Chapter 3
Diamond's POV


"I'm so happy for Ruby, she's being glowing ever since we found her dad. It's two weeks already and she's still the happiest person ever", I tell Wayne as Ruby bounces off to order our drinks at Cafe Vanilla.

"I know, I'm really happy about it. Uhm... Diamond, I think something's wrong...", Wayne rubs the back of his neck. "I think something's wrong with me, I might say I'm happy but I don't feel happy".

"What do you mean?", I draw close to Wayne from opposite the table.

"I don't know, I don't feel like me anymore. Something is wr... ".

"Hey guys", Tyler hails as he crosses to our table, cutting Wayne's sentence.

"Umm, hey", I utter and gave him a shy wave.

Adam, Tim follow behind Tyler as he gets to our seat. Tyler seats beside me and Tim follows, Adam chooses to sit beside Wayne with all of them giving me weird looks.

"Umm... Is there something on my face?", I touch my face in horror.

They laugh at my curiosity but Tyler keeps staring at me.

"Hey guys", Ruby squeals as she sees the guys.

Adam gives way to Ruby whom seats beside Wayne, Wayne gives her a fake smile and puts his hand over her shoulder.

I make a mental note to talk to him later, he never fake smile's, he always has a genuine smile in his face. That's just Wayne.

We order extra drinks and snacks, laughing and talking about the days that have gone by.
We prepare for summer break, grateful for the time off and I and Ruby discuss about how to get more subscribes,mentions and followers for her blog.

"Do you have an Instagram account?", I ask.

She shakes her head in response, I grab her phone from the table and open up an account for her.
Then I help her take photos of her outfit to post, I and the others follow her on Instagram while she posts some quality shots she took with her dad.
Her followers grow quickly cause as soon as I open her account, different blogs and newspapers carries the news about her and her dad.
It read: MISS RUBY DELACIO, ILLEGITIMATE OR VALID.

Ruby scoffs as she notices the blog post is carrying all her social media details, she slams the phone on the table and looks outside the window.

"Are you okay?", Tim asks her.

"I wanted a parent, a father not the media", she takes warmth in Wayne's hand while he stares into space.

This is real weird, Wayne didn't say anything he didn't utter a thing, he just stared maybe he doesn't really feel anything anymore. But that means he won't love Ruby again.... Oh no, this is bad.

I shift my head to the side and realise he isn't blinking his eyes something's definitely wrong.

"Wayne your leaning on me", Ruby says.

And I realise WAYNE HAD SHUT DOWN.

"Jenny! Jenny! Wait up", Emma pants as she runs after Jenny out the cafeteria door.

Jenny stops and spins quickly towards Emma's pleas, Emma saw Jenny turning but it was too late as they collide into each other.

"Crap! My head!", Jenny shouts as she feels pain invading her head.

"Ohmy... ", Emma mutters.

They sit on the floor clasping their head until the pain vanishes.
Jenny rises and helps Emma off the floor.

"Eww... now I'm covered in hallway dirt", Emma frowns and dusts her uniform with concentration.

"Emma, he's asking questions... what I'm I gonna do now, I'm doomed", Jenny throws her hands in the air in exasperation.
"He's gonna find out... one way or the other and what's gonna happen to me... jail, death", she began pacing as the last option flew into her mind..

"Jenny, chill. Take a chill pill, relax. He's just worried, I'll also be worried if I woke up and someone's hands was all over my body, I mean you were acting crazy that day so he's worried I'm pretty sure he won't bring it up again", Emma pulled Jenny into a bear hug.
"And anyway you're paying for your mistakes already cause I'm sure having that idiot and his negative emotions inside you is tearing you apart".

Jenny produces a light chuckle as Emma releases her from the hug.

"You know I got your back, right?".

"Yh, well", Jenny looks at Emma and a small smile tugs at her lips.
"Well except when your all over Mark".

"You ungrateful bitch, I'm helping you out and your talking rubbish", Emma laughs and jumps after Jenny.

Jenny runs away from Emma as she continues to laugh uncontrollably. She stops and faces Emma who is squatting on the white tiled floor out of breath.

"Maybe you should just walk up to him and tell him... ", she clears her throat.
"Hey Mark, I think we should just get married in the school hallway", Jenny says in a child-like voice.

Emma bites down a chuckle as Jenny continues to tease her, she uses the opportunity and crawls slowly towards Jenny. She taps Jenny who is now backing her on the shoulder, Jenny gasps in shock and turns around to face Emma who now has a wide grin on her face.

"You lil b... ", Jenny is unable to finish as Emma bursts into laughter with Jenny tickling her.

"Um... p... plea... pl... p.. pleas... p... please...stop it", Emma forces out through her laughter.

Two white skinned boys separates them.

"Are you guys kidding me? You are in the middle of the hallway, I know most of the students are still in the cafeteria but there are few junior students roaming the hallway and your playing like kids on the floor", an authoritative but gentle voice booms behind Jenny.

She spun to see the person but she ended up getting entranced in a sea of green-blue. She stared into the boy's eyes for a while before she realised he was still holding her hand. She turned towards Emma to hide her blushing face, she sees Emma in a conversation with the other boy. He had jet black hair which he combed to the side and hazel eyes, he had his hands in his pockets as they talked.

"So do you speak french?", she heard Emma ask the boy.

"I'm from France so Oui darling, I do speak french", the boy replies.
"Monsieur Francis", he extends his hand towards Emma.

"Umm... Emma", she shakes his hand as she smiles sheepishly.

"Oui... oui. Mademoiselle Emma", he moves her hand to his lips and kisses it before letting go.

"Wow! Francis from France".
"Why does he keep saying oui, it sounds like wee wee what my brother says when he wants to use the bathroom... does he want to use the bathroom", Jenny sends to Emma.

"Jenny!", Emma screams in Jenny's head before a light chuckle.
"Quick question, what's oui? I've never been a fan of learning any language.

The boy gives a toothy smile before replying.
"Yes... Oui means yes".

Jenny turns to look at the boy in front of her, he has dirty blonde hair, green-blue eyes, red lips and a dimple on his left cheek when he smiles. She notices the last part as he is grinning at her.

"Wait! Your the girl who talked back to the Principal... some gut you've gat".

"I'm not talking to you if you don't know any foreign language", Jenny replies with a smirk.

The boy laughs and Jenny's smirk disappears as she stares at the most adorable laughter she has ever heard in her entire life.
He shakes his head as he laughs.

"No, I speak only English, Jenny".

Jenny gasps as Emma sings in her head.
"The cute boy knows your name, the cute boy knows your name", Jenny blocks her off.

"Hmm, no foreign language just a really cute smile now what I'm I gonna do with that", Jenny says.

The boy lowers his gaze to the ground as he realises Jenny just complimented him.

"Just picking up the compliment", Jenny asks with a smirk.

The boy nods as he raises his head to look at Jenny.
"I'm Adrian. Your from Nigeria, right?".

"Correct!", Jenny giggles. "And your not from around here are you?".

"Actually I am... kinda", he rubs the back of his neck and his hair bobs up and down. "My mom is from Nigeria so I came to spend time with her and my sisters, I've being here for a year now, I lived in Florida with my Pa but he...well stuffs happens and I had to come here".

"Don't tell me let me guess mademoiselle means miss", Emma exclaims as they walk to the hall for joint English.

"You guessed correctly because I told you monsieur is Mr", Francis answers.

"Hey! Don't spoil the fun", Emma laughs.

"How's Paris like?", she asks him.

