It's been over a week since I started the summer training and ever since, Tee has been my alarm clock.
'Arise and shine!' Tee's familiar voice rang in my ears. His morning breath fanned my face as my drowsy eyelids fluttered open, My sight was greeted with Tee's signature grin as he hovered over me. I shoved him to the side which sent him rolling down to the floor.
'Ouuuu!' He groaned, reeling in pain as he landed with his back on the floor.
'Take that, you blasted sleep ruiner! ' I seethed, stomping into the bathroom.
'Good morning to you too.' Tee mumbled behind me as he limped out of my room and shut the door behind him with a slam.
I eased myself and quickly showered, mentally preparing for that day.
We had building practice, which basically meant we'll be doing the concrete and block making stuffs. The thought alone was tiring as I half-dragged myself out of the shower into my
'Honey you are a rockUpon which I standAnd I come here to talkI hope you understandThat green eyesYeah the spotlight, shines upon youAnd how could anybody deny youI came here with a loadAnd it feels so much lighterNow I met youAnd honey you should knowThat I could never go on without youGreen eyes-'Coldplay's green eyes blared through my headset as I trudged on to school. The morning sun shone through bright clouds, lighting up the azure sky, a nice change from the obsidian sky after a rainy night. It was a perfect day... Well...not until a certain white convertible out of no where, sped past me, splashing murky water on me.'HEY!!!' I yelled as I stomped my right foot in exasperation, causing my headset to slide down, hanging on my neck.Familiar cackles rang through the air along with Spanish expletives.
On getting to the workshop, I spotted Allen scribbling on his log book.I kept my distance, knowing he was probably still mad at me.I stuffed my hands into the pockets of my workshop coat, letting my eyes scan the workshop.Heavy machines were mounted at different sections of the workshop. Metal chips were seen scattered about and oil stains spotted the floor.I felt like I was being watched, until my eyes locked with a pair of familiar azure eyes. Allen Briggs'.I turned away quickly, the uneasy feeling still swimming in the pit of my stomach. I wasn't ready to face him yet.I still felt bad about what happened earlier today.I was lost in my thoughts until a familiar tug pulled on my lab coat.'Hey Annie!' Amber chirped.'Hey Amber' I flashed her a weak smile.'You okay?' She asked, squinting her eyes in scrutiny, causing her glasses to slip down her nose a little.
Should I wear this yellow sundress with brown flower patterns or this brown sundress with yellow floral patterns?' Dara asked, holding up two dresses in front of me over face time. I rolled my eyes as she looked away then switched to faux thought as she glowered at me with her dark orbs.'Yellow would look amazing on you, you know. Sort of compliments your dark skin tone.' I finally said, after few minutes of genuine contemplation.'But brown sort of brings out my brown eyes.' Dara chipped in, staring admiringly at her eyes through a hand mirror.'Dara, for the umpteenth time. Your eyes are rich black.' I rolled my eyes again.'Of course not!' She whined, slumping on her bed. ' They're just a reeeeally dark shade of brown. Like dark chocolate.' She stared off dreamily.Okay, with Dara, you can never argue to an end, except you want to argue for eternity.'Alright Dara. I agree with
I felt my cheeks heat up as he walked past me as if he didn't just cause mayhem, probably world war 3 inside me as my insides melted into purée.I noticed a smirk on his face as he walked past me towards the workshop building. The nerve of him!Snapping out of his winknopism, which I am fully aware is not a real word, I scurried to the lecture theatre. As I entered.I spotted Allen holding a bundle of cardboards on one hand and piles of log books on the other.I walked up to him, taking the log books from his hands.'Hi.' I muttered as I collected the log books'Good morning princess. Ah, thank you! What would I do without you?!' He gushed, his dimples on display as a toothy smile splayed on his lips.I chuckled at his antics and chimed in. 'You'd be lost in the dark, dark corners, searching for hope.'Allen laughed softly as I joined him to collect the assignments from the g
Uh, Annie? Who's him?' Asked Dara, her face scrunched up in scrutiny.'I'll be back!' I sprung up from my seat and ran after Allen, ignoring Dara's voice as she called out to me to wait. I spotted him as he finished buying lunch. Panting, I stopped in front of the lunch line, my palms resting on my knees as I steadied my breath. I got a bottle of water and scurried after Allen as he sat alone at his table.'Are you jealous?' My hands slammed on the table, facing him with his tray of food trapped in between. I leaned in, staring deep into his sky blue eyes, daring him to say the truth.Rolling his eyes, he replied. 'What do you mean, Annie?'Annie? No princess?I blinked back the look of disappointment on my face and sat in front of him.'You know what I mean.' I fixed him with an annoyed look.'Pft... Why would I be?' He scoffed, facing his food like it fascinated him mu
