It was another new and bright day and Mrs. Lionel, Fedrick’s mum decided to drive Fedrick and Fiona to school. She rarely does this, but that morning she felt like it and decided to take them to school. Fedrick who had promised himself never to date or have any crush on any girl, because he had never been able to approach any of his crush owing to the fact that he was quite the shy type, had never been a fan of his mum taking him to school. It happens that whenever his mum drives him to school, he ends up crushing on someone, so he never liked his mum taking him and Fiona to school.
“Who would the unlucky girl be this time around? I just hope she’s beautiful.” He told himself.
“I thought you had a lot to do today, Mum?” he asked.
“Yes, I do have a lot to do, but that can wait for after I drop you and Fiona off at school.”
“But you know you can always reconsider and let dad take us to school, Mum.”
“yeah, I know that Fedrick, but I won’t be reconsidering. I have made up my mind.” Mrs. Lionel got up from the dining table wiped her mouth with a serviette and let out a loud sigh of satisfaction.
“I do love when mum takes us to school, it’s always fun.” Fiona said.
“That’s my girl, always smart.” Mrs. Lionel complimented as she rubs Fiona’s hair.
“Oh Mum, not again. You have ruined my hair, I will to have dress it again.”
“Dad, you aren’t saying anything.” Fedrick said to his dad.
“You know me boy, I don’t like talking when am on the dining.” Mr. Lionel responded.
Fedrick could hear the rough cracking sound of his dad trying to suck the nutrients and juice of the chicken bone on his hand.
“But, I think your mum is right. she just wants to spend time with the both of you, that’s all.”
Fedrick shrug and threw a sigh of disagreement.
“You are never at home this days, always going out for training and Fiona, always on the phone.” Mrs. Lionel added.
“I see, its three against one. I’m out numbered here, so you win.” Fedrick said as he got up from the dining chair and headed towards the car.
Mrs. Lionel had to drop Fiona at her school, before driving to Fedrick’s school. Soon they got to Infinite High school parking lot where Fedrick got off.
“Bye mum, see you later.”
“Yeah, bye and take good care of yourself!”
“Yeah, I will mum”. Fedrick responded as he walked hurriedly, trying to get out of his mum sight.
He walked through the hallway of noisy students, heading towards his class.
“who could she be this time. I really can’t have any of this, I will have to avoid looking at any girl on her face.” He told himself.
The form teacher, Mr. Judge was already in the classroom to take the morning attendance when Fedrick entered the classroom.
“Good morning, Mr. Judge”.
“Good morning Fedrick boy”. Mr. Judge responded still very focused on calming the rowdy class down.
“Everyone, keep quiet and take your seat.”
Fedrick walked straight to his desk face down, trying to avoid any eye contact with any girl.
“Are you okay man?” Cat, his seat mate asked him.
“Yeah, I am okay bro, why?”
“Because you are behaving weird.”
“No, I’m okay, just feeling stressed from the rough ride to school.”
“Okay, if you say so.”
He settled down on his seat, set aside his school bag and looked around the classroom to catch a glimpse of the girl he would be crushing on this time around. But none caught his eyes.
“Could it be that Mum’s little magic has faded off me?” He thought to himself as he let out a smirk. He soon took his mind off it and focused on the class roll call.
Some minutes later Mr. Judge was done with taking the class attendance and proceeded to teach as he was taking them on religious studies that morning.
“Our topic for study in religious studies today is ‘God’s love for Mankind.’” He started to teach.
“Who among you can try to introduce this topic to us?”
In Fedrick’s class there were three students that was most intelligent and smartest, they were known as the burning brains of the class. Jude O’Neil, Fast Michael and Jane where the three burning brains of the class.
“Yes O’Neil, can you explain this topic to the class?” Mr. Judge asked.
O’Neil got up 👆 from his seat confidently with his shoulder broadly open and with a brimming smile, indicating that he was already familiar with the question.
