Chapter 1: Oliver. S Lanchester

“Whoa, look at how big the school is” Oliver thought as he stepped into the gate of Diamond high All boys' academy. It was his dream school or perhaps the dream school of all the high schooler boys in the world but not every dick and Harry can afford to go there, you can only attend the school in two ways, It's either you are very rich to pay the tuition fee or you are very intelligent to get a scholarship which the school provides every year. Either ways, you have to be very….. To go there.

Oliver is a boy from a middle class family, so he had to depend on scholarship to be admitted to his dream high school. He had studied and hustled very hard before he sat for the scholarship exams. Words couldn’t describe how he felt when he saw the results and found out that he had passed, with the highest score at that.

As he entered the school compound, he kept gawking in amazement at how big and elegant the school is. His dreams finally came true, he couldn’t believe it, he was finally here. He was still mesmerized by the school elegance and plush when he bumped into someone.

“are you blind?, do you know who I am? how dare you loser bump into me?, are your eyes for decoration” the person Oliver bumped into growled at him,

“um, am sorry, I was too busy checking out the school just now that I got distracted and didn’t notice you were in front of me” Oliver begged timidly.

“tsk, can't blame you, that’s the problem with lowlifes” one of the guy’s lackeys snickered,

“should we teach him? boss” another one said,

“no, don’t infect your hand with this rodent, let's go” the guy Oliver bumped into said,

“yeah, let's leave the pest” another lackeys said and pushed Oliver hard with his shoulder making him tumble to the ground

“weakling” another one spat and the rest giggled as they left.

Now that wasn’t a good experience for Oliver, he knew this was bound to happen, he had heard about how the elite students liked to bully and make life miserable for the lower class students. He felt sad as a lone teardrop fell from his eye, when had admiring things became an offense?

“no. I must be strong, okay take a deep breath and, you are not a weakling, it would be fine” Oliver assured himself.

  “you don’t want to continue sitting on the floor, do you?” Oliver heard a smooth voice but all he could see was a beautiful hand stretched out to him so he raised his head to look at the person, holy moly, his mouth widened as he gawked at the red haired and green-eyed beauty in front of him.

“uh-hum” the guy cleared his throat making Oliver snap out of his trance blushing furiously with embarrassment as he took the guy's hand, the guys then raised him off the floor.

“t-thank you” Oliver stammered shyly,

“you are welcome, how can I help you please?”,

“no, no, its okay really”, “I see you are a fresher, come on, let me at least help you with your baggage and also show you to the principal’s office, you can’t say no to that” the guy offered,

“fine, you got me, thank you very much” Oliver said happily. He found help at last. The guy carried his baggage and took him to the principal’s office, Oliver thanked him again before going into the office and the guy just smiled at him.

“Good morning sir” Oliver greeted the principal, “good morning, how may I help you?” the principal asked scanning him from head to toe.

“I am the new scholarship student sir, I called in to report my attendance”,

“oh, so you are, Oliver. S Lanchester, the top 1 student from the scholarship entrance examination”,

“yes sir”,

“but you were supposed to be here last week”,

“well about that sir, I already called and explain to the school manager that I had an emergency situation”,

“okay. Its so good to see you, take this letter and go to the welfare manager, he’ll tell you your class and your dormitory. I wish you the best of your luck in your academic adventure at our school”,

“yes, thank you very much sir” Oliver said collecting the letter from the principal, he bowed his head in respect and walked out of the office thinking “best of luck? I’ll need it”.

“I bet the principal asked you to go to the dormitory management” a voice said out of nowhere and he jumped in fright screaming

“damn, you totally frightened me, don’t sneak up on me like that”.

“oh, I didn’t mean to scare you, but am not sorry, you reaction was priceless, you should see your face” the guy laughed and Oliver joined in too.

“lets go”, “okay” the guy led Oliver to an entirely different building and took him to the entrance of the welfare management who was in charge of assigning dormitories and classes to all new students and also all equipment that they would be needing for their academics and social life.

“you can go in, I won't be waiting for you this time because I have a class now, but I would be back soon” the guy said,

“okay” Oliver said dejectedly, the guy stretched his hand out for a handshake

“friends?” he asked with a broad smile,

“yea friends” Oliver said, shaking his hands.

“alright, gotta go, don’t miss me too much” the guy said and left, Oliver smiled sadly, he was totally getting used to his company, was he being selfish for not wanting him to leave, darn it, he would see him soon anyway, wait he forgot to ask for his name. he turned back to look for the guy, but he was long gone, dude literally flew to class since he was getting late.

“I’ll ask him when I see him later” he thought.

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