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TWENTY-FIVE
RHEMA
"When will you start thinking about her mother?", I said angrily into the voice note and then clicked on send. I watched it send and then the blue tick showed.
I stared at it waiting for her to reply but she didn't as I had expected and I clicked my phone and watched the phone dim till it blacked out.
"Yo, what's up?", Tochi asked as I started walking out of the boys' bathroom.
"I'm good, Fam. How's you?"
"Okay. Did you hear next week is hand over?"
"Guyy, I heard it. The whole school guy, no way not to hear". We're out of the bathroom now, walking towards the lunch hall.
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