What if I'm all a game to him, to make me fall for him which evidently gives him the power to do whatever he wants with me? I cringed inwardly at the though of that and increased my pace as my apartment building surfaced.Well. Whatever. I'm too exhausted to think about that now.Getting home, I had a quick shower, had lunch then settled in on my assignment.As I flipped through the pages of the textbook, some pieces of paper secured between two pages caught my attention.I gasped as I glanced through it, remembering Amber's excited self as she reminded me of it.'Oh. I'd appreciate some adventure.' I chuckled as I headed towards my wardrobe to get ready.Peeling my eyes away from the flyer, I glanced at the time and gasped: 5:45pm!With the speed of light, I changed my outfit and put on a black knee level straight dress with a pair of sandals. I brushed my hair, brushing the bangs to th
'Welcome.' He said. His voice came out deep and velvety, making me want to purr.I mirrored his expression, a big smile plastered on my face as my eyes remained locked on his gaze.Soon his gaze lifted from me to Amber who scooted closer to him as they talked in hushed tones.I watched him as he spoke.He had an aura which fascinated me.He looked like he was in his late twenties.My overt gawking was soon interrupted as Amber turned towards me and smiled, stepping closer to me.'It's a pleasure to meet you Annie.' Sir Quentin said, offering me a hand shake. I took his hands which was both firm and warm to the touch.It was strangely soothing as his large hand wrapped around my slim hand. He then looked at Amber and they seemed to be communicating. Smiling at me one last time, he turned away from us, back to the actors.As Amber dragged me back towards the exit, I couldn't help but ask.
She was recovering really fast and the whole family just began to exhale in relief when she was plunged into severe relapse by an offsetting text by her fiancee saying he's 'moved on' since she won't be alive for too long.That was the roughest year for Shirley and I'd catch her cry herself to sleep almost every time.I was hurt because she was going through such pain and I couldn't do anything about it.After about six months, she decided to go back to Paris to start all over again. After days of contemplation, Mum finally agreed.I prayed in my heart for her safety as I watched her walk towards the plane, her back turned towards us, her last words re-echoing in my mind.'I'd be opening a lemonade shop soon with the amount of lemons life keeps throwing at me.' She chuckled sadly as her hazel eyes glowed dimly.I peered into her eyes, searching for a reason to believe she's ready to be by herself. 'Stop worrying about me kiddo, It's wri
Anu and Rona had long done their convocation.Timi and I were no longer together, he cheated on me.It seemed his play boy nature came crawling back.I thought I could manage, I mean, some years ago, I always told myself that if my boyfriend cheats on me, I wouldn't break up with him but please, it's easier said than done.I focused on school's work, this was my final year, I wouldn't let a man make me mess up in school.I continued my going to club, hanging out with different guys.....dating different guys actually.It was like my old self had come back.Though it wasn't entirely as before when I was always being mean to people, I just resumed being my old social self.Life was better without Timi.-Convocation without Timi.He's just
"Olivia, Jennifer" I called out.We walked into the room, nobody was there, Aisha entered the bathroom."oh my......" She screamed.Debra and I rushed into the bathroom"Jesus""oh my God" .Timi came towards us"what happened?"We didn't need to answer because he could see Olivia on the floor, blood all over."this is what I was talking about. This was what I meant by a dangerous game....... Is she dead?"Aisha cried.Debra bent to feel her pulse and all" I don't know... I c-can't tell" it looked like she was terribly scared.Her expression seemed blank and the last time Debra had a face like this, she awfully cried her eyes out that day , that was like years ago, the last time I saw her cry: the first time her mom disowned her.But I doubted if she would actually
