Chapter 17

Ike nervously swung her legs forward and backwards as she waited for Juola at the front of her class. She had called her mom and told her she would be home late and was staying at a friend's house for a project. And of course she didn't go into details, not that her mother asked. Ike was a very unusual kid. Maybe because she was made to understand life from a very young age. Ike didn't think she had felt nervous in her entire life. Not even when she was going to know her fate. Not when she was made to stand in front of twenty thousand guests to read a citation. Not even when she had to face one of the biggest teen stars in Africa. If Ike was ever nervous, she always calmed down with time but this time around; her nervousness seemed to be building at each passing second. Ike glanced at her wristwatch and pursed her lips seeing that it was already forth minutes since the closing bell was rang. What was the problem of the Maths teacher exactly? Ike brought out her phone from the pocket