-Chapter Ten

I stared outside as I watched two figures walk through the hallways. Holding hands while the male figure seemed to drape his hand around the female waist. As the figures approached, I couldn't hold the smile crawling up my lips.

One thing I had always wanted was a boyfriend. I knew I wasn't bad myself. I was ranked 9th on  SSS2 block and 19th on Senior block.

That should could as being pretty bah?

Whenever I saw couples in school I always suddenly wished I had a boyfriend. I wanted a guy who would care for me, cuddle me, tell me he loved me all the time. And of course I wanted an handsome guy.

Like every other person, I didn't have a dream guy. Each time I saw a handsome guy, I'm always sent into my fantasy world. My love for Korean movies wasn't helping either.

"Why do you always stare whenever you see these couples?" Chioma asked as I turned my face towards her.

"They are cute" I replied shrugging my shoulders.

"Ehn ehn?" Chioma asked snickering.

"Just leave me alone abeg"  I said as I went back to my text book. My hair went to his hair as I scratched through it.

"Toke, I thought we agreed to lose this hair, how far nah?" Chioma said with a creatfallen face.

"I'll lose it after test, there will be time. I can't lose it now and when I'm supposed to be reading tomorrow, I'll go and seat down and be doing six hour hair" Toke replied.

"Fefe, are you listening?" Chioma asked her accent flowing flawlessly through her words.

Fefe glanced at me and snickered "If you don't read till Monday, na A you go still get" Fefe replied as I laughed.

"Orrh... Be laughing. Us bayi that we have to read and read if not we are dead" Chioma said and I laughed at her mixture of Yoruba English.

"Whatever, I'll lose it after test" I said yawning and covering my mouth.

"Fefe do you want a boyfriend?" Chioma suddenly asked.

I raised my head from my book and gave Chioma a surprised look. Fefe frowned slightly as she placed her own in her book and closed it.

"Why are you asking?" Fefe asked.

Chioma bit the edge of her biro grinning "I don't know. It just came to my mind. What kind of guy would you like?" Chioma asked.

"She's a boyish girl, she'll definitely like a girlish boy" Chioma's seatmate chipped in.

"It's because you don't have sense that's nobody wants to date you" Fefe said.

The class roared with laughter as the girl turned red.

"How can you say that?" The girl asked angry.

"Why can't I say that? Its not as if I'm lying" Fefe replied.

"I wasn't lying either. You are a girl that's like a boy" the girl shot back harshly.

"Nike, what's your point excatly?" Fefe snarled.

"A girl should act like a girl not like some bad guy trying to garner popularity" Nike replied proudly.

"When I said you don't have sense you went berserk, now listen to yourself. Do you think you actually sound like someone with something upstairs? Do you really think if I didn't act like a guy, I still wouldn't be popular?" Fefe asked standing up from her chair.

"I'm a B. I. C's number two best debater bitch! Yeah, thanks to people like me, that award room needs to be extended" Fefe added as she looked condescendingly at Nike.

"Miss Falana Nike, what have you done for B. I. C? Who knows you? I'm double sure there are people on SSS2 block that don't know you. Ohh they should, they would know the 12th ranked most beautiful girl but then she can't compliment her beauty with her sense and as such, her beauty is rendered useless" Fefe said emphasizing on useless.

Daniel's words got to her way down. She was even more angry that she couldn't find a comeback. She had been feeling frustrated and had being looking for someone to vent her anger on and then Nike pokenosed in her matter.

The class was rendered speechless before they roared with laughter. Nike's bit her lip and stood up before running out of the class.

I held my stomach as I laughed. I knew Fefe just vented her anger on Nike. I had noticed she had been easily irritated since her scuffle with Daniel.

"Paa, Fefe you didn't even spare her, wetin she do you?" Kunle asked laughing.

"If I were you I would mind my business" Fefe replied as she sat down.

"Don't even think of passing aggression on me? Do I look like Nike who wouldn't have anything to say to you?" Kunle shot back a frown on his face.

"You think so?" Fefe asked mockingly.

"At least I know you've never passed me before" Kunle snarled as Fefe's expression turned worse.

Although Kunle was carefree, stubborn and a trouble maker; he was a genius. Like me, he had sat down comfortably at the 5th position in a long time. Fefe switched from 6th-8th although she had carried 8th only once.

"No reply?" Kunle asked mockingly.

"Now that I think about it, we all know Nike doesn't have sense; that's why she can't get a boyfriend but you the boyish girl with enough sense and popularity,  you can't get a boyfriend either. Biko, what if you are number two best debater in BIC, both of you are the same" Kunle added.

The class roared with laughter again as Chioma expression changed. I didn't find the drama funny any longer as I also wore a frown.

"Please even Aliyah the ugliest girl in this class has a boyfriend" Dami added with a shrug as the class burst into laughter again.

Chioma rose from her seat as she crossed her arms.

"Are you done?" Chioma asked.

"I don't have business with you so just don't talk to me" Kunle replied.

"You don't have business with me keh? You are ridiculing my best friend right in front of me yet you are saying you have no business with me? Haba, don't you think you are looking down on me?" Chioma asked as Kunle turned to her.

"You want to fight me?" Kunle asked.

"What if she doesn't have a boyfriend? How's it your business?" Chioma asked.

"Nike not having a boyfriend, how is it her business too?" Kunle replied.

"She pokenosed in our business first" Chioma replied.

"She was just trying to be funny nah" Dami replied.

"If you want to talk to me, Dami you can stand on a chair, I can't see you at all" Chioma said and the class burst into laughter.

Dami's face darkened immediately as his lips twitched.

"She doesn't have a boyfriend, yet her life is far better than all of you with boyfriends, isn't that right?" Chioma asked with a smile.

Kunle laughed "Now that I think about you, you don't have a boyfriend neither does Toke. What a weird squad. Allow me to borrow Fefe's words, the beauty is useless!" Kunle said.

My frown deepened as I started flipping through the pages of my note.

I didn't even do anything. Why drag me into the matter?

"Do you have a girlfriend Kunle? No you don't. Why are you making a fuss then?" I asked slowly as everyone turned to me.

I turned to Kunle "Why aren't you talking? Don't tell me you ran out of words? You were still talking confidently few minutes ago, what went wrong?" I asked with an innocent face.

"What if she's a boyish girl? Nike was wrong to have put her mouth in what's not her business in the first place. Okay, I agree with everyone's thoughts. Fefe is overreacting, seeing her all still powered up, what did you think would happen after provoking her?" I continued asking as I closed my note.

"What if she never passed you before? She's way more popular than you. Miser Kunle, please let us respect each other" I added a frown still on my face.

A cynical smile wore its way to my face "Boyfriends right? We'll see about that" I added as I turned back to my book leaving my dazed classmates boring holes into the back of my head.