"It's wonderful, it's a beautiful work of art on it's own as it's a place for artists and art. There are very beautiful sites like the Opera Bastille which I'll personally recommend to everyone, the Eiffel Tower and oh! It has the best and most exquisite cuisines from the simplest croissant to the festive Yule log". He explains as they all take their seat at one of the rows of seats and places their books on the table before turning back to listen to Francis.

"France sounds like a dreamland", Emma utters as she looks at the French native before her.

"Yes, it is. You should come there sometime", he says.

"You don't need to tell me twice if I had the money, I'll be out of this country in no time", Jenny says.

"Just what's on my mind", Emma adds.

"I love Nigeria and all it's random shit but I'll love to be someplace else", Jenny stands up and spreads her arm while the others chuckle then she sits.

"I just need a break from my life", Emma adds, cheerily.
"So why you in this school? In Nigeria?".

"I love trying new things and traveling when I stumbled on this country I couldn't help but fall in love with it", Francis replies.

"His the first I'm hearing that from", Emma sends.

Jenny laughs in response.

"Nigerians are a funny and energetic kind of people", Francis jokes. "Look at you ladies, your free and happy but in my country there's always a teen dying cause of depression and heartbreak and foolish stuffs like that".

"When you go back there, tell them they're fools if they commit suicide because of a boy", Emma smirks.

"See! Like I said Nigerians are funny", Francis chuckles as he stares into Emma's eyes.

Jenny and Adrian are now having a separate conversation.

"Your very pretty, Emma", Francis says and places his hand on Emma's own.

Emma's eyes wide like saucers as she stares at their now entwined fingers.
Mark and Seun walk into the hall and Mark turns just in time to see Emma's mouth creep into a shy grin. He seethes and mutters, "That son of a bitch". He walk towards them, clenching and unclenching his hand.

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Emma is from a middle class home while Jenny is from a home that has just enough to feed the family.

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Long night, right?", Emma asks Jenny as soon as she spots from the school gate.
"Can you believe my wand turned into a ring", she shows Jenny the ring on her thumb.

"I know, mine too. I'm still wrapping my head around things but I have to run now. I promised to drop my literature assignment at Miss Belema's office", Jenny responds and turns to leave, she turns and find Emma still rooted to that spot.

"Ehya... you can't even go to assembly without me".

"You wish", Emma replies and hurries away.

"Save a seat for me", Jenny sends.

"Stay outta my head", Emma replies and blocks her.

Jenny laughs and takes the left of the hallway, she approaches the staircase. Depression hits her as she takes the first step, she raises her head to find a figure on the stairs. The person raises his head and she stares into grey eyes.

Seun! No wonder, there's depression in the air, she thinks.

She climbs the stairs to where he is and sits beside him.

"Hey! What happened?", she asks, her voice soft with concern.

He shifts from her like he just sighted a disgusting parasite.

"None of your business", he cringes away.
"Now move along", he commands

"If you think that's gonna make me leave you in your depression then your wrong and I'm not your servant that you can order around. I ask, again what's wrong?"

"What is wrong with you girls and me? All of you should stay away from me,you especially ".

"I'm sorry if you think I'm one of those girls that want to stare into your eyes. It's contact lens for goodness sake! Nothing new about it. I'll advise you to share your problems with someone and stop having negative emotions".
"I bet the whole school will want to listen to you if you ask even the foreign students and anyway you have Mark, talk to him", she rises and begins to ascend the stairs.

She feels his eyes boring holes into her back this makes her to stop.

"Get over yourself and just pretend you have a happy side then maybe you'll learn to be happy just maybe ", she quickens her steps not wanting to hear his answer.

She walks quickly when she approaches the second floor hallway, she enters the staff room at the end of the hallway.
She greets the male security guard playing a game on his phone and he doesn't reply.

"Good morning!", she greets again.

"I've heard, move along", the guard snaps.

She frowns and finds the Miss Belema's table with a name tag on a small disk on the desk, she drops the assignment. She pretends to go through it, whilst she flicks her hand and the security guard falls.
She goes to help him up.

"I'm very sorry, sir. How did you fall?", she asks, masquerading her smile as a caring one.

"I don't know, it felt like a strong force swept under my feet".

"How can that happen? The ground is a bit slippery so I guess that's how you fell, I guess the cleaner just mopped it.
"Sorry again", she says and runs far enough to explode into laughter.

She hurriedly drops her bag in her locker and takes off to the assembly hall, the teachers at the door gives her side glances as she enters the hall.

"Emma, where are you? This teachers will soon attack me", she sends.

"Last row, second lane", Emma sends back.

Jenny walks stealthily to where Emma describes, finds Emma waving at her and pointing at the seat reserved for her. She mutters a number of "sorrys' " and "excuse me" before she reaches the seat and sits down.
Unfortunately for her the Principal spots her.

"Will our senior student, Jenifer Green tell us why she's late for assembly?", he asks.

All eyes turn to Jenny as she walks to the raised platform.

"I promised the literature Miss, I'll submit my assignment before class today", she whispers to the Principal.

But he's not satisfied as he hands her the microphone to speak, Jenny collects the mic and stares at the crowd awaiting her answer. Seun walks into the assembly hall.

"Sir! Look Seun is late for assembly".

All eyes turn to look at Seun, he looks up at Jenny with a scowl on his face.

"He probably had something to do", the principal stammers.
"I believe I asked you a question", he said giving Jenny the don't-you-dare look.

Jenny frowns as Seun smirks and turns around to find a seat. A junior male student hurriedly vacates his seat for Seun to sit, Seun sits and gives his full attention to Jenny.

"I promised Miss Belema I'll submit my assignment before class. Now please can I go since the discipline in this school is one-sided".

The entire hall gasps.

"Jenny what are you doing?", Emma screams in Jenny's head.

The Principal realizes his mistake as he let's her off the hook without anything punishment. She climbs down from the platform and shoots killer daggers at Seun, he shrugs and gives his attention to the Principal.

"What did you gain from disrespecting the Principal?", Emma sends.

"I didn't disrespect him, I stated the obvious injustice", Jenny sends back.

She notices the frown on Emma's face as she sits beside her.

"You're supposed to be supporting me, he was clearly biased", she sends to Emma.

"I know but you replied him in the wrong way and you'll have to apologize to the Principal".

Without thinking Jenny stands up.

"Sir! I'm really sorry if you took my answer to you as disrespect!", she yells.

The hall turns to look at her before turning back to hear the answer from the Principal.
The Principal nods in understanding and orders her to sit. She sits and looks at Emma.

"I'm sorry".

"Already forgave you", Emma smiles at her.

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"I heard the cafeteria's serving ice-cream today", Emma squeals.

Jenny licks her lips in response as they inhale the inviting aroma of the cafeteria as they enter, they go straight to the counter and get two trays of ice-cream, cookies, a bottle of water and a plate of jollof rice each.
They find an empty table after searching through the sea of bodies for a long time. They drop their meal and begin to eat within minutes they finish their plates of jollof rice. They take sips from their bottles of water and move to the ice-cream .
Emma dips a cookie into her small cup of ice-cream, she drops it into her mouth and raises her head to savour the flavour.

"I didn't know the ice-cream was so good, I would've gotten some", a voice says behind her.

"You can share min... ", she's unable to finish her sentence as she sees the person or better still persons behind her.

"Can we join you?", Mark asks, flashing her his pearly whites.

She nods and they look at Jenny for an answer.

"Sure", Jenny replies with a smile.

Mark and Seun sits at their table and the place grows quiet except the whispers from the other students and the pointing fingers.
They were able to catch some of the comments from the other students like "why at they sitting at their table?",
"I've kept my table open for them for the whole week",
"I can't wait till they storm out of their just to embarrass them",
"I promised myself that I'll make Seun fall in love with me".
"And Mark... "
"What do they have that we don't have", Emma and Jenny hears a particular girl say.
They turn the same time and shoot her death glares which makes her shrink in her seat.

