When she closed her eyes the night before; Athaliah had no idea but her alarm was ringing and threatening to damage her ear drums if she didn't wake up at that particular moment.

She reached over to the digital clock and turned the alarm clock off as she sighed and chuckled lightly as she checked the time.

5:40am.

Why the hell should she be awake at this time of the morning?

'Because you a prefect Miss'  her subconscious reminded as Athaliah groaned as she pulled herself out of her bed and walked into the bathroom.

She walked towards the sink as she grabbed her toothbrush and the toothpaste, a glance at the mirror brought back the previous day's memories and the events that had taken place in the previous months.

She sighed as she started brushing her teeth while staring at herself in the mirror. As she had chosen this path; she was going to walk in it till the very end.

Within minutes, she was already done dressing up as she walked towards the standing mirror at the edge of the room to watch herself knot her tie.

She was genuinely happy seeing the purple pleated skirt and the white and purple stripped shirt again. If there one particular thing Athaliah loved about DRC; it was the ever beautiful uniform.

DRC uniform always looked good on everybody. It was impossible for anyone not to slay in the uniform and with a body like hers; slaying in any form at all was no problem.

She stared at the white striped tie on her neck and sighed softly. The official tie for DRC was a plain purple tie with the golden logo embed on it but for prefects, it was a white and purple striped tie with the logo embed on it. She walked towards her reading table and grabbed her school bag as she slung it over her shoulder before grabbing her jacket and hanging it on her arm.

She walked towards the mirror and took a one last look at her dressing. From the black and white vans she wore to the purple stripped pop socks she wore, to her well ironed skirt and shirt and even to her hair; everything was perfect.

It had always been like that.

She took another short glance at herself as she finally walked out of the room and walked down the stairs. The house helps in the house were already awake and a plate of hot toasted bread and tea was already waiting for her on the dining table and Athaliah just dropped her jacket on the edge of the chair as she grabbed a toast bread and munched on it while sipping her tea.

As soon as she emptied her cup of tea and grabbed another toast bread, another girl adorning the same dressing as Athaliah walked into the dining room. Their dressings matched from the black and white vans to the socks, to the skirt and shirt and jacket and even to the white striped tie that hung on her neck.

They glanced at each other as Athaliah withdrew her eyes as she grabbed her jacket and walked out of the house. The driver was already waiting outside and Athaliah got into the car and checked her wristwatch.

Knowing fully well that the latter would want to seat down and eat her food, she chuckled lightly as she turned to the driver.

"Drive" she said as the driver glanced at the door.

"Is... " he started as Athaliah wore a frown.

"I just asked you to drive" she interrupted as the younger man but well older than Athaliah bent his head while apologizing.

"I'm sorry" he muttered as he ignited the engine and drove out of the compound.

Athaliah rested her back in the soft leather chair as she closed her eyes. Finally, it was her last year in secondary school, after a year she was going to be out of secondary school. Before now; Athaliah had been more than excited, happy and curious about how much, how beautiful and how memorable her final year at high school would be but now she didn't know.

She wasn't even pumped up that school was finally resuming; if anything she wished the school resumption would have be delayed slightly so that she could prepare herself well before resuming. Even as they had woken up early and left the house early, they still managed to get into a slight hold up and spent roughly about twenty minutes in the same place, Athaliah wished the traffic jam could continue forever and even when the driver drove into the school premises; she didn't want to get down.

She wanted to tell the driver to turn the car around and drive back home but after seating down in the car for a while; the younger man seated in front of the driver's seat glanced at the girl in the backseat through the mirror in the car.

Athaliah pursed her lips as she grabbed her jacket and her school bag and got down from the car and closed the door behind her.

The school was still relatively empty and Athaliah could easily make out a few students hanging around the secretariat and she was double sure they were prefects and her guesses were confirmed when as soon as she approached them; two other girls rushed towards her.

"Athaliah!" One of them called with a frown.

"Where did you put your phone?" The other one asked as Athaliah realized that she had forgotten to take it off airplane mode the previous day.

"Good morning guys" Athaliah mumbled trying to ease up the tense atmosphere.

"Don't good morning anyone Athaliah. How could you send such a message to the group and then vanish like that? Do you have any idea how worried we were?" The first girl asked as Athaliah swallowed her saliva.

"I'm sorry" Athaliah mumbled.

"Were you joking?" The second girl asked as she swallowed her saliva and shook her head.

"That you broke up with Chisom, you didn't mean it bah?" She asked as Athaliah sighed.

"No. I mean it, we broke up" Athaliah replied.

"Why? What happened? What the fuck is going on?" She asked as someone yelled at the trio.

"You realize that we are having a meeting here right?" Someone yelled as the first girl chuckled.

"We'll talk about this later. Let's join the meeting and better wear your jacket before Halimat goes wonder woman on your throat with the rules and regulations" she said as Athaliah laughed quietly as she quickly wore her jacket and walked over to join the horde of students that were clustered around.

Her eyes met the light skinned boy as soon as she joined the crowd and without missing an heartbeat, she took her eyes off him and allowed it to rest on the girl who was talking.

