Chapter 1: No Gree for Anybody
The results of the first mock exam just drop, and I still dey hold number one like say I nail am for notice board.
Na wah! As dem paste the results for school notice board, everywhere just dey buzz. You go think say we dey watch Champions League final—the way people dey point and dey whisper. My name dey shine for that number one spot, like say na gold pen dem use write am. Even the Abuja sun no reach the pride wey dey my chest this afternoon. I still dey reason how I go break the news for house—Mummy go call all her friends, Daddy go just smile and nod like say na everyday thing. Inside me, I dey shine, but my face cool—make e no be like say I dey show myself.
But as I dey shine, I dey feel one kind shadow for my back—like wahala just dey wait.
As I scroll my phone, online bullet comments dey fly...
[Why the supporting female dey stress herself? The female lead get that one-click swap system. When time reach, she go just swap her JAMB score, and the girl no go get choice.]
[Our Meibao rise from bottom, o! She go surely beat that supporting female, that small Abuja big girl.]
[Meibao only fit swap three times, but she don plan her moves well.]
[First swap: collect the JAMB score, become number one. Second swap: snatch supporting female’s patent idea, chop life, become independent woman.]
[Third swap: collect male lead’s love—hold big man for back-up.]
[By then, the male lead go dey support female lead, and she go tag the supporting female as bully, finish am for ground.]
[Na so, see as our female lead dey sharp. My sisters, body dey sweet me!]
If person no careful, these online bullet comments fit make you forget your own sense. The kind confidence wey dey for their typing dey amuse me. I fit almost hear their voices—like those aunties wey dey gossip for hair salon, sharp mouth, sharp eye.
Ah.
So na only three swaps dey?
This swap system na one kind magic power—fit change your result with another person, but only three times. E no be ordinary wahala.
Which kind nonsense system be that?
Abeg, even NEPA dey give more chances than this system. Who dey ration destiny like pure water?