HER ADVERSITY: Chapter 11 – 20

By Obianke Prosper

Chapter Fifteen

GRACE POV

I felt deaf! My hands shook as I felt a vibration in my body and a sensation in me which I knew to be fear.

My temperature increased and as a result I kept having difficulties in breathing cause well, am having an attack again.

Am letting my emotions take the best part of me but it isn’t my fault, am feeling too scared. Why would I be paired with him, huh??

I could hear the faint voice of Jeanann complaining about the dummy Mr Kelvin paired her with, I could also hear Mr Kelvin asking the class who is Dylan? And why such person has no surname? But darn it, their voices was so faint.

I stood up weakly grabbing the desk for support. My vision were blurry but I managed to take hold of my backpack.

“Hey Grace, where are you going to?”.I heard Jeanann ask but I ignored her, taking some steps out of the class with the backpack on my hands.

But then I was stopped by Mr Kelvin, he frowned angrily at me.

“Hey, where do you think you are going to without my permission?”.The teacher snapped.

“Am so sorry, sir”.I winced lowly due to the pang of headache I felt on my head. “But am not feeling too good, I really need to use the restroom”.

I took in a deep breath, trying to keep breathing but I couldn’t. I was out of breath!

“What’s wrong with you?”.He asked but I frowned. He was wasting my time!

“Just excuse me!”.My voice was a little bit high but I didn’t care at that moment.

I stormed out of the class and immediately I was out, I opened my backpack and hastily searched for my inhaler.

I found it and brought it close to my nose before doing justice to it.

I smiled after I felt my lungs filling up with air but my smile vanished when I remembered the reason I had an attack.

Dylan!!

Why the heck would I get paired with him? What the heavens is wrong with that teacher? Jeez! I seriously hate the teacher for that right now.

I arranged my scattered books properly in my backpack before keeping my inhaler back in place. I hung the backpack on my shoulder before taking steps back to the class but I stopped when thoughts crossed my mind.

Dylan??

How is he gonna look at me now? What is on his mind right now? Gosh! The thought of spending hours with him makes me sick!

“Hmm…”.I heard a sigh followed by sounds of shoes before Mr Kelvin arrived at the classroom doorstep.

“Sir…sir!”.I called as I raced at him while he stared at me blankly.

“Oh! I see you’re fine now”.He scoffed and continued walking but I stopped him.

“Sir, I wanna talk about the person you paired me with”.I said and he stared at me.

“What? What’s about the person I paired you with?”.He asked confused.

“I don’t like him sir. I mean we both we are not in good terms”.I said and he shrugged.

“So, what should I do about that?”.

“You should pair me up with another person. Please, just don’t let him be my partner for the project”.My voice shook a bit.

“Seriously, to be sincere, that’s so wicked of you. What about your partner? Who will be paired with him if you get another partner?”.

“I don’t know sir”.

“Well, am so sorry miss but I can’t do anything about that. If you don’t partner with him then he will fail this experiment”.

“But sir….”.

“He is your partner and that’s final!”.He said and I swallowed my saliva in fear.

Oh! Am doom!!

“And miss, you should follow me to my office to take your own materials for the experiment. It isn’t for free though, you and your classmates will pay for theirs on Monday next week”.He added and I nodded slowly before he continued walking. I followed him.

We got to his office and he handed me the materials for the project, he also gave me a sheet of paper saying it’s for the instructions on how to apply the materials together to get a successful experiment. I thanked him and took the bucket filled with the materials he gave me to the class.

I hesitated a little before entering the class but immediately I did I saw him, Dylan staring at me. His eyes which was dark as usual pierced into my soul and then it felt like time paused.

I stared at him admiring his handsomeness. His hair, his eyes, his face, his shape was WOW!

I didn’t want him to take his glance away like he usually does and surprisedly, I didn’t want to take away my glance too.

I foolishly smiled and even though I knew I was behaving stupidly, I couldn’t help it. I was lost.

My smile got really wide, so wide that my cheek formed a huge balloon. I was sure he notice cause he did something that snapped me out of his charms.

He smirked!

“Grace!”.Jeanann called tapping me from behind and I started bit, turning to her.

“You startled me Jean!”.I said, trying to maintain my stand.

“Oh! Am so sorry for that but it’s just that you have been standing here like a pole for minutes so I thought I should tap you and ask what’s wrong”.She said and I sighed, trying to forget what happened few seconds ago.

