and admired the work her new collection as she liked to call it had done on her body.

There were lines where it had dug into her skin, her fingers brushed them lightly, and she winced at the sharp pain it caused.

Those areas were a little sore but they would heal with time. The corset had done a wonderful job, it had shaped her effortlessly so she wasn't complaining.

Gracious took out an orange pull from the side pocket of her school uniform, bit off half of the pill and chewed on it for a while before drinking water from the tap and swallowing.

It was only a matter of time before the effects wore out but it didn't matter James would be done in thirty minutes maximum and she would be out of there.

She powdered her face, put on mascara added some lip gloss and packed her things back into her green school bag.

She folded the sweater she had worn previously to hide her big arms, fitting it into the bag.

She took one last look at her reflection in the mirror,and she decided to pull the royal blue skirt up, to sit higher on her waist.

Sex appeal she thought as she pulled off the biker shorts she had worn underneath her skirt this morning, for protection against rape,and folded it into her school bag as well.

She picked up the bag, hung it over her shoulder and left to meet James.

As Gracious approached  the place James had asked her to wait for him, she meet him there already waiting.

“Turn first, " he instructed, she did as told.

He groaned, making her lips twitch into a small smile.

“You've lost weight, you're a lot finer now "added complimenting her and signalling for her to come closer.

Gracious smiled and closed the distance between them.

He sat on a desk, and she was afraid to lean against him until he asked her to.

James had been doing this thing, whatever this was with her for a while  and she didn't remember how it all started.

She didn't understand their situation-ship either, and she was to afraid to ask.

Her eyes focused on the projector behind them wondering, if they would ever get caught, if their luck would ever run out.
She knew the chances of that happening were slim, but still she stayed alert.

James' hands explored her body as she held onto him for support.

She sighed in contentment.

Gracious knew many girls who would kill to be in her position, despite being the biggest clown in their set, James was unnaturally handsome,the best student in science classes and a star footballer on the school team, and yet he chose her.
She giggled when he kissed her neck, and asked her to pleasure him.
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“She's not my babe o" was the last thing Gracious heard, as she hurried downstairs to avoid getting caught.

Her father would be  waiting for her at the school gate, she greeted him when she got to his car, wearing her previously discarded sweater with her blue skirt pulled all the way down below her knees, as she entered inside the car.

“Gracious, how are you?" He asked pulling out of the parking lot, his eyes focused on the road.

“I'm fine Daddy " she said bringing out her phone, eyeing him warily before going to her Whatsapp App.

“Why didn't you wear a proper bra? And who was that boy I saw coming out behind you from the class block?" He hit her with the questions, taking her aback for a moment, she didn't think he had noticed James or anyone else, her mouth went dry.

“Daddy it's only this one I had" she lied, answering the first question and earning herself a look of disbelief,

“That boy nko?" Her father pressed turning into the road that led to their estate.

Jasper High was a ten minute drive from home, and he had been driving to there for quite some time, intentionally taking his time so she would answer his question.

Gracious intentionally stalled giving him a reply, hoping they got to the house sooner than later.

“I don't know him sir, he was going home too, I came out from lesson with a teacher" she eventually said when it was obvious he was still expecting an answer from her, she silently hoped he wouldn't call the school to confirm-he could be extra like that.

He didn't stop the car abruptly and pick up his phone, instead he decided to believe her and it slide this time, and nodded his head in agreement with her statement.

Gracious ignored the heat in her stomach as she thought of James.

They had been doing this for a while,she had realized  he was a different kind of high, he made her feel divine.

Gracious felt like a goddess each time he admired her body, hyping it and praising her on, he fed off her, he told her he derived his satisfaction and life meaning from her.

He hardly  let her pass without slapping her behind or doing something mundane whenever they were alone.

But when he didn't approve of something she wore or a particular way she looked  that day, he made her feel like trash.

Whenever he played with other girls, caressed Lumen's face, asked Lumen to introduce him to her family,hung out with other class girls, she felt invisible.

She ignored that feeling and let it slide, because at the end of the day,she would be the one James called to the AV Studio every afternoon, her and not anybody else

Gracious brought out her phone to reply her messages once they reached home, locking her room door behind her.

James 🔥
Please don't tell your father it was me abeg, Don't tell him my name.

+23490******81
We're okay, Chikamsi and I. She was just a bit upset. How are you?

Lumen😚☕🍰
😗🍪 Grace..
Grace...
Gracious the creamery is ready. 😗🍪
Come online you gunch 🦦
I'm going to be placing the furniture I received for the creamery tomorrow, be there!

She replied James, telling him not to worry and wished him goodnight,  told Chetachi she was fine and hoped Chikamsi was alright as well, and decided to call Lumen.

She got off her bed, during her call with  Lumen, deciding to prepare her outfit for the next day.

