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EPISODE 2

“Who is that girl?” I could see hands pointing at me but I focused on my books deeply so I wouldn’t look up.

“Who are you? You didn’t hear me, d’you?” I heard a voice ask, almost shouting, tugging at my shoulder.

I looked up at image standing right in front of me and my heart skipped a beat. He looked so good! Clad in blue jeans trousers and a white top with a golden jacket on top, I couldn’t help but blink in appreciation as I wafted in his well scented perfume.

I had never seen a man who looked that young and rich, but here was one standing in front of me!


“Wow! She is pretty!” He said and made to touch my jaws when I woke up from my fantasy, stood up at once and caught his hands. I held them so tightly that he screamed. I looked into his fearful face and smiled wickedly.

“My name is Beverly Jones, a 20 year old girl from Boki Local Government, Cross Rivers state. Are you clear? Be a good boy and just settle down in your seat. Don’t lets cause a brouhaha” I eventually let go of his hands and sat down gently- as if nothing had happened.

There was silence in the classroom- awkward silence!

As I tried to inhale some more fresh air, I heard a round of applause from behind me and when I lifted my head, some guys were right before me, clapping with such gusto.

“Here comes our class rep!” They chanted like a song and I blinked hard to understand what they were saying and who they were talking to.

I looked back at the fine guy I had just given a tight squeeze. He was holding his hurt arm and when he saw me, he smiled and winked!

What was that?!

“I second the motion that Beverly Jones be our class rep” A familiar voice said from behind and when I looked back, it was Isabella! She started walking towards me.

“Huh?” I muttered out of shock and she smiled as she raised my right hand up.

“I present to y’all, my bestie. Treat her kindly” She said and there was a loud round of applause and some oohings.

Bestie?

I still couldn’t understand what was happening and I think Isabella understood as she walked up the podium.

“Beverly, you are welcome to SmallVille College. We are all new students but some of us here are already acquaintances as we attended the same secondary school, The Vine Ville Academy (VVA). Of the fifty classmates we had then, twenty of us are here, studying Medicine while some others have travelled abroad and others in other departments or institutions as the case may be” She explained and I nodded.

No wonder they all behaved so closely.

“With the way she is, I pray she wouldn’t be beating our lecturers to stupor! How can a pretty lady have evil hands, huh?! What an evil beauty!” The fine guy exclaimed and everyone laughed. I could only smile as I stood up to face the class.

“Let me introduce you to like three most important people in this class” Bella said and I nodded.

I was becoming so comfortable with the way she made me feel so special.

“The guy you beat right now is called Cole. He is like the proudest person…hahaha..if there is a word like that in this whole school. Treat him gently” She said and everyone burst out laughing.

I turned to look at the ‘proudest guy’ and he winked again at me, his head tilted to the side. I gasped in irritation.

He must be feeling himself too much!

“So also, we have the Queen Bee in the person of myself, Isabella. I could be a very spoilt brat. Treat me well” she said and covered her face in a shy manner.

I smiled. She didn’t need to tell me how spoilt she was. I had had a fair share of her rotteness.

“And we also have the brainy of our class…” the class didn’t allow her land before they started clapping.

“That’s the momma!”

“Brainy for life!”

“Seven times brainy, brainy forever!” I heard Cole say also and I looked towards the east side of the class where they all faced.

“That’s Shirley” Bella said and I nodded. The poor girl had her head on her desk and I could see a book on her laps. She was obviously reading and her mind was out of the class.

“She has never dropped from 100 percent from Primary five when she joined our school. She is intelligent like that. Her father is the Honourable minister for education so you can tell why she must be intelligent” Bella explained on and I nodded.

Wow!

“Every other person is very important but I can’t start talking about them as papilo will soon be in the class…hehehe…” She said and almost everyone giggled again.

“Come have the podium” She said and I stood up, sighed and walked up the podium

“Thank you all for choosing me as your class rep. I had looked forward to having that position as I can see that majority of you will need discipline” I said and paused to see their reactions.

They murmured amongst themselves, some frowned, there were just different reactions from them and I smiled.

“I am not a president’s daughter, nor have I seen a governor before. My parents are small scale business people and I don’t have the best things of life. Nevertheless, I have what you people do not” I said and searched their faces. They looked so dumbfounded.

“What is that?” Some asked. Others looked insulted for hearing that they had a lack- especially from a poor lady!

“Contentment and experience!” I said and they muttered amongst themselves.

“You have money and desire to have more. You compete with your colleagues to have the best of all things and you aren’t satisfied. You people run miles to shed off weight from the excesses you have accummulated while I run miles to get just some crumbs on my table” I said and felt like a poor star as all eyes was on me.

Source: https://ashsalt.com/2020/04/smalville-college-smc-2/

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