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𝑺𝑶𝑵𝑰𝑨 𝑼𝑫𝑼𝑨𝑲-𝑨𝑩𝑨𝑺𝑰 𝑼𝑩𝑶𝑵𝑮
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The week surprisingly went by very fast. Bringing me today which is Friday, the day of Derrick's birthday party.

It was the talk on literally the mouths of students in KIHS, especially the girls. I could hear them squeal as they all talked about the clothes and hairstyles they are gonna showcase.

Some were even dreaming of them kissing Derrick while at the party. I mentally rolled my eyes. Delulu is the solulu right?

And I forgot to mention that it's been almost a week since I last talked to Flora, sure Zainab was there to keep me company but I still felt void without hearing Flora.

I was on my way to the girls locker room to change into my sports attire for today's activities. I was about to go in when someone bumped into me.

I looked up to see Florence glaring at me with pure evident irritation.

Florence has been passing me not so discreet glares ever since the incident that took place during the sleepover. I also noticed her and Empress always together, laughing with each other and always making jest of me.

I still didn't want to believe she actually joined hands together with Empress just to gang up against me.

"What were you're going dimwit." She hissed scornfully, sidestepping me to walk away not forgetting to bump shoulders with me in the process.

I exhaled as I got to my locker, opened it and brought out my gym wear. I stripped off my current clothes and wore my sports wear which consists of a grey shirt with the schools logo on it and some grey shorts with white stripes on the side.

I used a scrunchy to pack my hair into a bun once I was done dressing up. I could hear some girls in the locker room talking, and at that moment my amebo antenna stretched.

"Do you think my shorts are short enough to seduce Derrick." Sarah one of the girls in science class said.
She is known for sleeping with all the boys in KIHS but has never had a chance with Derrick, but now Empress is out of the picture she's trying everything possible to get him.

"It's the way you guys think you actually have a chance with Derrick for me." Isabella a quiet girl in my class said. She was leaning on a locker with a book in hand and her glasses on the bridge of her nose.

"Ahan! Who be this one again? Because boy never look you way before, bitter leaf." Sandra another stupid girl in science class taunted her, laughing like a dying goat.

"I've accepted the fact that no boy is ever gonna look at me and I don't care. I came to school for a purpose unlike some people," she paused to eye them one by one, "who go around opening their legs for boys claiming bad bitch. When they are just stupid rotten tomatoes." Isabella eyed them again before getting out of the locker room.

I turned around and saw the expression on their faces, they looked like they just saw a ghost. Or rather couldn't believe that someone talked to them like that.

"Lets go girls, she probably wasn't talking to us." Sarah said, sashaying out of the locker room with the other girls and Sandra followed behind shaking her flat butt.

I mentally hissed and rolled my eyes at the girls, before grabbing my bag and putting it in my locker before I went out of the locker room.

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Sports had always been a burden to me since I could remember. I hated anything related sports.

I would say sports day in KIHS was about showing off, especially for the girls. Some girls would rather wear expensive clothes for sports than the recommended sports wear for KIHS.

It was so sickening.

"Gather up everyone." The coach whose name I learned to Mr Bibitayo called everyone clapping his hands.

"So as you all know, this is gonna be the first time we'll be doing sports since this term started and everyone must participate." A series of groans were followed after his last statement.

"Is it a must to participate?" A girl whined.

"Yes it is, the school has even made it compulsory and your grades will be taken for this particular activity."

The groans became much louder after that. It was that bad that I even groaned too.

"Okay so with that being said 5 laps around the field right now!" The coach commanded and everyone scurried off to the field taking their places. He blew the whistle and everyone started their their laps.

"Hi." I heard a very familiar voice that I've been avoiding for the past few days.
Flora was on the same track with me, trying to catch up, but I ran past her a little leaving a gap between.

"I know-

She caught up with me and started but I cut her sentence off by speeding up again.

"You-

"Don't-

"To-

"See me-

"But-

"Give me-

"A chance to explain

I tried running away from her, but she seemed quite adamant as she continued catching up with me with every move I take. I instantly halted when I realised that I just ran 5 laps but added an additional 6 because of Flora's pestering.

I faced Flora who had her hands on her knee panting heavily. I looked around me and saw everyone was now seated on the bleachers talking animatedly. I walked over to Flora and tapped her on her shoulder.

"Meet me at the deserted hallway in the next 20 minutes if you really want to talk." With that being said, I walked out of the field to the locker room to get changed.

On my way to the locker room, I spotted two familiar figures that looked like they were in a heated argument.

I walked closer and found Victor shouting heavily at Zainab. Zainab on the other hand looked like she couldn't care or it rather looked like she was controlling her anger because of how her hands squeezed into fists at intervals.

"....why haven't you been eating your food?" Victor asked obviously frustrated.

"You don't seriously expect me to be eating the food of that witch." Zainab fired, folding her hands beneath her chest.

