THE NEXT MORNING*****
Well what can I say?, last night was a lot of things, and fun was at the core. My sleep was cut short by the sound of my ring tone.
Me: (picking up sleepy as fuck) hiii, who is this ?.
Kayode: (over the phone) dude where the fuck are you?.
Me: uhhhh?.
Barry: (over the phone) that's him right?, tell him if he doesn't get his black ass here he's gonna be in so much mess.
Kayode: you heard that right?. Where in heavens name are you?.
Me: I don't even know
Cyndy: (waking up) hey handsome
Kayode: is that a girl's voice ?.
Me: what has that got to do with your calling ?.
Kayode: just quickly get your ass back here, and Tephnine came looking.
Me: like I care
Kayode: oh really?. Maybe you'll care about dorm inspections, cause that's going on now.
Me: fuck, I totally forgot about that.
Dorm inspection is something the school does at random, where the student council and selected teachers go room by room checking for property damage, sanitary conditions of the room and some other stuffs, I wasn't paying attention when my first tour guard spoke. Now you have to be present for the inspection in other to avoid points deduction from your final score, I know there was some other tougher punishment but I really can't remember that now. Just know Dorm inspections are super duper important.
Cyndy: we are so dead
Me: I know .
I ran as fast as I could to my dorm and met the guys waiting on me.
Me: made it in time
Barry: less talking, more showering
Justin: we fixed your stuffs and the other messes you made.
Me: thank you, I love you guys .
A COUPLE HOURS ON****
Kayode: do you wanna talk about it?.
Me: bout what?.
Kayode: the ladylike voice I heard, you acting all bitchy at the sound of Tephnine.
Me: sometimes you act like a fucking bedbug
Kayode: I know, start talking.
Me: ladylike voice belongs to my good friend, Cyndy
Kayode: the music genius?
Me: uhh, who?
Kayode: Cyndy James, small blue eyes, packs her hair in a bun.
Me: wait, she's a music genius ?.
Kayode: you don't know this and you say she's your good friend.
Me: well in my defence, you're my friend also and I don't know jack shit about you
Kayode: valid point. So what about Tephnine?.
Me: she stood me up and went to another party .
Kayode: fuck.
Me: I know right?. The annoying part was the fact that she asked me out and still left me by myself.
Kayode: I didn't exclaim for this, you're beginning to get white hairs bro.
Me: Are you fucking kidding me right now?. I'm being serious here.
Kayode: look I'll be honest with you, I just wanted to hear some gossip, I'm not something of a relationship therapist.
Me: you have no idea on how much I hate you right now.
Kayode: oh you'll be surprised I do (laughing)
Me: fucking bastard.
Sundays at Starling were always boring, I normally spend them just sleeping away. Today was different though, we were asked by coach to go train at the basketball court.
Tephnine: kei, babe please wait up
Me: what?.
Tephnine: just wait please.
Me: Awwwn, guess who's finally back?
Tephnine: please don't give me that face
Me: oh this face (pointing to my face), the thing is, I've had this face since you dumped me and disappeared.
Tephnine: I'm so sorry babe, I had to go meet my dad cause he called for an emergency
Me: Emergency?.
Tephnine: yes , my brother got sick
Me: sick? (Laughing)
Tephnine: what's so funny
Me: you. You are. Look I fucking hate liars.
Tephnine: I'm lost babe, what do you mean by liar?.
Me: sick brother, what a boatload of crap. Was the hospital a fucking party?.
Tephnine: babe I don't know what you mean.
Me: of course you don't. Just let me be. Please I'm begging.
With this I stormed out on her, and gave her a strict warning to never come close to me.
Now would you look at that?, the basketball court have been taking over by the whole team, every one came out to train, guess the match against madeday high this Friday is that important.
James: yo keima, release the fucking ball faster.
Coach fuckface: James no curses, and keima what the fuck are you doing?, get your head in the game.
Me: sorry coach
ABOUT THREE MINUTES LATER****
Coach fuckface: heavenly father, we are gonna lose to those idiots at this point, every one, take five minutes.
Jensen: (walking up to me) What's wrong with you today K?.
Me: nahhh, nothing, I'm all good
Jensen: it's about buttercake right?.
Me: uhhhh, why do you keep giving her these weird names, and why are you even asking?.
