(×× means 'Skip if this makes you uncomfortable'
Just the typical teenage male locker room stuffs🧍🏽‍♀️Cringe but unfortunately Realistic. I can't write my characters by removing what makes them, them you know?)

Arthur Dike

"Arthur. "

Just fucking great. You can't even let me walk in before you start bothering me.

Just great.

I recognized that voice and I didn't want to speak to the owner. I ignored him and walked further into the hostel.

I mean what weirdo waits out for his fellow guy?

"Where you dey since(Where have you been?)" Kenelum asked, he was closely behind me, I could hear his slow breathing and that was freaky.

I snubbed him and started climbing up the stairs.

"Dude no be you I dey ask(Dude, I'm talking to you)" My movements were halted immediately he grabbed my left hand. He didn't pull me back, he couldn't.

But he just kept holding my arm because he knew I'd definitely stop walking.

"Dude are you gay?" I smirked at him and watched how his face turn into a scowl. The transformation was priceless.

If you're not gay, then why the fuck you waiting on me? What 17 year old man waits for his fellow 17 year old man when he's not gay?

"Guy, fuck you. No. " He dropped my hand and I continued walking.

"You were with her. Rooney's girl? " I stopped walking again and turned to look at him.

"She's not his-"

"-Shh. I see una kiss(I saw you two kiss). So she's really a slut huh?" I glared at him.

Basically, he just admitted to waiting out for me too because how else did he see us when I'd failed at kissing her in front of her hostel?

Failed terribly. She kicked me.

"She's not a fucking slut and I kissed her okay? She resisted it and kicked me away. Maybe if you'd stayed long enough, you would have seen that she kicked me " I growled at him and made sure I made his back collide with the wall with the way my shoulders brushed against his.

"She is. She's just forming." He was now smirking, his features morphing into a devilish look.

I see shoving him was not enough.

My left hand grabbed his shoulder and pressed him deeper into the wall,

"Guy, watin dey work you(What's wrong with you?) I don tell you say she no be prostitute. Drop am (I've told you she's not a prostitute, drop it.)" I growled at him, he glared at me then gave a deep sigh before flicking my hand off his shoulder.

"What's so special about her? " He asked after seconds of silence.

"She's just a girl. " He added and I resumed my stair climbing.

I swear this dude was annoying me.

"She's just there. Forget this small packaging she's has now, before she was flat. Even back then you two idiots still liked her. " I turned my neck to glare at him.

Like really glare at him.

"She's never been flat. Just cause she no dey pad breast like Chiamaka them no mean she's flat (Just because she doesn't use padded bras like Chiamaka doesn't mean she's flat) -" He hissed.

"-How you con know that one. No be you talk say she no be ashawo(How'd you know that? Didn't you just say she's not a prostitute?) " I ignored him and I guess in his twisted mind I'd just encouraged him to go on.

"If she didn't show you her boobs for you to know they're not padded, how you con know(How'd you know?) "

Guy you're so fucking stupid!

"Guy shut the fuck up now!" I pushed my fist into the wall besides me.

Ouch.

I mean it's already weird enough that he waited downstairs for me like a crazy jealous girlfriend, now he's demeaning Muna? That's just fucking fucked up!

“See guy, just cause I dey ignore you no mean you suppose dey get balls to dey do anyhow, no vex me reach the day I go plan for you (just 'cause I've been ignoring you doesn't mean you'd have the balls to behave stupidly, don't get me made to the point I'd start a plan to beat you up), don't talk shit about her, and most especially not in her presence, no let watin you do her today repeat itself. You hear? (Don't repeat what you did to her today, are we clear?)”

Kenelum winced away from me and I tried to calm down my breaths.

He really should not be triggering me like this.

"Just be careful about her, that's all. Me I get your best interest at heart, whether you believe or not, I no care, (I have your best interest at heart, even if you believe me or not, I don't care). " He muttered and started walking quickly, I watched him until he was out of sight.

I made sure to hiss for as long as I could while watching him.

I wish our dorms weren't floors away from the main door.

When I was in 8th grade our dorm was on the 2nd floor, now it's way up!

This explains why none of us had any extra body fat.

The exercise was daily and more than five times a day.

I sighed gratefully when the dorm's door was now finally in front of me and pushed it open.

"Dike, why you dey wear wrapper(Why's a wrapper round your waist?)" Nonso asked me immediately I walked in. I glared at him and went straight to my locker.

I'm not wearing a wrapper, I just tied my house wear's shirt round my waist.

I'd given Munachi my shirt to wear when I noticed she was cold because if it weren't for me, she would've been inside her warm hostel by then and when she returned it, I felt too lazy to wear and button up so I did the most reasonable thing.

I wrapped it around my waist.

"Person dey talk to you(Someone's talking to you)" Dominique announced his presence loudly besides me.

He wasn't my locker mate so I had no idea why he was standing right next to me.

I mean I knew he was storing his iron in Rooney's locker space...