"Don't say that you know she's your mother -"

"-step mother," Zainab cut him off quickly. "She can't be anything like my mother."

"Okay fine scratch that." Victor took a deep exhale before he looked at Zainab with a glint in his eyes. "Have you at least told your dad about us?"

Zainab immediately broke eye contact, her eyes were downcast while fiddling with her fingers.

"Victor you know it isn't that easy." Zainab replied his question, still fiddling with her fingers.

Victor's jaw clenched as she said that, I was scared he'll explode any minute from now. "For the past one and a half year it has always not been that easy, what's your problem?"

"I don't have a problem and before you actually think we are ready for all these," she made a hand gesture between him and her. "You settle all your other flings."

"Zainab-"

"Or you think I don't know about all your accomplices? You think how I don't know about your 'relationship' with Florence."

"Me and Florence haven't done anything...yet." Zainab looked at him with so disbelief as if he was an alien.

What Zainab did next surprised me, making me gasp but I quickly put my hands in the mouth to prevent the sound from escaping.

Zainab gave him a resounding slap on his cheek. "This is one of the reasons I'll never let people know about us."

And with that she left and closed the door behind her not forgetting to bang it so as to make a sound. Victor on the other hand muttered something like a 'fuck! not again' before he also walked out.

I got out from the wall which I was hiding to watch them and exhaled. Trust me when I say that what I witnessed between them both was Nollywood movie pro max.

These two can confuse somebody like what I don't know. At least what I overheard talking about confirmed my suspicions of them being in a somewhat hidden relationship and Victor being a playboy or is it...

I brought out her phone from her bag which was kept in my locker and checked the time which read 2:10pm. And them I remembered how I told Flora to meet me up at the usually deserted hallway, and 10 minutes have already elapsed because of the whole drama I witnessed.

So this means I have just 10 more minutes left to meet Flora. I sighed and then stripped off my clothes heading towards the shower.

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Almost there...and yes!

I arrived right on time to the hallway and found Flora standing there staring into space.

I suddenly felt sad, she doesn't look like her exuberant self. She rather looked lonely.

I sighed for the nth time and made my way towards her. I placed a hand on her shoulder causing her to jerk up. She heaved a sigh of relief when she found out it was just me.

"Hi."

"Hey." I replied her back.

We stood in total silence for a while before I decided to break it. "I miss you."

"I missed you too." She embraced me into a hug which I accepted with open arms.

"So are you gonna explain or not?"

She looked up as if she was remembering something before she looked at me, a faint smile on her lips.

"It all started when Florence was admitted into the medical young learner's teaching hospital, she was the smartest of them all and bit by bit she started working on surgeries with the doctors."

"She has always had a passion to be a doctor ever since she was little. She got a chance to perform surgeries for a lot of sick kids, but there wasn't any money for the operations."

"My parents wanted to help out, but Florence refused saying she was gonna do it on her own. After much hustling to gather the money, she decided to keep the money in a shady bank app, saying she would get 2× the amount if she did. I tried advising her to let our parents safeguard it but she was hell bent adamant."

"On the day fixed for the surgery, I found her screaming in the reception and throwing stuffs. My parents tried to calm her down but she looked like someone ready to kill."

"I later found out that the money for the surgery magically disappeared from the bank. And they've been trying to call the bank but all their phone number and contacts weren't existing at all."

"Due to that, the hospital she worked for at that time cancelled the surgery and banned her from coming there again because they thought she was 'sabotaging' them."

"Florence was so devastated she looked like she was on the verge of committing suicide. We tried to make her happy but all our efforts were at lost."

"One very faithful day, the day your dad got arrested there was a list of people he scammed and her name was part of it. She swore to get revenge."

"We all thought she was just being in her feelings and all that but our narrative changed when she found out that you were going to be coming to Abuja and also going to school in KIHS."

"She was already planning on different ways to torture you. So I had to do something. I just couldn't let her do anything to you considering your innocent. So I promised myself to stay close to you."

"I'm sorry if I meant any harm." Her eyes were glassy with tears.

"Its okay, I'm not angry. Its just a little hard for me to process."

Sometimes I just think if my father can actually do this to Florence what has he now done to the others?

"Enough of the pity party." Flora said suddenly smiling.

"You're going to Derrick's party right?" I gave a small nod at her question.

"Okay I'll be at your house later in the evening to get ready with you bye." Flora waved at me vigorously, before skipping away. Her change in mood always surprises me.

It was as if she wasn't the one who was sad just a minute ago.

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A/N

Hi
You know that feeling when you're just lazy and can't do anything, that's how I have been feeling these past days. And I had writer's block on top.🤧

This might be the longest I've not updated. I hope I'm forgiven 🙂

Zainab and Victor...again.

Now that we have taken a look at Empress's story do you think her actions are still justifiable.

And I know you guys want more of Derrick and Sonia. We might meet them in the next chapter which will be the party hopefully.

Bye guys❤️