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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