Chapter 5

  I knew there was no use anymore. Ashley kept her word when she said she'd make my life miserable and it made me even more furious at Jackson who believed I would threaten his girlfriend. He'd tried to talk to me, but I didn't want to talk to him. He'd seen loads of times where Ashley bullied me and tortured me, but the pain of everything didn't hurt as much as knowing Jackson didn't trust me as much as I thought he did and he ended up breaking my heart.

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  I sat on my own in the cafeteria when I felt something pouring over my head and then all over my clothes, I was so shocked that I threw myself up.

"There, now my wrong latte matches with your wrong looks" she smiled and turned to walk away only to see Jackson there who had his jaw dropped.

"Ashley"

"Babe, come on she's bullied me so much at least let me have this?!"

"You soaked her"

"She did the same to me" Ashley sobbed. I was so pissed that I walked away from both of them so I could go to the bathroom but while I was in the halls I felt someone hold my hand to stop me and when I turned and saw Jackson, I dragged my hand out of his.

"Kyra please listen to me"

"No" I walked away from him again but he still came and held my hand which got me to burst.

"Can't you just leave me alone! I don't want to talk to you, leave me alone!"

"Kyra please, I'm sorry, I'm stupid and I need you to forgive me....please" I looked Jackson in the eyes as he said this then smiled.

"I'm happy you know the truth now" I said and walked away but he held me back.

"Kyra I'm begging you not to end our friendship because of Ashley"

"Hmm, how weird, didn't you say you two shouldn't end your relationship because of me? What suddenly happened?"

"I know but please I know what I did was unforgivable and I'm very sorry...please"

"You ended our friendship and what we had the day you believed Ashley over me" I told him before silently walking away and this time he didn't follow me. I went to my locker but I didn't have an extra uniform, that was when I knew I was dead. I hurried to the bathroom to at least clean out my hair, there was a girl there who looked upset but I couldn't focus on her. I was cleaning out my hair when she came behind me to help and then we were able to clean out my hair completely and I turned to her with a smile.

"Thank you"

"Here" she handed me a pair of new uniforms, I looked at her and then at the uniforms before taking it from her thanking her and changing into it.

"Thank you, so much" I told her when I came out from one of the stalls.

"It's okay" she said.

"Uhhm, I uhh...noticed you looked upset when I walked in, what was the problem?"

"I guess bullies got to both of us then" was all she said before it looked like she was about to cry, but I hurried up to her and hugged her.

"Who bullied you?" I asked her.

"Ashley" I pulled back from her and looked her in the eye.

"Are you serious?" I asked and she just nodded. "Why does she bully you?" I asked.

"Cause I'm a scholarship student, my parents aren't rich enough" I looked her in the eye and held her hands in mine.

"She doesn't know that brains are better than riches" I said and the girl smiled.

"Why does she bully you?" She asked.

"How do you know she's my bully?"

"I guess when I saw the look on your face....so..?"

"She thinks I'd steal her boyfriend from her, and just a couple days ago she wanted me to do something her for but I refused so..." I told her with a smile on my face.

"You're gonna steal her boyfriend right?" She said with a grin.

"I mean definitely, it's Jackson" I told her and we laughed.

"Of course" she said.

"Thanks for the uniform, I'll return them tomorrow"

"Alright then"

"I'm Kyra by the way" I said extending one of my hands for a hand shake.

"Nova" she said and shook it.

"It's nice to meet you, Nova"

"Nice to meet you too, Kyra"

I walked out of the bathroom with Nova and followed her to her locker to get something. She was really really funny.

"You're Nigerian?"

"Yeah"

"That's amazing, so it was your scholarship that got you here?"

"Well no...uhmm, my parents got a divorce so I stayed with my mum and she got remarried to a white man and he brought us here but I loved and dreamt about this school so since they didn't have the kind of money to bring me here I wrote the scholarship exams" she told me. I just loved that she was Nigerian and loved her accent too, I mean for real she's a full blood African.

"That's amazing but it's also sad, I'm so sorry"

"No no actually, it's actually good news, my dad never allowed my mum to work so she was basically a house wife but now my mum works as a manager"

"Really? Where?"

"I don't like telling people" she said holding her arm.

"Oh..oh that's fine then, sorry I asked" I said.

"It's okay, so what about you?" She asked and I looked at her confused. "How'd you get into this school?" She added. This was a question I didn't like answering cause I always had to lie.

"Oh...I'm getting help" I told her.

"Really? From who?"

"Yeah...I work for the Maxwell's so they sent me and my sister here"

"That's so amazing of them, my mum works at their family restaurant and she told me she thinks it was their daughter that gave her the job" I looked at her in awe. "I know I just told you about my mum but it was because you told me about you and your sister, it's only fair" she said and I smiled at her.

"How does she think it's their daughter?" I asked her.

"She told me she was looking for a job and when she saw that they were hiring she went in but got rejected by the manager and from no where that girl came in and gave her the job and told the manager to give her the exact role she wanted" as she talked I smiled. So the woman I gave that job to was Nova's mum, I am so frickin' proud of myself.

Nova and I continued to talk until we reached the cafeteria where we sat together. I saw Ashley sitting with Jackson and his friends but I ignored them and sat at I and my friends table with Nova. She was interesting actually, held a lot of stories, had so much to say about her country and I adored her for it. She was indeed beautiful actually, her long dark locks that we're exactly on her elbows had a dark shade of red dyed at the tips. Her plump dark lips had a hint of pink at the middle, her eyes were like a shade of brown that was both bright and dark at the same time and when she smiled she revealed her perfectly white rabbit like teeth, her skin was dark and flawless and I felt like I was talking to a celebrity in the making.

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I got to the restaurant and decided to do some work when I saw the assistant manager walk up to me. Novas' mum. She said a few words asking if the restaurant was hiring and I answered her then she walked away. I put on the employee blazer and started taking orders when he walked in and my blood boiled but I didn't see her with him so for some reason I calmed down. I didn't want to take his order so I ignored him and served every one else. Not until a waiter walked up to me.

"Miss, uhm, that customer over there said he wants you to serve him and not any of us" he told me and for some reason I wasn't surprised. Typical Jackson. I didn't walk up to him just immediately I waited till two other waiters came up to me telling me the same thing before angrily walking up to him.

"Hello sir may I take you order?" I asked not even smiling but he looked up at me I don't know what the emotion in his eyes were but I didn't care either.

"Can I get your attention?" He smiled a little.

"No that's not on the menu"

"Kyra..."

"Why didn't your girlfriend show?"

"She did, they didn't let her in"

"Really..? I wonder why" I said, rolled my eyes and walked off but he called me back and I took a deep breath and turned to him.

"What will it take me for you to forgive me. Anything please" he said.

"Nothing, I don't take things from strangers anyways"

"You're being very difficult, I said I'm sorry"

"Jackson you have no idea how I feel right now, you have no idea how I felt that day when you looked me in the eyes and told me you believe that I'd threaten Ashley" I said very calmly. "You know what... –" I took in a deep breath. "I forgive you" I said and he threw himself up wanting to say something but I took his hand and pulled him out of the restaurant through the back door and smacked his chest.

"Missed you" he said holding his hurting chest.

"That is for believing Ashley over me"

"I'll take it" he said and I just chuckled and threw my arms around him in a hug and he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"So you missed me too?" He asked.

"In my defense you practically begged me to talk to you again cause you missed me, so" I said.

"I'm not gonna argue with you cause I did miss you" he said into my shoulder. We pulled away from each other and then walked back into the restaurant were I actually took his order and brought his food for him. It made me smile because I could see he was actually enjoying it.