Days At D.C.A

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Dedicated to cute_oyin and ChizzyAneke💕💕

WAEC started off with a bang, more students than usual trooped into the mini hall which was the exam centre to write the first paper which was animal husbandry. Those who were not offering it could relax till the next day which was physics practicals. Students had resumed fully, even those that didn't have exams that day, study sessions were on, books were open, and even their further maths teacher was giving extra lessons for the exam that was two days away.

Ifechi made her way to the new lab.

The doors to the lab were surprisingly open, but as it was out of bounds, metal protectors were closed and heavily padlocked, one could only see the foreign equipment from the bars. She kept staring when someone walked into the lab, she recognised the person, he was a student in the C class, the tall dark pretty boy that had a reputation for being a playguy, the one known to have a fake American accent, the same one in the video that had done the dirty in the bathroom..Gerald abi...

Gabriel

She felt herself cringe.

Deciding to swallow her pride, she called out to him.

"Gabriel"

He seemed startled at first, and later shocked as he turned to see a student in front of the new lab, it was strictly prohibited, didn't whoever was calling him get it. But when he recognised it was the 'new girl' from class A, the one Damien was fooling himself over recently, and most of her class guys talked about, including himself, his frown dissolved into a mischievous smirk.

"Didn't you hear, this place is out of bounds, AML is strictly prohibited for students, for now." he said approaching her slowly, his sonorous accent faintly echoing in spacious room.

"...I can make an exception for you though, just because you're pretty and that ass is..." He said winking

Ifechi felt goosebumps crawl her skin as he came closer, only breathing in relief when she recalled the metal bars were padlocked thus separating them some good distance away, except if he of course had a key, what was he even doing there? how did he even get there?

"...AML..." she said cutting him off. Gabriel looked at her weirdly, then realisation washed over him.

"Oh, it stands for addictive manufacturing lab"

"...addictive manufacturing laboratory" they said together and he looked at her stupefied, a new found sense of respect for the 'new girl' taking over him.

"You know about these things?" He asked interested.

"Oh yes, 3d printing is my latest obsession, I've been reading a lot about it,  found out about the technology a few months ago while searching best courses to study abroad, I always wanted to do computer engineering, but this has made me consider much cooler options, like robotics, or material Engineering." She rushed at once, only shutting up shyly after realising that she'd revealed that much to a stranger.

Gabriel on the other hand was heavily impressed. "You want to do Engineering? Wow! Like wowwwww"

"Why are you so surprised?" She asked giggling.

"I mean asides the fact that you're a girl, which don't get me wrong, I'm totally feminist, you also didn't come of as someone who was into tech or Engineering or any of that stuff. I always thought you wanted to study medicine or nursing or something"

"Me medicine Ke? Me that can't even stand in the same room with blood" she laughed.

They spoke for a while, both revealing their common love for tech. Apparently Gabriel was more than the arrogant, perverse person she thought him to be. The dude was deep into tech and robotics, his dad enrolled him in tech camp when he was 6, he built his first website when he was 8, his favourite programming language was PHP, he had successfully mastered 3d design and built gadgets as his hobby, his dad was sending him to canada to study robotics after his WAEC, and he hoped to own his own consumer tech company one day.