Chapter 8: A Juicy Proposal.

"ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴇʟᴘ ʏᴏᴜ ɪꜱ ᴏɴᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴇᴀꜱᴛ ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛ"

Rihanna.

Oh what a week of hell!

After Efua and Nathaniel's stupid dramatics last week, it felt like the whole school hated me. Which was surprising as well as annoying, I mean, they were present when Nathaniel begged me to go out with him so why were they angry now?

I ignored the nasty comments they throw at me. Sometimes I feel like I'm a living corpse, aware of everything yet dead. Empress and Justice were trying their best but there was only so much they could ward off.

As I walked to the library, my new favorite place where I could ignore everything and focus on my life. Lately I've been reading a lot...fiction, non fiction and the likes.

My phone started beeping with notifications so I checked it. It was our school group on WhatsApp. Whatever they were discussing must be pretty interesting to make messages drop every second. Curious, I tapped on it.

Sleeping Jessy: Black souls are everywhere. Some of them look innocent but none of them are innocent 😑

I froze... Jessica was my arch enemy and sworn rival for life. She hated my guts and I hated her guts. Her speaking like this on the school group would mean only one thing.....

I scrolled through the other messages.

WhiteInk2023: Is this about Rihanna? Cause that girl is a bitch as it is. She did something wrong and she's acting all high and mighty.

I gulped.

They were talking about me.

Slut_for_Thabang: She keeps acting like she still have respect and dignity. I used to look up to her as a role model right from last year when I was in Jss3, now she don fuck up. Devil hidden in an angel. Tufia!

Juniors hated me too?

God!

Sleeping Jessy: Beware of such people tho. Imagine my close friend stealing the boy I like. I will be heartbroken and hurt.

Annie✨❤️: You guys should leave the girl alone. She took the boy fair and square. Whatever Efua is saying is trash.

A ray of hope sparked in my heart. Maybe not all the students in SLC believed such disastrous lie.

Slut_for_Thabang: Shut up bitch! It's people like you that take after her🖕

Ivy🍿: Rihanna will go to hell! And burnnnnn!!!😂

Whiteink2023: As innnn😂🖕

I closed my eyes and massaged my temples. The people that really hated me were more.

Another notification beeped.

ZayneDasilva: You guys don't have anything better than to disturb the fucking school with your fucking messages??!

He sounded mad. But the Zayne I've seen was never mad. He doesn't even show a trace of anger.

ZayneDasilva locked the group.

Only admins can send messages.

"You shouldn't really care about the shit people say to or about you, you know"

I turned back and met Zayne standing there. He looked calm, unperturbed. Unlike the message I saw from him minutes earlier.

"I know. I'm working on it" I replied, unable to look at him in the eye. His rich scent filled the whole library. It was the kind of scent one could not forget easily.

"Thank you" I muttered.

"For?"

"Helping me. I saw your message on the group. You even locked it" I explained. A look of confusion came on his face for a while before it went away.

"Oh? I didn't write any message. I locked the group yes, but I didn't write any message." He replied. I noticed something. That when he spoke, he spoke with an accent, maybe American or British. I was going to pay more attention to it.

"But I thought...okay wait. See the message" I showed him the message on my phone. He peered at it.

"That must be Dayo then. I gave him my phone so he could do his assignment. The notifications must have annoyed him. But I was the one that locked the group"

Yep, he definitely had an accent.

"Oh. Alright" I replied and slowly looked away from him. I waited to hear his retreating footsteps but none came.

"I want to speak with you though. Very important" he said, massaging his temple.

"About?"

"This whole issue of yours. I think I have a solution to it. I hate Nathaniel like hell and you dislike Efua."

"And...?"

"I want you to be my girlfriend"

I blinked at him, unable to digest what he just said.

"Wh-What?" I stammered.

"I just came out of a fucking relationship Zayne! And you are asking me out? Am I some game or what?" I snapped.

"Hey calm down." He responded tiredly. I saw him wince in pain and my anger generated to worry.

"Is something wrong?" I asked.

"Not a lover of talking and noise. It weakens me" he responded softly.

"I'm sorry for yelling. But what you asked I cannot do. I can't be your girlfriend, I don't like you that way" I said and shrugged.

"What I meant was that...we should fake date."

Oh I was soooo confused.

"Huh? What do you mean 'fake date'? Like we should pretend we are dating?" I asked.

"Exactly. Your image will need a little uplifting and I can help with that. Besides, I don't think Nathaniel would like seeing me with you. I could defend you from all your haters and you can keep ladies away from me" he explained.

I thought about what he said. Efua liked Zayne a lot, so dating him would spite her painfully. The whole school knew who Zayne was and they wouldn't dare insult or disrespect me in his presence as his 'supposed' girlfriend. As for Nathaniel,well, who likes seeing his ex moving on to a way better person?

The offer was juicy...but with Zayne? I wasn't sure if I should accept it. I mean, I don't know Zayne that much. Except he had maintained the position of Most Handsome Male in the whole of SLC for four good years when he came in Jss3, beating Nathaniel who bore that title. I knew his father was the owner of one of the biggest multinational companies here in Nigeria and abroad. I knew he was confident, cold and snobbish. And that was all I knew of him.

"I don't know Zayne. I don't know you that much"

"Do we need to know each other? It's just for the public eye. Besides that, in private, we don't need to act like we are friends or something" he replied. I bit my lower lip.

"Are there any rules for this?" I asked.

"I'll tell you the rules later."

"Do our friends need to know?"

"They need to. Or else they'll unconsciously destroy the whole plan. I'm sure of Dee and Amir. Can we rely on Empress and Justice?"

"Yes we can"

"Aiit then. Do you agree to do this?"

I paused before answering

" Yes Zayne. I agree to this"

Oh and...he had an American accent alright.

Spoiler.

"So you mean I should move my hips like this?" She asked, looking at me with confusion. I shrugged, trying so hard not to let the sexual tension I was feeling show on my face.

"Anyhow" I replied. She blinked at me and then smiled a small smile. Feeling by Ladipoe started playing. What she did next baffled me.

She started rocking herself slowly against my body.

Well fuck!

Sorry if this chapter sounds a bit messed up. I tried to write this in a hurry. I hope y'all are enjoying it. The fun is about to begin lol 😂😆

Like for real...the fun is bout to begin😉🍿