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Being popular can either be for good or for bad and in secondary school it is not easy to be popular if you are not a brilliant person.
But some people are popular for being bad people, I went to only a girl's school and there was a girl in my school back then, she was a very skillful player though she is not brilliant but there is no one in my school that doesn't know her.
Even all the teachers know her to be a very good player but in the book aspect, they don't like her. She was in SS2 when I was in JSS2 and I met her in that same class but later her parents withdraw her from school because she never passed her exams.
In my case, nobody knew me when I was in junior class but when I got to SS1 I started getting unwanted attention. I realized that I am becoming a big girl, you gerrit 馃槀 and I asked my elder sister that lives in Lagos to buy me body cream which she did. She even gave me a small Nokia phone.
The cream maintain my skin color which made me attractive to my male teachers and the phone made my classmate come closer to me because they don't have a phone and yet they want to put a call through to their boyfriends.
I became their phone call friends, the phone made me popular in school even though the phone must not be seen with me in school and some of my male teachers started disturbing me which I don't like but I love how beautiful I looked.
My sister also bought clothes for me and there is this particular cardigan among the cloth that she bought that I love so much, it has a different color and those colors were flashy ones.
One day I took the cardigan to school and I got into trouble because of it, the teacher that collected the cardigan from me sent me to the staff room to kneel there before he finish with his class.
I went to the staff room and did as instructed, I knelt there waiting for him.
All the attention of the teachers in the staff room was directed to me immediately I stepped into the staff room because I was too fair back then, but I am not a brilliant girl so nobody knows me.
Immediately I got into the staff room, my mathematics teacher who has been teaching me since I was in JSS2 asked me, "Are you in this school?" I replied, "Yes sir," another one asked, "Did you just get transferred here?" I replied again, "No sir," the last person asked, "So you mean I have been teaching you in this school, and yet I haven't seen you before?". I don't know what to say to that one.
Later the person that gave me punishment came and throw my matter to everyone and all of them started making jest of me. Later one female teacher noticed that they are trying to get close and take advantage of me so she begged for me and took me to my class but on our way, she told me never to bring anything colorful to school again if not that is how those male teachers will be disturbing me.
She warned me never to use my cream again because it will only me to bad people in school. I tried to do what she told me but still, everything never stopped, it is either I don't pass and was sent to the staff room or I came late and was sent to the staff room.
Something must take me to that staff room, there is no teacher in my school that doesn't know me for being a dull girl with a pretty face but the male ones only want to take the advantage of my beautiful body my physics teacher who is a female never allowed them because she became my guardian in the school.
There are times when I wonder why God gave me such a bright and flashy color that keeps making me get attracted to punishment.
