She felt there was no hope. Or if there was, she wasn't sure where or how to find one.
It rained heavily that morning, and the gloominess of the morning was nothing compared to the gloominess in her heart. Ifechi she sat alone at the bleachers, the dripping remnant from the roof soiled her old braids, goosebumps traveled up and down her arms, but that wasn't anything to her. More less important was the fact that her second paper was less than 30 mins away- chemistry, and everyone knew neco chemistry wasn't friendly, but even that wasn't enough to deter her from her myriad of thoughts.
Mummy will kill me if she finds out
How am I going to study now
SAT is in 3 weeks
Who could have possibly stolen my money
Maybe to most of her classmates, twenty thousand wasn't a lot of money, but to her, that was probably her last hope of getting a SAT book. She thought of how difficult it must have been for her mum to bring out that money, especially now that things were hard for them.
"Ifechi Ifechi" She heard a familiar voice.
"Anita?" She said rather surprised, were her eyes deceiving her or did Anita who had not spoken to her for almost a month just call her name?
"Ye..yes?"
"Jude is calling you" She said in a bored tone. Ifechi's face dropped at the tone. She must have been naive to think that Anita had come to console her.
She trudged to the class to find a small scene in the class. Benita, a science student from class B was crying on Joyce's locker. Joyce and Confidence seemed to be trying to console her and the rest of their classmates just gathered around, mostly science students as art students didn't have exams that day.
"I promise I kept it here" a sobbing Benita pointed to Joyce's locker. Jude had his hands on his chin and one on his waist trying to analyze the scene when Ifechi walked in.
"What happened?" Ifechi found herself saying against her wish. Everyone turned to her and she saw a mischievous smirk on the wailing girl's face before it was quickly covered up.
"Ife..." the head boy started but Joyce beat him to it.
"So it's not enough for you to steal millions of Naira from the school, that you had to steal my friends 30k ehn?"
What?
"Excuse me?" She asked incredulously. What type of useless accusation was that.
"Aunty you heard her correctly, better start bringing out the money, we know you stole it" Confidence butted in. Ifechi wondered what they were even doing in her class.
"What do you mean"
"She's still speaking English, somebody should call the form teacher" Joyce yelled.
"Wait, calm down, nobody's calling any teacher...you all should calm down" Jude said and turned to her.
"Ifechi..."
"What's going on, I'm sincerely confused, why are they even in our class, what's Joyce even saying..."
"Hey hey hey hey, don't even mention my name with that silly mouth of yours...broke ass b*tch"
"Ah ah nau"
"Joyce Haba"
"That was too harsh"
Her classmates commented, Ifechi blinked back the sting in her eyes and turned to face Jude.
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