My Exes (Ex-1)

This story is probably a definition of “too young and infatuated” but I like to describe it as my first experience of feeling “love” towards a boy. I had just started Junior Secondary School 3 (JSS3) at my school. I had this awesome clique of friends. We sat at the back of the class so we could make noise, pass notes and make jest of teachers. Ei! We were really notorious for our noise making then. Our names would appear more than 5 times in the noisemakers list written by the class captain.

My class teacher decided the solution was to upend our strategic sitting position. He moved us to opposite ends of the class and paired us with other students. This was sad for us but the good thing was that we were paired with other students we were already friends with, except one of us (I’ll call her CY in this story). CY was moved to the farthest place in the class and paired with this new student we had never spoken to and knew nothing about, not even his name. During break, I went to visit her in her new seat so she would not feel lonely or left out. She introduced me to her seatmate, I’ll refer to him as “HIM” in this story. We became acquainted over the next weeks as he and CY got closer.

After some weeks, they became such good friends that it was talked about in school. Then they had a fight. CY became uncomfortable in her seat because of that and I decided to help settle the quarrel so she…