Désiré

chapter 5

Joe and I finally found my class, at that moment I wished we had the same subject, to have someone to support me in class but unfortunately, he also had to go find his own class as not to be late on his first day

"You are going to be fine right?",he asked with concern written on his face

" Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna be okay, it's not like you can ditch your class to attend mine ", I say with a smile, trying to convince him that I was okay

" I could if that was the case ".

" Nope, you are not ditching class because of me, besides it's your first class, we certainly don't want to leave a bad impression ".

" Yeah, i guess you are right ".

" Now off to your class you go", I say shooing him away

*All right, all right", he says with his hands up in defense before walking away to find his own class and I can't help but feel grateful about his concern about me, he knows when I was nervous, I tend to overthink things and I don't really do well in crowdy places especially if I'm new there. I decided to enter class before I overthink things too much and skip class, and I want to be settled in before the teacher enters.

Getting into class, I almost fainted, it was as if time stopped and everyone's attention was directed at me, I swallowed my saliva in nervousness. "This was just me overthinking things",I say to myself to ease the nervousness a bit. Walking further into class, I sighted am empty seat at the back, "well that will do for now".

I thankfully got to my seat without fainting or falling flat on my face like I had presumed earlier and I couldn't help but give myself an invisible fist bump, setting into my new seat, unpacking NY bag and preparing for the class, I couldn't help but feel a few faces on me but I tried my best to ignore them and not look up, at least not until my tumbling heart settles a bit. I couldn't help but wish joe was with me, he would know what to do or say in situations like this, I also wondered if he had found his class, I decided to text him to confirm

"Hey, you finally found your class?".

The response came in less than a minute after. " Yup, it wasn't really hard, just a few missed though 😏 but I'm fine and I've settled in, what about you, how are you faring? "

" Well, I'm faring fine I guess, u haven't shut myself or fainted so that should count as a plus, I'm currently arranging my bag before the teacher comes in"

" Wow, lucky you, my teacher is in class teaching and I'm pretty sure half of the students are asleep 😂, he has a funny accent and it's taking everything in me not to laugh right now"

" You are in class and you are chatting, what if he catches you? "

" Nahh, he can't, I'm an expert at these things remember ;⁠)"

I'm about to reply when the teacher enters the class so I text a quick reply to Joe," teacher's in class, talk to you later ".
Dropping my phone back into my bag.

" Good morning students ",the man says with a slight British accent.

" Morning sir", we replied back

" Today, we have a new transfer student all the way from Chicago joining us, her name is Désiré Badmus", he says reading my name from a tablet on his hand and I can't help but smile at the slight difficulty at pronouncing my name

" Umm, is désiré here?", He asks and I automatically raise my hand wondering how many times he must have called my name

"Can you please step out and introduce yourself to the class". He says and I felt my eyes almost bulging out of my skill, thus was certainly not part of the plan, the plan was just to call my name for me to identify not to come out of the freaking whole class to introduce myself. I shut my other train of thought when I saw a few eyes on me expecting me to come out and introduce myself.

With much pressure, I stood up from the comfort of my seat and headed to the front of the class and I couldn't help but wish the ground will open and swallow me up. It took a other miracle for me to reach the front of the class, stand beside the teacher without embarrassing myself.

"Please introduce yourself".

I struggled for words and it felt like my brain had decided to go on an impromptu vacation, I had no choice but to beg it to come back.

"Umm, my name is Désiré Badmus", pronouncing my name as it should be not the way the teacher had earlier pronounced it. "I'm from Chicago, we just moved here and I hope to enjoy my stay here", I say everything in a rush before staring dumbly  at my shoe like it was the most beautiful thing in the class, "great work désiré, now they must think you are weird", I mentally scolded myself.

The teacher took the hint, cleared his throat before stretching out his hands, introducing himself, "Hi, I'm Mr Simon and it's a pleasure to meet you désiré,it's nice to have a new student,but these old cargo I'm used to", he says with a smile,causing some students to laugh and throw a little tantrum and I couldn't help but smile at his attempt at pronouncing my name the way I just did and also at his attempt of making a joke to help lighten the mood.

"It's nice meeting you sir", I say shaking his hand.

" Alright guys, well make sure to be friends with her, no teasing, no bullying in the slightest , she's new, let's make her stay here conducive and enjoyable", he says and I couldn't help but smile before heading back to my seat, ignoring the few stares that followed me.

Reaching my seat, Mr Simon had starting on the board, trying to introduce the new topic to us, I brought out my book and pen to try and jot what he was writing down, I decided to use the opportunity to fully access him, he was tall in height, surpassing the board, that he had to do a little crouch to be able to write well on the board, he had black hair, a little curly at the tip, the suit he wore made him look like an accountant than a teacher, I noticed glass on his face that wasn't there before, maybe he only used them when writing, he did have a fine face structure and... My thoughts were cut short when I noticed that someone was staring at me, I tried to ignore it, thinking I was just been paranoid for no reason but I felt stare linger and decided to see who it was, looking back and looked to side wondering if I could see the person but no one in sight was staring at me, "I was just overthinking it then".

I decided to catch up with what Mr Simon was writing, the feeling of being stared at came again, deciding to catch who it was,I looked back but a sight from the far end by my left caught my eyes,so he was the one staring. He was staring at me like I was a puzzle he was trying to solve and I couldn't help but feel a little but self conscious, the stare was too intense that I had to look away,feeling me heart skip a bit, looking back,I felt him staring at me again and this time,not wanting to back down, I turned my head sideways a bit as if asking why he was staring, he still looked unbothered and continued staring,smirking a little bit, he eventually looked away when Mr Simon started talking about what he had written on the board and I couldn't help but wonder if I was just overthinking and the guy wasn't staring at me but my instinct told me that he was and I couldn't help but wonder why. At that moment I wanted nothing more than for the class to end, we still had a long way to go, I thought before sinking into my seat.

Phew, that was a lot,there could be a few mistakes here and there,cause I wrote this chapter in a hurry in order to meet up,I didn't have enough time to proofread and edit, so please pardon me if you come about a few. Thanks in advance for understanding 💃😁.

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