Beautifully ugly episode 22 – 23

Beautifully Ugly
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Episode 22
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*Belinda*
The classroom was just as boring as it’d always been for me, I hated this Schooling stuff with a passion, I hated every mortal activity. My great assurance was that I was never gon’ stay long on this planet of mortality, I had a dream home ahead, which I lingered and yearned for day and night.
The bell rang and everyone trooped out for break but I didn’t even move a bit.
Wednesday mornings are always void of lectures In bright future academy, After the morning assembly, then it would be time for sport, The sports period lasted for 2 hours 30 minutes, so the students would troop in by 10:30 am, The 30 minutes we spent before the break period, no single teacher entered.
I was present in the class, but wasn’t really there, Yes, my face was resting on the desk as usual but then, I was somewhere else, with my inherited mum.
We had been in a long conversation and got to a point where I recalled what happened earlier in school that very day to her,

“Mum, he mysteriously collapsed during the morning assembly today,
what really happened to him?,”I asked,
” Daughter, curiosity always kills a cat, Any kid that is bent on following the father to a burial ceremony must be willing to anticipate the presence of ghosts, he wanted to find out a secret only known to great ones, he tried to hang his coat far above his reaching, no one ever tried that and lived to tell the Story, But there’s a secret behind his origin which he’s totally unaware of, it shielded him from the wrath of deathan the destroyer.
I was very confused hearing all these from my mum, why did she always take pleasure in hiding things from me, yet she called me her daughter.
“Mum, please make this clear for me, I’m yet to get exactly what you meant, “I questioned confusedly,
” Daughter, A wise cook always allows the meal to be completely done before bringing the pot out of the fire.
That’s all I can say, for now, go back and continue your task, and also be in hasten cuz we have a deadline, go go now for we have a little emergency, “my mum echoed and I immediately returned back from the astral projection,
I already knew the emergency she was talking about.
So I got up immediately and walked out of the class,
*Prosper*

As I got to the cafeteria, I found strika devouring a well garnished fried rice and salad with chicken lap that accoladed it to produce an extremely creamy and enticing meal, mere looking at it alone would make one go crazy, There was also a bottle of chilled soft drink on the table, the last time I had something like that was before my dad kicked the hard iron bucket, if death was a being, I would have murdered it more than a million times for taking away my dad.
Strika was so engrossed in the meal that he didn’t notice my presence all those whiles of standing and staring,
“Good morning, “I greeted,
“Hey just keep your f’©kn greetings to yourself,” he hummed as his mouth was filled up with food. When he finished grinding the food, he swallowed and diluted it with a glass of drink that he poured from the bottle, he then expectorated and continued;
“I don’t wan’ hear any f’©kn sh*t from you, All I wan’ hear right now is that you have delivered my message, you got it? so just go ahead and tell me what I need to hear, otherwise, I would be forced to act,”

Hmmm, looks like this was even bigger than I thought, I could feel my heartbeat like that of a pestle hitting an empty mortar,
My legs were shaking as if were under electric shock, what am I going to do now, what exactly would be a suitable solution to this kind of problem, should I lie to him that I have given the envelope to Belinda? But what If he gets to find out, that would be from the frying pan to the main fire, or should I tell him the truth? And face the charges? Hmmm, but that would even be more disheartening, but why am I even fearing this much, is he going to kill me? Of course, the answer would be Capitalized “NO”, let me just tell him the truth and face whatever charges he had,
“Hey you, in the next 5 seconds and you haven’t given me the answer I need, I’m gon’ multiply all the punishments I abated for you times 10;
his voice drew me out of my deep thoughts, and my fear was adjusted to the highest acceleration, but I still didn’t decide on what answer to give him,
“Well since you have decided to play dumb*ss, I will also play the chastising scourge, on your knees, “he commanded and I quickly knelt,
He got up and gulped down the remaining drink and Hit the cup on the table, you commonness commoner, I saved your dirty *ss just for you to do me a little favor, have you asked of me? Have you Googled the documentary of strika the indomitable Lion of “Red axe”
He raised a hand to slap me but stopped when”

If you think that someone would be happy to be in a relationship with someone that maltreats her brother, then go ahead,” a familiar cool comforting voice quoted and he stopped abruptly,
I’m very sorry, it’s not like I wanted it to be this way, I was just carried away by emotion,” his voice changed drastically and I wondered what could have made the made indomitable Lion of Red axe speak so softly,
Please get up, he held me by the wrist and helped me up, that was when I discovered the secret behind his sudden change of attitude.
The queen of beauty was standing in her full glory, the reflection of sunlight on her face alone could make one squint, everything about her was just excessively perfect that I couldn’t find suiting words to describe her image, mere looking at her would make one want to murder the author of THE BEAUTIFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN,
But wait o, did she just refer to me as her brother? Could this be a nightmare or what my mother called a malaria dream?

