I stayed up late waiting for a call from my dad. Even though our relationship wasn’t the best I knew he was easily impressed by little things like me acing all my classes and making senior prefect. He had been expecting that of me and periodically reminding me whenever I would go home for the weekends during the school terms ever since I made class captain first year of high school and now that I’d made it I wanted to ask him in the most persuasive way possible if he could have me moved rooms.

Instead of finding a good enough reason to tell my dad on why he had to have me moved I found myself sat up with my legs up to my chest covered with my duvet on my bed playing with my phone. Wondering on why my dad was taking too long to call and where the three where, well I knew chances were that they had sneaked out to the girls’ house but it was already almost eleven and they were not back yet. Everyone knows you can buy your way in st John’s the bummer is once you’re in here was no mercy, you had to keep up or they’d kick you out and so I wondered how they each got to stay in long enough to be seniors and keeping up good grades. Sure rumors said they paid off or took up favors of having people do their assignments for them but that wouldn’t explain the term finals and the class tests where it was easy to tell apart the students and especially them they stood out.

The sun peered through the curtains in the morning as the siren went off. A little disorientated I woke with my phone under my ass making me recall how I don’t even know when I slept. But whatever time it was the three hadn’t been back but now as I was getting up off the bed they were already up with Conrad brushing his teeth and collecting his toiletry bag heading for the shower, Lekan making his bed. They were quite and healthy looking I don’t know I expected them to at least look hung-over but I guess with experience they knew how not to get hangovers.

A couple of greetings and nothing more that sure made me certain that they had been up to nothing school approved. The bell for first period rang up and right as I was ushering the class I was the prefect for. I ran into Conrad who pulled me by my wrist rather too harshly before he thrust me against the wall and just as well he was knowing of the illegality of him bullying me he took two soft steps back looking both sideways searching for prying eyes and when he saw there were none he rubbed his chin with his left fingers, grimaced when he gaze fell down to my tinted wrist “Sorry, I didn’t mean to be rough” he said

“It’s fine.” I exhaled

“Last night…”he said “you sneaked out and I’m to keep that to myself?” I finished for him for a second there his eyes widened at the volume in my voice looking around again the corridors for eavesdroppers. I found myself agreeing and some more “Yea sure, if you could tell me where you went and stayed out late doing.”

He smirked, killing softly me because he was also looking right into my eyes with those dark chocolate eyes of his than scanned my body before he said “oh golden boy, it’s not for your ears. Now follow your head boy’s order and go to class.” He slapped my shoulder and turned on his feet and left chuckling hands shuffled into his trouser pockets.