Days At D.C.A

🌺~11~🌺

Dedicated to myself😌because no matter how badly I procastinate and delay uploading, I sha know I must finish this book las las😂😂

Ifechi wore her huge, thick rimmed medicated glasses to school on Monday.

The aim of the brown, slightly tinted eye wear was to hide the lump on her eyes that though had reduced massively, was still noticeable enough to give her concerns. So, she ransacked her closet for her former glasses from junior secondary school that was old enough for her to be certain that the medication has worn off and threw it on her face in a bid to ward off any attention.

But it did just the opposite.

Midterm exams were about to commence and from the looks of things, everyone probably took it seriously. Ifechi noticed a mass of students at the hallways, most of them buried their heads in their books probably trying to get some last minute reading done while some gathered in groups throwing questions and answers back and forth to assess themselves.

Some unserious ones lurked in corners using their phones. Most of them were her mates who didn't seem to care that the first paper was barely an hour away . Some people threw her weird stares as she passed, gawking at the awful accessory that adorned her face.

She tried to feign confidence by keeping her head up but it wasn't working.

She glanced around, nervously increasing her steps to get to her class remembering the revision she wanted to cover up. The midterm exams made her slightly nervous and she couldn't comprehend why because throughout the weekend, she'd thrown herself into her books reading as if her life depended on it.

Anita sighted her just as she got to the door of their class.

"Ifechi!" The latter shrieked, attracting stares around them when she started running to hug her. Ifechi replied with a weird look.

"Good morning"

"I've been looking for you since morning...where were you during assembly? you came late today..that's so unlike you"

"I know I was..." She proceeded to explain but Anita cut her off when she noticed something unusual, her mouth opened slightly to reveal her words which she said with a tone of amazement in them.

"You use eye glasses??!!"

"Yeah.."

"Maddo, and I never knew, how come you never wore them before?"

"Its very old, I need new ones"

"So you have eye problem?"

Ifechi rolled her eyes at the unnecessary question "Yes, myopia"

"Ok that's by the way, you need to come with me"

"Why?" Ifechi asked though she let the darker girl pull her towards their seat

"So that we will stay together na, they're going to reshuffle seats today so we need to stay close so that we'll stay together..."

"Shuffle seats ke..." Ifechi asked.

"Yes na...." Anita sighted and turned to her "...sorry, sometimes I forget you're new..yes they're going to shuffle seats, that's why me you and Dami need to stay together so that even when they shuffle we will end up together"

Ifechi didn't see the sense in what her friend had just said but she said nothing nonetheless as she shrugged and sat down, pulling out her maths textbook and rough book from her bag immediately. Anita sat down in her own seat and turned to her desk, placing her head on Ifechi's desk while using her elbows for support.