Beautifully Ugly
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Episode 23
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For the past 5 weeks of my schooling at bright future academy, it’d been really remarkable, though some ups and downs resulted from time to time, that will never erase the positive side of the story,
I Could boldly and affirmatively say that I will never regret a single day I spent at bright future academy.
It was a Friday, we were through with morning lectures and the bell was already rung for break period,
I would have gone out for relaxation as usual but there was something more important that I needed to take care of, the debate competition between our school and the future kids academy as announced by the principal that day was fast approaching, just Friday of the coming week and I was nominated to be one of the defendants, the idea didn’t assimilate well with me but I just had to give up and follow the principal’s declaration.
He came up with the idea after listening to my recitation in the assembly ground one morning,
Oh! I never mentioned it, every morning in bright future academy, one student would read a recitation about a specific topic discussed in the class.
The schedule was made rotative, which means that as one class recites today, another class would be anticipating the next day.
I was shocked when they told me that I was going to participate, we never did something like that in my formal school, but thanks to my sister Belinda who made everything possible, yes you heard me right, After the incident that transpired that day between me and strika the head boy, Belinda Clifford became my sister.
Strika believed I was her sister, he started treating me well after that very incident.
I’m yet to figure out why Belinda introduced me as her brother to him but that would never be a dilemma for me cuz the occurrence indeed brought peace to my school life at bright future academy, which included saving me from strika’s wrath, I always wondered if it was indeed a reality; the closeness between me and Belinda.
We even talked like other seatmates in the class, at times she offered me snacks but I always rejected them politely, that’s one of the warnings my mum gave me which I was and still am cautious of,
She told me not to collect eatable items from anyone on or off school.
I wasn’t strictly following the rules before but after what happened in my formal school, I bought it wholesale and swore never to do it again,
The victim’s name was John beggar, his addiction for collecting things from people was so much that he couldn’t control it whenever he sees someone with something eaty, the beggar in his name wasn’t originally there, it was added by a joker student by name Joe, the guy called him that name after he begged a teacher egg roll, his appetite was just like that of a hungry he-goat that eats anything that comes his
Way.
John beggar continued his begging lifestyle till one fateful day, he begged from a new student that was eating a shortcake biscuit.
The next day after eating the girl’s biscuit, he opened his mouth to speak but couldn’t, he thought it was a joke but eventually turned out deaf and dumb.
Neither did anyone set an eye on the girl that gave him the biscuit again nor discovered her residence to date.
The incident scared me so much that I vowed to always abide by my mom’s warning to collect nothing from people again and also made it part of my life to always follow mum’s word of advice, and I want to sincerely urge everyone out there to also do the same cuz nothing comes to void out of their mouth.
So as I was saying, Belinda was the one that explained everything about the recitation to me, she said that I would just look for a particular topic of my preferred subject and cram it up.
It wasn’t so easy memorizing a whole topic within a short period but I just needed to do so to retain my earned badge of a brilliant student,
I chose home planning in the subject of economics.
I could still recall how I was crowdly applauded when I was done reciting.
The principal admitted that I did a great job and selected me to be one of the defendants in the upcoming debate.
How far have you gone?”Belinda asked( for she was in the class too), oh I haven’t cited that she was also selected to represent our school, I discovered she was such a bedazzling creature not only in good looking aspect but also in terms of education, though she spent most of her time resting on the desk during lectures, It never prevented her from passing tests with flying colors, I confirmed that with the midterm examination (test), though she wasn’t the type that openly showcased her achievements, there was still no way someone would hide everything from the seatmate, I discovered that all the tests She wrote were marked 100%, isn’t that great?
Even I that claimed brilliance did not get up to that grade.
“I have been able to cover 2 paragraphs,” I replied without taking my eyes off the shit of paper (that contained what I was going to read) in my hand,
“You’re doing well.” She said with a mean look and returned her own Shit of paper to her bag, that’s Belinda for you, even when she said something that needs to be diluted with a beautiful smile, her face would still be motionless.
“Are you done with yours? “I asked and expected “NO ” as the answer but that wasn’t how it ended,
” Yes, I’m through. “She answered,
If say I wasn’t surprised, then I would be a great liar,
How could someone cram up a whole 2500 words in less than 30 minutes, I don’t think a normal human would have the ability to do something like this, there has to be supernatural power to do a thing like this.
“What about Alex mullen that memorized a string of over 550 digits within 5 minutes, did he Also use a supernatural power?”A voice drew me out of reality and It sounded so close as if was speaking inside my head, I began to wonder if I said that to people’s hearings, but I was just speaking in my mind,
“Did you say something?.” I asked and glared at her,
“You should answer that yourself.” She replied and rested on the desk as usual,
I was left in total confusion when she said that, I wasn’t sure if she was the one that spoke but I was very much sure someone said that, the clearance of the utterance was too real to be doubted but who said it I couldn’t fathom.
The bell finally rang signifying the end of break period, we had several lectures before the bell sounded again and everyone i
trooped out for the afternoon assembly.
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As I got inside our house and gently closed the door, I kept my suitcase by the side and sat on the mat and bent to remove my shoes, I started feeling the presence of something in the room, I looked everywhere but couldn’t see anything, I shivered as cold breeze fluttered the vellus hair on my body, I couldn’t help but firmly crossed my hands over my head in fear,
“Who is there?.” I screamed when the tension became extremely unbearable.
“It is I.” A voice echoed and that was when I totally relinquished, I felt goose pimples like never before.

To be continued.