Written by: Eunice Nwodu Ifunanya
“What do you want?” Juicy asked when Spike stood before her.
“I have something to show you, privately.” He said and she felt uncertain for a while.
“Alright, but be quick. As you can see, I have things to do.” She stated and he nodded.
They proceeded to moving to a corner while the other girls stared after them.
“What do you think they’re talking about?” One of them whispered to the other feeling suspicious if the two were dating.
“Fine, we are here now. What did you want to tell me?” Juicy asked and he brought out a phone from his back pocket.
“We don’t trust you. You can’t blame us, girls can be cruel sometimes. So, we are forced to do this. If you don’t keep your mouth shut about us, we’ll send these to Astrid’s parents and expose them to the media….”
As he spoke, he showed her what was on the screen of the phone and Juicy couldn’t help but gasp in astonishment.
“Oh my goodness!!! What the h*ck is this??” She asked beyond shocked.
“Do I have to interpret the photo. I’m sure you don’t want Astrid to be traumatized, that’s her photos with her body uncovered. Be warned.” He snatched the phone from her face and stormed off.
“I can’t believe this. That explains Astrid waking up at that ordered place. How did I get her into such a mess?? What am I gonna do?” She sobbed disintegrated.
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“Here you go.” Mandy said handing the last bottle over to Ryan.
They decided to get help from her despite fearing the motives she could have in mind.
Ryan glanced at the bottle and passed it to Justin.
“I don’t know if I should thank you or not. What you are doing is so shady.” He scoffed glaring at her and she sighed.
“Let’s talk in private.” She whispered and took his hand. She led him to a corner, a bit distant from where the boys where.
“I don’t like you guys risking your lives to come over to the club. So, I’m here to help.” She said rubbing her hands against the other.
“Haven’t you helped us enough, you cra.zy vampire?? Why can’t you just leave us alone? You are rather making things more worse for us—“
“I’m doing all this for your good. Do you know what I had to go through to get those four rings in order for you and your friends to be able to walk under the sun??” She asked taking his hand into hers again.
“Why?? Why bother?” He asked getting pissed.off.
“Because I like you. That’s the reason I’m here. That’s the reason I’m in this d**n school working under an annoying principal. I just want to be close to you…” Mandy professed.
There was abrupt silence and Ryan was dumbfounded.
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Juicy, Heather and Astrid walked to class feeling exhausted from the day’s activities.
The new principal was sure giving them a tough time with his new timetable.
It’s been a week since she discovered what Ryan and his gang were.
Since then, she has been keeping it a secret. She didn’t want to be secretive towards her friends but she clearly had no choice.
What if they didn’t understand and went ahead to tell someone else??
She had not been in contact with the bits either. She avoided them as much as she could. Not after what they did to Astrid.
“Juicy, why don’t you run for class president?” Heather asked and a soft laugh emerged from Astrid.
“You want her to get so busy that she would barely have time to see us?” Astrid asked and Juicy sighed.
“I’ll never be too busy for my friends. Although, I don’t think I’m interested in running.” She replied.
“With all the school work, how can someone possibly take on such a task.” Astrid hissed detesting the idea.
“Astrid! It was just a question. Don’t eat me up please” Heather laughed.
“I know… I’m so tired.” She muttered.
Juicy looked around and spotted Ryan and his friends at a corner. She freaked at the sight of making eye contact with Ryan.
She wondered why he hates her so much.
If he despised her a lot, why would he pick her as his partner at the club??
She turned again and saw Ryan staring intently at her.
His eyeballs shifted immediately they made eye contact but he was quite too late since Juicy knew he was looking at her.
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TBC
