Unto say : Seniors war : The beginning

Draco pulls me up, chuckling.

I'm gasping for air, and looking around for the duck. It has apparently figured that ugo wasn't so interesting after all and is now walking away.

"That was fucking weird no cap." He says.

I nod, dusting my skirt.

"You ok?"

"Yeah. Have to rush off now " I mutter and half run off.

'Dear God. Pleeeeease stop putting me in embarrassing situations. I'd really appreciate that.'

When i get there, Mae is atop the stage in the multipurpose hall built by none other than her dad. That was waaay before I entered Jss1.

It is Bigger and prettier than the old hall and nobody was actually allowed into it. But mayowa being well..... Mayowa, she is an exception. She even has the key.

"Are we complete? Mae asks

Patrick does a quick headcount.

No.

"Well we can't keep waiting. Close the door somebody." she orders.

Simi, the nicer version and identical twin to another of my classmates adesewa does so.

Mae clip clops around the stage in her boots.

"The Ss3s have declared war on us." She says.

"How?" Fey asks.

"Good question. Whole thing is bizarre really. Ok so, You guys know Ahmed. In sciences right?"

"Obviously"

"He was sneaking around with senior Fabian's girlfriend." Mae explained

"That's it?" Cam asks.

"Dey play. Lemme take over sis." Patrick says, getting on the stage.

"So" Patrick continues.

"Fabian confronted him and the girlfriend totally denied. Can you imagine? Well I can but still."

"Aaanyways, the girl accused Ahmed of like, forcing her or whatever. Then the battle started. Come and see combat. Back to back. I even heard that all it took for Ahmed to get the girl was milky doughnuts." added half laughing.

My friend segun let out a snort.

"I go thief your babe ole ole" ugo sang.

Laughter spread across the room.

"It's not even worth the hype. " Josi, a notorious pick me added.

"Me i liked it. " Fey added

"Yeah. Especially the way the milk pours out. It reminds me of.... " Tayo, the perverted idiot started.

"Abeg don't Start Tayo. " Simi muttered

Tayo snorted.

"Anyway ," Patrick started again.

"Then Ahmed was like 'Your babe no even sabi give beta head' And went on to post pictures for fucking proof."

"Gasp! draaaamaaaa! " Mae giggles.

"But is she good though? " Tayo asks.

Patrick gives him a very sarcastic look.

"Ask me wey dem give the head." He adds, sarcasm dripping from his lips.

I laughed.

"So Fabian goes ahead to do the normal thing a guy would do. " Patrick says.

"Like? " Segun, another of my classmates, asks

"He finds her sister, fucks her and posts every thing."

"Petty but a sweet comeback. " simi shrugs.

"So yeah. Stay the fuck away for your own safety." Mae adds.

"Na Fabian Gf cause all this." Segun says.

"Is that all? " I ask.

Patrick turns to me and gives me a very plastic smile.

"We need to prepare a drama. We're going out to represent the school I'm some charity dinner some big organisation is throwing. " Mae said casually.

"Jesus. I must go abeg mayowa." Tayo says.

She shrugs.

"I dunno how we will chose it. " He adds.

"Oh and did you guys hear Lily's Father died? "

I stood up almost mechanically.

"I'm going..... " I started

The doors burst open just then.

It's none other than... You guessed it!

"Ss2s get the fuck out! " Senior Fabian yelled.

Nobody budged. And Mae slowly walked to him.

"I own this building. " I heard her say almost in a whisper.

I slowly walk out of the place, not wanting to get involved. And maybe i shouldn't have.

"Aje bota! "

My eye twitches.

"Why didnt you just ignore me? " I ask.

He smiles.

Its getting dark now, the orange of the sky, slowly being engulfed in blue hue.

"Would beat the purpose of my being here won't it? "

He keeps up a steady walk beside me.

"Aren't you meant to be working on the super secret spy mission? " I ask, using exaggerated air quotes.

He laughs.

Nice voice. Nice laugh.

"I've been here barely a week. Cut me some slack. "

I turn to him, confused as hell.

"You're the one who's supposed to be on some sort of mission. You literally came here yourself. "

"Did I? "

I quicken my pace to get away from the weirdo.