But the boys choose to ignore the whispers and the comments.

"So about that ice-cream?", Mark says.

Emma stares at him dumbfounded, she shakes her head to clear her mind.

"You said I could share yours right?", he asks.

Emma nods in agreement.

"Which flavour he asks?".

"Strawberry", Emma brings herself to reply.
"Have some", she offers him a handful of cookies which takes and dips into the ice-cream.
He bends his hair backwards like Emma did.

"This is really nice and it's my favourite flavour", he says.

He and Emma return to the cookies and ice-cream like long lost friends sharing a meal, making jokes and laughing.

"Your ice-cream is melting", Seun points at Jenny's cup of ice-cream.

"You can have it", she pushes her tray to him, retrieves her plate and bottle of water.

"I don't want it", he pushes it forward.

"More for us", Mark smiles and drags the tray to him and Emma's side.

Jenny uncovers the cap of the bottle water and gulps down a large amount from it, she finishes the water and tries to get Emma's bottle of water.

"No way", Emma snatches her bottle from the table and returns to helping Mark finish Jenny's cup of ice-cream and cookies.

"You can have mine", Seun places his unopened bottle of water in front of Jenny.

She takes it reluctantly and spies it weirdly.

"I didn't poison it", he says.

She uncaps the bottle and sips from it.

"We're done", Mark announces showing them the empty trays.
"Be careful he might have put poison in it, he doesn't like when people annoy him".

Seun narrows his grey eyes as he frowns at Mark.

"I'm just warning you", Mark raises his hands in mock in fake surrender.

"He can really do that?", Emma asks Mark.

Mark nods in affirmation.

"Dude! What's that supposed to mean?", Seun laughs.
"Trying to impress her huh", he nods towards Emma.
Mark shrugs.

"I don't remember annoying you", Jenny says.
"Ok, I won't lie I do".

"I just have one question. The first day I met you why were you raising my shirt and checking me like I lost a limb?".

"Uhm, I don't know but I had a feeling you were injured", Jenny lies.
She swiftly rises from her seat to avoid further questions, she returns her empty tray and leaves the cafeteria.

"I have to go", Emma says, returns her tray before hurrying after Jenny.

"There's something about these girls", Seun mutters.

"Apart from the fact that they're pretty I don't know", Mark says.

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Are we gonna do this or what?", Wayne asks Ruby and Diamond.

The both girls nod. They are standing before a large gate, they find a buzzer and tap on it. A camera rolls up next to the buzzer and zooms in on their faces.

"State your business", a hard voice asks probably a security personnel.

"We want to see Mr Robinson Delacio", Wayne replies.

"Do you have an appointment with him?".

"Yes", Wayne lies.

The camera goes out of sight and the gate opens, they look around the mansion as they walk admiring the place. The mansion is a palace on it's own, there are trimmed statures from plants everywhere, a medium size green maze at their left and a large fountain at the centre of the house.
When they reach the front door the door man whom is clothed in white opens the front door, they are ushered into a large room by a maid where they seat.
When they are seated they notice the large curved desk opposite them with a blonde girl of nineteen behind the desk eyeing them suspiciously.
Her col green eyes watch them as she's flipping through the pages of a book.

"Name? ", she looks at them again.
"You are hear to see Mr Delacio, right? So give me your name".

"Wayne Black, Diamond Black and Ruby... ".

"No, we came to see you look at us weirdly", Diamond whispers to the others which makes Ruby giggle.

"Hmm... ", the girl says.

Ruby looks up and stops laughing immediately before diverting her eyes to give Diamond a mean stare. Diamond shrugs and replies.

"Yh, we came to see Mr Delacio".

"I don't remember you booking am appointment with me", she says while looking through the book.

"Yh, cause we didn't", Diamond says.

"No, don't mind her... she's delusional", Wayne walks over to the desk.
He gives her a dishy smile as he crosses over to her seat and checks the book.

"Here's our name", he points at an imaginary name in the book.

She didn't bother to check as she's staring into Wayne's eyes, her once scary demeanor melts into a flirty stance. Wayne closes the book, tears a sheet of paper from another book, she shakes her head and tries to speak but Wayne grabs a pen and places it over her lips to silent her. She rubs his hand in a flirty way and moves his hand towards the paper where he writes down his number. He drops a kiss on her hand as he gives her the pen and winks at her before turning towards the girls.

"The name's Victoria", the girl calls out


As soon as he sits a visibly angry Ruby stands up and walks out.
Diamond gives him a what-the-Bleep look, he stands up and goes to search for Ruby. He asks a maid who looks at him in a flirty way before telling him to check outside. Wayne goes out the door and asks the doorman who tells him to check the maze, he shakes his head already tired of the check here, check there game. He runs to the maze and calculates her direction before heading towards a twisted lane in the maze, he's already getting tired of searching when he hears quiet whimpers not too far from him.

He walks quietly to where the sound is coming from and finds Ruby settled on the floor with her head between her knees, he sits beside her and hugs her.
She looks up and he spots the disgust in her eyes, she shrugs him off and hisses.

"Don't even think of coming near me, you disgust me! Flirting with another girl in front of me, why don't you go back there and have a make out session with her", Ruby spits.

"I have a good explanation just listen... "

"Save your explanation for her", she hisses and stands up to leave.
"And maybe for the other ones that you'll flirt with too".

"You know your my only one", he replies without looking at her.

"You should have remembered that when you flirted with her".

"I did it for you.... So you'll be able to see your dad. She would have called the security on us and we'll be kicked out of there".

"Oh... you could have left her to do whatever she wanted to do, we woulda found another way. Do you know how jealous I was?", Ruby asks him.
"You even kissed her hand for goodness sake!".

Wayne walks over to where she's standing staring at the floor and raises her face to look into his eyes.

"But your the only person I'll kiss on the lips", he says and plants a kiss on her lips.
Her knees give way and Wayne holds unto her tightly. When they separate he says.

"I'll do anything for you to meet your dad and anyway I don't think she'll want to be seeing her boss's daughter's boyfriend", he smirks.

"Who said your my boyfriend?", Ruby smiles and turns away from him.

"The kisses say", he replies and hugs her from behind.
"Now let's go meet your father", he holds her hand as they make their way out of the maze.

As they reach the reception, Victoria walks out the door at the end of the huge reception.

"You can see him now", she winks at Wayne even when she sees Ruby's hand in his.

Ruby frowns and squeezes his hand, Wayne looks at her and rubs her hand with his thumb to comfort her. Diamond joins them and they enter the office, Ruby leaves his hand and stares at the floor as they approach the man behind the desk before them.
When she raises her head she stares into her exact replica except that he's a man.
He's olive skinned, he has her exact shape of face, her glowing round brown eyes and his curly brown hair with sprinkles of grey here and there.
He gasps as he looks at Ruby.

"Ruby?", he asks, his voice heavy with age.
Ruby nods vigorously and breaks into tears, the man leaves his seat and tries to hug her but Wayne stands before him.

"How do you know she's Ruby?", Wayne scans the man for any lies.

"She's my daughter", he says to Wayne, he's eyes filled with tears.
He turns to Ruby and says.

"I'm so sorry I denied your mom, I was a fool back then, I had no money and couldn't stand making your mom suffer along with me so I sent her away. After I finally became who I am now, I searched for her and hired a private investigator. He was able to find her... her grave and you", he lets the tears drain from his eyes.