"Athaliah, you are late" the girl said as Athaliah glanced at her wristwatch and then turned to the girl talking.

"Its 7:30. I'm not late" Athaliah said as the girl chuckled.

"Didn't you see my message on the group yesterday? That all Prefects must be available by 7am?" She asked as Athaliah glanced at her friends who nodded at her.

"That's why I kept calling and trying to reach you but your number was switched off" the second girl said as Athaliah swallowed her saliva.

"I'm sorry" she said as the other girl nodded and frowned.

"Where's your sister?" She asked as a wave of nausea rushed through Athaliah.

"She's not my sister" Athaliah replied as everyone turned to her including her friends wearing surprised and curious looks.

"I don't know where she is" Athaliah added in a harsh tone as the girl who had asked the question chuckled.

"You both obviously slept in the same house, how could you say you don't know where she is?" She asked as Athaliah wore a frown that made her look very unfriendly.

"Halimat; just because we sleep in the same house doesn't mean I'm her bodyguard or something that I have to know where she is all the time. I just told you I don't know and then I don't know" Athaliah replied as Halimat stared at Athaliah for a while before turning back to the other prefects.

"Someone should please give Ene a call" Halimat said as she turned to Athaliah.

"You are supervising the SSS2 students for coming late" Halimat said as Athaliah stared at the latter unable to find words to say as she chuckled.

In the whole of DRC; the rudest and the moat uncontrollable st of students were the current SSS2 students. They had no regard for any prefect and they broke the rules and regulations like no one could lay their hands upon them except the teachers which was also true.

Asking her to supervise the SSS2 students was the same thing as asking Athaliah to go and embarrass herself. Athaliah glared at her as she folded her arms.

"Petty much" she whispered as the girl beside her chuckled lightly.

The meeting with the prefects lasted for over ten minutes as Halimat spoke about things that Athaliah thought even did not make sense. By the time they started walking back to class; the school was already swarming with different students in purple skirts and purple pants.

"What was that about you not knowing where Eneche is earlier?" The first girl said as Athaliah shrugged.

"I don't know" Athaliah replied as the second girl chuckled.

"Dude, she's you sister" the second girl said as Athaliah stopped and faced the second girl.

"Step- sister, you forgot the add that prefix" Athaliah said as both girls stopped to stare at her.

"And Sekemi, at this moment; the last person you want to talk about with me with that Ene. Don't do it" Athaliah added as she continued walking.

"Wow. You and Eneche had always had bad blood but it wasn't this bad last term right? Did something happen over the holidays?" The first girl asked as Athaliah turned to her.

"Jadesola, I'm serious about the Eneche thing, I don't want to hear about it now and even in the future. We are two separate entities and we have no business with each other" Athaliah replied.

"The same way you can't ever ask Ene about my business, don't ask me about hers too" Athaliah added as she continued walking towards the senior block pursing her lips and sighing.

"So we are dropping the Eneche topic. Now do you want to tell us why you and Chisom broke up?" Sekemi asked as Athaliah shrugged.

"We just decided to break up" Athaliah replied as she realized that her voice was getting choked up and her throat was parched.

"Dude, you don't give us that kind of answer. No one in DRC would believe that crappy lie not to talk of your own best friends; if Beelma was here, she'll laugh at your ridiculous shot at lying" Jadesola said as Sekemi nodded.

"Yeah. That lie was too bare" Sekemi added.

"Beelma is not back yet?" Athaliah asked as Sekemi nodded.

"Yeah. Still enjoying her stupid ass in Miami, she should be back at the end of the week. She'll been there throughout the holiday, I don't know what's so special about Miami" Sekemi replied as Athaliah laughed.

"You won't know until you visit" Athaliah said as Jadesola burst into laughter. They walked into the senior block as they headed for the stairs.

"So good job at your attempt at changing the topic" Jadesola said as Athaliah swallowed her saliva without replying.

"Athaliah, what happened?" Jadesola asked as Athaliah shook her head.

"I just told you guys, we just broke up. Its up to you to believe me or not" Athaliah replied as she could feel her eyes getting red and tears rushing to her eyes.

"Athaliah does that even make sense to you?" Sekemi asked as she chuckled.

"Before we left school, you two were still all over each other planning how you would spend our final year and all. I still saw your Instagram birthday pictures with him and he was at your birthday party about a month ago and I still saw you two videos after a week or so. So tell me Athaliah, how it makes sense that three weeks later; you both have broken up without no reason" Sekemi started.

"You are by far one of the smartest students in our set, I'm very sure that doesn't even make sense to anyone not to talk of a smart person like you" Sekemi added as they got to the entrance of their class.

"Where are our seats?" Athaliah asked.

"First middle, third, fourth seats and the same for the second round" Jadesola replied.

On a normal resumption day; Athaliah would go for seats in the middle, seats near where Chisom sat but this time around, she walked straight towards the seat beside the wall and placed her bag on the chair.

"What do you think is wrong with Athaliah Jade? She's so off" Sekemi said with a small frown as Jadesola sighed.

