Chapter 67: Chapter 67

Chapter 67 leaked

Kate was well seated on the last row at the back of the commercial bus. The day at school went busy and draining as usual and she couldn’t wait to question Tony for going home without her. He had promised not to see her ply the commercial bus; that it was too demeaning and embarrassing for the girl of a rich boy. Although she always had fun exploring commercial buses, she rarely held discussions with other students who most often than not misunderstood remarks with jocular intention.

She had experienced the most memorable and most intriguing moments with other students in a commercial bus; the other day two students whom she assumed to be lovers had a quiet quickie just a few inches from her spot; and at the other time a boy, a cute albino Mexican had written a love note and tossed to her. When she unfolded the note, she beheld the roughly scribbled message; Are you searching? Please marry me.

She had laughed uncontrollably as other passengers glared at her unable to fathom the reason for her excitement. She had written on the paper; I would have loved to marry you but I have two wonderful boys in my life, and tossed it back to the albino but this time, by some miraculous mistake the paper had hit an old man and dropped on his legs. Kate had gagged her mouth with her palms and watched as the oldie read the note and turned his brightened face to her. His wrinkled jaw had dropped, his toothless mouth opened in smiles. Kate burst in smiles knowing the note wasn’t meant for him. In a jiffy, the paper was tossed from the oldie back to her; I wouldn’t mind,” with a symbol of love attached to it

Thus was the oldie’s reply and Kate was thrown into an outburst of endless laughter. The kid that wrote Kate waited for her reply but to no avail. Kate was already catching fun with the oldie. The oldie had made her day and she recalled sharing it with Mrs. Fanny when she got home and smiling within herself any time the event recurred in her thought.

And today she was headed home on board a commercial bus she expected something hilarious, daunting and energetic to make her day. The row in front of her, at the edge near the window, two kids were sharing a cigar, and smiling each time they stared at her. She wondered what about her that could be so comic that two kids couldn’t help keeping their gaze off her. Now she could recognize the kids; The chubby pale, pig-face one was the dumbest in their English class; at one time when she was asked to state the past tense of ‘give’ the chubby had answered, ‘forgive,’ and left the whole class drowned in heavy laughter that almost cracked their spines. The other short-haired, goose-faced, ebony one was the smart ass kid that was rumored going out with an Indian professor old enough to be his grandpa.

With the two kids housing horrible records Kate wondered who amongst them was in the rightful position to make mockery of the other. They had driven miles away and the kids were suffused with stare and laughter that mocked at her. She fondled into her bag and brought out a sizeable mirror which she held firmly in front of her to dekko at her face- she needed to do it because there was a time a few kids were laughing and making jest of her on board a commercial bus; and she had wondered on end to know the reason for their ireful jest. Minutes later when she got home she had looked into the mirror to realize the reason behind their jest- a red kiss symbol was stamped on her brow- and this might have been successfully executed by a dubious classmate when she was long gone in deep, mesmerizing sleep; one of the offensive fun that went on at school.

Her red drawn face came up in the mirror and she beheld everything was rightly in their perfect condition. She seized the opportunity to add a touch of make-up to her face, if that could be the reason for their jestful smiles and laughter. She pouted her thick lips and rolled a pink gloss across them. She cleared her throat and stretched the hem and collar of her dress, and then she re-tied her hair to a pony tail. She was perfect and crisp now; she still saw no reason those meshed pair of pizza should be looking at her and smiling tauntingly. She had noticed they would look down on their laps and throw a suspicious stare at her. Kate was perturbed and anxious and restless; she couldn’t wait for the bus to announce her terminal so she could alight and depart from the sight of these namby- pamby students. A lot paced through her mind; they could either be making a funny sketch of her face or they could be planning a devil’s trap; either ways these kids were fueling a bunch of hell for her and she had never been so possessed with anxiety until now; the pig face’s mouth was agape while staring keenly at her laps. Kate believed both students were watching something from on their phones because they had worn their ear pods now.

“Sweet terminal!”

The voice announced from the speaker in the bus and Kate’s mind almost skipped; it wasn’t her terminal and she wished it was.

One man down!” she exclaimed in her head; one of her scoffers, the chubby one was alighting. Before she walked out of her sitting spot she gave Kate one lasting stare of derision, and a more powerful one before alighting from the bus.

The bus picked on a speeding pace once more. She had one more terminals before hers. And the pig-face kid was in the talent of shooting expression of scorn at Kate now

“What could this kid be creating of me?” Kate asked within himself and was urged to fondle into her backpack and brought out a bulky text book, one of a larger surface area, and masked her face, yet the chuckle from the kid dazed her thought; she almost stood to part her seat for another much farther, when the voice announced.

“Brightest terminal!”

It was the girl’s turn to alight but she stood up, drifted to her, snatched her phone, and in a jiffy her phone buzzed to indicate a message just came on it.

“You may have to see that,” she whispered and dropped the phone on her laps.

In less than few seconds Kate was watching an unclad video of herself alone, in bed, moaning sexually… another sex tape just got leaked.

At that moment Kate's body shook so ruggedly that the center couldn't hold.