CHAPTER 14: HI ALICIA

In no time,they arrived at the prestigious theatre arts hall and with her index finger,Tammy directed her to the exact floor she needed to be which was the third, Alicia looked up and she could see other students standing outside and leaning on the railings and they all looked to be freshers.

"Ok that's where you're headed" Tammy said pointing towards third floor and the high building.

Alicia's eyes darted towards Tammy then back at the building,she felt really nervous and Tammy saw it.

"Hey" she said in a soft voice placing her two hands on her shoulders. " It's totally normal to be nervous on your first day in school,trust me, I was even more nevous than you are,all you have to do is just relax,let yourself blend in and in a few days, you'll get used to this place,oh and I'm sure with this first class pretty face of yours, you're gonna have a lot of friends in no time" she teased and Alicia finally loosened up a bit as she smiled,she felt a little bolder now with Tammy's words.

"Thank you Tammy" she appreciated

"You're welcome and by the way,I'm sure your meeting usually takes about 2 hours so I'll just stick around with some of my friends,call me when you're done so we both can head back to the hostel for breakfast okay"

"Yeah,sure a-and thanks once again Tammy" she said with a great full tone and waited for Tammy's response before she headed towards the stairs to the third floor.

Alicia would have so much loved to not be noticed as at yet but unfortunately,her striking beauty,innocent body appearance and rare eye color couldn't give her a low profile as she already began to draw attention even before she reached the third floor.

Alicia didn't know if she should be thanking God for this face of hers or crying about it, even at times when Alicia herself looked at the mirror,she always used to feel that God went too hard on her creation, extremely hard,he had struck her thriple the amounts of everything a woman needed,be it a pretty face,eyes,bosoms, hips, skin,name them....,she even remembered that back in her high school days,more than half of the entire school boys were crushing on her.

As soon as Alicia reached the third floor,the spotlight was immediately directed towards her and she instantly began to regret not wearing something conspicuous like erm, like a hoodie or something.

All eyes were on her like CCTV camera and she hastened her steps and quickly entered the Hall.

Upon entering the hall, Alicia almost died of shock,the hall was wide and long and there were probably up to 500 students in there who were busy discussing with themselves either sitting on the chairs,tables, leaning on the windows or standing,most of them forming a group which actually made the hall to appear rowdy.

Alicia was quick to put her head down as her heart began to thump loudly against her chest,she was really nervous now. With her head down,she tried to look for a chair to sit on when someone waved at her,she looked up to see who the person was and she saw that it was a nice looking girl with brown hair sitted with about three other girls whose eyes seemed to be shimmering with excitement,somehow begging her to come closer.

As soon as the girl got Alicia's attention,,she gestured at her to come sit with them.

Alicia looked at them for a second before her feet moved to join them. On getting there,she took the chair right next to hers as she sat.

"Hey there" the girl said in her smooth British accent

"Hi, good morning" Alicia replied

"Morning to you too,I'm Nikkie and you"

"A-alicia"

"Wow,that's a beautiful name" she smiled. " As beautiful as you" she confessed as she stared at Alicia looking intrigued.

"Thanks" she appreciated flashing a smile

"Oh,and these are my friends here" she said pointing at the first one sitted beside her with a slightly tanned complexion. " This is Caroline,that is Bianca and the last one's Mia" Nikkie introduced

"Hi Alicia" they all said in unison as they excitedly waved at her, they'd never seen such beautiful sea green eyes in their life.

"Nice to meet you guys" Alicia waved back as she already began to feel comfortable with them because they were obviously nice looking and receiving girls.

Although it was actually like that for Alicia as everywhere she went, people always wanted to be associated with her because of her beauty, even back in her high school days, despite being middle class,she had more of friends from high class families than her class,this was because they all wanted nothing more but for her to be their best friend,they all would always say that Alicia's beauty was gonna take her places,but then amidst the the numerous numbers of friends and admirers,there were still some haters who never missed the opportunity to bully and make her feel bad.

"So". Nikkie began as she increased her voice because of the increasing noise in the hall,"when did you resume,I'm guessing yesterday right"

" Yeah" Alicia answered still smiling

"I thought so" she chuckled.

" So what hall of residence you at" Bianca chipped in,it appeared she was also british

"Erm,Hall 3"

"Oh wow,Nikkie,Mia and I reside in Hall 1 while our rich Caroline here resides at Hall 5" she said rolling her eyes enviously.

Caroline and the others chuckled softly,Hall 5 was actually one of the special hostel on campus in Montgomery but then,there were also other expensive, higher and even more specially reserved hostels that needed special connections and a whole lot of money to get.

"So" Nikkie continued " since we are course mates,we were just planning on creating our own reading time table against exams in the future and we were hoping you could join us,I mean we don't necessarily have to wait for the exams to get near before we start reading right"

"Yeah,that's true."

"So what do you say about it"

"I think it's a great idea but..."