Lumen spoke at length about how she was happy she was finally getting to open a creamery, she expressed her desire to see more people their age, doing things they actually loved, she asked Gracious how her study session had been doing and asked her if the Pink Scoop Creamery should open on Saturday or Sunday evening.

Gracious sat in front of her vanity mirror, lightly touching the hickey James gave her during their make out session,  on her arm, smiling at the joy in her best friends tone.

A high pitched sound in the background distracted them both from the conversation.

Gracious shook her head, then realizing Lumen couldn't see her she replied

“Let me go and eat dinner, you'll be fine," and the line went dead.

Henry Adenike had dismissed his sons, dinner had already been eaten by the time she went downstairs.

Gracious uncovered the aluminum foil covered bowl and frowned at the green portion that sat in her plate.

“You need to detoxify. Too much fatty food in your system is what's making you slow." he said passing her a bottle of oil.

Gracious decided to focus on the green bowl in front of her, she had smelt spaghetti, so why was she eating salad? Vegetable salad,she scoffed as if that made it any better.

She knew what her father had done again,knew that her brother had eaten spaghetti and whatever thing they ate it with,but she ate her salad anyway.

As Gracious ate the green leafs,with sorrow evident on her features  she concluded in her heart that her father hated her.

Vegetables and green leaves eaten, she went back up in anger, conveying her anger by making sure to slam l her room door behind her.

She locked it and began to cry.

This was her first meal in the past three days, and she wasn't happy about it.

Ignoring all thoughts of James, pushing
them to the back of her mind, she emptied her school bag on the bed.

The makeup came  first, her lipsticks, lip glosses, brown powder, different types of mascara and eyeliner, the biker shorts she believed removing would make her sexier and her school books.

After the books, packets of sweets fell out, biscuits, different types of juices, and the cupcakes Lumen had given her earlier that morning, all squashed and deformed from sitting in her bag for too long.

She proceeded to eat them.

Gracious ate them, sighing in contentment realizing that this was a different type of high.

She stopped when she noticed that her thighs looked swollen, her stomach bulged,When did it not?

She squeezed the flesh on her thigh, getting irritated by the stretch marks that covered it.

This was where James had touched her she sighed, running a finger over the spot, inching up gradually, until an idea came to her.

Picking up her notepad and a pencil from the small pile scattered on her bed, Gracious allowed her mind to wander, as she drafted a story.

The princess was sexy, the prince thought so and every other person in the kingdom thought so as well.

She had the perfect figure, and as the prince morphed into James,hazel eyes came alive on the notepad, as he gazed at her.

Heating up her body with lust.

The scene changed,it was a beauty pageant, and she had won first place, she was basking in the praises of men, who admired her for features that she cherished when she remembered she had eaten that day.

The princess began to exercise.

With every jump, the food in her stomach intensified, she felt the food swell until she began to loose her hourglass figure.

Gracious huffed as she tripped over the skipping rope a second time,tears filled her eyes, and she began to kick and punch the wall in her mind.
In reality, she stood there and pondered.

Anything that was exercise was good, she reasoned and counted up to a hundred, then  picked up her skipping rope again.

She didn't trip over it this time as she counted five hundred skips.

She was tired. She wanted to eat but she needed to loose weight, to look sexy.

Gracious put on her nightwear after a quick shower,and sat quietly on her bed.

Contemplating whether to do it or text someone.

The latter won this night, as she logged into her Instagram tapping on the comments made on her last photo.

RandomUser321
@Adenike Baby, sexy as hell.

James Not Brown
Gracious 💋🍑

Lumen
Babe 😌

JHS Crew ✨
Who's this hot cake this morning?🤤

Geraldine 251
Orobo, see as you full ground 😂

Derek
Thank you, next 🙂

Yetunde Bead
You're very beaurifuuu

Orobo! Orobo! Full ground!

She went through those words in her head, seeking some kind of validation of who she was, counter attack or anything, but she found none, she had none.

No one even noticed she lost weight in that picture.

Derek didn't want her!
She took down the post, deleted Instagram and opened her fasting app.
Her next fast was for 12 hours, but she extended it to 23, she put in the current time and went to sleep.

Authors Note

Purrrrrrr 😗
Ola🌚
Como está?
Did I get it right?😂😂

Did you notice what I was talking about before I started the chapter?

If you didn't, here's what it was...
You remember when Eniola was confronting the maths teacher and James was hyping her on, and then told Gracious to meet him at the AV Studio???

That's all I'm going to say😂
If you still don't get it, go back and read the first and second chapters, then read this one again 😗😂

Anyway, this was another character's point of view, Gracious' pov.

I have a very strong feeling that most of you will not like Gracious 😂😗😗
This chapter shows she has some misconceptions about beauty and sexiness, well let's see what she has to say about it in the book.

I don't know what to think about it, so I'll allow y'all do the thinking for me.

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