"He found you. But you were very happy and I couldn't bring myself to take that away from you".

"When did all this happen?", Ruby asks with a cracked voice as Diamond consoles her.
"When did you stop caring to check on your daughter? Now you don't even know she's homeless", she yells.

"I didn't k...kno... k... know that", he stammers.
"I thought you were happy so I stopped the private investigator from following you about three years ago", he walks over to his desk with the the speed of a twenty year old. He opens the drawer and pulls out a medium size box.
He drops the box before Ruby, he opens it and spills out pictures of her from years back.

"Look! Look, I have evidence. She's my daughter", he looks at Wayne then Diamond before Ruby

"Look, I'm really sorry and I'll be more than happy to make up for my mistake just give me a chance", he kneels beside Ruby.

Diamond gives Ruby a go-ahead nod and steps aside. Ruby hugs her dad tightly and sobs into his jacket. After long minutes of sobbing they run out of tears and stand from the ground.
Mr Delacio walks back to his seat as Ruby settles for his desk.

"So dad! These are my friends Diamond Black", Diamond shakes Mr Delacio's hand.

"And Wayne Black", Wayne extends his hands to shake Mr Delacio who takes it happily.

"When you say friend do you mean boyfriend?", Mr Delacio asks still holding unto Wayne's hand.
Wayne swallows hard as Ruby shouts.

"Dad!!!".

"Wow! I've missed a lot in my daughter's life and she already has a boyfriend. Next time don't forget to clean your lips, I can see the pink lip gloss she's wearing on it. My sharp eyes will never betray me", Mr Delacio smiles and let's go of Wayne's hand.

Diamond laughs as Ruby looks away shyly.

"Nice to meet you, Mr Delacio", Wayne says with confidence.

"I like his confidence. Good choice, sweetheart", Ruby shoots playful death stares at her father.

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I've updated.
I've noticed that I've being rushing the story o I'll try to take it as slow as possible.

Chapter 5

Jenny's POV


I wake up somewhere different but pretty familiar.

"Jenny!", I hear Emma whisper my name.

"Right here", I reply.... but something's different now.

"Emma?", I whisper into the silent darkness of the Browns' home.

"Where are you? I think I'm in your place".

"At home, the room. I'm coming down the bed", she replies.

But I'm on her bed, in the room and strangely I feel a sudden force pulling me down the bed.
I touch my braids to make sure I'm still me then reach out with my both hands, searching for the doorway out of the room.

"Jenny, I don't understand. I want to use the loo but something's pulling me towards the door".

"Crap, Emma! You're trapped in my body".

Emma moves my hand and touches my hair.

"No, I think your trapped in my body. I can feel my curly hair".

"This is very confusing".

A bright sharp light floods into the room and I raise my hands to protect my eyes. When I feel the sting from the light reducing, I bring down my hands to find the light coming from the open door.
I walk towards it and enter.
Again for the second time in one night, I'm in the plain white room but this time there is a single figure standing in the middle with her back to me.
A long cape of honey rolls down the person's shoulder, her curly hair of ebony black falls past her shoulder.
She finally turns and the white coral beads around her bare legs catch my attention, I look upwards to the white long feathers wrapped around her waist which stops above her knee, above the feathers are many white beads wrapped delicately, her navel is exposed which moves to show her flat tummy and the many layers of white large beads that cover her breast and another layer of gold jewelries around her neck.
Her skin tone a caramel blend, her curly hair covers her forehead with a golden twisted band of rosea around it and the cape of honey covers her arms. Her face is well sculpted and beautiful without doubt her large brown eyes scan me from up to down before nodding in approval.
Her lips painted a dark shade of red move in a humming sound.

"Welcome! My children. Sit I have vital information for you".

Her voice offers comfort and care as I sit on the white blank ground.

"You might be wondering what is happening with you two now but I promise you everything will go back to normal once you leave this place. Your bodies are learning to accept each other which is the main function of the ritual to activate the golden blood running through your veins. You have being given gifts from every god but to use that gift comes with great price and sacrifice. Activating the golden blood of the gods gives you the right over those gifts".
"I am Nkutlu, goddess of love, fertility, procreation and beauty. I have many aspects which my many followers desire as blessings which I give to them when they are worthy and I offer their praise and sacrifices to the Almighty God, I am but an access way for them to the Almighty. You have being reborn many times to the earth but this time you are sent by the Almighty One. Lord Sini, a great and ambitious warrior that managed to conquer many realms decided to dare the Almighty by attempting to take over the first realm".
"The battle line was drawn and the war began, at the end all the members of the army of Lord Sini were sent to their graves with five gods lost in the battle. Three have being replaced and the remaining two slots are left for the both of you. But first you have to prove yourself first and that test is not far from you.
Five seals were placed over Lord Sini which holds him in the firsr realm, three of the seals have being broken. First the sacrifice by his follower of a pregnant mother with triplets in her, second the beginning of a religion driven by his name, and thirdly, your birth. The last of the two seals are to be broken soon so you must find it and stop it".
"Or else if he is released he shall come back to conquer again and he'll begin with the third parallel realm... Earth. Protect it and fight with all you have".

"Why couldn't the Almighty send another god to be my mother", Emma clears her throat and asks, curiously.

"Because as the goddess of fertility, I gave you to your parents and I chose to care for you voluntarily. I had to be born to the earth fourteen years before you to fulfill my duties".

"What's your gift to us?", I ask.

A tight smile plays on her lip as she replies.
"You'll find out very soon".
"The boy you hurt is well... ", she tells me.

"The moment your essence was used to revive him, he became a part of you, you'll feel his emotions within you. Almost like your relationship with your sister but slightly different, it's an effusive connection unlike your mental connection with your sister".
"Achio!!!", she called out.

Our wands flew out and stood before her, she opened up her palm and they rested in it.

"Achio is a sceptre given to you by the gods, it contains all the gifts from the gods. It is sculpted from the core of heaven's walls".

She joins the both wands together at their bottoms and it forms a full size sceptre, sh separates it and holds it out for me to get it. I stand up from my sitting position and collect the wands from her open palm.

"Tread careful and remember the walls have ears. This is the only safe place for out meetings".

A sudden haziness clouds my mind, I shake my head and find the sun already peeking through the skies as I wake. I stretch my hands and a glowing light catches my attention beside the plates. I scoop the glowing wand into my hand and it transforms into a ring which fits on my thumb.
I pick up the plates beside me and head for the kitchen. I shiver as I remember Emma was within me a while ago, that's an experience I'm willing to forget, she could have searched through me and I won't have a say only the thought of it makes me shudder but what if she's still in me.

"E... mma?", I send already shaken up.

"Whatsup?", she replies.

"Crap! Your still in me".

"Mumu! I'm at home in my body, it seems like the ritual expanded our mental connection, So what did you think of the story?".

"I don't know, I'm not sure. Apart from the ritual thing, I'm still wrapping my head around the rest and God! How many people do I have a connection with there's you, Achio now Seun! I'm in a big mess".

"Chill! Everything is gonna be alright", Emma sends.

I scoff as pure, hot rage burns through me.

"Crap! I can't even do that the fool is up to something, he's burning in rage at this time in the morning. Whoever he's with is in deep shit", I send to Emma.

But I only receive a chuckle as an answer.

"Hurry up and prepare for school", she sends before leaving me to my thoughts.

I take deep calming breaths as I stabilize my emotions(and his) after a few minutes of standing at the entrance of the kitchen, I feel a soothing calmness in me.

