Assembly time in this school was terrible,it started with prayers,one Muslim and one Christian,national anthem and then a long speech from the principal and today was no exception, I checked the time on my Casio wristwatch, 7:53 and we were still holding an assembly,prefects were stationed at various places to curtail noisemaking. Due to boredom, I started counting the number of people who yawned and I've counted nearly 7 when I felt a paper in my hand.

I turned to meet the sight of Ebube grinning and I turned away,opened the paper and then I smiled at him. Luckily I had a pen and I wrote back on the same paper.

He had written
Do you know a cardiologist because my heart skips a beat when I think of you

Oh...and I loved the reaction on Ebube's face when he read my reply which was

Do you know any psychiatrist cos I think you need one.

Ebube was in ss3 while I was in ss2,he was the sports prefect,dark and well built, he had the body build of usain bolt,I honestly wasn't interested cos I had my eyes on Anthony Joshua,I once kissed him but bad thing was that it happened in my dreams.

Ebube's face was marred with a frown and i felt bad for him because he was good looking but i didn't want a relationship with him. He really had to stop pestering me,ever since I came to this school,in fact on my first day,I saw him,I was putting on the uniform clearly but the nigga walked up to me.

"Hey, are you a student of this school of this school?"he asked

"No"I replied "I'm one of the cleaners but I do wear uniform for fun" I said smiling and then he smiled too.

Soon enough the assembly was over and I went back to class.

*****
When I got home that day,Chima was sitting on the couch watching a video on his phone by Burna boy and Zlatan,something about killing,i can't just place my head on the lyrics but I knew the beats were mad with the way Chima was nodding his head like agama lizard. Our sitting room was a little wide,several family pictures on the wall and stickers of various churches. The place smelt like groundnut,sometimes it baffles me,maybe it was because of Chima's addiction to garri and groundnut, it couldn't even smell like ice cream or pizza.

Our old wall clock was hanging on the purple walls and television which was a plasma was held to the wall,it was won by Chima in a spelling bee competition, his big head wasn't empty after all.

Right now all I wanted to kill was food,I moved straight to the kitchen that was at the right wing of the house just opposite the dinning,the kitchen was in a disarray,plates heaped on the sink,strings of spaggati on the cooker,onion wraps on the floor with the knife beside it.

"Seems like an animal was in this kitchen"I muttered to myself quietly referring to Chima. At just 17 that boy was standing tall and intimidating, he had a dark skin,bushy eyebrows and long legs, the only problem I had was his head, I wonder why he just had to have a big head,once Adaora had told me she had a crush on my brother and I nearly vomited the eba and egusi soup in my stomach, I had lied to Adaora that I ate noodles and egg. Yuck! Who would have a crush on a human being that swept his room once in six months and sometimes he wore his boxers for 3 days straight. Once my mum had forced him to sweep his room. Wow! Dead cockroaches, crumpled papers,spiders,cobwebs,nylons, coke bottle that he had refused to return to the seller. His name was supposed to be in the dictionary as a synonym for dirty and lazy.

I opened the pot hoping to see food but no,no,the pot was staring back at me.

"Chima there is no food" I groaned walking out of the kitchen,this time he was playing a song by Whizkid and one other guy,something about Tokyo and Lagos and that was the least of problem.

"So?" He asked

"What am I going to eat?" I asked him controlling the rage that was already cooking. He stood up,turned around and pointed to his buttocks

"Go and get a knife,cut it and eat it" he said and sat down back,I hissed audibly and went away.

*
As I lazily peeled the yam for dinner,I whistled too,I has ended up soaking garri for lunch. I washed the yam and placed the yam filled with water on fire. I moved to the sitting room and met Chima engrossed in the movie he was watching that he didn't look up to notice that mum was at the door.

"Good evening ma" I greeted and went to collect her bags,I was nothing like my mum,she was dark skinned like Chima and tall also,she often wore traditional dresses too. After I had dropped her things in her room,I sneaked behind Chima and took the remote and changed it to a Christian channel.

"What is the meaning of this rubbish?"he asked, his eyes boiling with rage.

"What rubbish, can't I watch Christian stuffs?" I asked calmly.

"Change that thing now before I break your teeth" Chima threatened,I honestly didn't know why boys were possessive about remotes,it was just a trait. I wasn't afraid however of his threat,he tried to rush towards me but I snapped the remote into two.

"Oops" I said chuckling lightly. Now he just had to watch Christian channels, dad had made a decree that nobody should touch his decoder and right now,I was more than happy that he made that absurd rule. Chima angrily stood up and went to his room,serves him right.

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