~Jade's POV~ On days like this, I wish I had a more normal family. Don't get me wrong. I love my family. I love them so much but then, peoole say things like 'We don't know the value of what we have until we lose them or something like We are not grateful for the things we have because we see people that seems to have more things than we do. That's the phase I am right now, sitting at Hana's dinning table watching her parents eat together like they do every other day. Damn! I can count the number of time my whole family eats together on my two hands in a whole year. It was our cultural day in school, a day when all students dress in their traditional attire reflecting their cultures. We have Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, ibiobio, Igbira, Edo and then Hana, our Korean. I had slept over at her place because her make up artist will be the one to do my makeup. I wi

~Jade's POV~It's been two weeks since we vacated, two weeks of trying to convince that what Zee said is wrong. Two weeks filled with the thoughts of someone I'll rather not think about. I was sitting in front of the wall mirror in my room, trying on different earrings when Zee entered the room. She did a double take when she saw me. She flopped down on my bed so she could stare at my reflection in the mirror.'You look good, I didn't know you know how to do makeup like this.''I picked up a thing or two from you.' I smiled'By the way, Are you not going to Hana's house?'I nodded, it was on the 26th of December and that's the day Hana and her family celebrate Christmas.'You are taking extra measure to look this good and you're going to Hana's place?' She asked, then she added, as an afterthought 'Is your crush there by any chance?'I rolled eyes and turn

 ~Jade~ Zee's room was locked when I got home. That's absurd because Zee rarely lock her door. Maybe she went out. I thought as I made to leave her room, then I heard a sob from her room. I knocked louder.  'Zee, are you inside?'  No answer 'Zee! Zee!! Zee!!!'  I was only answered by silence. I turned to see Saheed entering his room. I followed him inside.  'What's wrong with Zee?'  I asked him immediately we were inside his room. He heaved a sigh and sat on his bed.  'Our parents told her the truth'  I staggered a little.  'What truth?'  My voice shook as I asked.  'The strange woman that came was right. She's Zee's mother'  I staggered and stumbl

                                  ~Jade~ School resumes today. I saw Uthman immediately I got down from the car. Without thinking much of it, I called out his name and waved. He turned back and he smiled in his cocky way and started walking towards me. We were halfway to each other when someone else called his name. I did not need to turn to look at the person to know that it was Michelle but Uthman did and he walked to where she stood with the rest of her friends. Do I need to pretend that this did not bother me and just walk away? Yeah. I did just that. 'Hey love, you're looking so hot today.' I rolled my eyes at Akin who was leaning against the wall at the corridor of our class. 'I always look hot' I replied and watched his mouth drop open. I laughed. 'what's

                         ~Jade~        'Give it up for Uthman Gbadamosi' I strained my ears to hear properly. I did not know when my hands that were otherwise clampsed together as if in a prayer became fisted until my nails started tearing my skin. I stared at the little blood horridly before I stood up admist the loud cheers from the students. Luckily for me, there was a door behind the podium so I used that and I went outside. I needed fresh air. Immediately I got outside, I felt something trickling down my face. I used the back of my hand to wipe it off angrily.  Damn it Jade, why are you crying?  I'm crying because I never imagined myself not winning this. This means a lot to my career, to the law degree I want to get, to the legacy