Emma's POV



I and Jenny scream as we pass a series of faces, places and puzzles after God knows how long we screamed we finally land on a soft, mash earth.
I gasp as my head aches from the fear of tearing my skull, I turn and see a groaning Jenny.
She rolls to her front and uses her fingers and toes to push herself up, she manages to stand but it lasts for only a second as she groans and falls to the ground. She pulls sparingly at her braids with teeth clenched she pushes her head to a sitting position.

After few minutes of turning and holding my head, the wooziness disappears. I shake my head, put my thoughts in place before I jump up and help Jenny to her feet.
I turn and look at the woodsy forest we're in, the only plant a stick weird thingy. It looked like a dried up tree.


"Hello! Hello! Someone here?!", Jenny screams out.

It confuses me how her voice manages to echo.

"Hey, girls", a voice behind us says.

We spun at the same time and meet those soft, big eyes.

"Mom? What are you doing here?".

"This is the only safe place the spell can be done... even the walls have ears".
She drags us to the ground with her and sits with her legs crossed, we follow suit. She plucks off two twigs from the stick bushes and forces it into our hands.

I glanced at Jenny and I could clearly see the confusion in her eyes.

"What's wrong with your mom?", Jenny sends.

"No idea", I send back.

"Girls, I know you don't understand but there's evil lurking just waiting for the right moment to pounce on you two... so get drawing!", she explains.

"Draw two halves of a circle, make sure they compliment each other", she instructs.

I thought this was gonna be hard but it's as simple as drawing half a circle.

A cool breeze blows...

"Huh! that's weird", Jenny sends.

"Now do as your mind tells you".

This statement brews a storm in my head and thoughts long forgotten wind up from the unknown.
I slide my hand into my right wrist and close my eyes as pain and agony foods my mind. Tears stream down my eyes as my wrist emerges from my palm with bloody fingers twisted around the wand.
I turn as I hear the sound of grinding teeth.
Jenny manages to get the wand out without a sound except the damage I think that'll do to her teeth.

The pain dies down before we begin the ritual.
My mom drops a brown calabash in the circle we drew then we hold our wand's tip before our open left palm and the tips glows white for me and red for Jenny. It begins to tear the skin on our palm as blood flows freely from it, we stretch our hands above the calabash and count.

One drop
Two drop
Three drop
Of our blood in the calabash.
No more, no less.

We use our wands to stir the mix the blood together, then we coat our wands completely in the blood and we take turns drawing the David star on our head.
Jenny flicks her hand and a small fire appears and burns the calabash to ash. We rub the tips of our wands on the ash and apply it on the inside of the David star. We clap our hands together in prayer form with our wands in between our entwined fingers, we shut our eyes and began to chant.

"In the beginning the swing of balance poured out to the earth, releasing it's prices. Balance, it managed to bring to the earth, a single grain from the other could cause harm. Unfortunately that balance was destroyed and we were born, strings to each world.
But we still are one, don't forget our cause".

The David star glows white and we are covered in a red-white glow as fire and water dances around our bodies. It merges and forms a kind of mixture of fire and water, it weaves and dances in the air and it rises and comes directly at us.

"Aaaargh".

I wake up in my room and my hand flies to my face as it mops sweat off my forehead.
My temperature is bloody high and I feel different like an extension of someone.
"Jenny!", I whisper.

"Right here", she replies but this time I don't feel the answer in my head,
I feel it within me.

I'm sorry I haven't posted in awhile but I'm having a really bad time in my life right now and I promise an update today or tomorrow.

I'm sorry I haven't posted in awhile but I'm having a really bad time in my life right now and I promise an update today or tomorrow.

Jenny wakes up to darkness, she raises her left hand to her left eye and covers it up until her right eye adjusts to the darkness, she then removes her hand.
She runs her hands on the material she feels under her, she notices the texture of a bed and she leans forward to sit. Her head strikes wood above her and pain surges through her entire body as she screams.

"Ouch!!!!".

A toddler's voice screams out in full force and cries loudly. Jenny rubs her head as she realizes she's at home, she grabs a torchlight on top her bed and carefully slips off the bed, she climbs to the top bunk in the double decker bed. She sits on the bed, switches on the torchlight and reaches out for her four year old baby brother.

When the little boy's eyes adjust to the light he looks at his sister for a long time.

"Jenny! Your home!", he babbles in his little voice.

"Ah ah, Ike, you don't want me to live in this house again? When did you fall asleep?", Jenny asks the smiling child.

"Six. Mummy said you won't be stay with us anymore from tomorrow. Sister, are you leaving me?", Ike asks, sadly.

"No, of course not. I'll always be with you", she draws the child close. She lays his head on her lap and strokes it while humming a tune.

"The place is hot", the boy laments.

Jenny grabs one of his books that she knew will always be at the side of his bed and fans him.
She ponders about what her brother said of her leaving and tries to put meaning to it.
When no good answer comes to mind she concludes it as a child's wild thought, she looks at the boy who is clearly asleep.
She gently placed his head on his pillow and climbs down the rough wooden stairs with her torch in her mouth. She realizes they let her sleep in her uniform, she sighs as it is already soaked in sold sweat.

She walks quickly to the bathroom and takes her bath, she wears her sleeping robe and lies on her bed to sleep. As soon as sleep sets foot in her walls her stomach grumbles, she curls up in bed and holds her stomach until it stops.
She goes to the small, purple painted kitchen with only the cooker, stove, plate rack and cabinet on the floor as it's only occupants. She remembers the indomie and egg she bought the night before, she opens the cabinet and fetches a small pot. She checks behind all the pots until she touches a nylon. She brings it out gently and unfolds the items in the nylon.

She quickly puts on the stove an cooks the indomie, she dishes it to a plate, fetches a cup of water from the tap, places it on the tray and tiptoes to the backyard for air. She leaves the food there and goes to her room to fetch a hand fan, she looks around the room for it until she notices it under her backpack.
There is a large book spilling out of her bag then she remembers she was at Emma's place and Emma's mom gave her this book, she grabs the book and the fan and tiptoes to the backyard.

She notices her dinner is already warm so she eats it all up, savouring the taste before picking up the book.

"This book na crocodile skin", Jenny whispers to herself as she points the torch at the book.
It's cover is very hard without any writeup or title on it, it has a bunch of spirals, circles and turning which Jenny trace with the end of her right finger.
A force pulls her hand to the book when she gets to a smoother part of the cover, she struggles to get free but the book holds tight to her hand like magnet but with a stronger power. Her tattoo begins to glow a red colour as it hums loudly and burns.

Emma jerked up awake when she notices the pain coming from her tattoo, she is drenched in sweat and shaking. Her tattoo glows white as it continues to burn and send a shrill tingling sensation down her spine.

Jenny also feels the sensation in her and she continues to try to pull her hand of the book but it's stuck there like attached by glue. The sensation down her spine begins to travel upwards with speed until it take over her head, her eyes immediately sparks red.

Emma's eyes turns white.

The book hums loudly, shaking on her lap as Jenny stares at the sky with her eyes red. But this time she's unable to see anything, she only hears the humming of the book. She shuts her eyes tightly trying to take control but it doesn't work, she gives up and opens her eyes.
When she open them she's standing in a place completely white, void of furniture. An empty white room.

Emma closes her eyes as her mind wills her to do so when she opens them, she's standing in an empty white room. She turns to her left and sees Jenny rubbing her eyes.

"Jenny! Is that really you?", she asks, suspiciously.

Jenny wheels around and sees Emma, she hugs her and nods her head.

Emma still doesn't trust her so she shifts from the hug and asks.

"What do you see RiverSide school as?".

"An avenue for future connection when I'm done with the university and in need of a job", Jenny recites.

