Chapter 6: I Love This People

Joanna's POV

"Damn, am loving that smile." Harmony winked at her as she walked past us.

"I could swear that smile was for me." Tony scoffed.

"Nah, it wasn't." Harmony smirked.

"It was." Tony grinned, with a mischievous smile on his face. 

I could see what he was doing, trying to rile Harmony up. I actually need to stop this before fists start flying, and trust me, it will. If you've been around this two for a while you would know am not joking. 

"Guys," I called, no answer. 

"Hey Guys", I called again but none gave me a listening ear as they were both busy arguing over a girl who actually didn't know they existed.

"Shut up children!" I yelled, giving them both a smack upside the head to get their attention, and from the way they were both looking at me, I guess I succeeded.

"What the---

"Children?" They both yelled at the same time, giving me scary looks.

*Shit am in trouble* I thought as I could see smoke rising from their ears. I did not think this through.

"How can you call this children?" Tony screeched, gesturing to himself, again.

*Why the hell does he always do that* I thought rolling me eyes

"Babe, does this look like a child's body to you?Harmony groaned. "Did you take a good look at this face, did you really take a good look at this face before saying such".

I sighed, already tired of their blabbering, "Alright, alright am sorry men, can we please go to class now?".

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I have this class alone, no Harmony or crazy Tony, but at least I could rest my brain a bit, their arguments were actually beginning to get on my nerves, shaking my head I walked to class which I was already late for by the way because of those two morons.

As I walked into the class, I saw that it was almost full except for one empty seat beside the new girl and in case you haven't figured am very nervous around new people because I don't know how they would react to my presence, remember when I sneezed in Tony's face on my first day, yeah that's a definition of how nervous I can be. 

"Well, here goes nothing," I muttered, summoning courage and headed to the empty seat. 

"Excuse me," I said to the new girl with a small smile. "Anyone here?".

"Nah, no one, you can have a seat." She smiled

I feel warmed to her already. "Thanks." I smiled again, and sat down.

The teacher immediately gave us work to do, which I love by the way, note the sarcasm, who even brought the idea of maths anyway, I just wish I could meet him or her and give that fool a piece of my mind.

I was done with mine in less than 5 minutes, cue the hair flip, I glanced by my side to see the new girl already done with hers, *wow she is smart too* I thought, giving her a shocked look. 

She turned and caught me staring at her and gave me a weird smile. *Great, now she'll think am crazy* I thought, internally face-palming, now you see what I mean when I say am not good at meeting new people.

She cleared her throat and gave me a look, "What's your name cutie?".

Surprised she wanted to know my name, I choked on my own saliva which had me coughing and at the same time scrambling for my bag to get the water bottle I carry around with me for this sort of emergencies.

"Are, are you okay?" She asked and at the same time giving everyone a look to continue with what they are doing, even the teacher actually cleared her throat and continued with her lesson not sparing us any other look.

Still busy with drinking, I just nodded, when I felt I've had enough, I screwed back the cap of the water bottle and gave her a smile as I answered

"Joanna, Joanna Alex".

"Nice name." She nodded. "Pretty unusual though, I don't think I've met someone with that name before, by the way am Tenda, Tenda Black"

"Same with yours."I smiled.  "I didn't even know such a name exists".

"Yeah, I get that a lot," She laughed, "My mom wanted a unique name and she said I was very little when I was born, I mean more little than normal and I looked so fragile, she actually wanted to name me Fragile though but Dad didn't agree so he suggested another relative word like Tender and Mom agreed to it so instead of it being Tender, I was named Tenda which actually sounds the same but just different last letters".

"Wow, that's an amazing story." I grinned, and in that moment the bell rang for lunch, I handed in my work and glanced at Tenda.

"See u around," I waved, heading out of class.

"Nope, you ain't ditching me like that, am stuck with you for as long as we both are in this school," She said, blocking me with a serious expression.

"Okay then, let's go to the cafeteria and meet my crazy friends. " I nodded, showing her the way.

