Janet was speechless, her mouth hung low; did she just get swatted across the face like a fly? She didn't even know what to say or do, she just stared at Adebola. The girl who was still frowning at her, but she could see the mocking tilt of her lips.
She slapped me. Janet said in her mind, almost not believing it. Then it clicked to her, that good for nothing boy crazy girl had just slapped her!
Janet didn't even know that she could attack the way she did, she didn't care if this would ruin her head girl status, she saw red. Even her mother didn't slap her on the face! With a jump, she had the shocked girl on the tiles, pinning her down with both hands, her shoulders still having a slight pain from before.
"You threw me to the ground that day, I left you. Then you call me here to slap me...me! You dey mad?" Janet emphasized, watching as the skinny girl pathetically squealed, throwing her hands in the air, she managed the get a grip on Janet's plaited fring
"Don't you think you're overreacting? I mean he actually came to ask and you just brushed him off."This came from Juliet, they were both on her bed with Janet in the corner of her room, she had her head down on her knees. She felt really bad, especially when she was leaving and bumped into him. He was talking with Dotun, which just made her shoulders tense up.When he'd seen her, he just lazily waved and walked away, what bothered her was that Dotun laughed in her face as she skipped and practically jumped on Derek. It felt like she was mocking her, of course she was, she had ruined it...again."You know, I think she was lying. Call him and ask.""Call him? Are you crazy?" Janet laughed out, getting to her feet as she plumped against her bed. Letting out a loud groan, how could she even muster up the guts to call him after ignoring him."Or I will." Juliet warned, but Janet didn't take her seriously, she just scoffed. "Go ahead." She
"Come." Derek tapped the space beside him, with a quick nod, she pressed her butt against the hot wood; almost hissing at the feeling."It's hot." She said, making him chuckle, when her body got used to the heat, she face him with a smile. "Do you live here?" She asked, wanting to know more about him. Derek just shook his head, turning so his legs were on each side of the bench and he could face her properly."I asked first. This doesn't look like a place you'd come to."He explained, his eyes trained on her. Janet noticed that he had this look on his face, and his lips slightly parted, his eyes wandering. Like he was trying not to look somewhere.She copied his movement, slowly putting her second leg over the bench, wanting to appear seductive. "I was just hanging out with Shalom. My house is not too far from here sha." She shrugged, purposely giving him more information than needed."So I can just come by abi?" He joked as she giggled at him,
A few days had gone by after Derek and Janet's little hangout, she still cheesed at how he reacted to her flirty attempts which were definitely not in vain. After they had gone back to Shalom and Sammy, Janet had to run back home because it was already getting late and her mom kept calling her.A whole week had gone by after that, Derek and Janet had chances to talk but guess who came in to ruin it...You guessed it, Dotun.But it want only Dotun, Jagun came to join the bandwagon.Fate might have had it in for her, even though she was now friends with Derek— or acquaintances? Janet still hadn't stopped her often gazes at him during class, in fact; it had increased.Not that she was a stalker or whatever. He was just interesting to observe.Some people had decided to grow a pair and actually talk with him, people like Subomi.Before she knew it, her dreaded week came; no not her period, rather it was the week of inter house sport practic
Shoot!Janet's mind instantly restarted as she quickly bent down to pick her baton, all the others had began to speed to the finish line. With a loud groan, she boosted. Wrapping her hand around the baton as she ran pass Gary, then Demilade, catching up to Jagun.Whatever he had said, she needed to get it out of her mind. What the heck did he mean by saying that he wanted her for himself? Was that why he'd been acting angry around her? All because he liked her?She wasn't going to believe that.In annoyance, she increase her speed, her eyes steadying towards the finish line, she was fast, but Jagun was ahead of her. He had probably said that to get a reaction out of her and the worst part was that it worked!She felt her blood boil at this, picking up her pace, she began to run, run like her entire life depended on it, she felt her toes touch her butt. That's how long her legs were flying.Rip.Her body tore against the light fabri
Yinka pursed her lips; looking down at her script, her eyes digging through the paper in shame. The teacher gave her a look of disappointment before walking to the next seat. Her hands shook as she let out a shaky breath. Of course she was going to fail! She didn't bother reading for the test because she was rather preoccupied. You guessed it, with the thoughts of Janet and Derek, specifically how to tear them apart.When she went over to Janet, after the inter house sport practice; Janet had purposely ignored her, giggling at whatever stupid thing that tall arrogant idiot filled her ears with. Derek this, Derek that. She was absolutely fed up with it! So, when Janet did that; Yinka stormed off; intentionally hitting her shoulders against Derek; but it sure did hurt as hell. His shoulders were so hard!"Stupid annoying egoistical brat." Yinka remembered spitting his way after she had passed; holding unto her stinging shoulders. When she looked behind her, she noticed that
Janet adjusted in her seat, sighing for the tenth time since the class had started. She felt uneasy, well; this was because Derek had been absent for about three days and counting.She hadn't seen him and was very worried.What made her that way was the fact that his 'crew' actually showed up at school but he didn't. This was very unlike them, in fact; during one of her nosy adventures, she heard Obinna complaining about how Derek hadn't been picking up his phone.Janet picked up her bag before digging her hands into it, bringing out her phone, which she had snuck to school. Unlocking it quietly, she tapped her fingers against the screen; sighing again as she saw that he left her on read.She sent him a message when he didn't come to school the first time, a little hey, but she had been on read ever since. "I swear, if you sigh again I'll bite your ear." Ada spat at her as she twirled her pen; her legs resting on the chair of the person in front of her. Jan
It couldn't be jealousy.Jagun sneered at the thought, why on earth would he care if Janet was obsessed with his best friend? Besides, she wasn't his type, even if he sometimes admired her beauty, or even her figure that showed through her uniform...maybe he also stared sometimes in awe at how smart she was. Just harmless observations.Janet knew she couldn't clean up his bruises in his parlor, they needed to go to a more hygienic place. Like the toilet...just to clean the bruises! She wasn't using that as an excuse to be alone with him— or perhaps she was."Guys, we'll be back." Janet spoke up, trying to hide the grin on her face. Ada looked up at her with an arched brow before she then snorted. "Babe, where are you going?" Ada asked while scrunching her nose, looking up at Derek in suspicion. She didn't trust him, even if Janet thought he wasn't a bad guy; Ada wasn't yet convinced."I want to clean the wounds, it can get infected." Janet
I almost kissed her.Derek wondered in his mind as the realization began to kick in, he had almost kissed Janet. They were so close, their lips almost touching, if anyone of them had just leaned in, he couldn't guarantee that it'd have be just a peck.He had thought that when he leaned in, she'd have slapped him and stormed off; but she just stared at him with those brown eyes of hers, parting her lips which looked rather inviting at that moment. Thank goodness Jagun had interrupted them, like he had said before, he didn't know what he'd do if they kissed.Janet and the others had left him to his thoughts about an hour ago, he still recalled what Janet did before leaving his home. When she and his friends were walking out the gate, she turned towards him with that innocent look on her face. He watched how she smiled so much that her apples on her cheeks beamed. When he was still focused on her smile, she got on her tip toes and