⚠︎Lots of Educational stuff ahead, this chapter might be boring!!!

𝑫𝑬𝑹𝑹𝑰𝑪𝑲 𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑩𝑼𝑰𝑲𝑬 𝑱𝑶𝑯𝑵𝑺𝑶𝑵
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"Guy the girls in this school are beautiful!!!" Dexter exclaimed as he watched the figures of each girl that passed by.

"You sef you no dey ever rest. Shey you know say Flora also dey this place." Desmond said munching on his chips.

"No na, Flora na my main babe I just dey admire them from afar you get."

"Olodo." Desmond muttered under his breath.

We were currently in their dinner having brunch. We were waiting for the girls to come and join us, so time by time I'll scan the door area waiting for them to come.

Especially Sonia.

The dinner was very spacious it had a room for both the Junior and Senior students and for guests too, which is were we are situated.

We were served a variety of different meals; Jollof rice, fried rice, pasta and ofada rice with assorted meats.

"Earth to Derrick." Desmond snapped his fingers in front of my face.

"You zoned out for a moment, are you alright?" He asked curiously.

"Na woman wey cause am, just one hour that he hasn't seen her he wan kill himself. Woman go do you something sha."

"No dey shade yourself." I told Dexter who just hissed and continued eating his food.

"Yeah I'm fine just exhausted that's all." I replied to Desmond's previous question.

The truth was that not seeing Sonia for this past sixty minutes unsettled me to the core. I haven't perceived her chocolate and vanilla scent for a while now.

"Dey deceive yourself there, exhausted kill you there." I mentally rolled my eyes, of course Dexter must say something useless, I wonder how them take born this boy sef.

"Can you just shut up, you talk too much for a man." I retorted.

"Man ke? I be transgender o."

Me and Desmond burst into laughter at his statement, this boy isn't all right at all.

My laughter stopped when I spotted Sonia walking towards the table with a solemn expression on her face. When she reached the table she quietly sat down and ignored the glances I sent her way.

"Are you okay?" I finally decided to speak up when the silence was too much.

She moved her attention to me before taking a bite from her food and nodded her head positively.

Even though I didn't believe it, I just let it go because the competition will start in the next thirty five minutes and I wouldn't want to do anything to make her uncomfortable.

"The competition will soon start, you guys should eat fast let's go now. These Kenward students sef." Jessica said, applying clear polish on her nails.

I don't why, but her presence just infuriates me eversince she made that scene.

"Shut up abeg, vector of noise and stupidity." Kelechi fired at Jessica causing everyone on the table to stifle their laughter.

"Do you know who you're talking to?" She stood up from her chair pointing at herself, starring at Kelechi in disbelief.

"I don't know o, please enlighten me." Kelechi said taking a bite from her chicken.

"I thought that I already introduced myself when we met, why do you want me to do it again?"

"Olodo, so you don't even understand sarcasm."

"CAN YOU GUYS JUST STOP!!!"

I looked at the once quiet girl who didn't look like in the mood to say anything before taking deep breaths, veins popping out on her forehead.

As if realizing what she has just done, she looked at everyone noticing their confused states she cleared her throat and focused on her food.

I could tell that something was off and so did others, but no one decided to say anything. The air was filled with thick silence eversince her outburst and we all decided to stay like that.

When I was contemplating whether to break the silence or not, Mrs Chinaza came in. "The competition starts in five minutes, you guys are to move to the auditorium and get ready."

With that murmurs of displeasures were heard from all angles of the room, both from us and the bluestone students.

"Silence, KIHS you guys can do this!" Mrs Chinaza encouraged us with a smiling face.

Sonia on the other hand looked like she just wanted to get this over with and get out.

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On getting to the auditorium, a lot of girls kept on giving me seductive smiles and winking. On normal days I'd have just offered them a smile but I'm just not in the mood.

Especially since Sonia is in a fowl mood.

As we finally got into the auditorium, murmurs began, I noticed some people pointing at Sonia and shouting words I couldn't make out.

Sonia looked like the ground should just swallow her.

"Sonia still dey alive ke?"

Should she die before?

So you mean that Sonia is still breathing after what happened?

"Sonia don add o, she's no longer the skinny girl that I knew."

"Why she no follow her papa go prison?"

"See how she dey like pesin wey never chop."

Oh the blood of Jesus! Don't these people have better things to do with their lives.

Sonia just walked and passed with a stoic expression pretending not to here their insensitive remarks.

"Hey what's wrong with you?" I just couldn't take it anymore, I held her shoulder stopping her from moving any further.

"Wrong with me as in how?" She asked annoyed as she jerked her shoulder away from my grip.

"This nonchalant attitude of yours, what's going on? Why are you letting them talk about you like that? This is not you!"

"What do you want me to do? Start fighting everyone like mad people? And please you don't know anything, you don't even know what I'm going through relieving all these again. Do you think it's easy? Please shut the fuck up and stop disturbing me!!!"