"I didn't expect you'd come" I tell Timi."I'll assume Cora told her boyfriend about today and you people na decided to come and why on Earth would you guys wear an agbada to an orphanage"Aisha sighed.Yeah, they were both on this blue 'agbadas' looking as fresh as ever.Timi explained"no we didn't wear it to go with you guys, we are actually going to a colleague's wedding, we just came to drop some few things""you both look silly" Aisha rolled her eyes. It seems she had her monthly visitor because she was always with the attitude whenever she's on it."what things?" Debra asked Timi. Before he could answer, she walked over to their car, looked in it."A fine big bag, a carton of indomie, some other fine bags and ohh, a bag of rice" She called out.We turned to the guys to give an explanati
"Yeah" I buried myself in his arms."Hey Rona" She smiled at me."Guy, I hope you both had fun?" Timi asked as he placed his hand on Jude's shoulder. His Eternite
"If anything happens, blame it on yourself and besides you said you'd go drop me off?" I asked."yeah, we'll go back to our place now, get dressed and I'll take you to whatever cinema and when you’re done, I'll come with Rona to pick you off and then take you back to hostel" he smiled."you are creepy" I say to him.He and Emeka gave themselves slapping handshakes laughing.We got back to Emeka's place, I went to wear something simple, no need to stress it, I had no intention of impressing Jude.Coming out, Emeka nodded at me in admiration but Timi frowned and asked me to go change the dress."the clothe is okay na, it's a fine dress" Emeka said."yeah, that's the problem, it's too fine and she's a fine girl... You suppose understand guy.... Sweetie, please wear something longer or anything"Chapter 152
" Dude, have you forgotten? I d-don't smoke " Timi instantly say to him."Ohh, true... yeah yeah, I forgot, my bad " his friend quickly answered.I had seen Timi smoke some couple of times.Well, many of my friends did smoke.The girls and I have all tried it several times, my elder brother Daniel once caught us and was really mad at us. He made us wash all the cars in our compound.We decided it wasn't good for us and we vowed never to do it again.I remember the time I saw Timi smoking and I gave him serious warning to stop it.Rona came into the living room, beret on her head."You all are still up? I just came here to get water from the fridge "She got her water and came to sit with us.We all become awkwardly quiet."Wow Timi, you can really make hair " sh
" because shouting is all you need to get sense into that head of yours " she fired." you're sick Deb, you need to see a doctor or something! "" no, you are the mentally deranged person here " she pushed her plate away making it break into pieces." What if Olivia has been right all these while, life isn't all about insults and aggression, can't you just take a chill pill and grow up ..... Besides, I don't even know what I did here "" she took Jude, she took Derrick and she's probably aiming at Timi and when she gets him, if you come crying to me, your own don done " she barked." and don't you ever in your life tell me to grow up because you are the one person that really needs to grow up "" whatever " I waved her off. I didn't like fighting with her but she's being stupid." whatever fire you there! " she gave me her five fingers 'waka'
" it's fine Olivia, I have forgiven you " I tell her.I could see Rona's face lit up at the word 'forgiven'." honestly Olivia, I've also missed you and the way things used to be "" me too and that's the reason I came here, I came to put things in order... You've always had a nice heart right from time and I know it wouldn't be hard for you to welcome me back but you see Aisha... Not even Aisha, Deborah in particular ehn " she laughed" calling her Deborah is even a crime " I joined her laughing." I know right " even Anu and Rona giggled.We were quiet for a while." remember that time your mom gave you custard to school? " she smirked.She didn't even need to say much, I almost fell down laughing." what happened to your custard? " Rona asked unamused.<
" oga chill, don't transfer aggression on me, we all know you are pained because Benita dumped you for Timi.... You sef, it's because you are not trying hard for her " she munched." please and please, it would be nice if you'll shut up"no honestly, it's obvious you still love her and as you're seeing me, I'm badly in love with Timi " she smirked" what exactly is your problem, look at you pregnant but still talking about loving another guy... Are you like psycho or something? " I yelled" so falling in love makes one psycho? Check again! " she still smirkedI stood up to leave "I'll leave you to your issues, I just came to check on you, bye."Wait " she called outFrowning I turned to look back, she was on her feet alread" I can help you " she said softly" why would I need your help?" I can help you get C