"Do you want more? we got extra incase one of us wants more." Sade says while pointing to the extra coffee beside her. Embarrassing is an understatement compared to what I am feeling right now.

"No, I am okay now,” .. I …..was….. actually thirsty before but I am fine now.'' I am trying to explain the reason behind the gulping down of the coffee.

We sit in the car in front of the coffee shop , the girls and Bolu are talking except me who is staring at the window and Fresho who is pressing his phone. I check the time on my phone and it is 7:45pm.

"I think we should be going." I say.

"Oh, that's true. Let's go back to the party." Sade says and I eye her apologetically.

"Lara, What’s up with that facial expression?  aren’t you going back there with us"? Sade asks and I nod,

"  I need to go back to the hostel. Time has gone, I want to sleep early because of my hand". I say."

Oops, okay. Am glad  you came anyway, the driver will  drop you at your hostel  then we will go back to the party. " Sade says and I shake my head..

"No,  don't worry,  my hostel is not far from here. I will just take a bike. And more so,  I don't want any attention when we get to my hostel. You know….this car…." I stutter. I say goodbye to all of them, I open the door and I step out of the car.

Back in my hostel, I take everything on me off and I enter the bathroom. I shower and I pray. I change into my pajamas and I lie on my bed. Thinking of everything that happened today,  I fall asleep dreaming of Fresho in my world.

I wake up around 3am in the middle of the night and  I pull out my book. I am not assimilating but I am reading it anyway. Even though the new time table is not out yet since the day they postponed the previous one, I still need to prepare because only God knows when they will release it. If the school authority decides to release it tomorrow and it states that the exam is starting on Monday, no one will sue them for it.  I really need to prepare. I ignore Fresho's thoughts that are disturbing my brain and I focus on what  I am reading. I go back to sleep around 4:30am.

I didn't set an alarm yesterday so I woke up late this morning because I do not have early morning lectures. After I finish  my daily routine, I call my dad to remind him of the remaining part of my school fees. I paid part payment in the first semester and now the second semester is going to end soon and I haven't paid the rest.   I don't want it to pile up because it might be hard to pay later. My dad promised to send it soon.

I put on my ash long pleating skirt with a wine long sleeve top. I tied an ash brown scarf with black slippers and black bag and I am set for class. I call Yemi if she is ready but she tells me she had so much to drink yesterday, that she won't be able to go to class today because of a hangover.

I meet Tope at the hostel gate, I have the feeling that he is waiting for me to come out because he has a smile on his face as he sees me walk out of my hostel's gate.

"Hey, Good morning, how are you?”  He greets me.

" I'm fine thank you, are you waiting for me"? I ask.

"Yes,  I have been waiting for you since.'' He says,

" What! Why didn't you come and knock on my door,  what if I don't go to school today." I ask and he smiles.

" I am planning on going soon if I don't see you." He says and I shake my head jokingly. He sees my bandaged hand and the smile on his face fades.

"What happened to your hand"? He asks concernedly.

"I had a minor accident yesterday,  I mistakenly knocked my hand against the wall."  I lie. “Well-done ! Omolara, continue lying.” My conscience pricks me.

This  is why they say lying is not good. One will be covering the lie with more lies or continue lying so that one will not get caught. I can't believe I am lying on something like this. Why did I do this in the first place? It is so petty and  uncomfortable but I feel fulfilled.

Tope is one among many guys that wants to date me. He says he will rather stay in touch with me as a friend than being nothing to me. But I know deep down inside him, he still wants to date me, because of the way he treats  me and the way he behaves around me. I know he still likes me a lot. He  is a medical student in my school and we go to school together sometimes.

We bid each other goodbye at the school gate and we go our separate ways.  As I am about to enter my department,  I hear a voice behind me,

" Excuse me miss, my boss wants to see you in that car." Says the big muscled man while pointing at the car.

I look at the direction he is pointing at and I see a neat, probably new, black range rover SUV. I look around and then I follow him. He opens the car door for me to enter but  I look inside the car first. Who I see inside it gives me the shock of my life. It’s Fresho.

Shock appears in my face for a moment but I compose myself immediately. My heart starts beating gbi gbi gbi and it almost jumps out of my chest.

What is he doing in my school? That's not even important right now. Why is he looking for me? Why is he here? Or maybe I am overthinking it, why will he look for me? He probably sees me while driving past me. I don't even know what to think right now.

"Enter." Fresho says, I hop in the car and I sit beside him. Meeting him again is so surreal because I never thought we would ever cross paths again.