Janet let her eyes bulge out, her mouth practically dropped open at his confession. Was he pulling her leg? Was he serious? Janet had no idea, she just watched him, amazed at what he had said. After what seemed like minutes of watching his straight face, she looked down, her lips forming a thin line.She was jealous.She knew Kareem's sister, she was a year below them. How on earth did they interact well enough for them to do it?! Janet's mind was in a frenzy."Say something." He proceeded, letting go off his vape as he adjusted himself on the floor, placing his chin on one of his hands. He just stared at her, his eyes boring into hers.What did he expect her to say?"I, I don't know what to say..." Were the words she uttered from her mouth, her hands playing with the hem of her skirt. "Pfft." Janet looked up, confused. The sound came from Derek, his lips curling up into a grin, then he burst out laughing. His head went ba

"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

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

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

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