“It’s words explained. It talks about God’s undying love for mankind. The love of God for man has been one of the many reasons we have enjoyed a lot of privileges, even the ones we don’t deserve to enjoy. Because of this love, God made a lot of promises and covenants with us. Starting from the time he made a promise never to destroy the world with flood ever again to the time when he sacrificed his only son, Jesus Christ, just for our redemption.”
“A lot of Scriptures in the bible unveils and tells of the love of God for us, but the scripture John 3:16 is more specially indicating and shows to what extent God can go to protect mankind.” O’Neil concluded.
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“Impressive, he has said it all. Please give him a round of applause 👏”. Mr. Judge requested as everyone clapped for him.
“there is no more than that I can explain. That was a very simple and straight forward explanation and I believe you all understood his explanation?”
“Yes sir, we do.” They all answered in unison.
“Good, now take down the following details and note.” He turned to face the board and started taking down notes for the students to copy.
He lectured them for forty minutes and soon he was done with his lectures. It was time for another lecture. Mr. Jeffrey Anode was the Linguistics teacher. He had a special way of teaching linguistics, especially English language which made it easy or simple for his students to understand. He believed that if majority of the Linguistics teachers could adopt his techniques of teaching, then many students wouldn’t be as bad as they are in speaking good English, especially in Africa 🌍. Mr. Jeffrey believed that English language should be taught as an open subject for every student to participate. It should be taught using a dialogue technique.
“Today, I will be talking on consonant clusters. And as you all know about my classes, we all will be contributing to the topic of discussion. Soo, who has an idea what consonant clusters are?” immediately Fedrick raised his hand signifying his intent to answer the question.
“Yes boy, what can you tell us about the topic?” Mr. Jeffrey said in response to Fedrick’s raised hand.
“First of all, I will explain what cluster means. Cluster is a group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together. For example, you can say, Clusters of creamy white flowers.” Fedrick explained.
“Therefore, consonant cluster is 2, 3 or 4 consonant sounds in a row. You can also say, they are a group of consonants with no vowels between them. Examples of consonant clusters are; /bl/ in ‘black’, /sk/ in ‘desk’ and /str/ in ‘string’ and many more.”
“Wow, very impressive. I like that, this shows he studies and read ahead of the class, wonderful!” Mr. Jeffrey complimented Fedrick.
“Class, a round of applause for Fedrick!” he commanded as they all gave Fedrick a thundering sound clapping 👏.
Mr. Jeffrey gave more students opportunity to contribute to the topic, he gave his own explanation and examples, gave the class notes and in no-time he was done with his lectures and it was time for lunch break. Fredrick and Cat walked to the canteen together alongside Anna and Favour Imes.
“You do seem to have enjoyed today’s class, Fedrick, especially the Linguistic class.” Anna said to Fedrick.
“Yeah, I did Anna. It was interesting, I must confess.” Fedrick replied letting out a light smile.
“That was a brilliant answer you gave in the Linguistic class, Fedrick.” Imes complimented.
“Oh yeah? Thanks, Imes.”
“We should get something delicious and tasty to eat today. I can perceive the delicious aroma of tasty food 🍲 and snacks from the school canteen. Let’s hurry up before I chew my tongue from the sweet watery saliva on it.” Cat said as they all headed to the canteen.
They bought their food and found a good spot, close to a window where the beautiful morning sunlight shown bright from and the view of the canteen was beautiful and eye catching to seat 💺. They could see the whole sides and full view of the canteen and everyone going out or coming into the already very rowdy and noisy canteen.
Suddenly, the whole building was very silent, so silent you could hear the sounds of the clapping spoons on pots from the canteens chefs and cooks trying to serve the hundreds of students. You could hear the sound of students chewing. Everyone’s attention was drawn by the arrival of the school’s most beautiful girls. They were nicked named ‘Four angels’ by the students. Their beauty was so bright, their skins shown glitters when the sun reflects on them, their scent, magnificent and their lips 💋 red like that of a beautiful doll. So the students described them.
“Wow, who are those angels?!” Fedrick asked with his mouth slightly opened from amazement.
