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This chapter is dedicated to @prettyjot for her lovely comments.
And the upcoming book for this chapter is entangled by @alabihoney
Mercy's POV
Why is that rude human being in front of me?
It was the guy , remember the rude boy , that one that fell me down the other day ,.
"He's cute right?" I heard a voice say from beside me. I turned to have a better look of the lady .
"Hey I'm Joy." She said with a smile .
"Mercy." I said back and returned her smile.
"You have to meet him to add you to that group , I swear all those people are Savage." Esther said ,
"Yes oo , like did you see how they abused that dayo guy. It was epic." They kept on talking about the things that happened in the group which was quite funny.
"How is the group not full , am sure we are more than the wattsap maximum number?" I asked , cause we were too much.
"It's on telegram , and telegram is much more fun than wattsap Jo." Joy replied, she was right. I was on telegram too but I wasn't on any group there so I found it boring and didn't use it after the first day of signing in.
But the way they were talking about that group , I will reopen telegram for it again.
"So are you joining?" Esther asked , making me look at her with a 'do you need to ask?' look.
"For sure na." I replied.
"Okay let's meet him" she said back , while joy nodded , so who's the him ? And I also think joy and Esther knows each other , okay let's forget that , who are they talking about, hope it's not that rude human being.
"Teni now, the president. He said that you should meet him if you have not been added." Joy said back confused too or more like looking at me like I wasn't hearing.
So his name is Teniola . Cute name , reminds me of my favourite Nigerian female artist , Teni makanaki.
I love that girl , okay so back to reality . I'm not meeting him , it would be too awkward sef. Like how would I start?
Esther stood up grabbing my hands and then the front door opened and a man walked in.
He held a school bag in one hand , and his protuding stomach was showing , he walked like he was on a beauty pageant show to the front of the class.
Esther sat down back immediately and the creaking sound of the chair was heard.
Everywhere became silent , we were all freshman and no one wanted to be in the bad list of any lecturer.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen." He said dropping his bag and then faced us again ,
"I am Mr aniete and today we'll be talking about..."
**â **
"Thank you sir." We all said after laughing , it's been two hours and this man made it seem like five minutes.
This is a really good start that's if we leave the part that he dictates like a typewriter , I had to record him sef cause he was too fast.
He always had break in between where he'll explain and drop a joke or two , he has a great sense of humor.
And it's during that break that I'll start writing down the notes from the recorder as fast as possible , with Esther too. Listening to his explanation and writing notes at the same time was quite easy for me , not!
There were sometimes where I would just drop my pen and look at him explain, and well the recorded voice was still talking , Esther wasn't even bothered she was just writing straight. So when I notice that I'll quickly grab her book and start writing too. It's stressful. In my secondary school it was even laptop we were using and now , I felt like crying sef.
Esther pulled my hand making me look up from my note ,
"Mr aniete has gone , let's go to Teni." She said , making me look at the podium.
I faced my note and wrote the last word . When I was done I arranged my book and pen inside my bag and removed the earpiece I was using.
Joy was also packing up too , I looked at my bag and my snacks were smiling at me , it's sad right? I didn't have the time to eat .
When we were done we walked to where the said Teni was standing talking to some guys too . They were laughing so hard about something, which I obviously don't know.
"Teni ." Esther said as they reached their table. If you're asking about me , I was walking slowly, slower than a snail sef at this point .
"Esther how far." He said back with a smile , he and his friends greeted them and I was finally right behind them.
"Teni my friend is not in the group , she could not see how they savaged Dayo." She said smirking at one of the other guy there, maybe that's the Dayo.
The said person just hissed , "you guys are supporting that fool." He said with annoyance laced in his voice making all of them burst out laughing. Someone tell me why I'm always lost whenever am with a group of people talking.
First it was Trisha's group , now Esther's group . It is well . One day they will find me in their conversations by God's grace. 'amen oo.' my subconscious replied.
I was brought back to reality when I realized all of them were now starting at me.
I looked like a deer caught in the headlight ,
"Uhm , hi." I muttered ,
The Dayo boy winked at me , why wink?
"Am Dayo , and this is Charles ." He said pointing at the other boy standing beside him. Who just smiled at me , he looked nice.
"And this is Teniola." He added pointing at the already glaring boy , I looked up and glared back at him. What? I wasn't even at fault , he was the one who pushed me.
"This world is really small." He said with a chuckle.
"Yeah it is." I said back with the same tone , the others clearly noticed the tension and Dayo just asked , "have you guys dated before?"
I turned to him , and tired , really tried not to glare at him . No wonder they abused him on the group.
"No we have not."
"God forbid."
We both said at the same time. Teni cleared his throat and brought out his phone,
"What's your username?" He asked
"Anonymous." I said back , that was my username in all the apps that needs it. It felt and sounded mysterious which I like.
I brought out my phone too and opened the app for the first time in ages,
"Done." He said ,and immediately a message entered my phone and then another ,
It was the group , just three messages in less than thirty seconds.
"Thanks , so let's forget All the grudges , I'm Mercy." I said with a smile. He returned it , shaking his head , " Teniola."
"Okay so who felt the tension ?" Esther asked making me laugh.
**â **
"Trisha you haven't told me why you didn't come home on Saturday." I said as I passed the rinsed chicken to her.
We were in the kitchen preparing dinner after the long day at school. After that class , I still attended two more and the next one was always tougher than the last.
But I even figured out that mine was better , Trisha who was a medical student faced a whole bigger stress than mine that I even pitied her .
"Well what do you want to know?" She asked with a smile.
I grinned at her
"So what did you guys do?" I asked her immediately
"Okay , he asked me to a second date and we kissed . Well during the party when you left we kissed again and when he noticed I was drunk his word not mine he took me to his room and we cuddled. That's all." She said with a wide smile
"Awwwwn you guys are so cute " I said back making her chuckle .
The vibration I felt in the pocket of my shirts made me bring it out.
Two thousand messages , kilode!
I sat down on the counter while Trisha was busy seasoning the chicken.
I read the latest messages , I couldn't help but burst out laughing Making Trisha shoot me confused looks.
I jumped down from the counter and walked up to her giving her my phone.
"Read from here." I said still laughing, after a minute or so she too started laughing, it's true this people are so funny.
My phone beeped again , I thought it was the group until Trisha passed it to me with a grin and she was waggling her eyebrows making her look funny.
I looked at the screen,the message was sent from a personal account. And the username of the person is psycho. Abeg oo why will a psycho be texting me , just joking.
I replied the hi the person sent with a , 'hello sorry who's this?'
Two minutes going and no reply.
"So Eniola is living with them?" I asked surprised , Trisha just shared that info with me .
Well Hakeem doesn't like her , so... But wait she's pretty and his feelings can change too.
I was interrupted by the beep again.
I checked my phone and it was that psycho ,
' it's Teni.'
So teni is also appearing small small.
Who will be better for her
Teni or Hakeem?
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