Chapter 107

We were assembled behind our various podiums now with our principal in the audience, looking so fucking nervous.

I wonder if she feared that we wouldn't be able to secure a win for the school without Uche. We had called Uche but he didn't pick up. Thrice, I had called three times but it just rang through. And then, just when the thing was about to start, he jogged in, taking off his jacket and exposing the school representative shirt he wore inside of it.

Our principal immediately got up and rushed to him the moment she saw him jogging in with his father walking behind him. She took his jacket and patted his back before he joined us on stage.

The girl who was brought in to replace us immediately exited the stage and the lights focused on us, all the students on the stage.

"We were worried you wouldn't come," I whispered to him and he turned to me. 

"My dad took me to see my aunt this morning, can you fucking believe him..." I heard a bit of anger i