Senior waec timetable had been pasted.

There was no way she couldn't have known about it as that was the buzz of the entire senior block. It was time for silent nights.

Rightly called so as pin drop silence was the order of the day for every living soul in the senior block. Even the teachers treaded with caution.

Esther had tried to make herself scarce as not to pose a distraction to Daniel. And she was currently struggling with a particular assignment. The words just weren't making any sense to her.

She resolved to pacing and reading the question out under her breath.

'if the circumference is 45, what is the-', she muttered pacing the area before she got lost in her thoughts. Shaking her head she tried to focus once more on the question.

A quick glance at her wrist watch told her that her brain was due for rest. Three hours doing assignments was no joke. Her brain was complaining.
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In hindsight she was able to spend more time reading on her own without Daniel being present, and she was glad.

She had high hopes for this term's grades as her least score for all the tests cumulatively  was 27 out of 30. Wonders of how doing every assignment correctly and reading ahead could do.

She smiled shaking her head, those were the exact things her mum told her when she voiced her concerns about her grades. She didn't implement them till meeting Daniel.

And speaking of Daniel she turned and nearly walked into him.

'Good evening Snr Daniel', she greeted immediately. He raised a brow at her so she quickly corrected her mishap. They'd talked about it at length few weeks back.

'Good evening Daniel',

'How are you doing? Finished yet?', he glanced at the textbook in her hand.

'Umm no, but I will continue after a break. My brain is spinning', he chuckled before resting on the rail.

'Well I too needed a break from my notes. My eyes were beginning to water so I had to leave the books be', he crossed his arm over his chest and crossed his ankles.

He was the perfect picture of the hot guy next door. Esther had to gently shake herself before she embarrasses herself any further.

She placed her book in her bag and zipped it up.

As waec was going on other students had termly exams.

'Have you had lunch yet?', she asked remembering she packed something while coming to school. She only hoped she didn't forget it.

'No, I'll eat something later',

'Well that won't work. You're always feeding me now it's my turn. But I have to be sure it's in my other bag first. I'll be back', she dashed off to her classroom and said a silent thank you Jesus when she found what she was looking for.

Returning to were she left Daniel she found him staring at the floor. Her approaching footstep got his attention.

'Here, I forgot cutlery so we'll make do with our hands. It's sweeter that way anyway',

'You're just making that up',

'I'm not. Fries are usually sweater when eaten with hand than when you use cutlery. It ministers to the soul that way', she said with so much conviction that Daniel had to laugh.

'Yea right',

'You don't believe me, then I'll have to convince you. Give it a try', he did as she asked being careful of his shirt.

'Tastes the same to me',

'Na wa o, you're not doing it right. Do it like this', she proceeded to show him. He watched her thoroughly amused.

He was so glad that was free enough to be this goofy around him.

'Still tastes the same to me',

'You just don't know good thing when it's glaring in your face', she faked a sneer making him raise his hands up in surrender.

As soon as they were done, she brought tissues out of her bag and handed some to him.

'You came prepared', he commented.

'I always have tissue in my bag. One of those reasons why our bags are always bigger',

'Interesting',

'Yep, Shola has my hand sanitizer with her. It would have been a better substitute than tissue',

'We got to use something. Thank you',

'Always welcome', she packed up the flask and picked up her school bag. Both of them walked down the hallway.

They both walked to the library where Kasper was sprawled out over a table and their books were used as his pillow. Daniel glanced at his watch before shaking him awake.

'You've exceeded your thirty minutes break', Kasper grumbled, rubbed his face before revealing very red eyes.

The first time she saw it she nearly freaked out but Daniel had told her it was quite normal.

'Guy, I don tire like madt', he said while trying to wake himself up.

'Tell me about it, at least economics is first paper. Then biology. Let's get these bulky subjects off our backs',

'Sit down madam', Kasper removed the books on a chair near him.

'Thank you Snr Kasper',

'If you can call him his name call me mine abeg. Dt Snr for the waec don de give me headache'

Esther laughed as she sat down.

Calling Daniel his name was one thing, but addressing his friend by his name was another ball game altogether.

She didn't want any issues, the first one was over. No need to start another.

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