He quickens his.

"I actually wanted is to get started on somethings. "

"Like? " I asked reluctantly.

"Like the mission we have planned and like our friendship seems like you don't like me" he says

" What are you actually talking about? because we are not here to be friends. We are here on some stupid mission and I do not like you at all. As a matter of fact, leave me alone I want to go eat dinner." I hurry off, hoping that he will leave me alone. He doesn't.

"Well, whether you like it or not,we are partners. And whether you like it or not, we are solving this case and you will sooner or later admit that I am handsome "

"You talk a lot. " I point out.

He gives no reply.

"I heard the man we're looking for is now teaching Ss3s. What do we do? " He asks. Finally saying something reasonable.

I sigh.

"I really don't know. The club thing i guess."

"And we have to latch ourselves onto him like we're genuinely interested in him. His life and whatever. "

I nod.

"And you can't avoid me you know. I'm assistant library prefect now. "

I shrug.

"And since there's no school, it makes things easy. "

I nod

"You're not going to say anything? "

"It's obvious you have it all planned out smarty pants. " I reply coldly.

"You can't avoid me queen Charlotte. Oh. And give me the tea on the kin war".

"Ask someone else. " I reply.

"Anyhow. Just meet me at the library after dinner. "

"But.... "

" You get the key abi?"

"Yeah..... "

"Exactly. Bye bye. " he concludes waving at a group of guys and running over to meet them.

***********

"Where are you going?" Fey asks As we walk back after dinner.

"I'm..... Library. "

"I'm on my way. Lemme ease myself real quick. "

I pause.

"Actually, you can't come. "

She makes a face.

"Why? "

"Cos. Um..... Senior Draco and i have a thing planned. "

She gives me a half confused smile.

"Ah. Draco kwa ? "

"Yes. It's for the art competition. Kinda.... Secret. "

She knew I was lying. She knew I knew she knew i was lying. She's like a super detective mum.

But she let it go.

"OK o. Enjoy your smooch fest." she teased.

"Ew Fey."

She laughs and saunters off.

I smile, a bit hurt having to lie to her.

He wasn't there when i arrived.

Typical.

I opened the door and got into the librarians section of the library. Aka, my second happy place.

There's no librarian so i personalized the place a bit.

I made myself comfy on my large blue bean bag.

'Now what do i do about that competition?"

I decide to push the thought away and continue my literature assignment.

It took a while, but i later hear his smug voice at the door way.

"Aje bota kedu?"

I ignore him

"You're here early. " I say sarcastically.

He sits down beside me.

"So err.... Cam is on her way."

"What's in the bag? " I ask, gesturing to the black waterproof bag he has in hand.

"Suya. "

I chuckle, Looking back to my literature note.

I believed him finally when he actually pulled out a delicious smelling newspaper wrap.

I sit up in shock.

"How did you..... "

He silences me by putting a piece in my mouth.

Yum.

"Shut up and eat. "

Surprising even myself, I did.

"What meat is this?"

"That of a middle aged,adult man's prick."

I shove him hard, so he tumbled off the bean bag.

He laughs loudly.

"Blithering idiot. "

"Hey! Sorry I'm late! " Cam says walking in.

"Ooh. Is that suya ?" she questions with a smile.

"Want some? " Wilmer asks, sitting, once again, beside me.

"Nah. I'm full. Did you guys hear about the chaos outside? People are fighting o. Ah and an Ss3 boy. Senior Praise God. "

"Who's that again? " I ask.

"Even I know him. " Wilmer says.

"Didn't ask. " I reply, disguising my interest in the gist.

I actually love drama. Well I love watching, not being a part of it.

"God you're like, Victorian era boring. "

He scoffs

"You know what that means. Congrats. "

He sighs deeply.

"Let's just get to the main reason we're here. "

I close my book.

He talked for a very long time And to be honest I was becoming tired. I became tired of hearing things like Headquarters and killing and drugs. It's not a very happy topic By the way.

But i was able to get this. The main point is, Wilmer's dad was in some sort of organization who worked closely with the EFCC preventing drug trafficking and stuff. When his father died, he became a part of it. Simply by choice of course. And his two elder siblings didn't know about it. Only. He did. Apparently, he and his father were very close.

