Dele Deagbo remained on the roof as we pretended to be reading back in the class, i wittingly ushered stupid Tobi back to the class as he was dashing towards the fence,
"dont you know we shall be suspected if we were nowhere to be found, we must atleast take this gamble". Tobi was shivering, clueless, as soon as i heard footsteps approaching the class we're using, i also was naive and as well not so confident of our gaff not being blown, i immediately ordered Tobi to place his head on the table like he was sleeping, i quickly feigned my handsfree into my ear as if i've not been hearing the approaching footsteps. He entered and saw Tobi sleeping while i was reading, he enquired, ''What of Dele?''
I keep my cool as I answered, ''He went home for water". He went away without suspecting anything. In the course of survival for way out, Dele became a ceiling scout till he sort himself out after so many un-merry ceiling journey through a class with an open space into the roof.
I felt relieved immediately he found his way back to the class we are, heavily breathing, almost all his body part had been woven with cobwebs, inorder to clear the security man's doubt, we exeunt the class to Dele's family quarters.
On getting back to Dele's room, we patiently solve all questions correctly and prepared for the new day in school.
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Kola was given the question as soon as he stepped into the school, he sat alone in a class for the E.M.S. (early morning study) inorder to study hard the solutions, he was poor in arithmetic. As soon as the assembly bell rang, it was 15minutes earlier than normal, i was afraid, probably the security man heard informed the Principal because any form of investigation would surely bounce back to us. The Principal climbed the ground first as he led the school for the devotion, after the whole thing he voiced,
"the fifteen minutes we saved earlier would be used to test the two aspirant for the post of Senior Prefect, the winner will assume the school S.P", within a blink of an eye, some students already brought two chairs and tables to the assembly platform. The Principal served the questions himself and announced a duration of 20minutes. We all watched as Kola's fate lies with his pen, so many murmured and giggled about the whole saga, twenty minutes passed and their scripts had to be accessed, the senior mathematics teacher after marking both scripts announced amidst our anxiety, "Kola after the assessment scored 83% while the new boy David also had 83%". There was chaos on the assembly as the situation got interesting the more, i personally didnt know why Kola cant just nail the whole 100%, afterall we solved everything but i would also praised him for studying that much the little time he had.
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"Now, why you do you want to be the Senior Prefect is the next article the two must write", the evil looking Principal said, as much as i love him before, now his face to me was plastered with disappointment and looking at him depressed me the more.
Plain sheets of paper were presented afresh, they sat to write for another fifteen minutes and after it all the english teacher announced 75% for Kola and 80% for David, i almost cried.
"Ojoro! Cheat!" Kola's fans yelled, all was now in vain as the Principal announced the new senior boy as 'David Danladi'. It ached me to the bone as I promised not to have anything to do with that boy, but the pledged became compromising when Kola himself has forgiven him, though he was made the assistant senior boy for the first time in the school history and I the laboratory prefect, we have to co-exist now as we held meetings daily before assembly and the three of us do represent the school in any quiz competition, yet, it wasn't really smooth between us, then oneday he approached me with a wrapped gift and extend it to me saying,
"Why did you hate me? Anyway! I like you a lot."
I was dumbfounded with zero words to utter.
Yusuf Abdulqoyum

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