Title: Cruel Love 💙💘
Subtitle: Complicated Love{it hurts😰}
Written by Temitope Atilola (Tstar)
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High school/college story
Episode 4
“Henry Richardson’s POV”
Exactly, 10:00 am, the bell rang. It was the beginning of sport activities for the day. The teacher that was in the class rounded up immediately and I didn’t do otherwise too. I am very excited as it is my first time experiencing a day like this in the school. It is obviously not only me because most of the old students are as excited as well. I don’t know how these activities takes place in this school so I just asked Marcello.
“Buddy” I called.
“ I guess you do not know how things are done here right” He asked as if he had just read my mind.
“ Yeah, I was about asking that” I told him plainly.
“the thing is…..”
“Hey pals” Linda greeted
“yo gal, how are you?”
“ fine, it’s time for sports. How will it go?” she asked Marcello.
“ that’s what I was about explaining. The thing is, we are not in the same group with you two “ Marcello said and we nodded. “ So, today is the beginning of sport activities in our school for this session so all students are gonna assemble in the sports hall so when we get there we would know our group leader and how things will be done. You all would choose the sport you wanna participate in and it will be a competition. Trust me, it would be fun guys” Marcello expatiated interestingly.
“ So let s go guys” he said and we followed him .
Sports Assembly Hall
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I entered the sports assembly hall and it looked so beautiful and magnificent. It had sufficient chairs for the students and even more. It’s a big hall. It has a podium where a beautiful wooden lectern was placed. There were beautiful chairs on the podium too with modern tables. We all took our sit side by side after I had finished admiring the building.
“It’s beautiful “ Linda commended. She was sitting in the middle between Marcello and I’m
“ yeah, it is” I replied and be smiled approvingly.
The addresser mounted the podium to address us.
“Good morning sir” we all echoed.
“ good morning students! He greeted through the microphone.
“ good morning sir” we all chorused.
“for the sake of the new the new students, my name is Mr Mathew and I am the sports director of the Shinning Stars College. That’s all for the introduction. So we have five different sport group and therefore there will be a competition toward the ending this term. The preparation of this competition starts today. I am sure everyone knows the group they belongs to by now. I will call the following names forward and they will be your leader. There will be representatives from each groups which will be chosen by your group leaders based on your performance as the competition continues” he explained.
“Mr Evans for the red house”
“ Miss Luciana for the yellow house” he mentioned.
Wow, lady ? That’s impressive.
He finished calling the names and after some minutes we were dismissed. We were led by miss Luciana to begin our practice. Miss Luciana listed the available sports to partake in. She said we could only partake in two activities and I preferred to partake in football and volleyball. I chose volleyball because Linda wanted to do volleyball too. Feels good right? It would be hectic though but they arranged it such that the time for practicing for a sport you are interested in would not collide with another one. I had to part with Linda after meeting with miss Luciana to go to the field.
“ So who would be the captain” a guy asked
“ I would” I volunteered
“ Nice” the same guy said (written by Tstar ✨)
“We all support that ?” he asked and the rest of the about, about 15 of them agreed. His name was Jack and we all introduced ourselves. We were to start practicing immediately. We were paired into six. We warmed up with some exercises before we began training. After training, we started a match. It was fun because I loved football. I scored two goals and another guy in my team scored one. The overall match was 3 to 1. My group won. We were tired after the match. I dismissed everyone so I could go and rest to play volleyball since I was engaged in two sports. However, on my way to a tent, a guy named Fabrian from my group came to me. The one that scored one goal from my team.
“ You think you are good right?” he asked and I furrowed my brows in confusion.
“ What do you mean?”
“ Just so you know, I am better than you are. I am going to be in the spotlight. Watch your back okay?” he said rhetorically and walked away.
“ What’s that supposed to mean?. An empty threat I suppose because what could he possibly do. I waved it off as I went to rest under the tent.
When it was time for volleyball practice, I went to meet Linda. She was energetic and beautiful even though she told me she had practiced for sprint numerous times today. No doubt, I like her. What! I like her? Isn’t it too early for that. I just met her, how could I like her. I hardly like girls but Linda was different. She is young, vibrant and pretty. I learnt she was also from a wealthy family. She told us when we were together. She is an only child. Her mother, Mrs Rose Franklin, owns the biggest fashion brand in America called “The-rose” while her father, Mister Franklin is the owner of the second largest tech company in the world. She should be an overly spoilt brat but she is not.
“Linda” I called and I looked at her with all likeness.
“Yes, why is your face like that” She said amazed. Oh, was it that obvious. I only like her and nothing more. At least for now.
“ would you come for lunch in my home tomorrow?”
I asked expecting a positive answer.
“ wh.. what!! Lunch? I don’t think I would” she said without thinking twice
“I would like if you could just come Linda” I persuaded.
“ Okay, I would want to come but it depends on my mom” she said.
“ Do you want me to inform her?” I asked sincerely
“ No, not yet. Don’t worry, I would find a way to persuade her” she said assuringly.
“ Let’s go play volleyball my friend” she said and I smiled.
We went to play but this time around it was a draw game. Funny right?…
Here comes episode four😃.
I can’t wait to see what would happen next.
Stay tuned to #cruellovebytstar