Hey Teema, how are you doing" , Micheal, a black haired, fairly handsome guy with green eyes asked as he look at the brown eyed beauty in front of him.
"I'm not sure I understand the question", she replied with a sneer.
"Can't you act normal for once", Micheal said with a sigh as he put on his backpack and turned to leave for school.
"Hey aren't you waiting for me", Teema asked as she ran after him.
Micheal kept walking without replying her as he increased his pace making her have to run a bit to keep up with him.
"Hey big head, wait up",she called out making him finally stop.
"I thought you were acting angry", she said as she caught up to him.
"Must you misbehave early in the morning", Micheal asked with an exasperated look on his face.
"Me!!! Misbehave"? She asked with an exaggerated look of surprise.
"Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about, like just now a normal girl would have replied that she was fine or not as the case may be but you, no way, you just have to show off your craziness", Micheal said with a sigh.
"Me crazy, fine since I'm crazy then stay away from me, let me be crazy all alone", Teema replied with tears in her eyes as she increased her pace and walked away.
"I'm sorry alright, I shouldn't have said that", Micheal apologized as he jogged up to her.
"Leave me, since you arrived you've just been insulting me", Teema said with a pout.
"Alright I'm sorry", Micheal apologized.
Teema stretched out her hand at his apology without saying a word.
With a sigh Micheal put one of those candy with sticks in her hand.
"This was the plan all along right", he asked a now smiling Teema.
"Yup", she replied with a giggle as they walked into the school.
"See you in class, I have to see the vice principal first", she said and walked off without waiting for his reply.
"You might be crazy Tee but you are my crazy girl", Micheal muttered with a wry smile before walking towards his homeroom.
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"Hey guys, what's up", Micheal said as he walked into his homeroom.
"I'm good, u"? Purity replied
"Doing great", Samuel said
'Nothing much", Praize and Prayer who were twins replied simultaneously.
"Hey Micheal over here", Samson called out with a raise of his hand.
"Hey what's cooking", Micheal asked as he walked up to him.
"Just psyching myself up for the term opening match later today", Samson replied as Micheal sat down close to him.
"Oh, but I thought coach said you were gonna be benched this season after the stunt you pulled off last season", Micheal said
"Yeah, but Yemi transferred schools so Coach had no choice but to let me play else he would have had to play with the subs and you know I'm a much better choice".
"I still can't believe you ditched the semi finals to have sex with Amara", Micheal said with a smile.
"You can't put it like that, at that time we had been dating for about three to four months and with how strict her parents were, we had no chance to meet up. Her parents travelled for a one day seminar and I knew I had to take my chance and besides I was sure you guys had it covered", Samson said with a smirk.
"You... We almost lost you know, if I hadn't scored a 90 minute goal pushing us into extra time, we would have lost", Micheal said with an expression that said he was tire of arguing.
"Well not everyone has got it going like you, smart, charming, great at sport and loved by the ladies. Some of us has to take our chances as they come", Samson said with a nonchalant tone.
"Don't be like this, you know it s not my fault that I'm good at sport", Micheal said with a tired expression.
"Just forget about it, by the way Esther from class three asked me to give you a letter, I think she's finally working up the courage to tell you she likes you", Samson said with a knowing smile.
"No interested, just trash it", Micheal said with a wave.
"Seriously???,Micheal the amount of girls asking you out in this school are more than thirty and yet you rejected them all, I'm starting to wonder if I should be scared for my butt hole" Samson said with and exaggerated look of fear.
"Maybe you should", Micheal said with a laugh.
"Damn, Samson said with an exaggerated expression of fear as he moved to his seat to make space for Teema who had just walked in with a sullen look on her face.
"Hey what's wrong", Micheal asked.
"It's....", Teema started before she was cut short by the teacher who walked in.
"Good morning class, it's a new year and a new term and I'm glad to see you all hale and hearty. Now with a month to your final year exams and the college entrance exams, I hope y'all be on your best behavior and put actual efforts into your studies this time, Mrs Adams said as she cast a side glance at Samson.
"Damn, this woman's out to get me", Samson whispered.
"Speaking of putting effort, I'm talking to you Sam, you and Micheal are good friends so I still can't understand why Micheal can be the best in school and yet you are at the bottom in class, Mrs Adams said exasperatedly.
"Well My dear Mrs Adams, not all of us are born lucky, Samson said.
"Good studies are less about luck and more about hard work, I hope you'll understand that".
"Now onto important topics, the board of education has put forth a new rule where the final year students has to spend one hour every morning reviewing their exams from previous terms so that means all your classes has been pushed forward by one hour and you will be spending one hour every morning for the next two to three months reviewing your past questions until you can confidently face them. In that regard any late coming will be viewed as an attempt to dodge the morning session and would be met with detention. Am I clear", Mrs Adams said with a note of finality.
"Yes ma", the class chorused in union.
"Alright Prayer, come and pass this out according to the names and we'll begin, Mrs Adams said and passed the papers to Prayer's twin sister.
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