Jensen: she's broken K, you know that right?
Me: oh really, and how do you know that Mr perfection
Jensen: we share a bond, so I know that for a fact
Me: This is sounding Sus as you speak on. What do you even mean by you share a bond?.
Jensen: it's not really what you're thinking. She's my twin.
Me: sorry, what now?.
Jensen: we're fraternal twins, or more accurately triplets.
Me: shit, she told me she lost her sibling and they were just two.
Jensen: they never considered me as part of their pack.
Me: not to scratch old wounds but can I know about the third ?.
Jensen: Tiana got involved in an accident when we were seven, she ended up loosing a shit ton of blood. Doctors thought they saved her, but I guess shit happens.
Me: I'm so sorry bro
Jensen: I don't think you should be telling me that.
Me: I know I know. One last question though. Who's Jake and Josh?.
Jensen: Jake's our older brother and Josh's me
Me: mahn I'm guessing your parents hated you. Jensen Josh white west. What kind of name is that ?.
Jensen: coming from someone who's name sounds like a tounge twister.
Me: okay I did kinda deserve that. But on the other topic, she did lie , and that's gonna take a while for me to forgive.
Jensen: you can't really blame her for not saying anything.
Me: I actually can, she's the one who brought the whole idea and she's still the one who fucked me over, so I think I deserve the right to be.
Jensen: look try to understand, yes she did go to a party, but it wasn't by choice. Dad makes her go to this annual party by force, he calls it building the 'right connection'. Look I don't really care about your whole whatever, but please just work out things with her, if she's in a bad mood I tend to play shitty.
Me: you mean she's the one weakness you have ?.
Jensen: yeah, something like that
Me: the perfect way of eliminating my rival just landed on my door step.
Jensen: (laughing) you're serious about this rival thing?.
Me: of course. But then it's kinda sad that you're just doing this for yourself and not for her.
Jensen: I'm doing this for her and for me too.
Me: but mostly for you ?.
Jensen: I guess you could say that
Me: hmm, turns out Mr perfect wasn't that perfect
Jensen: here's your delusion again, just talk to her
Me: yeah yeah, I'll see what I can do.
AFTER TRAINING******
I snuck up on Tephnine at the library where she was reading what appears to be a book on animal fact, weird if I may say.
Me: you think they are ever gonna serve quality soup in this school.
Tephnine: (still glued to the book) I think they already do.
Me: it looks like puke if you ask me.
Tephnine: kei? (Turning)
Me: damn, took you long enough angel.
Tephnine: I'm sorry I lied to you
Me: well I'm sorry I over reacted and you didn't entirely lie.
Tephnine: I think I did
Me: well Josh begs to differ
Tephnine: Jensen, that pain in the ass.
Me: for twins, you guys look nothing alike.
Tephnine: cause we're fraternal?.
Me: I know that, I'm just saying.
Tephnine: oh you are.
Me: do you wanna take a walk with me? .
Tephnine: I'd rather just stay here with you.
Me: we're in the library babe.
Tephnine: I know. I've just missed you that much, for now please, let's just stay like this.
Me: okay Teph, I'd love that too. Just promise you won't hide anything from me.
Tephnine: I promise
Me: (feeling guilty) And I'm sorry too.
Tephnine: for what babe?. You cheated?.
Me: yes and no
Tephnine: care to explain.
Me: (using the stare ching) I kissed two girls. Was sober for one and drunk for the other.
Tephnine: so... You cheated
Me: yes I did. I'm really sorry
Tephnine: it's okay.
Me: it's not babe, it's not to me
Tephnine: do you want me to be honest with you?.
Me: (nodding)
Tephnine: I knew, was just waiting for you to spill.
Me: you knew?.
Tephnine: come on babe, I'm Tephnine West, I know everything happening in the school. Moreover have you heard what they call you now?.
Me: no
Tephnine: 'the wonder kid'. your life is already on Jensen's pact.
Me: is that a good thing?.
Tephnine: no, it means your every move would be monitored and placed in the school newspaper. Every one wants the best scoop.
Me: I'm beginning to doubt this basketball choice I made.
Tephnine: (laughing) it's already too late for regrets. And another thing babe your affairs are not gonna be that much of a secret anymore.
Me: you're saying it like I'm planning on cheating again. I'm not.