Emma spills out a breathe she's being holding in and smiles but the smile changes to fear once more.

"Where are we?".

"I don't know. I was.....".

Jenny is cut short when a being appears, the being is in the form of a human with it's skin as water, a bra and skirt of dried brown leaves, hair of fire and is floating on a whooshing, swirling air under it's feet.

"Welcome!", the being bows.

"Children of Orishas
Alushi!!!
Blessed by Oghene, Possessors of the golden blood....", Jenny cuts into the being's greetings and remarks.

"Biko, what are you?".

"I am known by many names but you can call me the essence of the earth or Element".

Element picks up the air under his feet and holds it like a disk, he holds it to his lips and blows into it.
The air disk widens and grows ten times in size and begins to spin and twirl again.
It walks to it and stands beside it.
"Enter", it says.

A combination of air, water, fire and rocks appears under the girls feet and pushes them into the swirling air. As they drop into it the air shakes and spins violently before diminishing in size.
With a smile on Element's face, it bends and places the air under it's feet before disappearing.

Chapter 4

There is a long, thick silence in the Green's home as Emma and Jenny waits for the sobbing Miss Green to open up. They both bite down the urge to rush the words out of her mouth, they sit on the other leather brown sofa which she ordered them to sit on. Emma stands up silently and leaves the room, she returns with a glass of room temperature water. She sits on the arm of the couch, patting her mom's hair slowly and gives her the glass of water. Miss Green gulps down every drop of the water and sets the glass aside, she beckons Jenny to come to which Jenny does with genuine respect and sits on the left arm of the chair.

"I don't have much to tell you two except two things your magic is a slash", she says.

Jenny and Emma look at each other in confusion.

"It means their is both sides to your powers, you are gifted individually which is good. Now the bad part of the slash is you can't combine your powers because that causes dark magic and it comes with a heavy price".

The girls nod.

"Secondly, I was told to give this to you guys when it's the right time and I think this is the right time", she passes the large book to Jenny then the folder to Emma.

"I want you to study this book and information I have given you two cause I already see the change approaching this world", she sniffs.

"Mom! How did you know all this? If you knew then why did you want me to get rid of the tatoo on my hand", Emma questions, studying her mother.

"Because you are too young, darling. You are two young to face what is coming", she stands up and stretches.

"But they said I had to do it, they said it's the only way", Miss Green frowns.

"Who are you?", Jenny asks.

"Who said? ", Emma adds.

"The council of gods", she confesses.

"But if the gods are still there, why can't they do something about this mess?", Jenny questions.

"There is a big difference between a breathing god and a god confined to the first realm", Miss Green replies.

"Then who are you?", Jenny asks again.

"What do you mean who is she is? She's my mother!! ", Emma screams at Jenny.

"Jenny, I didn't insult her, I just wanna know who she really is cause our Othuaba said she ain't our mother", Jenny barks back.

"She's not your mother but she's mine!", Emma replies.

Another thick silence follows as their eyes begin to switch colours and their body producing a vibrating hum.

"Stop it, girls. I might not be your mother but I'm in charge of you two", Miss Green steps in and their eyes turn normal.

"I am... the goddess of love and I share a strong bond with you two. Read the book and you'll understand", she sighs and walks out of the sitting room.

Jenny's eyes begin to change colours as she stands staring at Emma, frozen to the floor. Anger burns deep in her soul as she sees an unclear image of a boy venting his anger out on a wall in her mind, the image clears up and she sees the boy's face.
Seun!!!! The face dances around in her mind as the image begins to disappear from her mind.

Her eyes slowly turn brown as a dull pain creeps into her head. She looks at Emma who is answering the telephone, she manages to grab a few words from the conversation; I'll tell her to leave now... Sure... she'll... home....
Soon... The last word she hears before a cloud of black invades her mind.

LightQueen:
Nice story tho

Thank you!!!!

LightQueen:
Nice story tho

Thank you!!!!

Ann2012:

Nope, it's very OK

Ok, thank you.

Fazemood:
Pidgin can never be too much its Nigeria so lets be us. But at thesame time be more professional , don't succumb too much into it (pidgin). Read other paranormal novels on here and compare them with yours, you may learn new things that way.

Meanwhile; make this story as real as possible, make every episode more interesting and mysterious as you possibly can. calm down and be more creative, as we all know one doesn't go around exposing their supernatural self anyhow esp in public places.

Also, people don't assume things like that especially to girls who are in their school uniforms and looks tartered at an hour like that. People get curious and mostly assume a pitiful event that may have occured that made them look that way. Nigerians aren't like that unless the girls are improperly dressed. So try to portray us in a better light.

I would want you to update more so as to get the ghost readers commenting. Just do your best and we'll let you know how well you're progressing.

Thanks so much, you continue to be so helpful, I actually wanted that sort of drama just to describe how people actually fear witches. I just didn't think of the right way of expressing it.

And No way! Am I trying to portay Nigerians as bad people. I'm also a Nigerian but that's the way some people act mostly women( I actually copied this argument between the women and Jenny from a real situatuon I witnessed) and it pisses me off most times.

I hope the pidgin is not too much��

The girls walk slowly as their injuries heal up and the torment of the destruction of their homeland in their mind. When they near the school building they realize that they still had dried up blood on their uniform, hair and body. They stopped in their tracks thinking of a believable advice to give if their asked questions about their appearance.
Then they look around and realize that the school is empty.

"Emma... what's the time?", Jenny asks.

"To five... ohmygod", Emma's eyes grows in size.
"School has ended for the day!".

"School has ended... that's a good thing", Jenny breathes in relief.

"How's missing five lectures a good thing? We have a big lie to create to cover up tomorrow cause I know we'll be reported to the principal", Emma rambles.

"Relax! We're safe for now let's get outta here".

Jenny pulls Emma with her as they cautiously enter the school building, hiding and running from teachers, trying to find their lockers as quickly as they could. They find their lockers, grab their bag and run off.

"I totally forgot I can't go home like this", Jenny whispers as they tiptoe past the sleeping gateman and out the big white gate.

"You can clean up at my place, my mom is never around at this time", Emma says as they trek to Park bus stop.

"I live around that Diobu side na. I don't even have the money to pay to and fro Borikiri", Jenny complains as they near Park.

"So you'll prefer your parents sees you like this like person beat you and about the transport I'm sure I'll find some lose change in my house. My mom may not be rich but at least she leaves money here or there in the house by mistake so I'll find some. Let's go", Emma replies.

They hold their back packs to their chest as they cross the ever rowdy and noisy Park. Women, men and children running for buses and vehicles, a potential thief hiding somewhere in the sea of faces and the continuous rambling of conductors and drivers trying to attract people to their vehicles.
They cross the road and flag down a taxi with the front seat vacant.

"See them na dem they ruin their lives, I'm sure they don go one man house dey come back", the woman in the middle whispers the to the others.

"Maybe dey ask of money, the man no gree him beat dem", the one on the right whispers back.

"See their bloody faces na, useless girls", the one on the left whispers.

"And see their uniform oh... na RiverSide school. That school big which kine reputable girls they ruin their lives like this", the one in the middle whispers.

"Maybe na all those ajepako scholarship children. You know see their mumu face", the one on the left replies.

Jenny was already fuming from the beginning and Emma tried to control her anger and also calm Jenny down but Jenny will not listen.

"Aunties, we can hear you oh!", Jenny says.

"Ehen and so? Did we hide what we are saying? Shameless girls!", the woman on the left hisses.

"See ma! You are old oh! Control your mouth", Jenny warns.

"See this small girl is talking to me because you have started sleeping around abi", the woman replies.