His eyes. His smirk. Oh silly me, I got carried away.

“Nothing, I was just lost in thought. That’s all”.I said and she scoffed.

“Really? Cause I caught you staring at Dylan and shockingly, he was staring back at you. What’s going on?”.She asked with a slight frown on her face.

“Me staring at Dylan? Hell no Jean, why would I stare at him? I was just staring at something behind him not him”.I lied and she chuckled softly.

“Truth?”.

“Yeah, honestly it’s the truth”.I shrugged.

“I pity you Grace”.She said. “You were paired with him”.

I sighed rubbing my palms against each other nervously.

“I know, right? I can’t even believe it, why would I even be paired with him? It’s like the greatest punishment anyone would receive”.I said feeling sweaty already.

“You could have told the teacher to pair you with someone else…”.

“I did Jean, I did but the teacher proved stubborn. He refused!”.

“You see Grace! That teacher’s behavior angers me, it makes me hate him. Why would he pair people with someone they don’t like? Like me for example…he paired me up with a dummy”.She said angrily but suddenly her eyes raced to my bucket.

“What’s is that?”.She asked looking confused.

“It’s the materials for the experiment”.

“Oh! You took yours, right?”.

“Yep, I did”.

She nodded and then turned to the class.

“Angela!!”.She yelled with a hint of anger in her voice and a girl with dark hair, round face and face scattered with pimples came walking to us.

“Why did you call me?”.She asked and I would admit without hesitation that she got a really nice voice.

“Ew! You are so useless, you know. I don’t even know why a dummy like you would be paired with me. Look at how ugly you are! Yu¢k! Come on and go get our own materials for the biology project and mind you, if we fail this experiment and I score poorly in my grade, you will forever regret the day you stepped your stinking foot into this school”.Jeanann spat out and Angela shivered with tears in her eyes.

“Am so sorry, I will go get it now”.She said ruefully and walked away hastily.

“Gosh! Ugly bch!!”.Jeanann cur$ed, glaring at Angela as she walked away.

“Jean, to be honest you shouldn’t have spoken to her that way. It isn’t right!”.I said but she rolled her eyes.

“Oh please Grace, stop behaving premature. This is the way those kind of girls should be treated, after all they are nothing but ugly bitches”.She pouted, annoyed.

“But Jean…”.

“Ah! Don’t be so boring”.She scoffed and walked away to her seat while I followed after her.

She sat and brought out a banana flavored lollipop from her backpack before she began sucking on it.

“I guess you love lollipops and of course chewing gums”.I tried to start a conversation when I felt uncomfortable with the silence.

“Of course I do, they are the second favorite thing I love”.She beamed happily.

“Oh! So what are the first favorite thing you love? Let me guess, your family?”.I asked but she shook her head.

“Nah, family sounds boring! They aren’t the first favorite thing I love”.

“So, tell me. What’s it?”.

“Beauty”.

“Huh?”.

“Yeah beauty”.

“That’s crazy!”.

“I know, right?”.

She laughed and just then tap me slowly on the shoulder.

“Dylan is leaving the classroom”.She said, pointing at Dylan who was walking away.

“So what?”.

“Won’t you go ask him the location you both are gonna carry out the project?”.

“What?! No!! I can’t!!”.

“You should Grace, this might be your last and only chance. Remember, if you fail your project, you as well fail your biology examination”.She said and I sighed.

Oh dmn!

I stood slowly and followed Dylan out of the class but suddenly he stopped walking when he realized someone was following him.

‘Okay Grace, you can do this. After all, you talk all the time so this can’t be hard, right?’.I thought and took in a deep breath.

Gosh! I was so nervous. I was standing so close to the almighty Dylan though I was behind him but that couldn’t stop the nervousness building up in me.

“Hmm…”.I cleared my throat when I noticed I haven’t said anything for more than a minute now.

“It’s….Gr..ace, your um part..ner”.I bit my lower lip nervously.

“I only c..ame to um kn..ow the locat…ion to car..ry out our pro..ject”.

He didn’t say anything for minutes though he was behind me, I couldn’t see his face nor see his expression. He was just standing without shaking like a snow man.

I was about giving up but then he spoke grumpily.

“Location, block 17 beaut road. Time, 12pm”.

With that spoken, he walked away.

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HER ADVERSITY: Chapter 11 – 20

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