Love is but a dream (2)

'you wish. I am not giving you a dime' i said, poking my tongue at Julie.
'shayo girl. I saw the way you were looking at jesse tho.' ah so rachel noticed too. Well, i guess i wasn't that tactic in hiding it.
'the fair one?' dami asked.
'Yes' rachel answered.
'ta! The boy is too fake jo. He looks like he is bleaching and his fake accent, thats the one you saw to stare at he looked like a white ape to me' they all laughed but that wasn't funny, i was quick to defend jesse. I didn't know why but i did.
'Dammy! Shut up there jo, he's not bleaching. Cant you tell when you see someone that's bleaching? And i dont think his accent is fake. Leave him alone. He's cute.'
'she's already tripping for him sha. See our little Aisha telling me to shut up. If i land you correct slap ehn' I had looked for Dami's trouble.
'dont mind her. Alhaja Aisha' rachel teased.
'stop calling me that!' i half screamed.
'you want to beat me?' Rachel kept on teasing me. 'No. Leave her. With her toothpick legs' Dami said.
'you people now want to fight in public? Me am going o.' Julie got up. 'where is this one going? Chill now? Lets go together.'

Well all through that day they picked on me. And then they started calling me mrs white ape. I went to bed happy, with Jesse's image locked in my memory. I thought i'ld dream about him that night but i didnt. All through the week, i kind of expected to bump into him somewhere in school but i never did. I soon got over my 7days crush on the unknown white ape. School went on, all the stress and tests and assignments and days you just dont want to do anything. School was boring for a few months till 'the month' came along. February. I wasn't a big fan of valentine. Past years, i spent my val days with my dad, we'ld eat chocolate and share jokes together. The whole school was tense. Boutiques had gone red. It was just another day to me. Well, february 14 came, i called my dad, we talked for a while. Rachel, Dami, and Julie had a party to attend. They invited me, i said no. I'ld just stay in the room and chill with mr. Felix (my teddy bear) the girls left. The hostel was so almost empty that night. Some girls were screaming outside though. I was in my room, playing John Legend on my i-pod wearing a big t-shirt and reading hamlet.. They never came back that night, i didnt expect them to. The potters would have locked the gates.
The hostel was filled up the next morning. The noise, the screaming was what woke me up. Amazingly, my girls came back with a lot of gifts, i was a tad jealous no gifts for me. They kept talking about the party and how much i missed. Julie got a wristwatch, and chocolates. She was disappointed, she wanted an ipad, well Dami got very nice shoes, and a jewelry box. It was so cute and i was so jealous. She screamed, she jumped she danced and Rachel told her to shut up. Rachel had been quiet, she was busy unpacking her bag which was quite filled up.
'so what did you get?' i asked her.
'uh. . . Am ipad, a blackberry and there's this other bag i dont know where it came from' i was so shocked.
'why aren't you screaming?' i asked her. 'stupid girl! She got what i wanted.' julie murmured angrily. 'dont hate now.' Dami muttered with a mouth full of chocolate.
'why would i be screaming?' Rachel hissed. She still looked worried and was struggling with a bag.
'if it was me i'ld scream my head off.' i said grabbing a chocolate from dami.
'well scream at this' rachel said throwing the bag at me.
'whats this noW?' I asked confused and staring blankly at the bag.
'i dont know. It has your name on it. It was with my gift'
'open it lets see' julie was already standing behind me peeping curiously. I was still turning the bag in my hand. My name was really on it. Who remembered me? Whats inside? I wondered.
'who sent it?' Dami asked. Still munching.
'iono it wasn't in my bag. Probably when we went to dance someone put it there. Are you going to open it or you want to keep turning it till a genie pops out?' rachel snorted at me.
'yes now, i want a genie to pop out. Who could have sent it?'
'its alhaji sule' julie joked. Grabbing the package from me.
'shut up and give it back' i tried to grab it from her but she was already opening it.
'wow look at this.' she pulled out a tiny stuffed pink bunny. 'am taking that,' rachel jumped up from her bed and grabbed it from Juliet.