We stepped into the noisy room called the cafeteria which actually turned quiet upon our arrival with all eyes focused on us.

"Is it always like this?" Tenda whispered in my ear sounding amused. 

"Not really, its always like this on your first day though, plus they are just shocked to see you with me," I replied with a shrug as we ignored everyone and headed straight to get our food, after which we went to my usual table to see Harmony already eating or should I say swallowing his food because his mouth isn't moving as he does so, just opens it, throw food in, swallow it and the cycle continues.

He looked up, when he heard our footsteps and broke into a smile which was kinda disgusting because I could see the scrunched up food in his mouth which shows he was actually chewing the food.

"Hey ladies," he mumbled, food crumbs falling off his mouth.

"Hey hun," I gagged, taking my seat and smirking at him as he gave me a glare.

"Hy." Tenda waved, setting her food on the table. 

"Whats your name baby." Harmony winked which made me gag, again.

"The name's Tenda, and no I don't wanna hook up with you," She replied with a sweet smile. 

"Cough_Burn_Cough." I smirked as he gave me another glare. 

When I thought things were moving well as they three of us were laughing and enjoying our food the horses appeared and yes I called them that.

"Hey cuties, Harmony," Tony greeted, giving us all smile as he took a seat which Ifeanyi and Blake followed suite which gathered attention to our table.

"Why." I groaned gazing upwards as Tony gave me a wink.

"So what are you folkz doing,"  Ifeanyi questioned,  stealing a biscuit crumb from my plate which earned him a glare from me.

"You know, what they call eating?" I replied still giving him a glare.

"Feisty partner." Ifeanyi scoffed smirking at me.

"She is indeed feisty." Tony nodded.

"Stop it children," Blake scoffed giving them both a warning look. He is the quiet and thoughtful one in their midst and the one am actually cool with.

Tenda chuckled beside me, currently being entertained by the drama playing before her which made me remember she was actually here because for a moment I actually forgot she was by my side. 

"Guys this is Tenda," I introduced still munching on my food and giving Ifeanyi a glare as he made another attempt to take something from my plate.

"Hya people." She blushed, as Tony gave her a wink.

*Is that-- does she? well that's cute* I thought giving them both a strange look as I felt a tiny twinge of jealousy.

"Well, well, if it isn't Joanna" a voice squeaked behind me which had me sighing. I could recognize that voice even from a nine mile radius because it had the ability to destroy your ear drums and it belonged to none other than the chief robot Stephanie Greene. Her name suites her personality though because she turns a dark shade of green whenever she's angry and by the way Greene is my nickname for her.

"Hello there Green." I gave a fake smile and waved. 

"Do not call me that!" She screeched, *see? she hates it* I just kept smiling which am sure angered her more.

"Tony boo what are you Blake and Ifeanyi doing here sitting with this lowlifes," She questioned, trying to sound sweet which failed by the way because she sounded like a raccoon giving birth.

"Well let's see." Tony sighed. "One you ain't my girlfriend so don't call me that".

"Two, you ain't my mum which means I don't care what you say," Ifeanyi continued, with a smirk. 

"And three you are turning green, Green," I added with a smile.

"Burn!" Harmony shouted giving me a high-five as the whole cafeteria burst out laughing.

"Lastly, no one loves u baby." Tenda smirked giving Tony a high-five.

"Bye green." I waved at her and grinned as she screamed and stormed off with her fellow robots on her heels.

*Mehn.. I love this people* I thought shaking my head

Okay guys, a brief authors note before the main one comes after chapter 10 or 11.

My name is Onyeanuna Ogechi Suzan

I'm currently 19 years of age and an undergraduate at the Federal Polythecnic Nekede Owerri here In Imo State, Nigeria.

So this book has a kind of Nigerian setting so don't be confused.

I know some of you are wondering what these signs < > and this * * stand for. 

Well I use this < > when people outside of the main characters are speaking or when there are background voices.

I use this * * to indicate a thought. 

I hope you do understand.

Thanks for choosing my book. It is well appreciated.