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๐๐ฃ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐๐ 3 — ๐ง๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐ง ๐ข๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐
๐ด ๐ฃ๐๐ฅ๐ง 2
On the other side of the classroom, Shade has been sitting alone for the past ten minutes.
Still. Quiet. Staring at nothing.
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Then she stands.
It's a small movement — just a person getting up from a chair — but every head in the room turns like she fired a gun. Eyes follow her as she crosses the classroom and stops beside Amaka's desk.
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Amaka looks up.
Her eyes are red at the edges, the kind of red that comes from crying quietly so no one hears you. She looks exhausted in a way that goes deeper than just today.
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Shade swallows. Opens her mouth. Closes it.
Then asks the question that has been sitting in the room with all of them — unspoken, electric, impossible to ignore.
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"Amaka…"
A breath.
"Do you think it's me?"
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The classroom goes absolutely silent.
Not the ticking-clock silence from before — something sharper. Something with edges.
Every student freezes. Even Bisi's pen stops.
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Because it's one thing to suspect someone quietly.
It's another thing entirely to say it out loud.
And Shade just did.
๐ก๐ผ๐ ๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ.
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The classroom holds its breath.
Even the fan seems to slow down.
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Amaka doesn't answer immediately. She looks at Shade — really looks at her — and something moves behind her eyes. Pain. Confusion. A friendship being weighed.
"I don't know what to think anymore."
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Shade feels it like a hand around her chest. She opens her mouth. Closes it.
Amaka keeps going, voice dropping into something raw and unsteady.
"I only know that my bag was with Bisi."
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A breath. Then—
"And when I came back…"
She pauses. Swallows.
"…everything changed."
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The words don't land. They โ๐๐ก.
Shade looks away first. "You're still angry because of what I said about your skirt that day, abi?"
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"No." Amaka's answer comes fast. Hard. Like a door slamming.
"I'm angry because the only person I trusted…" Her eyes find Shade's and don't let go. "…might have set me up."
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A friendship everyone thought was solid is cracking open in real time.
And the whole class is watching.
๐ก๐ผ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐.
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[๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ข๐๐… ๐ "๐๐๐โ๐ก โ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐ข๐." ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ ]
