"Hi," he said with an awkward smile.
"I think I will go to class now because classes might start soon", Alesscia started making up an excuse to leave. I glared at her but she didn't budge.
She started walking away when I yelled for her to wait. She turned around and looked at me. I turned to Ifeanyi.
"Hello. I am doing fine. Thanks for asking. Gotta go. Bye", I said and started walking out in a fast pace before he could stop me. Alesscia soon caught up with me.
"What was that?" She asked.
"What?"
"Why did you just leave like that? Didn't you have anything else to say?" She asked.
Oh. I did have a lot of things to say.
"Not really. You know, after the whole Chiamaka incident, I have been really confused. He told me he broke up with Chiamaka before he asked me out..."
"Woah woah woah. Hold on. He asked you out?" Alesscia asked interrupting me.
"Yeah."
"What did you say?"
"I don't know. That doesn't actually matter right now. The point I am trying to make is that if he didn't actually lie about breaking up with Chiamaka, there's no way in hell Chiamaka would just accuse me of stealing her boyfriend. That could only mean they were still dating right?"
Alesscia shrugged in reply. "It's also possible that she couldn't get over the fact that he left her to be with you which still is stealing in her head", she added.
That did make sense but right now I wanted to talk about anything other than this whole issue.
"How was your holiday and why weren't you in school yesterday?" I asked in an attempt to change the topic.
"My holiday could be described in just one word- hell! Then I was absent yesterday cause I had to shoot an ad. I so hate shooting ads. I always look stupid when I rewatch it or see it on tv", she said.
I nodded. "How about Devan?"
She glanced at me. "I mean, did your manager say anything about your break up?"
"Yeah. She said a lot of things. She was so mad. Especially after Devan decided to play victim and I lost about two hundred thousand followers. She almost died even though I was the one who lost the followers. I didn't really care much", she said.
"Your followers actually increased a lot last I checked."
"I know. So I didn't really get the fuss about me loosing two hundred thousand followers when I gained twice the number in less than a week. Apart from that, she had this fall out with my mother and yet both of them still ended up teaming up and almost got my head for dating this guy"
"You're dating someone else already?" I asked in surprise.
"Not really. I broke up with him because my dearest mother and lovely manager decided he was not my class. And daddy love didn't want me getting into another pointless relationship that added no value or meaning to my life. He was against the idea of me having a boyfriend from the start. Apparently, according to him, I shouldn't date someone unless I wanted to get married to them.
"Right now, I really have lost interest in boys anyway so I would just gladly go with his logic. Although it would have been nice to date Kelvin".
"Hmmm", I said absent-mindedly.
"He was really sweet for the one week we were together. It's a pity we couldn't last long." I nodded still not paying much attention.
"You must know him. He was from Imperial college. Their school came to ours for the Inter-house sports competition last year. Don't you remember?" She asked.
"Imperial college. Yeah. I remember. You said his name is Kelvin?" I asked suddenly interested.
"Yeah," she replied.
"Kelvin who?"
"Kelvin Dike," she said and my head started spinning.
"Isn't he supposed to be dead by now or at least near there?" I asked and she stopped to look at me wide eyed.
"WHAT?!" She screamed and I just realized how that would have sounded.
"I mean... Actually that's what I meant. He just showed up at my house the other day telling me he was going to die due to a relapse of leukaemia. He stalked me all the way to my house to tell me he would die and to apologize to me for everything he did. Would someone actually go to such an extent just to tell a lie?!"
"Woah. Hold on! Apologize for what? And why exactly would he tell you he is going to die? You guys are friends?" Alesscia asked all at once.
"No. We are not friends.... Well, we were friends. But he has been lying to me since the day we met. What he did... That's story for another day. The important thing now is that he lied to me again after I forgave him!"
"You are not exactly sure if he actually lied. Maybe it wasn't a lie? Perhaps a miracle happened and he actually survived it. Or he's probably still going to die but didn't tell me yet because he was hopeful he would live?" She said sounding unsure but still hell bent on defending Kelvin.
She had also unfortunately gotten trapped in his lies. Sigh.
"Miracle indeed! He should better still die as you said", I said with a hiss and an eye roll and her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
"That's brutal", she remarked.
"So sorry. I didn't exactly mean that. I might not actually be the happiest person to see that he survived but I will surely be grateful to God if he does", I said meaning every word.
"So aren't mad at him anymore?"
"It's not like I am allowed to make that choice", I said remembering a homily I heard about forgiveness. Well in reality, I was more than free to make that choice and I willingly chose to forgive.
"Great." That was the last thing I heard Alesscia say before I entered the class. Deafening silence!
That was the first thing I was greeted with before everywhere became rowdy once more. Most of my classmates were seated in a large circle around tables pushed together with a bottle on one of the tables in between them.
They were seriously playing a stupid game this early in the morning?
'Real imbeciles!' I thought as I walked to the back of the class and shoved my bag into my locker. I started heading out of the class since I didn't want to be around while they were playing their silly game to prevent me from ending up a victim.
I was barely in the middle of the class when I felt a hand on mine.
'What the hell?!' I had barely had enough time to turn around and snap at whoever had the stupid guts to lay his hand on me without permission when I was spun around anyway but involuntarily and a pair of lips forcefully crashed against mine.
I sucked in a sharp breath loosing my balance due to the sudden kiss but I was steadied by a pair of arms as the owner of the hands bit on my lower lip trying to push his tongue into my mouth.
I noticed that his lips tasted like mint. I placed my hands on his chest and tried to push him away. It didn't have much of an effect on him as he didn't even move.
I applied a bit more force causing him to break the kiss, his hands still around my waist. He fixed his brown flaked eyes on me.
I glared back at him in anger. I could feel eyes on the both of us. From the corner of my eye, I thought I saw someone leave the class.
And for some reason, I thought that someone was Ifeanyi but I got rid of the thought. I saw him everywhere anyway so this was probably one of those times.
I was way too annoyed to even care. If this idiot didn't get his hands off me...
"Aldrin let go of me", I said in anger. He smirked before freeing me. He was about to leave when I called him back. He wasn't just going to leave after forcefully kissing me.