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it always ended
t penalized for waking up late and on mornings when I need
his mo
alarm sounded for almost 30 minutes while I kept mutte
s how you'd
the morning air, chilly air and for a moment, I allowed it to lull me back to sleep and I drew my comf
tant about this
ould allow the chilly air
tion mornin
with a start, my eyes opening hurriedly and I had to close them
must have
ed my lips when I saw the time. 6:30 am. Fuck! On a normal day, I
about to enter my bathroom when someone knocked and they opened the door before I coul
not yet dresse
e, making me feel a tad bit self-cons
morning. I'll ha
her reply before I entered the bedroom. T The first day
ate for
almost
minutes before the assembly and I dashed out of the car before he even packed properly and ran as if I was been chased to the hall
a dramatic fir
some paused to look at me, eyebrows raised a
wrong w
om my bag and my mouth dropped open at the
like a
and my face, oh God! This couldn't be my face. There were
rown two horns. I fetched out my face towel and I st
e wer
staring down at me, a bored expression on his face as
felt the
y do yo
ched as his lips twi
ct to work on and he wanted to explain the details of the
. Well, that's exactly what's happening with me and David. We've always managed to represent our schools together in science compet
sn't fair, they were
o brief you about the pr
at I noticed that someone was really beside him. He was a tall guy for him to almost be of the same height as Dave whose
fine as Dave, and his skin color, well
away with Dave and his lip
he just sm
etreating back and I trie
Mr. Alabi, a large man climbed the podium in huge steps and when he got to the front of the microphone, he breathed deeply making
This
of Royals Academy. I welcome y
throat every time he pronounced a word and well, I ju
ter, he was s
lks. I wasn't the only one though. Lots of students were mimicking my posture an
ng the same he used to say every other year. Lik
y, the SS3
straightened, throwing off our once dejected postur
what you do this year would make or mar you for the rest of your lives. Your WAEC, NECO, an
at to W
ole SS3 heard him anyway and we burst int
stude
and our laughter
o regards for constituted authorities. Do you think the Royals have been g
r. Dave is the school's golden boy, the perfect student, the one everybody adored, teachers and students a
get the whole SS3 students into
boy with the
ay, you can go back to
mumbled inaudible sounds of relief be
were two other empty rooms on the floor, smaller, compared to the main classes, one was majorly used as a storage roo