With that she turned around and left catching up with the others leaving me dumbfounded.

I sighed and used my hands to massage my forehead because of the incoming headache.

"All right everyone let's settle down and get ready." The announcer said.

While everyone was settling down I searched for Desmond, after some minutes he waved at me showing me a free seat.

𝐓 𝐇 𝐈 𝐑 𝐃 • 𝐏 𝐄 𝐑 𝐒 𝐎 𝐍 • 𝐏 𝐎 𝐕
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The contestants sat in different chairs compared to those who came to watch.

The opponents which were KIHS students sat in red chairs while bluestone students sat in blue chairs.

Sonia wasn't even paying attention to anything but how she reacted at Derrick, she was thinking whether she was to hard on him or if she shouldn't have said anything at all.

"So guys this is how the game is going to be." The announcer's voice brought Sonia out of her thoughts.

"There's a buzzer, and the first person in the team to push it gets to answer the question." The announcer explained further.

"So we're going to be starting with the science students first. You're going to be answering a total of 10 question from each science subject, same with the art students."

"First question to the science students: Another name for the Fallopian tube is what?"

Florence hit the buzzer. "Oviduct"

"That's correct." The announcer said causing us to clap.

"Myopia can be correct using what kind of lens?"

Victor pressed the buzzer before any other student from bluestone could.

"Concave lens."

"That's correct!!!" He said causing us to clap again.

"What's escape velocity as applied to a body?"

Victor pressed the buzzer again.

"It's the minimum velocity a body must possess to escape completely out of the earth's gravitational influence." He explained.

"That's correct!"

"How many valence electrons does aluminum have?"

This time no one attempted to answer it, leaving bluestone students to the advantage.

"It has 3." A student said, causing the whole hall to shake from the cheering.

"Ethene is prepared by heating ethanol with excess concentrated tetraoxosulphate(VI) acid at what temperature?"

Victor pressed the buzzer.

"98°C." He said confidently.

"And that's is... WRONG!!!" The announcer said.

"Bonus to the Bluestone students."

"The answer is 170°C." A student said and the hall started shaking, due to the impact of their cheers.

"An animal that eats both plants and animals is called what?"

"An omnivore." Florence answered.

The announcer kept on asking questions and the sounds of buzzers indicated the students had an answer.

At the end of the day KIHS had the highest number of points for just the science aspect of the competition.

All the bluestone students had disdain, envy and jealousy on their faces as the students of Kenward celebrated their victory.

The announcer permitted them to take a five minutes break before getting back for round two.

Jessica and Eleanor marched towards the circle all KIHS students made congratulating each other in the hallway. Everyone kept quiet as they noticed their presence.

"So you guys think you're all that right? Just cause you have managed to win just half of this competition, think again." Jessica uttered.

"Yes we are proud to win and we should be thanking your people for the victory, because they are as so slow, half of them there weren't even contributing to anything." Kelechi said causing others to laugh.

"Oh you think this is funny?" Eleanor butted in. "Okay you might have won but get ready for us art students we will burn you to the ground."

"The science students no sabi anything na the art students we go come dey fear? Don't fucking kill me abeg, why are we even listening to these people sef make we dey go." Everyone followed Kelechi's lead and left the two of them standing.

"Did we just stand there and listen to them insult us?" Eleanor asked Jessica.

Meanwhile Jessica eyed her from head to toe. "You see that mouth that you were making that art students will burn them abi wetin you talk sef, it better happens o."

"My reputation can't be ruined by a bunch of Abuja kids, and I hope you were able to make Sonia feel downcast so she won't be able to perform well in the competition?"

"Yes I did." Eleanor replied.

"Good then, you're suppose to be in the auditorium in the next one minute, so hurry up your sorry ass."

With that Jessica cat walked away from the hallway leaving Eleanor in the dark.

Eleanor had always wanted to be Jessica's friend since junior secondary, no matter how mean she was to her. She always wanted the things Jessica had.

Even when she was still friends with Sonia and Amaka, she still tried to talk to her sometimes and no matter how much Jessica looked at her like trash she still tried over and over again.

Then one day Jessica dropped a letter in her locker, telling her to meet in the girls toilet during English period. Normally Eleanor wasn't one to miss classes but if it's for just a moment to stay in the same space with Jessica then she would.

When she got to the girls toilet, she sighted Jessica looking at herself in the mirror applying lip gloss, she couldn't help but just stare at her in awe.

As if noticing someone was in the same room with her, she caught Eleanor staring at her majestically and she just rolled her eyes in the disgust.

"Are you just going to stand there or come closer." Her voice brought out Eleanor out of her trance and she took fast strides towards her.

Jessica handed her an envelope, she stared at it questionably and looked at Jessica. "What's in here?"

"You can find out for yourself and stop asking mumu questions." Jessica said blankly.

Eleanor brought the contents of the envelope out, looking at it. She was searching through the papers when one of them caught her eye. The paper had her parents name on it.