Tephnine: I'm not saying that babe, just watching out for you.
Me: some weird way to show it. Make me feel like you'd wanna have your get back at me.
Tephnine: really sorry if I made me feel that way. I belong to you kei, I won't wanna ruin what we have.
Me: I love you so much Tephnine West.
Tephnine: I know. But just so you know, you're not yet forgiven.
Me: yeah I kinda figured, What's my penance gonna be then babe?.
Tephnine: hmmm, let's hurry to my room first, I'm gonna decide there.
Not gonna go into any details of what happened in Tephnine's room, but let's just say she forgave me already. Now what moral lesson did I learn from this?.
Tephnine is really scary, I keep forgetting she's the top dog of this school, she has every other person in her fingertips. Now would that stop me from going after other girls?, oh fuck no. I just have to be careful.
Secondly, I'm already on the list of the male top dogs, not yet where I want to be, but making the school paper is a big achievement if you ask me.
Thirdly, what the fuck is 'the wonder kid', that's a shitty ass name, Jensen is called "Starling's light" for heaven sake. They couldn't work out a decent name for me?. On my way to my room.
Cassandra: hi
Me: hey beautiful, haven't seen you for a while.
Cassandra: it's been less than a day.
Me: wouldn't kill you to just flow with it.
Cassandra: (smiling) if you're free I'd love us to talk about yesterday.
Me: like right now?.
Cassandra: yeah, if you are.
Me: oh, okay. Yeah I'm free. There's a bench over there.
Cassandra: yeah, there is.
Me: soooo.... What'd you wanna talk about?.
Cassandra: do you really believe in the concept of love.
Me: well it depends.
Cassandra: on what?.
Me: the partner I guess.
Cassandra: (after a pause) Do you remember the reason for my last breakup? .
Me: yeah, you said long distance.
Cassandra: I was lieing.
Me: okay?.... Then why the breakup?.
Cassandra: he never really fully trusted me, and I gave him no reason to.
Me: no reason to, how?.
Cassandra: I barely had any time for him.
Me: lemme take a wild guess, books?.
Cassandra: (chuckling) yeah books, when you're In the streak department there's this weight on your shoulder, this burden to always impress.
Me: not trying to be that guy, but there's this saying where I'm from, all work and no play makes Ada a dull girl. You making zero time for fun is probably gonna do more damage than good.
Cassandra: you think I don't want that?. Let me let you in on the sad reality of being in the streak department, you score below A+, you get kicked to Gamma.
Me: A+ being?.
Cassandra: Around 90-100%
Me: wow, and I sit comfortably on my B and B-
Cassandra: (laughing) you're joking right?
Me: look at me again and ask.
Cassandra: you're being serious?.
Me: yeah I am.
Cassandra: how are you good with that?.
Me: mahnnnn, this fucking book-worms I tell you.
Cassandra: (laughing)
Me: maybe you don't realise in your mighty throne, but that's the norms for we below you.
Cassandra: sorry if I sounded rude
Me: nahhh, it's all good. I did do all this to make you laugh anyway.
Cassandra: thanks. I needed that.
Me: now back to what we were on. what happened after the books?.
Cassandra: next thing I know he was building walls between us. He stopped calling and texting as a whole, and even when I do he just claimed to be busy. He choosed to end things.
Me: what kind of asshole does that?.
Cassandra: I don't really blame him, it's mostly my fault.
Me: I feel like you're being too hard on yourself.
Cassandra: it's cause I deserved it. I deserve to be alone. Look, I wanna know what it means to be loved, I wanna know what love feels like. But I can't just make that sacrifice.
Me: I get you, either your studies or your love life.
Cassandra: yeah, now you see why I ran off the other night. It's not like I don't like you, you're funny and caring and sweet. But the price to pay for that is too much, I'd prefer focusing on my studies.
Me: I perfectly understand dear, I'll always root for you.
Cassandra: I knew you'd understand, we can be friends though.
Me: yeah friends, that'll work.
Cassandra: thanks for understanding.
Me: yeah yeah. Wanna go grab something to eat?.
Cassandra: maybe another time, I have readings to do with my friends.
Me: hmm, okay, maybe another time.
Cassandra: yea, another time
Well I guess this is the best way to get friend zoned. Ouch though
TO BE CONTINUED******