They made a turn entering the school premises, Saint Thomas Aquinas high school, a prestigious school in the whole of Lagos. Amidst the heavy downpour, students still made it to school early.

'See Momma, we would have been here earlier and avoided all these crowd' Jessica grumbled in the back seat.

'It was raining heavily Jessy, you don't expect me to bring you over inside the rain'

'Mom, ignore her, she no wise' Jordan replied looking outside the window. Jessica mumbled incoherent words to herself. Immediately the car came to a halt, she came down grabbing her ID card, she went to check herself into the hostel leaving her brother in the car. Their mother came down and unlocked the trunk of the car to bring their boxes down. Jordan took his ID card also and came down.

'I thought you were going to stay in there' his mom said, he ignored her and walked towards the matron's office which was crowded with people. Normal resumption.

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    Coming to school was a good thing for her. To her, being away from home and her parents for three months was something she enjoyed. According to her dad, she liked school because she could rebel as she liked and no one was going to stop her. That wasn't it to her, she enjoyed being with her friends, being an only child sucked.
      As her car came to a halt, she jumped down ignoring the light drizzles and the puddle of water on the ground, running to  the matron's office to check in. After waiting for some time, it was her turn,

' Nice to see you again Tomika, hope no new trick this term'

'Afternoon Ma, I can't promise you anything'

'Tomika!' Matron replied laughing. 'You're in ss1 already, be mature OK'

'I know. I'll do my best. ' And with that she left, back to her car. Her luggage had already been put in a trolley and sent to her hostel.

'Bye dad, bye Mom' she said taking her school bag and running into the hostel. She adjusted her skirt and entered her hostel, it looked normal except the new curtains that were added.

'Tomi, hey, I missed you so much' her best friend Mary Jane said hugging her from behind.

'I missed you too, you ignored my calls MJ, you have mind.'

'I didn't. I replied all your calls'

'I replied all your calls'  Tomika mimicked after her.

'Anyways, how was your holz, result...'

'My result was nice to me but to some people, nah, too poor'

'I got 87, you?'

'90'

'Omg, who said you didn't try. That should be the highest in the set'

'Third, is this my bed?'

'No, Monique's'

'How did we get stuck here with her?'

'I call it luck' Tomika rolled her eyes

'Misfortune you mean' MJ shrugged

'Anyways, you're my corner mate'

'Thank you Jesus. I thought you were going to say Monique's sidemate'

'God forbid, is that one prayer' Tomika laughed.

'Who are rest people in our hostel?'

'Only Monique is the idiot in our hostel. Because you're assistant head hostel prefect she wanted you here. Its mostly prefects that are here. Her head is not just correct'

'Nor be today'

'God I hate that girl'

'She's annoying' just then the trolleys arrived and they began arranging their things. Other students joined them bringing their usual chatter into the room. Just then, everywhere became silent, Tomika looked towards the entrance of the hostel, there she stood with a proud face on. The one and only Monique.

'Hi everyone, I'm so glad were going to be together' she said in her high pitched voice.

'Monique you've come again with this your loud voice. Is this the first time you're seeing us?'

'See Jesse, if you can't respond to my greetings, shut the fuck up, you're the only one complaining'

'Really? Lisa just wants to ignore you and the rest of them are your juniors, so?'

'Please shut up, it's first day of school' Monique said going to her bunk. 'and where is my bunky?' The girl left the shelf and ran to meet Monique.

Poor girl Tomika thought. Having a Monique as your bunky was a very bad misfortune.

'She forgot to pray before she came to school' Mia whispered to the girls from her corner which got the girls laughing.

'I swear. Who did she offend?' MJ replied. The door to the hostel opened once more revealing someone no one ever wanted to meet. The head girl of the school. Isabelle Mbah.

'Luck, abi na' Tomika said glaring at MJ

'Forget what I said. What the hell is she doing here?'

'See her bed there, Goan ask her'

'Abeg shut up'

'Did they swear for us in this hostel, what breed of humans are just entering here' an ss2 girl said

'This life no balance I swear'

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   Jordan entered his hostel just as the trolleys entered and dropped his luggage by his bed. His bunky had already started arranging his things

'Is it just me, or is this hostel bigger' Alexander said

'Oh God of Mercy this idiot has come back, why the hell are we friends dude'

'Jesus, Damien, na me you dey talk to like that'

'Abeg lock mouth'

'Damien, chill, it was just a question' Jeremy replied. He had already changed to a normal sweatshirt and a pair if joggers.

'Boss you're quiet' Alex said looking towards Jordan who was bringing out clothes to change into.

'Hey Alex' Jordan replied quietly sitting on his bed.

'At least someone remembered their manners'

'Alexander, are you trying to say something to me' Damien replied with a raised brow.

'Can you two not be immature. You're in final year for crying out loud Damien'

'Captain obvious, he knows' Alex fired Jeremy sat up throwing his pillow at him

'Alex, you nor no your mate, abi you just dey try me'

'Leave me o, because I'm small abi, I'm small but mighty'

'Amen' Jordan replied. Damien chuckled

'Manners abi?' He said

'He's better than you at least'

'Haew. Sorrow' Jeremy replied shaking his head.

'You people should stop na. As I don't want to talk you nor like am' Jordan said changing his shirt.

'Sorry sir' Damien replied giving him a mock bow.

'Its true, I met a girl o' Jeremy said dropping the novel he was reading

'His was she like?' Alex replied.

'Na there dem dey see you. Sense you nor get, woman nor go do you something'

'Damien, did you dream of me last night'

God forbid' Jordan rolled his eyes, facing Jeremy

' please tell me something, you got her contact right?'

'Yes na, you nor no me' and the gist continued, indeed school was back to its form, noisy and full of people, just as it should be.

NB:The picture there is their hostel

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