Five

As Bimbo laid on the bed during siesta; Dorathy's words kept replaying in her head. She pulled her blanket closely to her neck as she adjusted her head on the pillow as their conversation came back to her.

"What if he pushes you to a point that you can't glue back at him?" Dorathy asked as Bimbo furrowed her brows.

"What kind of point would that be?" Bimbo asked and Dorathy shrugged.

"Getting a girlfriend" Dorathy replied and Bimbo felt herself freeze all over.

"He won't" Bimbo replied after a while and Dorathy folded her arms.

"What makes you think that he won't?" Dorathy asked and Bimbo shrugged.

"Its obvious. After all, all these years; he never tried to have one. Why would he suddenly get one?" Bimbo asked and Dorathy laughed and nodded.

"You have a point though. I really curious about when you get your confidence from" Dorathy said and Bimbo swallowed her saliva.

She adjusted herself on the bed again trying to the attract the attention of the Hostel Prefects on duty. She sighs silently.

If Paul really got a girlfriend; Bimbo didn't know what she would do. But she was sure she was going to make them break up.

But then; a lot of the girls liked her and felt bad for her because Paul didn't like her. That's why none of them didn't make a move all these years.

Not that they couldn't compete with her but because Bimbo was too friendly and nice to everyone so she had a rather good relationship with everyone.

She might be the most beautiful in the class but she definitely wasn't the best in the class. A lot of girls were better than her.

"Dorathy be raising false alarms and be scaring me" Bimbo whispered into the air as she assured herself that even if Paul wanted to get a girlfriend; most of them wouldn't agree.

She turned sideways to see that Dorathy was already sleeping soundly with her eyes closed. She also closed her eyes and tried to catch some sleep before the one hour meant for the siesta was gone.

Jemimah rubbed her eyes as she and her friends walked to their classes for extra lessons. The siesta had just finished and the hordes of students were heading towards their classes.

"Are you still that sleepy?" Ing asked and Jemimah nodded and pouted as she wrapped her hands around the other.

"I am very much sleepy" Jemimah replied as Sewa laughed and pinched Jemimah on the arm.

"You are too lazy" Sewa said as Jemimah glared at her.

"See who's saying I'm lazy. You collected notes to copy and waited till the morning of the day we were supposed to submit it before you started copying the note even when we had free period the previous day" Jemimah said as they burst into laughter.

"Do you want to exchange seats with me for the first period? You should get enough sleep during that period" Faidat said as Jemimah threw her a flying kiss.

"I love you Faidat" Jemimah said and Fadiat laughed as the walked along the block that led to their class.

The students on the walkway unconsciously gave way to four girls walking on the hallway. The most popular set of friends on the SSS2 block and even in the school.

Adeleke Jemimah; even without her elder brother's reputation, she was a total force to reckon with. Arrogant and prideful were the best words that could be used to describe Jemimah and of course only those who didn't know her would say that.

The best word for her was a Boss Bitch. That was what she was. She didn't interact with anyone except her friends; her principle was simple. You don't cross your boundary with her and the same with her. Besides; one could only admire and be jealous of her. She was beautiful and intelligent. Definitely part of the first five best students in her set.

Therapet Kaning; popularly known as Ing, Jemimah's first best friend. Of course she wasn't Nigerian. Her parents were from Thailand and had come to settle down in Nigeria a little bit after she clocked five. So she was used to both the Nigerian culture and language.

When she joined BIC as a new student; a lot of the students stayed away from her due to her skin colour and all. Jemimah was the first to talk to her and they became best of friends till this day. Coupled with brains and beauty, she easily became popular as well.

Adeniran Adesewa; the psycho and most crazy of the four. If anyone at all out of the four; you dare not mess with Sewa. Messing with her was grooming yourself for damnation. Sewa and Jemimah became friends after they both tackled the class captain due to something.

Sewa was also kinda reserved as well. Rude and sassy to the outside world but a real girlfriend among her friends. That was who she was.

Salami Faidat; the second princess of the Bauchi Emirate. As a Princess, Faidat had been trained in the way of the royals and so found it very hard to mingle with her mates would her tutor had always called 'the common people'.

Upon joining the school in JSS2; she also had the same problems and even after weeks of resumption; still walked about lonely and desolate. She gathered up courage and wrote a letter to the trio asking them if she could become friends with them. And they did welcome her with open hands. Very easily she blended with them.

Four unique and different girls from different races and families. They had been best friends for the all the years they had spent in BIC.

Messing with any of them was messing with the whole gang. And messing with whole gang was death. Not death exactly, dying while living.

The girls walked into the class and immediately found their seats by the window side. Ing and Sewa sat down beside each other, Jemimah and Faidat sat beside each other while Jemimah sat in front of Ing and Faidat in front of Sewa.

A guy walked into the class almost immediately after the girls had settled down. A lot of the girls couldn't hold their giggling as the guy walked towards the girls.

If one looked closely; you'll be able to easily see the similarities between him and Faidat.

"Heyyy Farouq" Sewa greeted as she slapped handshakes with the caramel skinned guy who wore a smile seeing Sewa's grin.

"You came to look for us today" Ing said as he chuckled and laughed. Jemimah stood up from her chair and the guy sat down before Jemimah sat on his laps.

Faidat turned to him with a small sigh "What is it?" Faidat asked as he frowned lightly.

"Dad wants us to come home for the Durbar festival" he replied as Faidat rolled her eyes as she turned to her twin brother.

Farouq Salami, the second Prince but the most favored Prince of the Bauchi Emirate. Unlike his twin sister; Farouq had zero problems upon joining BIC.

With indifferent levels of -100, Farouq didn't give two damns about what the world thought of him. Except accompanying his twin sister he didn't do anything. He was also the person who helped her deliver the friendship letter to Jemimah and her friends.

After they became friends; he naturally became friends with them too.

"What did you tell him?" Faidat asked and Farouq furrowed his brows as he wrapped his hands around Jemimah's waist.

"Its the Durbar festival. As the Prince and Princess; its impossible to miss it"