"Madam, calm down", the driver pleads as he uses one hand to control the steering wheel and the other to scratch his bald head.

"Driver! No put mouth", the middle woman commands.

When they are passing Spar the women and Jenny kept exchanging words. Emma frowns, she closes her eyes and brings the car to a halt. Everyone except her jerks and slams their head on something. Emma turns and looks at the woman as a white shade begins to seep into her eyes.

"Ma as you have seen life is too short, we could all be dead now. So just shut up your mouth and live your life", Emma gritted.

"And allow us to live our life too, life is too short", she turns back in her seat as the white begins to dissolve from her eyes.
"And anyway, ma. I'm sorry for the way I replied you but you were thinking faraway from the box when you should have asked what happened to us instead you formulated stupid stories. We could be your children".

"God forbid", the middle woman spits out.

"Abeg, leave them oh. Dem be witches", the woman on the left mutters with fear.

The now shaking driver turns on the ignition and drives quickly to Lagos bus stop. Emma and Jenny highlight and Emma brings out a hundred naira note to pay the driver but he refuses to accept the money as he shivers in fear and zooms off. They take another taxi to Borikiri and stops opposite the government school there before trekking into Sandfield. When they reach Emma's house, she waves a curious little boy off and enters the house with Jenny.

"Maybe we should start using our gifts as an advantage. See the way the women were scared even the driver, the guy refused to collect money sef", Jenny joked as Emma fumbles with the key.

"Emma! Don't tell me you're angry, they deserved it with all the rubbish they were spilling", Jenny touches Emma's shoulder but she shrugs it off.

Emma opens the door and they enter the small one bedroom flat.

"Clean yourself up, change and leave", Emma fumes, pointing to the bathroom.

Jenny slowly walks to the bathroom as she studies the warming cream colour of the house while Emma goes to the room then they both hear a voice from the sitting room.

"Emmanuella, Jenifer! Come to the sitting room when you're through with what your doing! I think it's time we talked about who you really are", the voice yells.

"Mom!!!? ", Emma says with disbelief in her voice.

"How does your mom know my name?", Jenny asks as she stops to look at Emma.

They both ran to the sitting room and found Emma's mom, Miss Green with tears in her soft big eyes, sitting upright on the single couch with a large book and a medium sized folder in her hand.

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Fazemood I even wrote more than that for the fight scene but when I uploaded it, it did not go and it wiped all my writing. I had to start all over again because I just try to arrange whatever comes to mind as I write, I don't write it somewhere and go through it.
But anyway, thank you.
I was even surprised I could pull off that fight scene, I was literally shaking while writing it.
Thank you again for reading and one thing is for sure... IT GETS JUICIER.


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Thank you so much.

Everybody your welcome oh.

Days flew by and Ruby stopped visiting the Black's house, she avoided Diamond and Wayne like a plague. Wayne was beginning to feel uneasy about it all, he wanted to talk to her but anytime he manages to find her, she'll give a random excuse and run off.
Diamond also tried but she'll always stay far from her.


"Tyler, Tim have you guys seen Ruby?", Wayne asks as they wait for their Government lecturer to arrive.

The guys shake their head, Adams walks in and sits beside them.

"Dude have you seen Ruby?", Wayne asks Adams.

"Yh, I think I just saw her coming from the principal's office. If you run fast, you should be able to block her by the teachers' lounge".

"Thanks so much", Wayne says and makes to run off.

"Wayne we have class in two minutes", Tyler shows Wayne the time on his watch.

"Go get your girl, Wayne. Leave Tyler and his loveless life", Tim grins.

Tyler hits Tim's head with a book, Tim yelps and they begin a playful fight. Wayne chuckles before running off to find Ruby. He meets her just before she enters the teachers' lounge and stands between her and the door.

"Come with me", he commands her and drags her to the botanical garden.

"Wayne! Let go of my hand! What the bleeping Bleep is wrong with you?", she fusses, trying to weaken his grip on her.

He continues dragging her until they get to the garden, he holds her both wrists with his left hand and opens the door with his right.

"God! Your grip is so strong. How can someone be this strong?!", she yelps as he lets go of her hand.

She rubs her wrist as he stares at her before saying.
"You don't even know how strong I am", he mutters under his breath. "Give me your excuse, tell me one of the many reasons why we can't talk now, why you need to run off right now. Tell me, I'm waiting", his voice comes out as a dry whimper.

Ruby takes her eyes off her wrist and finally looks into his eyes. "I can't, I'm sorry".

"Just four days ago you were ok with kissing me in my home, on my couch. Spending the night at my home, spilling your pain to I and my family and after that you left early the next morning without telling anyone. And to top it all off you've being avoiding me and even your friend, Diamond, she's heartbroken, she doesn't know what she did wrong. Usually Diamond would just move on and before you know it she's popular but you are first friend in this school. She understands you, your like a sister to her and you threw all that away. For what?", he questions.

He notices the drops of tears falling from her eyes as she listens to him without uttering a word. His eyes flare a deeper shade of red as he stares at her, he grows more angry.

"Good! Cry you deserve it maybe you deserve to be lonely. Maybe you deserve the horrible pain, you're going through", he says and walks towards the door.

"You think I do?! You think I wanna hurt you or Diamond?! I love you for crying out loud and Diamond she's like the sister I never had and will never have", she half yells.

Wayne stops in his tracks and listens without turning back.

"You think I wanna avoid you guys? The fact is I don't deserve you guys, I don't even have a family", she rambles on.
"I won't go to this school any longer. It's no use, I'm nothing compared to you guys, I'm a nobody and I have nobody".

She falls slowly to the ground as she sheds unconditionally tears, Wayne turns and looks at her with sympathy in his eyes as his eyes turn to it's normal grey shade.

"Are you still here?", Ruby asks in between sobs.

"Yes", Wayne answers.

"I don't expect you guys to forgive me but the fact is I'm going faraway from here and it won't matter anymore. Those people I called parents for sixteen years of my life aren't my parents, they're my faraway relatives. My real mom is my fake mom's distant cousin, she's was pregnant and she was denied by her so called boyfriend. She had cancer so she gave birth and gave me to her childless distant cousin, they promised to love me like their own and several months later she died. But now my fake mom is pregnant and all the quarrel and fights were about me, her husband wants to get rid of me now they are having their own baby".

"But she disagreed, she couldn't break the promise she made to her distant cousin but when I reported them to the police. That sort of tipped any chance I had to stay with them. They're pulling me outta school and sending me to another relative. It's all complicated", she concludes.

Wayne squats down and hugs her.

"Why did you keep all this from me?", Wayne raises her face so she could look into his eyes.

She shifts her gaze from his and says.
"It's embarrassing. I don't even know who I am. In the next two week I'll be seventeen and I don't even have a solid heritage", she whines, clearly exasperated.
"I don't want to worry you guys with my stupid problems. I just came back to get my stuffs from my locker, speak to the principal and the teachers. And leave".

"Don't ever think I'll be alive and I'll let you go like that. I'm gonna help your find your dad but Ts and Cs applies".

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Please don't be angry oh, I just copied all your names from A Girl Called Fib & The Axe Of Fury.
I love that story.
I was just wondering if you guys will just take a peek at my story.

Please sosa993 don't be angry I called your readers here oh.

Fazemood:


You are welcome.
Honestly, I can't say. I am suspecting the governors son Seun or mark the minister's son.

I've updated oh... Is your assumption right or wrong?
Read and find out.

Jenny and Emma's POV


How do you feel when you see your exact reflection?
How do you feel when you see your flaws and perfection right before you?
Do you run or hide?
Could you be seeing yourself in someone else?
Or could this be you?
Maybe a past you, a present you or even a future you?

