Chapter 11

Mrs Tamima grouped us into two pairs, I don't know what she wanted to achieve in this groups but I think it would futile. My partner was showing her incompatibleness towards this groups. She eyed her friend Clara who was glaring at her with seriousness and then looking back at me. I wondered what they were talking about. 

Daniella has never showed any interest towards me. I don't know why, but I understand that her so called 'man', passes through every girl before they are passed on to other boys. Maybe she thinks that I passed through him and am hitting on him but, hey come one, even a dumb ass would know that am a gay, not boasting but my looks are totally a different thing. Yeah, Vin came to me asking me out when I first came in with girlish clothes. My parent had thought it would be wise for me to dress up just like a normal girl and come to school for the first day. I hated it. The clothes were tight on me, I walked awkwardly and even fell from from my mom's car when I was alighting.

As the days went by, I distated it and took the action by myself to talk to the school principal. She told me it's okay to be who I want to be and to dress the way I want.

So the next day when he saw me in boys clothes, he couldn't talk to me, I tied my locks into a high neat bun, and let my stylish cut speak for itself. I saw the embarrassment on his fAce but I couldn't quit asking Andrew my best class budy about him.

He gave me all the juice of the school, I decided to look into him closely and wondered what Daniella saw in him that I couldn't see.

Trying to figure out Daniella, the beautiful girl standing next to me, I couldn't bring my eyes to face her, all I could see now was the saliva that Vin had when he was kissing her, how he was heaving so loudly and disrespectful on top of her, I could clearly see how she had her eyes closed, faking moans that couldn't satisfy anyone's ears. I could see it like it's happening right now. "Ughhhh, fuck that," I thought inwardly.

"Sorry," I was startled from my day dream by a soft sound. Looking at the direction of the sound, it was Daniella, holding the table so tight and I wondered, "what is she sorry for?" I don't remember her doing anything wrong to me, I tried to ease the conversation, 

"What for," 

But it seems I was late since she was concentrated on a piece of paper thrown by Clara, and when she finished, she swallowed the paper!

"Christ," I thought "who does that!"

Couldn't she just tear it up and throw it in the dustbin that was next to her?

Every pair was given some work to do, Daniell and I landed on the recording the names of pupils of her class and mine into different registers. This would be tiring, I can't imagine going this for the whole evening till we are done.

Why couldn't Mrs.Tamara just give us the filling work, that was easy and counting. We listened to instructions. We were not to leave till we are done with our work.

I was there, wondering how Daniella and I were going to communicate and make this work easier. The easier way was to make one read and the other one to write. I reached out for the pen, but landed on Daniella's hand 'oopsy!' she had already caught the pen, I lifted my hands hurriedly, though I still wanted to touch her hands, maybe rub them against my palms but that couldn't happen.

"You write," I said

"No you write," she said back

My handwriting is bad," I defended myself.

"She gave me a sheepish look, "what will you be doing while I write?" She asked.

"Reading out the names," I replied pretending to be reading the names that were on a sheet of paper.

I heard a hearty chuckle and slowly lowered the paper to look at her and she was laughing pointing at the paper I was holding, 

"Do you realize that the paper is upside down?" She asked between her laugh.

" what?"

 I asked looking at what I was holding in my hands then looked back at her but her eyes were back to clara. What is with her and clara? 

She then turned back with a serious face this time, 

"Mmmh, you can start reading the names then I will write," 

I just nodded looking at the change of her expression.

We worked quietly, seems it was not that hard, though it was boring and monotonous just listen to my voice speaking back to my head and listening to nothing from her side.

"Why do use that voice, can't you just use a normal girl's Voice instead of a base like voice, whom are you trying to impress," she mockingly asked interrupting me while pronouncing a name.

I felt anger build in me, I hated the question. You can ask me about something else but not about my voice.

"Why don't you accept who you are instead of faking a moan that doesn't please to your boyfriend's ears bitch!"

"What did you say to me girl?" She retorted back.

I did not realize what I had said till she asked me about that.

 Anger had consumed me and I couldn't even think about anything. 

Just the asme way she told me to stop feigning my voice, I had wanted to reply back, but since I was still new in school I placed my anger at a bay,

TODAY! Today wasn't that day, my anger wasn't going to keep quite and watch, she just erupted, and like a molten lava from volcano, she was destined to create chaos.

My anger decided to break the barriers and face her, girl to girl, thank God it seems no one heard us, since we were only two pairs still working and Mrs. Tamima was provably busy playing either candy crash or subway while popping her gum out like a ball, she was not focusing on any group.

"You gotta realize that some of us don't hide who we are Daniella, we voice out our insecurities, and with courage we live past them, we don't go on, hiding them in someone else and pretend to be who are not!"

My anger stood up and threw the paper across her face before standing up and walking towards Mrs Tamima, 

"I am done with this! Am not going to sit next to her, you can pair me up with someone else but not her, Mrs. Tamima!"

Mrs. Tamima was not even paying me a little bit of attention. Instead, she popped the pink gum from her mouth and twisted it around her middle, 

She doesn't give a FUCK!!!

The three pairs of eyes who were still there just gave me a 'sorry' look.

Clara stared back at Daniella used her hands to ask 

"what's wrong?" 

Instead of Daniella replying back using their annoying signs she just woke up from her sit, and came facing my direction, she pulled me from my standing point and led me to the direction of washroom. Pushing me towards it and closes the door. I just followed her like a fool.

