The bell rang and Saffiyah heaved a sigh of relief! The class was so boring and some of the students had dozed off. They started shuffling their feet on the ground and Mr Hakeem their Mathematics teacher had to leave the class. She looked over to where Maryam was sitted, her eyes were fixed on something beneath her desk, Saffiyah bent to check and chuckled; Her sister had been reading a novel the whole time, very soon she would come bother her for another one! She was surprised her sister hadn't had the time to catch any new dude yet, that was her normal routine at their former school, and it'd been two months they resumed here yet... Nothing! She turned back around and stretched, one more class and school would be over for that day, she couldn't wait! Maryam got up and walked out of the class along with some other students. Saffiyah frowned; where was she off to? She brought out her time table and checked to see what the next subject was; her heart stopped! Further Maths! How could she have forgotten? She hadn't done her assignment and Mr Ken would be here any second! She turned to see if she could get someone's note to quickly copy from, and just then Mr Ken walked in with five fat canes in one and and his note in the other. Saffiyah could literally taste salt in the corners of her mouth. "Open your notes and let me see your assignments, and God bless you if you haven't done it, I'll give you something to nurse this weekend!" Saffiyah looked around, some students were opening their notes and others were scribbling what they could in theirs. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Saffiyah quickly turned at the sounds of his cane on the first person's back! Six strokes!! The boy screamed and started to cry! Oh God! What do I do? She thought. She couldn't possibly wait and get flogged, she would just faint! She got up, turned around and ran out through the back door as fast as her legs could carry her. "Who is that running out? Hey, come back here!" Mr Ken called out. She didn't turn around, she got to a class, ran in and sat on an empty sit, she looked back to see if anyone was running after her, there was no one, she put her head on the locker. She so wished she was Maryam at that moment. Maryam wasn't offering the course, she said she didn't want to stress her brain and that too much stress could make a girl become ugly! Saffiyah was scared; what if he came in behind me and flogged my back? What if he sent four students to come and drag her back? What if a teacher walked into this class now?! She shut her eyes and tried to steady her breaths. Just then, someone came in behind her.
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Jamal left the Biology teacher's office with a sigh of relief. This head boy work was really weighing him down, he was really lucky he had time to read his books. He couldn't wait to just write WAEC and leave high school. He jugged to his class, he had to finish reading his chemistry note before school closed. When he walked past the front door of his class an odd feeling came over him, a chilly feeling. He shrugged it off and walked towards the back door where his seat was and walked into the class. He walked towards his seat curiously, wondering who the young lady was and why she chose his seat. When he got close to her, she froze, he could see that she was alarmed and was probably hiding from something or someone; "Errr excuse me, may I join you?" He asked politely. She raised up her head and looked up at him; her eyes consumed him, he had never seen so much beauty in one body before, she had brown eyes, thesame colour with her hair, a small nose, pink lips, slender figure and long legs. He took it all in in no-time! She moved to the wall and then he sat. "What's your name?" He asked. She hesitated at first, then she stared at the tag on his shirt and decided to be polite; "Saffiyah." He smiled; "My name is Jamal Malik." He stated. She returned his smile with her own breath-taking one; "I know who you are. Everyone knows." And they started talking, asking and answering questions and laughing. They talked for a long while and were both disappointed when the bell rang signalling the end of school for that day. Jamal picked up his bag and walked with Saffiyah to her class to get hers. To his surprise, standing at the door of the class with two school bags was another Saffiyah, much darker and with more pronounced body curvatures. He couldn't help both notice that these two were really endowed. He tried to keep his gaze on the girl's face; "Are you two twins?" "Yes we are head boy, I'm Maryam by the way, has my baby sis' committed any crime?" If being so pretty and perfect is a crime then she has committed a crime that I'm not gon' let go off! "No, not at all. I just want to walk her to the school gate if you'll allow me." Maryam smiled; "Of course, shall we?"
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Saffiyah couldn't get her mind off Jamal, she saw him at school everyday! She ran into him everywhere! She was in love with him and him with her too, she could tell. Maryam always teased her about him, and shoved it aside when she tried to bring up the fact that he was a Hausa guy. "So what? Is he not a man? Are you not a woman?" She would say. But Saffiyah didn't want to go into anything that would make anybody unhappy with her at all, she was scared. But she loved this guy! She loved talking to him, all the time, he even put her through Further maths. She always fantasized about his big round eyes, his dark hair and side burns was perfect on his fair complexion! He had long lashes and his smile was ravishing! She could just stay all day, staring at him. He was cool, gentle and quiet, and easy going too. And he was so intelligent! An aspiring medical doctor. Awww how she so wished... "Oooh na na na na na, oooh na na na na na..." She rolled her eyes as her sister walked into the room playing 'My way' by Wande coal again! "Maryam get over yourself! Wande coal doesn't know you! And the song aint for you!!" Maryam turned around, and laughed histerically; "God! If this is what love does to a girl, could you please turn me into a guy? 'Cos I sure do wana fall in love someday, but not like this." "Maryam! Stop it please! I'm not happy at all. I really can't explain how I feel and I don't know what's gon happen!" "Saffy, follow your heart o! And stop all this outdated ish!" Maryam had guts! But she didn't want any trouble. She had to figure out a way out of this before it became too much for them both...
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