So now. There's this politician (Its always the. Politicians), who owns a huge gang operating in and out of Nigeria.

Dabbling in every crime you can think of.

Plus, Wilmer thinks he has to do with his father's death.

He has to do with Jagger's fiancee's disappearance.

He has to do with Jaja's accident because Cams dad is in the organisation And Evil Politician guy wanted to threaten him.

Mr banjo is the right hand man of the Politician guy.

And we need to find the bald guy who ran away from the organisation to get answers from him by getting info from Mr banjo as aforementioned.

And apparently Wilmer had taken out his nose stud and eyebrow ring.

And Wilmer is actually very very attracti.....

"We must be active Members of that club."

"That one will be from next week. No school remember? " I reminded them.

Wilmer stares at the ground thoughtfully.

"That's all we have to do right? " Can asks.

Wilmer nods.

So all this is put off till Monday abi?"

We all agreed to that.

"Should we tell Fey? " I ask.

"The fewer that know, the better. " Will. ET says with a shrug.

We'll that's going to be hard.

************

Lily was gone when i got back to my room.

"Her mum picked her up not so long ago. Poor girl. " Ify explained as she tuned her violin.

"They should better sue the hospital. Cos if it were me, I definitely will. " Babe said as she applied her facial cream.

I sighed and fell onto my bed and just then the power went out.

My trusty night light was on so no panic attacks today.

Yay.

"I feel like a lot will happen this week. "

Babe says, breaking the silence.

"I swear. Like did you see that fght? Guy. Fabian himself is somehow. For real. " Ify adds.

"Why exactly did they fight?" I ask, Taking off my clothes for a bath.

"Nobody actually knows. Seriously. " Ify replies

"And that same Fabian came to shut down you guys drama club meeting as I heard. "

"Na so you see am. The girlfriend stuff pain am die. " been adds

"But actually. Where is Ahmed in all this chaos? " I ask.

"He hasn't come back from midterms yet. Omo, When he does ehn, it will be hot."

The shower was cold and refreshing and all I wanted to do was crash afterwards.

And crash, I did.

**************

"God. Why The hell is it so HOT!! " Seyi complains.

I dab my sweaty forehead with my hanky.

"Ask me cos i control the weather. " I mutter.

The heat wave is bad.

Terrible.

And unfortunately, so are The mosquitoes.

We are at the studio.

Me, Draco, Seyi and Naomi. We could not find a fifth person yet.

I'm sketching a piece in my pad.

A sample.

"Did they give a specific theme or something? For the competition? " I ask.

Draco pulls out the flier.

"History: The rarity of the historical Nigerian culture in Pre colonial times. " He reads out.

"And you're only saying this now?! " I half shout.

"I just saw it now so. "

I click my tongue in annoyance and rip out my sketch, tossing it away.

"You can only paint or draw a piece. No sculpting what so ever. And..... Wait o. I think i made a mistake. " He days, peer OK g closer at the flier.

"It actually says three people to compete from each school. And the two winning school gets a prize money and a week trip to three historical sites in Nigeria, all expenses covered. "

"Wow. " I exclaim

"It's weird how you missed out on all this info. " Seyi says.

"Yeah. Cos this is way cooler. Jagger didn't mention this to me at all. "

"But you had the paper the whole time Einstein. " I comment.

"The important thing is i saw it now. So fucking spare me."

"Does that mean i have to go? " Naomi asks timidly.

We exchanged looks.

"I guess. We'll call you back when we confirm. OK? " I say.

She nods.

"Don't feel bad.... " Seyi starts.

"Don't worry seniors. I'll go. " she cuts in and hurries out of the studio.

"So now i feel bad. " Draco breaks the silence after a while.

"You should. " Seyi says.

Draco gives him a look.

"Sorry. "

History. History. History.

Hmm.

I try to remember stuff from my history lessons.

"So we draw like an Amina of Zazau type shit. " Seyi suggests.

I shrug.

"There's a lot more to history. We need to bring out the big guns. "

"None of us know shit about history so... "

"I'm a history student. " I say.

