In the pool of love

There was a total silence between the two guys which lasted for about half an hour. It seems one of the guy had said something to make the other guy reason about it.

James and Joseph had been friends right from childhood and theirs could be described as "Friendship like brotherhood ". And luckily for them, they had both been admitted into the same secondary school which makes the thread of their friendship to be more stronger.

"Well, you're right, I also believe in the fact that these seniors of ours are taking revenge on us. But this is not right. We're not their senior ones that maltreated them na, how can they be taking unnecessary revenges on us?"

"James, what you don't know is this; we're also gonna become seniors one day and we're also gonna command our junior ones to do anything we like for us. We will also take revenge on our Junior ones, Man."

"Thank you very much, you've spoken well but out of sense. These junior ones we are gonna take revenge on aree not the ones that are maltreating us recently, so its unwise to remove a broken bottle which has entered a father's leeg from the son's leg. Just yesterday, Senior Mike sent me to go and call a lady for him in the female's hostel. After calling her, I decided to know what they were up to, so I hid somewhere. Senior Mike secretly took the girl into his hostel and long after, I started hearing loud moans. What examples are thhis people trying to lay down for us? F*cking in the school premises. You talked of taking revenge on our junioer ones, is this the kind of revenge I'm gonna take?"

James remembered having these cionversations back then, when he was in Jss2. But now, he was having his final here and as a matter of fact, he was now the elected Senior prefect of the whole school while Sam happened to be his assistant.

The school had chosen Sam to be the assistant Senior prefect because of his intelligence and not minding his kind of morals. Sam is a kind of guy addicted to s*x and now that he had a post in the school, he now had the chance to lure many female students into his room.

Taking Junior as his best friend, they had formed a secret gang in the school whose aim is to torture anyone that comes against their way. The group formed by Sam is called AYEE and there were 15members in the group which include 8 final year students, 3 students from the Ss2 & 3, then others from the junior secondary section.

Having invited James many times to join his cult group, Sam left James on hiis own as ke discovered he was in no way interested inthe group. But luring James friend, Joseph into the group happend to be the easiest thing.

Since James best friend now belonged in a cult group, James decided to create a fform of distance between Joseph and himself, thereby keeping him at arm's lenght.

James do spend most of his precious times in the library since he hadd bno one to speak to. He was not even making friends with hios classmates as he now suspected everyone of them. He knew he came from a very poor family, so the chance of getting him out of any trouble he engages himself in is not guaranteed.

He was coming back from the library one day when a girl fell on him, breathing heavily. The girl looked so pretty bit this was the first time James will set his eyes on her in the school.

Still resting herself on James, she was breathing heavily aas she said "Save me please, they are chasing me".

James looked forward to see three guys; Giroud, Maverick and Julius stairing at him. Then, it occurred to him instantly that these boys were sent by Sam to get the girl for him so that he could rape her. Then heheld the girl to one side and faced thee guys.

"Tell him you weren't able to catch her, she escaped from you"

"Who are you, man?" Maverick asked in a very rude manner.

"The one who will thrash you if you refused to go away from here." Jamea replied

Just immediately, Giroud brought his fist forward to hit James but James heald his hand immediately and him so hard that he fell.

"Stay behind me." James said to the girl as het engaged in a serious Taekwando with the three guys. Finally, the guys were not able to novercome him and so, they ran away.

"Hi, I'm Janet." The girl introduced herself to James

"James." He reached forward for an handshake

" I knew your name before this time. Everyone knows you na, Since you're the senior prefect. I knew you can handle the boys, that's why I rab unto you. "

James smiled as he shook hands with Janet, hye had falleen in love with the girl. Her beauty, her voice, everything about were so amazing. He wished hey could talk to her instantly but something was holdgin him back.

"What was the troubles with the guys?"

"Sam wooed me and I rejects him, so he sent his guys to catch me. Anyway, thanks a lot."

"You are welcome "

Ever since the incident, James could not so but to think about Janet. She possessed himc every single second. He could go to sleep a day without thinking about her.

James decided to go to the football field one day to play football so that he could get rid of feeling lonely all the time and he was doing great on the field when he saw Janet among the audience, stairing at him. He remembered seeing her in the school library the previous day stairing at him as well. He had been noticing her presence ob everywhere hee stays. It seems the girl had been following him everywhere he goes. He could no longer fovis on tge football he was playing as all he could do was also to stair at Janet. Immediately their eyes met, Janet immediately left the place. James couldn't bear it, he requested for a substitution and immediately ran after Janet. Soon he was able to catch her.

"Hello "

Janet turned back to see James. Her heart started to beat very fast.

"Ha...ha...hi. How is everything?" She managed to say.

"I'm good. And you?"

"Great"

James was lost of words. He didn't know what next to say.

"I.... I.... I just decided to say hello to you."

"Okay, thanks"

Janet could understand the tension James was trying to manage. But she loverd him as well and she was thinking of making advance towards him. As James turned back to go, Janet pulled him back and planted a deep kiss on his lips.

"I love you." She said, not sure of what James's reply would be.