“What a kiss!” Zack marvelled, laughing out loud like a hyena.
“If I were Asante, I would have passed out from that passionate kiss!” Thanda coughed with laughter, tightening his leather belt in the middle of everyone.
“But Asante, it doesn’t feel right,” said Ted, “are we letting the thief go just like that after all that wild chase and struggle?”
Asante was stock still, digesting a kiss which had paralyzed the most of his brain. But he must address Ted, the nerd.
“Let her go, she didn’t know what she was doing,” Asante said without fear of criticism as he turned to the boys.
“Wow, somebody is deep in an ocean of love.” Zack yawned deliberately.
Thanda likewise yawned but reserved his stupid comment.
“Let’s go back to school, boys.” Asante concluded, walking past the boys, ‘his sidekicks’, and into the corridor.
The smallest teen, Ted ran after Asante, except the two dark boys stayed behind and talked goofily about the situation.
“Asante is an idiot,” Thanda whispered to Zack.
“That’s exactly right,” Zack whispered back, looking down the front of his wrinkled yellow shirt. “If I had tucked in my shirt, I would be seen from a far how horny I was.”
Thanda laughed and playfully tapped Zack on the shoulder with his fist. “I’ve never seen a girl so beautiful outside of movies,” he confessed, “and for a moment she looks like a hot actress who’s part of a hottest movie in a century.”
“Ye, I thought I was dreaming,” said Zack, and a marijuana joint came out of his back pocket. “Do you have a lighter?”
“Sure, badman must always be ready,” Thanda replied in glee with a snort, quickly lighting that joint.
Smoke gushed out.
They smoked in the unfinished building, sharing the joint, then they trotted back to school, red eyed and thirsty, and they found Asante in the principal’s office—explaining to Njuli that he and the boys had caught the thief and recovered his iPhone X and Rolex gold watch.
“I’m very grateful, my boy,” said Njuli with a delighted smile. But something was a miss. “Where’s the thief?” he asked.
“Unfortunately, she escaped from our hands, sir,” Asante responded without striking eye contact. “She’s very clever, as you said,” he added.
“Ah…I see.” Njuli sounded a little doubtful.
On the other hand, Zack and Thanda stood still on their feet and opted for silence as they couldn’t oppose Asante whom had made a truce with Annika for their own innocence sake.
Njuli lost patience. “So, where are my items?”
“In my pockets, sir.” Asante stood up and rummaged in his side pocket, looking for the items he had recovered from Annika. “What the hell?” he whispered to himself (his side pockets were as empty as the skull).
He looked shaken up under a second as all eyes were on him, patiently waiting to see the recovered items.
His hands crazily went all over his body, hunting for both his lost mind and the said recovered items. The office calmed, a laptop fan could be heard looping. Asante shook his head incredulously, a sign of betrayal by Annika. The boys sniggered at him, only Ted had sympathy for him.
“Sir, I’m sorry. I think the thief ran off with your items.” Asante admitted, looking down the floor in distress.