"Think no further, your brain can't handle what you see", Emma and Jenny's replica say in unison.

They laugh at us with a sneer on their lips.
Even their laugh is evil.

They are us and we are them.

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"The world you see shall crumble with you in it", Emma's replica spits.

"Everyone you know or love shall die... Everyone", Jenny's replica adds.

"You shall both die before you even understand your gifts", Emma's replica butts in.

"Have you finish? Or do you have more rubbish to say? Oya finish up and return to the gutter you came from", Jenny sighs and sits on the concrete floor.

Emma laughs as she sits beside Jenny.

"Do you perhaps believe we are joking?", Jenny's replica asks.

"No oh. Why will we think like that? Abeg continue your gibberish talk", Emma replies.

"You fools", their replicas says in unison and rushes towards them.

Emma and Jenny jumps out of the way and dodges the first attack aimed at their heads.

Emma's replica gains momentum and rushes towards Emma, she kicks Emma in the stomach and Emma coughs out blood. Emma shakes off the haze clouding her head and aims a punch at her replica's face.
The punch hits her replica with force as ice particles scatter from Emma's blow to her replica's face, a huge wound opens on her replica's face but her replica doesn't give up.
She recovers quickly from the blow and tackles Emma to the ground to prevent further use of her powers.

Jenny throws fire balls at her replica which her replica dodges with skills and ability. Emma wishes she could understand and do better with her powers.
Her thoughts distract her and her replica goes behind her, drags her head backwards and slams it on her knees.
Jenny coughs out blood as her head bleeds, she staggers as she falls to knees and then to the ground. Her eyes a bloody haze, she sees her replica above her and she turns her head to the side to see Emma blocking punches from her replica.

"No more, Emma. This ends now", she sends and her eyes closes it.

Emma closes her eyes and takes control of her emotion, she dwells her mind on a peaceful place in her mind. When she opens her eyes, her eyes sparks a brilliant white colour.
She roars as she pushes her replica off her, the force she uses creates a strong transparent forcefield that pushes her replica violently to the opposite side.
She speeds towards her replica and rains blows on her.

Jenny eyes open displaying crimson red orbs. She's floating midway in the air, the air drops her down on the ground gently, one foot before the other.
"Let me show you how fools act", Jenny says as a slight smile covers her face.
She speeds towards her replica and spins her to her side, she grabs her arm and pulls it from it's joints. Her replica screams in pain and Jenny laughs.
She aims a punch at her now staggering replica's chest. The punch drives towards her replica with force, leaking fire and hits her square on the chest. Her replica's uniform catches fire as she staggers some more.
Jenny kicks her on the side of her head which makes her replica to fall. She flicks her right hand to the side then upwards and the concrete floor vibrates. The concrete floor breaks and rises up before implanting itself around Jenny's replica leaving only her head.

Emma uses a whip made of water to flog her replica as she wretches on the floor unable to scream again.
Emma smiles finding it funny.
Then she stops she gives her the opportunity to run and her replica seizes the opportunity, she runs far and Emma lets her go. When she is farther away, Emma flings her water whip towards her replica.
The water wraps itself snuggly around her replica's neck and begins to draw her towards Emma. Emma holds the handle gingerly as it's length reduces with every inch it covers. When the whip draws her replica to her feet, Emma whips the air and the water whip separates and disperses into the surrounding.
She looks at the everlasting sneer on her replica's lips and slaps her. She takes a cue from Jenny, waves her hand and creates the concrete shell for her replica.

Emma and Jenny's eyes turn back to it's normal brown colour as they approach their replicas.

"Who sent you?", the ever calm Emma asks.

"Your Othuaba", her replica grins.

"Tell us the fucking truth or you'll both be dead!", Jenny bellows.

"Speak!", Emma commands

"Lord Sini. And he is coming for you two", Jenny's replica replies.

"And he is going to make this world his and you'll die even if you are the stupid children of the gods", Emma's replica spits.

"Tell him... We're waiting", Emma admonishes.

They turn to leave. Jenny waves her fingers and the concrete walls went back to their place, filling up every crack and hole and it was as smooth as before. Their replicas fall clumsily to the ground.

They steal a quick glance backward and see their features melting away from their replicas. Their replicas turns into dark shadows and they wonder where they have seen that before.

"They are Variations", Emma and Jenny thinks.

But they do not turn back though, they keep walking back to their class, their injuries and bruises heal. They now know something big is coming and they have to protect the human existence or watch it die.

Fazemood:
This is going to be good. I am enjoying it already. Pls keep it up and don't give up. When is the next update?

Thank so, so much. Even if just you it makes me feel better and I feel like my work is appreciated.

Who did you think saw Jenny and Emma using their powers?

Ruby's POV

Normally I won't tell anyone about anything going on in my life, I'll just stuff it all into a storage closet in my heart and delve into my blog and work endlessly on it. But with them I feel like I can open up, I can tell them the reason my heart throbs, I feel like they'll listen to me, I feel they won't judge, I feel they won't lay out accusations, they'll just listen.

"It started five months ago", I whimper as I sit up to get a good look at their faces.
"Dad stopped coming home early sometimes he'll stay overnight at wherever he was then it aggravated, he'll not come home for two days, a week and the weeks started growing longer. And I know, mom knows, we all know the time he closes from his job as manager of Dynamis Wall Bar... eight o'clock and he'll arrive at home latest nine", I shed a few stray tears.

"I'll see mom with swollen, puffy eyes the next morning evidence of the tears, she spilled the night before. And whenever dad was around it was black, blood shot eyes and swollen body. It hurt so much, it hurt so freaking much, hearing their voices at odd hours in the night, hearing the loud cries of my mother, the roar of my father and the continuous banter of words. Crap! I hate myself, hiding under my mattress trying to find solace in the dream world but even the dream world won't accept a defeated soul like mine", my eyes stung with the weight of tears trying to pour down from it.

"Sometimes, I'll hear the wailing voice of my mother, screaming out my name for help but I'll just pull the pillows over my ears to obstruct the noise or I'll run into the bathroom with my laptop, a book, anything to create articles for my blog. One night, I couldn't take it any longer, I called the cops on them, they were both arrested and were bailed out after a week by an aunt. They didn't speak to me anymore, they just stopped looking at my direction, I could smell the hatred for their own daughter in the air they breathe but at least the unavoidable wailing stopped but now they just hate me, they hate me. I have no-one just me and my blog and my bedroom I have as my home and my stuffed animals I have as my parents. Just those.... ", my voice broke into uncontrollable tears.

I tried wiping them away but they kept pouring, it rained tears. I could also hear the light sobs from Diamond and I looked up see the compassionate face of her father staring at me. Then I looked at Wayne....No.... I looked for Wayne, he was nowhere to be found. Until I noticed the warm skin on mine, the slow and controlled breath of a person, the figure sitting beside me. He hugged me tightly and I felt comfortable in his hands, I felt safe and.... I felt loved. He raised my face so I could look into his eyes, those gorgeous grey eyes and I got lost in them. He used both his thumbs and cleaned those tears of mine and he bent and he kissed me.

His lips tasted like mangos and I loved it, I loved his cologne, I just love him. He finally broke the kiss and he kissed my forehead.

I trust this people, I feel like I lost a family to get a better one. It still hurts, I miss my parents but I'll just live in this moment I have here and hope it lasts.
I take a final glance at the loving and fatherly look of Mr Black then Diamond, I've found a sister in her and finally Wayne, words can't explain. I thought as I drifted into sleep and sleep didn't refuse me entry it opened up it's joyous gates.