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The interhouse sport went past like breeze and now the main deal was almost at hand:
Jamb.
The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board's exam had DCA students on their toes. The extra Saturday classes had began with full force, and some zealous students waited behind after class everyday to take extra lessons.
Students like Ifechi became best friends with her past questions. Even though she'd attempted all the yearly questions in the book, she still hauled it around like life support - her goal was to be able to score a 90 at least on every of the four subjects. 
Dami and Rachel were preparing as well, each with heads buried in their textbooks during free period. It was almost surreal for Ifechi to find her class quiet during free periods. Majority of them had gone to the library to read, and the ones in class were busy on one book or the other, even Samuel was flipping through some past questions quietly on his seat. It was as if everyone had suddenly become serious.
Well, almost everyone.
Anita didn't need someone to tell her to read, but her mind was focused on something much bigger.
Her hangout with the girls after school.
If anyone had told her that one day she'd be hanging out with the likes of Grace and Aliyah, she would have laughed it off. She never believed she was good enough for them.
The truth was she'd always wanted to be friends with them, to be in their crew and experience the cool, luxurious life they lived. But at a certain point, their unattainability made them repulsive. Deep down though, shed yearned for the opportunity to say even a word to any of them, and unexpectedly, she finally got her request.
She tried recalling how their friendship came to be, she couldn't remember what gave her the boldness that day to walk up to Grace to tell her congratulations for getting a new brand endorsement. She'd expected the caramel beauty to be hostile, or worse ignore her. But surprisingly, Grace was in a good mood that day and replied her warm greetings with a smile. The day after that, Grace invited her to eat with them during break, and the day after that Aliyah complimented her hair, and the day after that, Rachel told her she loved her perfume. It kept getting better and better, how the class snobs suddenly liked and acknowledged her felt too good to be true. 
Too bad judgemental folks like Dami and Ifechi couldn't experience it.
Anita snapped her mirror shut the moment the last bell rung, she'd already bribed her driver not to pick her from school that day, and to lie to her brother that she was having extra lessons. She didn't have to worry about her parents- they were never around anyways.
"Hey girl, you ready to go?" Joyce called out in her fake accent. Anita hissed underneath her breath at her voice, but put on a fake smile afterwards. She disliked Joyce, all of them did. But after Rachel, Joyce was that type of person you'd keep around because you wouldn't know when you would need them.
Aliyah's driver was already waiting downstairs and the three girls headed towards the sleek, blue Toyota Corolla that parked in front of the class building. Anita was unsurprised to see Confidence and another SS3B girl standing there. She scoffed.