"Look,"

she lifted me by my chin, I slowly looked at her eyes, the soft blue orbs, I knew she was sorry. I leaned on her touch as she lifted her both palms on my cheeks.

 " Am sorry about that, I took it like any other joke" she told me moving her palms up and down my cheeks. My anger decided to move, and my emotions decided to fill up.

She is beautiful, smart, but what is wrong with her. She smiles and goes on talking and whatever she is talking about I don't care to pay attention. Instead, I am lost in her eyes. My hand is pulled and I realize that we are out of the washroom. 

We move back to our seats and went on to our workstation.

"Here you go Mrs. Tamima," Clara handed their work with the file neatly arranged and page markers neatly placed in order.

"Make sure you are done with your work today, tomorrow is a day on it's own." Mrs. Tamima warned while moving out of the room with documents on her hands. 

And there were TWO,

Left alone in the room. We decided to get busy with our work. I read out named, while Daniella got busy with the writing. We alternated our cores for some minutes with Daniella reading out the names while I write down the names.

"You have cute handwriting and you were lying about it,"

 Daniella patted me on my shoulders. 

"Come on," I chuckled, "not beautiful like yours baby," 

"Did you call me baby?" She asked

"It's a normal thing sweetheart," I said with intention to intrigue her and it worked well since she was there strucked like a lightning.

I chuckled inwardly, 

She better know how to start feeling awkward the way am feeling.

"Did anyone order pizza?" Came a voice from the door.

I looked at Daniella who in turn gave me the same look in return.

"NO!" 

We chorused.

Instead of closing the door, the guard came in and placed it on our workstation.

"I was told to bring it to you two,' he said.

I looked at Daniella who intern looked at me, I cleared m voice but he left immediately before we could ask who sent it.

I rushed to open it because of the hunger that was now ravishing through me.

There was a box of Pizza, two carbonated Heinkeins, (who brings alcohol to under age students, apart from me I was eighteen) , a litre of soft drinks and snacks. 

"Did you order this?" Daniella asked.

"I am surprised just as you are," I replied back to Daniella.

I could see by the look of her eyes that she was hesitant to take a look at the goodies that were now moth watering and making my stomach growl for more.

"We should probably just leave it," she told me with a worried face, "maybe it's someone who wants to kill one of us and is using it as a bait."

I laughed out, then moved closer to her direction holding her cheeks, 

"Darling, if you wronged someone then you should be worried, for me" I left her cheeks and picked a slice of pizza shoving it in my mouth, "I don't care, cause I didn't wrong anybody of late."

Finishing the first slice and she was still there, fear in her eyes. I wanted to ease the fear because if there was anybody who knew we were in here were only seven people. Plus CCTV are everywhere no one would want to try killing us.

I picked a piece and moved towards her, "here," I hold the slice out for her playing it near her mouth.

Instead of opening her mouth she moved the slice away from her face and moved away from me

"I can't risk junks today," she said " I have to dance at the the game the last of these month and I will have to model for my mom's upcoming show," 

'How sad,' I thought.

I moved next to her, I placed my hands on her shoulder and pulled her closer to me, she sighed, slightly, making her gasp a little bit, I loved the effect I am giving her, she doesn't realize it, but her parted mouth makes me want to shove my tongue in her, show her how it feels to be kissed by a gentle lady. Her eyes are closed, her body is shaking a little bit, I removed my hands from her hips because I might be tempted to move them down her skater skirt which I don't won't  I can be sued for assault.

"Open your eyes!" I command her.

She doesn't, and I distate someone who disobeys me, I clear my throat and repeat it, this time around with a more warning-commanding tone.

" I said open your eyes Daniella or am gonna kiss your cherry pink lips I swear to.....," I couldn't finish it off cause she opened her eyes instantly and looked at me.

She gave me this look, she felt safe in my hands, she wanted to be there forever.

I hold her cheeks again after putting the slice back into the box and looked at her.

"I know you love junk, I have seen you sneak into the washroom and swallow some bars of chocolate, you don't have to hide from me, plus you don't need to eat it everyday Darling, it's just this time okay. So please let's eat this together and forget about what people will say and he you got once.

She just nodded but did not say a word not even "yes!"

I handed her a slice, and I picked the next one muching it, she did it her eating in an orderly way. She did not let food remains on the edge of her mouth, she used her tissue paper to wip them off.

"Why are you formal around me? You don't have to be, look at me eating the way I want, but you, you are worried about little particles that remain on the edge of your mouth, you wipe your mouth with tissue, ughhhh, Daniella come on."  I chuckled while draining the food in my mouth with some content of heinkeins. 

She looked at me and looked away, I wondered what was wrong with what I say, "God hope I didn't say anything wrong," I completed that prayer with a sign of the cross. 

Two minutes, three minutes, she is just there on the floor, she is not waking up, we have some work to finish.

I move towards her, then I see that Mrs. Tamima had left her warm blanket by the chair, I pick it up, lay it on the corner, neatly and brought the junkies then moved to her, her head buttied in her palms, I did not ask her anything, instead lifted her up, 

"What are you doing?" She asked.

" carrying you, what do you think am doing baby?" I replied back but she did not fight with me, instead she just buried her head in in my shirt. I placed her on the blanket but forced her to face me.

"I am not an Ordinary girl Davids, am a jewellery, am a material that has it's benefits, I have a price on me Davids,"