The Story of the Secret Admirer || Inkwell prompt #66

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Funké was just six when she started to notice the little carvings on her face. It actually looked like she'd been in a cat fight, an awful one and the cat hadn't been kind to be at all.

"Mummy Shadé (that's what everyone called her mother), why do I have this awful looking cat marks on my face", she asked rather confused.

Her mother looked straight into her beautiful eyes and raised one hand to caress her cheeks, " ifé mi (my love), they're not cat marks, they're actually an imprint from the gods".

"gods??, Are the gods cats?", she asked again puzzled.

"Hehe, my lovely daughter, no they're not , when you were little, you almost died, the dark one almost took you away from us and the only way to save you was to give you to the gods and they saved you. Those marks on your face are only for very special people, you and your grandma both have the exact same mark, so there's nothing to worry about".

Funké couldn't understand everything her mother had said that night but she did actually understand one thing, she was special and the warmth from her mother's hug actually made her feel that way.

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Moving from Osun to Lagos meant Funké would have to have to change schools and that also meant changing friends. At the age of twelve she'd easily been the most beautiful girl you could think of. She started to have round breasts form and her hips were already swaying gracefully and her tribal marks were graciously standing out.

On her first day at TONY IMMACULATE SCHOOLS it had actually been a lot more fun then she'd expected. The school was way bigger than her former school and they actually used the British curriculum which actually meant that most of the kids were speaking like ducks, I mean those oyibo people she usually saw on the television.

Her classmates had received her with joy, and the boys especially didn't waste time to get to know her. Some few days later, during break one junior boy actually walked up to her and dropped her a note, when she asked who it was from he smiled and then ran away. She opened the note to see :

You have the most beautiful smile in the world.... signed Secret Admirer.

Funké smiled, she'd never received anything like this before, she wondered who it was from.

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" Can you people stop making noise?, You all know how much our teacher hate noise making". Funké said, rather unimpressed with the way her classmates were behaving.

"Who are you to tell us what to do cat girl??", Rachel jested and the whole class went into total chaos with laughter.

"I wonder what your parents were thinking when they decided to give birth to something this ugly", she said again.

Rachel had been at cut throats with Funké ever since everyone started to tag her as the finest girl in the class. Rachel had always had that title since early elementary school and she couldn't let a girl with tribal marks dethrone her.

The jesting went on for a while and funké not being able to withstand it any longer ran out of the class crying.

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"Here, you can use this to wipe off your teary face"

Funké heard a tiny voice say to her as she looked up to find a chubby girl starring back at her.

"Sorry, do I know you?", Funké asked as she collected the white handkerchief and wiped off her face.

"Well, I get that a lot, you know me but you just don't know it's me and we're actually in the same class, I just ...I'm always at the back", the strange girl said with a really sad expression on her face.

"Oh my, I'm really sorry, it's just I havn't noticed...er ..you",

"No need to worry, I'm not offended. Can I make a confession??".

"Well, yes you can", funké now eager, looked at the girl's round face.

"I ...er..I'm the one sending you the secret notes. I'm your secret admirer.

You should have seen the shock on Funké's face after those last words from the fat girl. But then, the fat girl's name was Zainab and as I read this story out to you we're still best friends.

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