CHAPTER THREE: Suit yourself with lies!
11:00 PM.
Everyone began to leave the house as the pool party came to an end, it was already dark outside and curfew as well
"Goodnight, Bruce! We had a great time," Rachel, his seatmeat hugged him tightly with a peak on his cheeks
"See you tomorrow." Bruce smiled, watched as his friends zoomed off with the car.
Steve shook his hand while he was close to the door.
"The party was lit, man!. You should call the cleaners early tomorrow to come clean up this mess before your pop man shows up." Bruce nodded,
"Sure thing, man. Thanks for everything. I owe you alot." He shut the door behind.
Bruce looked around the house to see empty cans, trash and leftover food littered the floor. The pool area was a mess, with condoms and rubber cups scattered everywhere.
Bruce took a deep breath, clapped his hand to call out the robots in the other room.
"Clara, I need this place clean before tomorrow morning."Bruce said, sat on the couch to eat the leftover pizza on the table. He kept drinking, thinking about her why did she disappoint him? After too much deliberations in his mind, he finally dozed off
In the morning, Bruce realized that he had overslept as soon as he heard the alarm: 7:39 AM.
"Oh no!, I'm late for the test," Bruce groaned, and rushed to the restroom to have a quick bath.
He zoomed out of the house in his car, breaking every traffic so as to make it to school.
He arrived at the classroom door handle, took a deep breath before he walked in, all eyes were on him, the test had begun.
Rachel waved at him to come have a seat close to her, he walked in sluggishly drew a seat, the teacher Mr. Ruthie walked to his seat with his test papers.
"Here's yours. You have 15 minutes to finish off, I won't tolerate late submission," she said, dropping the paper on his desk.
"Yes, Ma'am," he responded, glancing at the test questions.
Rachel leaned over and whispered, "Hey, Bruce, you okay? You look disturbed and pale."
He nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little hangover from yesterday."
"No talking please. You have 15 minutes to complete the test." Mrs. Ruthie caught the both of them conversing.
"Yes, Ma'am," Bruce nodded.
After the last bell rang, Rachel rushed out of the classroom when she saw Sonita walking to the passage pathway through the window.
"Sonita, wait!" Rachel called her name, trying to catch up with her.
Sonita turned as she heard her name behind her, it was Rachel, and she sigh, continued to walk forward.
She had no desire for cheap gossip or small talk at the moment, it wasn't like she intended to hate Rachel from the beginning, but she had always been the prime gossip in the school.
On her first day of school, Rachel was extremely quiet, calm and good looking with a nice shape that caught everyone's attention. Not after she circulated the news about Alexia's relationship with Bruce to the school management that caused havoc to Alexia's reputation in the campus. Sontia grew to detest her even before they became seatmates for their practical classes
"Sonita," Rachel called again, while patting heavily.
Sonita stopped, looked at her "what do you want? Talk fast!" She said.
"I have alot to catch up," she rolled her eyes.
Rachel smiled, "why are you avoiding me all these while?, like we have never had anything serious or fist with you but just your friend," she looked more curious than annoyed.
"Rachel, if it's that you want to say, I have more thing to do. I have to go for lunch," Sonita tried to walk away but Rachel held back.
"I know, you are in a hurry. I will make it snappy," Rachel announced
"Alright then, speak up. I can hear you," Sonita paused to listen to what she had to say,
"Well, I heard… not too sure about it that your friend, Alexia is pregnant, and she does not want to speak who's the father of the child." Rachel sneered.
Sonita took a deep glance at her before walking away.
"Wait…Sonita, it's just what I heard…" Rachel said softly but Sonita did not look back.
She walked into the cafeteria, leaving Rachel at the passage entrance. Some students gathered in a small corner, whispering among themselves as all eyes were on Sonita.
Sonita picked up her food from the server "Thank you," moved to her usual seat where she normally ate with Alexia. But today, Alexia hadn't come to school.
"Hey, Sonita. Can I sit with you?" Andra walked up to her with her food, pulled a seat and sat down.
"You're alone today. Where's Alexia?", Andra asked.
" She's not in school, she's sick," sointa replied, busy munching her food in her mouth.
"Or She's pregnant for an unknown guy in the campus," Andra said, raising an eyebrow. Sonita looked at her sternly,
"Suit yourself with the lies. Alexia is sick." She picked up her plate, to move to another seat.
Andra stood up on the table in the cafeteria, "The Jew girl is pregnant and doesn't know the father of the child." She sneered with a laughter.
Everyone's eyes turned to their direction, "Is it true?" A student asked Sontia,
"how is that possible?" Another chimed in.
Bruce stood in the pathway, frozen when he heard those words from Andra.
Sonita walked up to Andra, dragged her hair down and gave her a dirty slap.
KPPAI!!
Everyone screamed, they put on their phone to go live to record the two girls dragging each other's hair, while they struggle on the floor.
Sarah Sun the vice principal of Academics walked into the cafeteria to see the fights between those two as few students hailed them. The room went silent when the students saw her, Sonita looked up to see her, but Andra gave her a punch on the lips which she fell on the VP's hands before Andra could notice the VP's presence.
Ms.Sarah said to them angrily, "Both of you, to my office now!"