The bag contained an ipad, a box of heart shared chocolate, a wrist watch and a card. There was no name on the card.**

Love is but a Dream (1)

I was glad, to finally be in school. I had waited two years, written series of exams, read all the books i could so i was happy when i finally got admitted into a university. My father was a very stern man, he never believed in bribery or private schools he believed in merit and i had waited two years till i finally got a favour from merit. Well, i was in school already and that was all that mattered. I wanted to focus and study as hard as i could. I was the girl nobody knew. I had never had a boyfriend and i was 18, well i never told anybody that though because i knew they'ld act like it was some kind of disease. So i just kept it to myself.
I stayed in my room most of the time when i didnt have classes with my crazy room mates, we had nothing in common but we got along well. We had Rachel, the outgoing one. Rachel never missed any party in school, at first i didnt like her but then i noticed besides her bad addiction to parties she was actually very studious, she was funny and nice. She was one of the popular girls in school. So she supplied us with quality gists fresh.
There was Dami, the loud one, she was always getting into fights with girls in other rooms. I never looked for her trouble after one occasion when she beat up Belle a girl from the room opposite ours because she had taken her toaster without permission and hadn't returned it. Well i cant fight, and i dont cherish bruises so i just stay as far as i can. Then there was Julie she was also a fresher like me, (Dami and Rachel were final year students.) she was also lousy, very popular for her affairs with boys in school. Well, guess you figured i was the quiet, goody two shoes in the room.
It all started one day, my adventure into the unknown world, the world that only existed in fairy tales. We were out on rag day, everybody had costumes on except me, i didnt like the idea of dressing like a mad person and begging on the streets. Besides, my dad warned me against it. So i was with my room mates, we were all walking together around the school. It was quite fun, we were taking pictures, Julie was cracking her silly jokes, Rachel was singing and dancing and making good money. I was the photographer. After a couple of hours under the hot sun, we were all tired and sweaty and very hungry so we later put money together and decided to buy a big bowl of icecream and share it together. We went into the closest restaurant we spotted and got our icecream, Rachel insisted we all sat at the centre of the restaurant we all sat at the table and descended on the icecream, we made a lot of noise and drew a lot of attention as we fought over the icecream, my normal reserved attitude had disappeared so i even threw in a few jokes and laughed loud. Then Julie started. 'Oh boy, you guys carefully turn 9 o'clock. Check out those boys.'
'i dont think they're from our school' Dami observed, carefully staring at the boys. I also looked. Those boys were hot, they were three, tall and dark was all i could notice before i quickly turned my face away before they noticed us staring. When it was Rachel's turn to look, she screamed. 'ahan now, are girls dull ni, they're from our school now. 400 level archy boys. I know the one in the middle. Thats Michel i think' and then she shouted his name. Me, Dami and Julie were quite shocked. Everybody was staring at us now. I didnt even look to see if the boy answered i just focused on my icecream like my whole life depended on it. I was wondering if Rachel had forgotten she was wearing rags. Well the boy answered her. And Rachel being Rachel, she didnt stand up, so the three boys stood up and walked to where we sat. I was nervous o. They were so tall and recklessly handsome. I didnt look up. Until they said hello. They they shook our hands. I got my eyes on the second one. (i had numbered them in my mind) he was fair, he had dimples and an accent. His name was Jesse. The third one was dark, had nice set of teeth and very lovely eyes. His name was Kunle. We all introduced our selves. And the boys offered to buy us more icecream which we declined. They joked about Rachel's costumes. I kept quiet all through though. They had that effect on me. Especially Jesse. I kept staring at him. After he caught me a few times. I stopped and focused on my nails. Well the boys left. We all said our goodbyes and customary 'nice to meet you'.
'mehn, did you see how the dark one was checking aisha out?' it was Dami. She was always bringing up stuffs like that. But he wasn't checking me out, i would have noticed, well maybe i didn't cus i was busy staring at Jesse.
'he wasn't jo. You've started.' i said.
'i think he was too' julie added her own.
'Lie! The both of you are high' i didnt mind though. He was also handsome. But he wasn't jesse. I laughed at my self, mumu the boy didnot even notice you.
'how would she know, ode when she was busy gulping down the icecream' that was Rachel.
'abi! You're going to pay me back'