“Yeah, like you said, ‘Angels’. They are called ‘The Four Angels’, the most beautiful and popular girls in school.” Cat answered.
“The average height one with the long black hair walking at the front, is believed to be their leader, ‘The Arc Angel’ and she is the most beautiful one.” Anna added.
“Arc Angel 😇 hmm? Is that her real name?” Fedrick asked.
“No, not really. Her name is Danielle Megan.” Imes replied.
“She sure is an Arc angel. The guy she’s dating surely is one heck of a lucky guy.” Fedrick said.
“Yeah, he was.” Cat responded.
“He was?” Fedrick exclaimed.
“Apparently, he didn’t count himself lucky.” Imes added.
“She once used to date one of the most popular boys in school then, Kenny the Don. He was a student here, he’s graduated now.” Cat added.
“They aren’t together again? Why, what happened?” Fedrick asked.
“Well, nobody knows the actual reason why they broke up, but rumour has it that she caught him cheating on her, and others said he made passes at one of the four Angels while still dating her.” Cat responded.
“There is a lot rumour surrounding their relationship, nobody knows for sure the real story.”
“Soo, she’s single?” Fedrick asked.
“Obviously, yeah and I don’t think she’s searching for her missing rips now.” Cat jokingly replied as they all laughed.
The Four Angels bought what they wanted and left the canteen as everyone continued with their food and chatting. Soon 🔜 the lunch break was over and everyone returned to their various classes for the remaining lectures of the day. Fedrick had also returned to the classroom for lectures, but throughout the lecture period, he was not concentrated like he was in the morning sections. He kept on thinking about Danielle, ‘The Arc Angel’.
He thought to himself:
“She’s really beautiful, I can’t seem to get my mind off her. Such a beautiful girl, why would a guy want another girl. Kenny the Don is quite a jerk.”
“Am I crushing on her? This can’t be, am not even her type. She wouldn’t even look my way.”
“I thought mum’s magic effect was faded on me, what am I going to do now?” He asked himself, murmuring in a low voice, but loud enough to draw Cat’s attention.
“You said what, bro?” Cat asked him.
“Hmm? Nothing, I was just thinking aloud.” Fedrick responded.
“Oh, okay.”
Some hours later, all lectures were concluded for the day and school dismissed, everyone headed home, except for the Wild Cats Team members, who went down to the school’s soccer pitch for training.
“What’s up bro, hope you’re okay?” Cat asked Fedrick. They were all dressed in their training kits.
“Yeah, I am. Why?” Fedrick who was seated on one of the chairs, trying to put on his boots 👢 answered.
“Well, you didn’t look okay in class after the lunch break, so I was worried 😯 you weren’t okay or maybe sick.”
“Oh, that? I’m fine. I was only wondering why a guy would cheat on girl that beautiful and complete. It kept bothering me. That’s all, nothing else.”
“Really bro?! Are we talking about someone else or is it who I think it is?” Cat asked looking quite lost.
“Don’t be funny Cat, it was only an honest and random thought, nothing else.” Fedrick answered.
“Woo, bro! don’t tell me you are already having a crush on Danielle. Well even though you are, not bad. Almost every guy in school crushes on one or two of The Four Angels.”
“You could try your luck out with her, maybe, just maybe, you might be the next lucky guy.” Cat said as he let out a loud laugh.
“Man, I don’t know what you are talking about. I just told you it was just a random thought.” Fedrick responded as he tried avoiding eye contacts with Cat.
“Really? Just a random thought, and you couldn’t even concentrate in class. You kept on murmuring to yourself and was absent minded all through.”
“Well, like I said, I don’t have an idea of what you are saying.” Fedrick denied.
“You should stop talking and lets train, am ready.” He stood up from the chair he was sitting to put on his boots and walked down to the pitch leaving Cat behind.
“Yeah! deny it all you want, but I can tell from my itching bones that you are now a Lover boy!!” Cat jokingly teased Fedrick as he ran after him.
The team trained for about two hours before heading home.