Drama at Gilead High

Chapter Ten 💜

I know I promised this yesterday, but I was too busy.

But, here it is!

Chapter Ten

Laila's POV

I looked at my wrist watch with eagerness wondering when it will finally be three. Mr. Bello has been here for the last thirty minutes and in the next five he will be gone. My head cannot even wrap around what he is teaching. All I want to do right now is get home and wrap myself in my bed and sleep.

Today has to be the one of the worst days in life so far.

I always thought I had friends in this class and I am not just talking about my close friends, I mean my classmates as friends. I felt like we were one community who had each other's back even despite all the arguments. I have never for once acted proud or at least think I do act proud.

I act as humble as I can and the next thing, I get is accusations by everyone in this room. when I could not take it anymore, I placed my head on the table. I really told myself earlier that I will not cry.

I won't waste a tear here for this fake people but that was not going as planned because the next thing I knew, I was crying quietly. Thankfully my seat partner's head was not on the table too. I was in my own world and thankfully, Mr. Bello, our mathematics teacher left the class.

I cleaned my tear stained face and stood up from my seat.

"Laila."

I wanted to ignore the voice but I turned back to face Mercy. I was even shocked when she pulled me into a hug.

"do not mind those foolish people."

"yeah, obviously Laila they are just jealous."

Teju added and it made me feel slightly better. Her hug also felt good and she pulled back after a while.

"why did you not seat with us?"

"I do not really want to talk about this now Mercy but thanks. It is glad to know someone actually cares."

I muttered quietly and held unto my bag. I was about to turn to the door when someone pulled me into another hug and the familiar scent made me feel angry instead of better unlike Mercy's own.

"Stop Joy."

I pulled back and glared at her, looking at her side, Brian was also standing there and the other boys were watching the drama from their seats. I rolled my eyes at them and it felt hard to hold on to the tears after holding eye contact with Timini.

"I am sorry. we messed up, no we fucked up. we were talking about how to talk and apologize to you during lunch and I thought you were still angry that's what I did not ask you to follow us and whatever those stupid people were saying this afternoon is a lie. I am sorry I have not been the best friend I am meant to be and I just want to apologize."

"thank God you know that Joy. I just need to go home for now. It has not really been an easy day from you and Brian in the morning to lunch and then biology. I need to go home. I will talk to you guys later."

I walked out of the classroom with that and as usual I met with Tami and Kiki in front of Kiki's class. I stayed quiet despite Kiki's rant about cold stone and Tami's rant about her new post and even though they kept on asking what was wrong, I kept quiet.

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"what is wrong with you?"

Tamilore asked as she sat at the foot of my bed and held onto my hand,