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 practicShoot!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
It seemed like Dotun had been making her moves on Derek, well, not that it was new; but this time she really went at it.Janet was surprised when she saw Derek down the hall, that wasn't the surprising part, it was when he actually walked over to her with a small awkward smile and said hello. Janet didn't even know what to say, she didn't expect him to actually walk all the way to her!"What's up?" He asked, showing her one of his scarce smiles; he awkwardly ran his hands against the back of his neck. It had been three days since she and Derek had their almost kiss. When she went home that day, the smile almost tore her face.She kept on cheesing and giggling about it to Juliet; the help/her gist partner. Janet couldn't believe that they were so close to kissing, she even saw him lean in. Did that mean he wanted to kiss her as bad as she did? Janet bit her lip at the thought, unknown to her that Derek's gaze followed down to her lips."You do that a lot." Derek n
One second.Two seconds.They didn't pull away, Derek's eyes widened as if the realization had hit him; Janet just stared, backing away from the scene slowly, wondering if he'd kiss Dotun back. Her heart felt like it was being squeezed in her chest, her lips quivered at the thought of him actually giving in to the kiss - so she ran.She didn't even care if they heard the school bag on the table she had accidentally knock down fall to the ground, Janet just ran, making her way back to the class. Her eyes felt heavy, she felt sick to the stomach; all she could do was put on a fake smile and walk back into the noisy classroom.She should have said no when Dotun asked her if she could talk to Derek."She's back." Yinka declared, looking over at Janet, from just a look alone, anyone could see that Janet wasn't in the mood for jokes - even if she had a smile on her face, her eyes told a different story."Haha yeah." Janet sai
-"Senior Janet, please it was my mommy that was delaying me." One of the juniors cried out in annoyance, clutching his bag with tears almost welling up in his lower eyelid. Ada hissed, fed up with the boys behavior; Janet knew Ada was about to say something mean, so Janet stepped in - still in a good mood from what had happened on Saturday."Don't worry, just go. Don't sha come late again." She pardoned, giving the boy a sweet smile. "Ah nawa oh, this one you're just letting them get away with it, and don't think I haven't noticed that permanent grin on your face." Ada pointed out once the boy had ran to his class, then up the stairs to attend the assembly."What do you mean?" Janet hummed, playing clueless. Ada was right, ever since Friday, she'd had a grin on her face, her mood was touching the sky. Even on a Monday, Janet was still on cloud nine. "Guy yarn me nah, what went down at the party?" Ada groaned, wanting to know what...or who got her best friend so