All Chapters of I. CHOOSE. YOU (A Nigerian coming of age Novel): Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

39 Chapters

Authors introduction

Welcome dudes and dudeths! I'm honestly Soo excited to start writing a book of this caliber. Apparently this is my very first Nigerian book, yup very first. I've always had the thought of writing a book that brings awareness to some of the bad things going on in our society today, practically to all teens out there in the world, and how we can change our society at large. I honestly hope my book reaches out to people out there. Some of the things this book is going to surround on would be, 1) The abusive use of drugs (this particular one is sadly really rampant) 2) Body shaming (people that do this really need to have a serious attitude adjustment) 3) Suicide attempt (this is quite rampant among Teens) 4) inferior complex (won't lie even I have this) 5) And of course Love I mean we all need love in our lives, whether

Rica

"DID YOU HEAR!" "Hear what?" "That Rica just came back from the psychiatric hospital" "What! Are you serious, so the rumors were actually true" "Yes na, I heard that the poor girl wasn't completely okay up there" "Wait is that not Rica over there?" "Shhh don't point at her na, see now she's looking at us" "Why is she just staring at us like that, Abeg let's just go" I stared unwavering at the two girls as they hurriedly left. God I hated this school. It was only full of rich dumb snubs, didn't they know the difference between a Rehabilitation center and a psychiatric hospital. And yes apparently I'm the Rica they were soo shamelessly talking about soo openly. I stiffly continued my walk down the hallway and as I walked people kept pointing in my direction whisper

Someone with a head on her shoulders

WARNING! THIS CHAPTER IS SENSITIVE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "WHO CAN TELL ME, what you'll use to solve this mathematical problem?" As soon as that question left Mr Lekans mouth everywhere became extremely quiet. Not like I was expecting anything different, like I said my school wasn't really filled with the brightest students. Then he started calling out names "Daniel" he strained out. Daniel stood up immediately, he looked somewhat determined to answer the question. "Sir" he started "I don't know the answer" he boldly voiced out, then a grin broke out on his face. Yup I was definitely expecting this. The class that was once quiet went into a fit of laughter's. You see Daniel was... would I call him...the jokester of the class, though he was actually really smart he just loved playing around. I'm pretty positive he actually k

Mr Seye

"YOU'RE LUCKY to have been able to survive that fall young lady" the first time I heard those words from the doctor was the first time that I actually started believing that life was in no way fair. Nobody wanted me, my parents sure as hell didn't and now even death didn't. I was truly unwanted. Infact I was still wondering how I managed to survive the fall from my room window. Though I had a lot of broken bones and almost all my ribs were broken, I was still sadly very much alive. Was this some kind of sick joke or what?! "Are you not going to say anything?!" My mother viciously growled out. My silence continued, aggrievating her the more. "See doctor I have a very important meeting to get to, so I will be leaving now" my mother getting feed up with me turned to the doctor and said. "Is anyone coming in your place to stay with her in the hospital?" the docto

I want us to be friends

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN RICA?" was the first thing I heard as soon as I entered the lonely mansion. Surprised to see my Mom, I stood frozen for at least up to a minute. I thought she and Dad said they would be coming back extremely late. Speaking of which, where was my father? I don't see him, probably locked up in his study or something. "Didn't you hear what I asked you, I said where have you been?, just look at the time" For some reason instead of me to feel scared or panicky like any other child in my situation would, I felt quite the opposite. I was happy. Happy that for once in my life my mother actually seemed like she cared about me. clearing my throat a little I answered. "I went to the mall to buy some toiletries for myself" as soon as those words left my mouth my mother's semi-angry mood abruptly cleared. "Oh is that all? well then, I don't see why you had to go yourself

The Devil was once an Angel

"THAT WAS EXTREMELY CHILDISH YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT?" I raised an eyebrow towards him and said. He only chuckled a little and responded with an 'I know'. "So are you going to tell me the real reason or not?" I tried once more. I still couldn't see any reason as to why he would want to be friends with me, I was practically damaged goods. A certain look crossed his face giving him a dark feature. "I don't believe the right time has come yet Rica, and trust me when you find out you'd be pissed" I didn't really catch what he said at the end because he muttered it very low. "Alright then" I stood up and began to pack my things into my school bag "When this 'right time' comes you know where to find me, we are in the same class afterall" I mocked with a roll of my eyes then left him standing there. It's come to my notice that I actually do that to him a lot. "Rica wait!" he's voice boomed through out the libra

Surprise dinner

I WAS CURRENTLY IN CLASS. After the library incident with Adaeze. Dili and I had walked together to class as we were in the same class. The people in the hallway didn't disappoint either, like I expected people looked openly at us in surprise. Dili walking beside me was sure to raise a ruckus all over the whole school as they all didn't have any other better thing to do with their lives. When we reached the classroom it was even worst, you could vividly hear the various murmuring of my classmates. "Ah, mad o. Are my eyes seeing clearly or what?" I heard a random voice inquire in disbelief. I as always ignored every single one of them and was about to journey to my seat when I heard Dili say. "Bye Rica" I looked at him oddly, wasn't he going to stay for class. English teacher was probably on her way here. I was about to inquire further but I then remembered that Dili hardly ever c

Unwanted

"RICA COME BACK HERE!" My mothers authoritative voice called out but I was already running up the stairs not bothering to look back. Angry tears rushed down my face. I couldn't believe them, I've always thought they were low but I didn't know they were this low. How could they carelessly marry off their teenage daughter without batting an eye! How could they be soo cruel! I increased my pace as my room door came to view. I immediately entered, banged the door behind me and locked it shut. My eyes began to roam the entire room looking for something in particular. When I finally spotted the shiney small black rectangle-like object I immediately made my way to it. I carried the small flat object but I couldn't bring myself to use it. You promised you wouldn't use it anymore. I released a sigh and dropped the razor, it made a slight sound as it landed on the hard wood of my bedside cupboard.

Let me refresh your memory

WARNING: THIS CHAPTER IS SENSITIVE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" I heard Dili ask as I stood up dusting my skirt. "Restroom, why?" I raised a questioning eyebrow to his direction. "Oh nothing, I just thought you were leaving me here alone" he said with a short laugh. I only stared at him for a short time before saying. "You're going to wait here for me?" I asked in surprise. This was the first time anyone had ever thought to wait for me for anything. "Uhm yeah" he gave me a 'duh' look like as if my question was stupid. "You know you don't have to wait right? You can leave anytime you want" I mumbled before I started walking towards the direction of library door. I know I sounded kind of rude but it was just the first time that anything like this had ever happened to me and I didn't know how to take it.

Don't bullshit me

WARNING! THIS CHAPTER IS SENSITIVE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "DILI?" I stared dumbfounded at the male sitting opposite me. "Hi" was his response with a nervous smile. I have to say he actually cleaned up nice. He wore a black fitted suit, it looked like an Armani brand and his hair was nicely styled. All in all he looked quite edible. But forget all that, right now I was beyond the boundaries of pissed. "Hi? Hi?!!" I blew up. Was this guy actually serious? From all the things he could say it was 'hi' that he could mumble out. "Rica I'm sorry, please calm down I can explain" he said nervously. Oh I was so going to kill this boy. "Explain what ehn? Explain what na? That you tricked me? That you made a fool of me?" I said full on glaring my hardest at him. "It wasn't my intention to do so" he muttered looking down, probably too ashamed to look me in

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