Locker space reserved for him—reserved for him because Emerald Academy never had new students in senior secondary school, I guess it had to do with the school fees, it was more affordable to join Emerald Academy as a new student in 8th or 9th grade because the sum total of first term was nothing compared to joining in Senior Secondary School, most especially 11th grade and why spend that much when there were more affordable schools you could put your child in?

Normally we paid millions as school fees, only, it was just the norm, 5M, 2M, 4.5M, but joining Emerald Academy in SS1-2 was going to rack you tens of millions, 10M, 13M, 14M but it was only for first term, second term you would be back to the basic 3.5M and co, but still. Why waste such money?

Joining in SS3 was just stupid and till date, no one had ever joined in SS3, because who in their right mind would throw up 16M just for a term?

Why would anyone do that?

Anyways, back to Earth; The reserved locker space was incase Rooney came back, and as much as I love Muna, I really wanted him back.

Ew, that just sounded so wrong in my head... Ew, I'm definitely not gay.

But I miss him.

"When did my house wear turn to a wrapper?" I asked dryly in response to Dominique's stupid probing or whatever he was doing.

When he didn't reply, I grabbed my towel and liquid soap in my left hand and walked away from Dominique.

The door suddenly squeaked while someone outside pushed it open.

Kenelum walked in, I stopped staring at the door.

××

Nonso then abruptly decided to be weird because he bent over slowly and pinched his left nipple in a very creepy manner.

Then he moaned out the most sexually depraved words ever directed at me in a tiny girlish voice.

We all turned to gawk at him, like really turned to look at him like he urgently needed mental attention.

Nonso was a weird chap, I respected him but that didn't make him any less weirder, and his unique weirdness made him have a reputation, everyone knew he once had a stack of porn, both genders and across all houses, everybody knew about Nonso's 16GB P. Memory Card.

A memory card that'd even landed on a teacher's desk because he'd seized it from a senior— luckily it was stolen back before he had a chance to see what was on it. That memory card had gone places because people started storing videos on it, there was a time a sex tape between seniors even landed on it, it was a big deal when it happened because it launched the girl on it into being Emerald's Kim Kardashian, some people even say she put it on there herself but I digress. I greatly digress.

I noticed Nonso has greatly mellowed down and I don't know if it had to do with Silvana, but hmm.

Some maturity never hurt anyone.

Dominique recovered faster than any of us did and also seemed to have understood whatever Nonso was doing because he joined him seconds later.

He moaned depraved words too, in a far more realistic girly voice than Nonso had, which was ironical because his voice was deeper than all of us combined.

A smile began to tug my lips upwards, desperately trying to escape and turn into a full on smirk, only for one reason;

I've already imagined Muna saying those exact words..  with her legs tightly wrapped round my waist, while I kept thr-

-I need to get away from this guys.

"You guys are all fucking foolish. Fucking bad influences. " I smirked at the both of them, then continued.

"Y'all forget she's going to be screaming like this instead, you know it's all about the tone and volume, so consider that when you're fake moaning. You should sound like this. " I cleared my throat, I'm sure if any girl walked into our dorm she'd think we were crazy and disgusting but this was just the bare minimum of what we could do.

The lowest of the bar. This wasn't even weird Sunday reset—a day we all went wild.

I looked at all of them—including Kenelum, one by one smirking at each of them before I began.

They say you're only as good as your friends but what about being as corrupt as your friends, because this friend group needed prayers with the things that just left my mouth.

I gave an impression of a girl crying while speaking like a mouse. I was honestly just giving my best 'Chiamaka' impression.

They all burst out into this synchronized laughter, even the one that walked into a weird scene.

Including Kenelum.

I unbuttoned my shirt with a mental note to toss it into the washing machine on my way to the bathroom.

And they all creepily decided to start hailing me!

Nonso first started by shouting "Munachi!"

And everyone else joined him except for Kenelum who was just chuckling at the background next to his locker.

I removed my trousers and tried to ignore their oddly unplanned chants and how pleasant it felt.

I actually really liked to be appreciated, a lot.

But would I ever let them know that? No, so I muttered; "You fools need God.” and wrapped my towel round my waist.

"After God we need women. Fear women. " Kenelum piped up.

"Especially when they got your life source in their mouth." Nonso said wiping out tears of laughter.

"One wrong move and you're dead. " Kenneth added.

"Teeth becomes weapons. " Segun said while laughing.

" Weapons that can kill. " Dominique added and ended our join-in convo.

Everyone was now laughing again.

"Y'all some weirdos. " I smirked at my friends, I was standing behind-in-front of the door and I wiggled my brows at them all before finally walking out the door.

I still had to toss my clothes into the machine before walking into a shower stall... I didn't need a cold water shower anymore, I needed a hot one. I needed to imagine Munachi's lips on me.

I need to imagine a scenario where she didn't push me away, one where she drew me in instead..

••

"You just... Left."

A/N
Whew! Now, let me tell you, writing this scene had me hiding in the trenches! 😖If you cringed, you're not alone because trust me, boys their age say worst in their hostels😖
TRUST ME! —🧍🏽‍♀️don't ask how I know tho.