"We really need Jagger. Cos me I'm confused. " Draco sighs, sitting back.

I chuckle.

"It's not something to be confused about really. Just to find a rare Nigerian culturally inclined stuff and draw. Draco will paint, Seyi and I will draw. Kapish?"

"Yes ma'am. " Seyi replies.

"So I'm suggesting we do our research today and come back tomorrow. " Draco adds.

We all agree to that.

While Seyi leaves, Draco hangs back.

I look up from my sketchpad to face him

"Um.... You know I asked you to draw for me the other day."

I nod

We steps closer.

OK...

I want you to draw someone. Kinda like in cartoon form I've seen you do before. "

I nod again and rising, ask.

"Who? "

"Your classmate. Mubina. "

*************

Lots of people aren't at school.

Courtesy of Mayowa.

But my class was an exception. I found that very annoying.

"How's our new boo? " Fey asks.

I sit with a faint smile.

"He's been acting like a fucking weirdo. soo."

Fey raised her brows.

"Ah. How? "

"Later. "

"Hmm. OK sha. "

"Can you imagine what happened yesterday? Fabian wanted to chase Mae from drama club practice. In her own fucking building. " Chi Chi cackles.

I smile. More at her funny laugh that what she said

"Yeah. I was there. "

"Did you see yesterday's fight though?"

I shook my head,  pulling out my sketchpad.

I look over at Mubina.

Another perfect soul in our set.

Though she is overly emotional.

She's plump, very light skinned due to her half Pakistani, half Fulani roots.

She's really nice and her dimpled smile is bedazzling.

I watch her adjust her hijab,  engrossed deeply in a convo with her bestie.

I start off with a circle.

"....And then....Are you fucking listening Okiki? "

I snap back to reality.

"Yeah? "

Chichi rolls her eyes in obvious annoyance.

"Sorry. " I quickly apologize.

"Eh hehn. Did i tell you my dad visited this morning ? He just showed up as if he could feel that i was missing him.

'Wish I could say the same about my father. '

"Aww. What did He do? " Cam asks.

"Just to get me my fave chocolates. My cousins got back from the US last week and he thought he's use it as an excuse to visit. "

"Omo. Romantic daddies.  Is ur looking for a second wife? " Fey jokes.

They all laugh.

They excluding me.

I Hate my dad.

He's a psycho.

Literally.

Like asylum type insane.

I started to draw Mubina.

"God Senior Jonah is so fiiine". Fey fished suddenly.

I smiled cos i knew she wanted to shift from the dads topic.

You see,  only her and can know about my Sad family backstory.

But here's the thing. 

Fey has been my friend longer. She's very observant too th8s she knows more. And she knows exactly how insane my dad is.

Like,  exactly 100 percent.

Cam,  maybe 75 percent.

"Leave Jonah let Jonah go to Nineveh. " Chichi laughs.

"Like you are still owing. Me a drawing of Jonah. "

"I can't draw him. "

"Why? "

"Ask the fish" I reply and chuckle at my own dumb joke.

Fey nudges me.

"Werey". Chichi says.

"That drama club stuff seems so cool. Like. A freaking dinner party? " I say.

Chi Chi's eyes widen.

"You're joking. I Neva hear this one o"! She exclaims.

I chuckle,  looking down at my sketch.

"Some dinner stuff for drama club if they won some competition or something like that. " Fey explains.

"Guy na me fuck up last last. Why didn't I join drama club when my cousin was along me tooooo?". She whines.

Cam sticks her tongue out at her.

"Class members. Do you ever wonder how big Noah's ark was? " 'Justice' asks.

"Almost as big as your head. " Patrick laughs.

He's probably going to start an educationally inclined argument now.

Typical.

I got started on the drawing of Mubina.

Draco is so hard to understand really.

Tells me he likes me, then tells me to draw someone, in the most dramatic way possible i might add.

Confusing as hell.

Bit I did draw her. In the cutest way possible too.

"Someone asked me to draw her. " I explain to an awed Chi Chi.

Fey is singing in a low tone, reading from her song book.

"Okiki. Your father came to pick you. " Charity says,  walking into the class.

My heart jumps into my mouth and Fey gives me a look.

Can he read minds now?