It looked like sort of a debit note. The amount written here shocked her to her core. 56 million naira was removed from her fathers company and also from her parents main account.

Eleanor stared at the paper flabbergasted, she saw a little note on the side of the paper when she was about to close it.

Dear Mr and Mrs Funsho,
You have been declared bankrupt by the government, and because of failure to pay your taxes for the past two months now, the government is seizing all your properties as collateral.

Tears gathered in her eyes as she read everything, with a cloudy vision she looked at Jessica. "Why are you showing me this?"

"Because I'm a good person and I just wanted to let you know that the friend you have isn't really who she thinks she is." She stated.

"What do you mean?" I looked at her confused.

"Didn't you read the papers? Sonia's dad is the cause of you and your parents misfortune. He hacked their account and took everything, leaving no stone unturned."

"No no, this can't be real, I have to talk to Sonia." I was about to walk away but a firm grip stopped me.

"And you think Sonia doesn't know about this? For all I know she could've just been friends with you cause she felt bad."

"No you're lying! And how did you get this information?"

"How I got the information is none of your business." She stated. "You can either do two things; see Sonia for who she is and stop being her friend or you can follow me."

"I..."

There's no need to rush, think about it and I'm sure you'll pick the right choice.

With that Jessica left leaving Eleanor deep in thoughts.

So Eleanor picked the one was thought was right. Jessica.

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When she started being friends with Jessica, she gave her a new phone and told her to discharge her other one.

She bought new clothes for her and expensive shoes.

She was happy, but something felt weird. Like the fact that Jessica made her to do her homework, carry her bags and clean her shoe but she just overlooked it.

One day Jessica came back fuming, leaving Eleanor confused.

That's how Jessica started ranting about how she hates Sonia and wished to wipe her out of existence. Then she came up with a plan to expose Sonia's dad.

Eleanor thought that was obviously too much and backed out, but Jessica threatened to unfriend her if she doesn't comply so she had no other choice.

They planned to do it when they were done with their junior waec, on the last day.

The plan obviously worked, cause Sonia didn't show her face to school again after that day. She didn't show for the parties or the events and no one could reach her. Eleanor felt happy but something kept on tugging her chest, but she decided to ignore it."

At some point, Eleanor started to miss Sonia, even though her father was not a good man she was twice the friend that Jessica could never be.

When Eleanor saw Sonia she wanted nothing but to run and hug her, but she composed herself and pretended to still hate her.

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𝐏 𝐑 𝐄 𝐒 𝐄 𝐍 𝐓 • 𝐃 𝐀 𝐘
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𝐓 𝐇 𝐈 𝐑 𝐃 • 𝐏 𝐄 𝐑 𝐒 𝐎 𝐍 • 𝐏 𝐎 𝐕
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The halls started getting fuller and fuller again, as the students started returning to the hallway for the last aspect of the competition.

The art students took their seats, getting prepared for the questions that were going to get throwed their way.

Sonia on the other hand just wanted to get him and away from this toxic environment.

Flora noticing her friends demeanor asked if she was alright and she just nodded. Flora obviously didn't buy it but she decided not to pry any further.

Just then the announcer in charge of the competition came.

"Now we move over to arts... The most simplest thing in the world." The announcer laughed.

Dey play.

See this one o.

Shouts of disagreement were thrown his way by the audience.

"Okay that's enough, I suppose you already know the rules so let's get started."

"First question; The first Nigerian political party was by who? And in what year?"

Without thinking twice Sonia pushed the buzzer. Bluestone students looked at her like an alien, considering the question was difficult.

"Herbert Macaulay in 1923 founded NNDP."

"And that's correct!"

Her classmates hailed her which made her smile a bit.

Second question; Another name for restorative justice is what?"

This time a student from bluestone hit the buzzer. "Correctional justice."

"That's wrong! Bonus to the Kenward students."

Flora pushed the buzzer. "Corrective justice."

"That's isn't fair! I almost got it right." The student complained loudly.

"That's minus five marks for opposing." The announcer said and almost all the bluestone students started making the hall rumble with their noises.

And so the competition continued with Kenward students getting the highest number of points. It wasn't that hard since Bluestone already lost five marks.

"I'm so proud of you guys!" Mrs Chinaza said gathering all of us in a hug.

"But if it's me you won't hug me o." The counsellor said bitterly at a corner but no one paid attention to her.

They were just happy that they did it, including Sonia. She just wanted to sleep.

Bluestone students eyed them as they walked in the hall still celebrating their victory.

Kelechi stuck her tongue out at Jessica and Eleanor causing others to laugh at the display.

Sonia couldn't be more happier, she thought it was the end but fate had other plans as usual.

"SONIA'S DAD IS A FRAUDSTER AND A THIEF!!!"

Oh no.

Not again.

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A/N

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Song recommendations for this chapter

•Luther by Kendrick Lamar and SZA.

•Rain on me by Ashanti.

•Broken clocks by SZA.

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