My eyes turned red and tears gathered in them, making her face blurry.

I turned as fast as i could so she would not see my tears which she probably saw anyways.

“okay,thank you”,I said.holding my tears as I walked out fastly.I opened the door and left,on getting outside,I knew I could not cry because if the girls sees my eyes red,they are going to be worried.

I kept walking straight and when I saw my friends waiting,I forced my sadness to the back of my mind,looked at myself in my mini mirror,checked properly if their was anything that will give me away and plastered a smile on my face.

“My baby”, Stephanie said,as I walked closer to them,we had our normal group hug.which made me felt better as always.These girls are Godsent,he knew what my future was going to be like and sent them to me in time,they always heal my broken heart somehow,I love them and I just pray our friendship lasts forever.

“I don't really feel like going to school today”,Mira mourned.

“We just resumed yesterday,Mira”,said Rose,with a silly smile.Mira is the most lazy of all of us,but she is still intelligent and she takes her studies serious,her dream is to become a nurse and I guess I will be living with her dream in the future, thanks to my parents.

“Oh,then I take back my sentence”,said Mira.

“Hahahahahaha”,we all laughed and started walking to the junction to get a bike.

“Are you okay?,Lala”, Stephanie asked tapping my hand,as we walked slowly behind,while Mira and Rose were trying to catch a bike.

Stephanie just has a way of knowing when someone is not alright,she is good at reading people's face and understand people's body language,I should have known she would figure it out even if I tried to hide it,but in order not to get her worried,I looked at her for a while and smiled.

“Yea,I am fine,but the bike man is not”,I said, pointing ahead.

Mira was pricing too low for a ride,just like always.

“Malam,you say how much?,five hundred naira,just two people?,na only two hundred naira I get oo”.she was saying in pigin.

“Hahahahahaha,Mira stop wasting time pricing,let's just get going”,said Rose,while trying to hold her laughter.

“Okay,Malam three hundred naira last”,said Mira.still trying to get a discount.

“Okay,climb”,the bike man finally agreed.

“see,I just saved us two hundred naira”,Mira said with her chest pushed out,like she made two hundred million instead.

"Hahahahahaha”,we all laughed.

“What about you?,you go gree for three hundred”,Mira said, referring to the second bike man,who in response nodded.

“Okay ladies,hop on”,Mira said.we got on the bikes and were driven to school