Chapter two

“Nathania, is that you?” an elderly woman called from the kitchen as the front door opened.

 “Yes, granny it’s me,” ‘Oliver’ answered, shutting the door after her and hanging the car key on the wall.

 “It’s good you are back dear, I am almost done with dinner,” the woman said.

 “Okay granny, let me quickly rush and take a shower,” she said and ran past the kitchen door so that her granny won’t see her and the way she was dressed. Getting up to her room, she flung her backpack on the bed and took of her wig and the bobby pin, letting her chestnut brown hair to cascade down her shoulders. She flew her hair around, stretching out the strands before dropping the wig on her bed and walking over to her dressing mirror to drop the pin. She opened the drawer and got out a facial wipe which she used to clean off her makeup and then stare at her oval girlie face in the mirror.

 She heaved a sigh and took off her jacket and her turtleneck, dumping everything on the floor and then she unwrapped the strap she used on her chest. It was a good thing she wasn’t busty, it was what made her lie more believable and also the fact that she was taller than most girls at 5’9 all but added the cherry on top as she was also taller than most boys in the school. All of it all added to her charm and made her lie more believable. She sighed and kicked off her sneakers before taking off her jeans and then she went into the bathroom to take a shower.

 Walking back out five minutes later in a towel, she reached for her phone in her backpack and dialed a number. She slowly sat on the bed as she listened to the dial tone and right before the call could disconnect for no answer, it was answered and a tired voice flew into her ear. “Nana dear, how are you?”

 “Hi mom,” she breathed and paused, waiting to hear what her mother had to say. But when nothing came, she asked, “how are you?”

 “Tired, as always.”

 “And dad?”

 “He is sleeping,” she answered. “What about you and your grandma?”

 “We are good. Granny is making dinner.”

 “Oh Nana, she is not stressing herself, right?”

 Nathania shook her head before answering, “nah, she is good. I just came back from school and met her in the kitchen.” They both sighed and the call ran along before she brought herself to ask, “what about Oliver, is he okay now?”

 She heard her mom sigh again tiredly before she said, “we are still running tests. Last week own ended up not being accurate but we have hope with this one.”

 “Can I talk to him?”

 “He is asleep darling, but I will be sure to tell him that you asked of him when he wakes up. He misses you.”

 “I miss him too, so much.”

 “I will be sure to tell him that, you have my word.”

 Nathania nodded, and once again, the call ran along until she asked, “when are you going to tell me what he is suffering from?”

 “Soon dear, soon. Um…I have to go now, the doctor is here. I will call you before you go to sleep, okay?” her mother said and she nodded as an answer. “I love you.”

 “I love you too,” she replied but the call has only ended. Sighing, she dropped the phone on the bed and ran her hand through her hair. Cracking her neck, she stood up and went to the wardrobe to find something casual to wear. Then cleaning up her room and dumping the dirty clothes in the basket, she left the room to join her granny for dinner.

 After cleaning the kitchen and everywhere else, she helped her grandmother to her bedroom despite the woman complaining that she could handle it but she didn’t listen to her and still put her to bed, adjust the lighting in the room and kissed her good night before she went to hers. She grabbed her backpack and settled down to do her homework. Despite every shenanigan she was playing, she didn’t joke with her studies and had managed to bag number one in her school twice in a roll now and she wasn’t ready to let it go. She has always loved studying and had also refused to call herself a nerd.

 Done with her homework, she climbed into bed with her phone and contemplated calling her mom again but decided to let her call her like she had said but she waited so long that she ended up drifting to sleep without getting the call.

 The next day, she was awake bright an early, she made breakfast for her and her grandmother, took her grandmother’s to her bedroom for her before she started preparing for school and by the time she was done, she glanced at the boy staring back at her in the mirror and smiled, her energy back as she left her room, calling to her grandmother that she was leaving and grabbing the car key from the wall and leaving the house.

 When she got to school, she was shocked to see a BMW black power bike in her parking slot. She stopped few meters from it, first of all, she has never seen the bike before, and secondly, there were a lot of empty slots, so why did the owner have to park in her slot. Angry, she reversed and took another slot and got down. She was always on time which leaves the spot always empty for her until the students started calling it her slot and now, not only did someone take the spot but they seem to have come much earlier than her.

 She went to the bike and inspect it, it was authentic and in a marvelous condition, the owner was definitely a good one and as much as she loved the bike, she couldn’t help but wonder why there, why in her spot. She turned and went into the school, determined to find the owner and have them move but she searched the whole classroom and saw no one new. The arriving students were greeting her and the girls as always were begging for her attention but she had something bigger to handle. However, search as she may, she didn’t find any new student and had to give up when the bell rang.