"I can see that myself but we have no idea what must have happened. Let's give her time to talk to us and don't pressure her. She's obviously not yet adjusted to the breakup" Jadesola replied as Sekemi nodded as she walked towards her seat.

"I know its just my gut feeling but something tells me that whatever is going on; we are not gonna like it" Sekemi said as Jadesola sighed.

Barely as soon as the girls had sat down; a loud siren filled the school as the students started standing up murmuring among themselves.

"Do you need help with the SSS2 students?" Jadesola asked as Athaliah waved her hands at them.

"No need. If Halimat doesn't find you guys at where she has assigned you, I don't think she'll let me off" Athaliah replied as the girls burst into laughter as Jadesola closed the space between her and Athaliah.

"I don't know what has happened Athaliah but I know you are not dealing well with it. I also know that you are not okay and I don't force you to say anything or do anything but I want you to know that we would be always be here for you" Jadesola said as she pulled Athaliah into a hug and hugged her.

"We've got you" Jadesola added as Athaliah pursed her lips and hugged Jadesola back.

"Thank you Jadesola" Athaliah whispered as she hugged the latter.

"What are you doing?" Athaliah asked as Chisom sighed.

"You can't handle those SSS2 students on your own,  I'm going to help you" Chisom replied as Athaliah chuckled.

"You don't get it do you? I told you, I don't want to have anything to do with you. So get lost, I don't want to see you" Athaliah replied as Chisom sighed.

"Athaliah... " he started as Athaliah closed her eyes as she sucked in a breadth.

"Chisom, get out" Athaliah said as she opened her eyes to see Chisom walking away. She panted slightly, her chest heaving upwards and downwards as she withdrew her gaze. Tears were rushing to her eyes as she walked towards the SSS2 block.

Unlike other blocks that was becoming empty at every passing minute, the SSS2 block was filled with students laughing and walking about like they didn't realize that it was time for assembly.

A few of the boys hanging around the railings looked down at her from the storey building and they started talking.

"Isn't that Snr Athaliah?"

"That's her"

"What's she's doing here"

"Wait, she's the one in charge of our block?"

"Just how hilarious is that?"

"This is going to be really embarrassing"

Athaliah sucked in a breadth as she could clearly hear what the boys were saying. A few of the other students had seen her as well and they started murmuring amongst themselves without moving an inch. Athaliah rubbed her forehead as she unbuttoned her jacket.

She walked towards the middle of the block and faced the storey building as she bit her lower lip quietly.

"SSS2 students, I'm going to count to five and if you are not out of here; whatever comes after it; you'll take it like that. One!, two!" She started yelling as although some of the students rushed out of their classes, glanced at her and didn't even make a move. Some of them were even laughing.

"Five" Athaliah said as she finished counting and chuckled at them.

"I want to see, between me and you guys, who's more crazier" she muttered as she walked towards the restroom on the ground floor and opened the store room. She grabbed a mop from the store and bent down and removed the pile of white material before she walked out of the store and entered the first class and swung the mop stick at the first person she saw.

Athaliah wasn't even sure if the mop stick had hit somebody but the students started fleeing the very next moment. As soon as she walked into a class; she swung the mop stick hitting a lot of students who started wailing wile running down the stairs and towards the assembly ground.

Athaliah placed the wooden stick on her shoulder as she panted.

She ran her hands through her hair as she wiped the sweat that had formed on her face while adjusting her uniform as she dropped the stick on the floor and started walking back towards the assembly ground.

It was indeed a rare scene to see the SSS2 students run towards the assembly ground. They either walked leisurely or almost didn't come at all. But this time around, they were running with panicked expression on their faces and they looked terrified.

Most of the prefects and students were even more surprised to see Athaliah walking behind them a huge frown on her face.

As soon as she reached the assembly ground she glanced across the SSS2 students and remembering how some of them had laughed at her; irritation overwhelmed down.

"SSS2 students, bounce!" She yelled as immediately without a word while everyone watched in shock, the SSS2 students started kneeling down.

"Seems like I'm the crazier one"

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This chapter is supposed to be dedicated to someone else but I'm dedicating it to one of the most special people in my life. She has greatly contributed to my growth in numerous and various ways and I just can't start mentioning. If I'm down, I just have to run to her DM, if I feel lonely and I want to talk to someone, she's always there for me. You know the elder sister, younger sister best friend vibes. I honestly want to meet you skin to eye because I want to hug you real tight and never let go.  On this birthday of yours, I wish you the very best.

Happy Birthday Omokehinde_

Madness in its finest form is this Monday's Athaliah oo.... I'm laughing hard because.... I don't know. I find this chapter so funny.

You've met two girls out of the squad, Sekemi and Jadesola, I think I have something to do with that name but then sha; its a beautiful name but what do you think of the two?

And yeah, y'all also met Halimat too. You must think that when Athaliah said she was petty; it was meant to be a joke but when we go further ehn, all of you will realize that Athaliah wasn't joking at all... Just patiently wait for it.

These SSS2 students just don't know anything yet; they will be the subject of plenty people's anger ehn, they don't know anything yet... Lemaoooo...

Brother Chisom no wan hear word, person go still backhand am like this......

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