THE STORY by Umoru Praise
PART ONE
“Geezzzz! I am so bored!”
“Tell me about it” Tony rolled his eyes in frustration
Elizabeth exhaled with so much exasperation as she squeezed her face in frustration” “Guyssss we freaking need a story, I can’t live like this”
Quinn moved towards the school desktop in their little conserved area given to the quad for their research means “where is Alex?”
“I don’t know” Tony replied”
“It’s been an hour!” Quinn exclaimed “he was supposed to get our lunch!”
Alex walked in coincidentally with a sandwich in his hands and a bag of edible delicacies
“Hey guys”
“Hey guys! Did he just say hey guys?” Elizabeth snapped “dude where have you been!”
“I’ve been freaking hungry for over an hour and you just walked right in with a sandwich in your mouth and you say ‘hey guys’
Quinn jumped off the desktop seat “just give me my food before I leash out my anger on” Quinn snatched the bag from him
“I’m so sorry I took so long” Alex said as he rushed towards the empty seat at the desktop “I got something”
“What?” Tony said with a mouth full of snacks
“Please tell me it’s a storyyyy!” Elizabeth groaned
“Not quite. The theatre art students are doing one of their special entertainment events this evening so I thought we could check it out. I mean it’s better than just sitting here either wailing or groaning doing nothing” Alex chuckled
“Boringgggg” Quinn exclaimed
“What difference does it make right now.” Tony said feeling damped “I’m in for it”
“Whatever it is, I am in” Elizabeth succumbed with a raised hand
“Seriously, you guys are ready to watch acrobatics instead of working on a real story?” Quinn asked rhetorically
Alex swung his chair towards her “well since you have something better than what we are going with. We would be delighted to hear it” Alex ended with a joker’s smile
“Don’t play sarcasm with me mister” Quinn bounced on the only sofa in the room. “Fine”
“What time is it?” Tony asked
“It starts by 5pm. So we got to be there by 4 or 4:30pm
*****
“If this doesn’t turn out moral or interesting, I’m gonna kill you” Quinn directed her statement towards Alex gazing at the venue arrangement
“It’s gonna be great, just loosen up would you”
“Let’s just get on with this guys, I’m tired of sitting around doing nothing” Elizabeth walked ahead to interview someone folks
“You guys shouldn’t forget we need something to gist the school about every week. Apart from this being our personal interest, we owe it to the college to always lay out our reports on the school activities and even give out gist just to keep the school posted and entertained.” Tony picked out his recorder along with his pen and jotting pad “so you actually got no choice or else we are gonna be replaced?” Tony left the two behind
“Ahhhhhhh!” Quinn exasperated
“You do know he’s right. We want to be journalist someday and we can’t be replaced at our first attempt before we even become one.” Alex wore his glasses” I gatto go. Make yourself useful”
Alex moved on
Quinn sighed as she took out her instruments from her bag to start off from somewhere
She gazed around the venue in search of who to interview concerning the show starting up in few minutes. And her eyes sighted a friend of hers
“Hey Vivian!” she beckoned
“Hey babes what’s up?”
“I’m good” Quinn beamed a smile “can I interview you, please”
“Really” Vivian’s eyes lit up “Do you need to ask, I’d love that. I have wished for an opportunity to be on your page for once.”
Quinn chuckled “really? Thankfully, here is your chance”
Quinn turned on her recorder
“So what do you think about the upcoming show?” she began
“Well I think it’s gonna be great. The theater Art students always live up to the challenge. Their drama, singing, dance especially. Trust me it’s always awesome. You can’t seem to grow tired of it”
“Really… So what’s your best activity about the whole show?”
“Hmmm, that’s a tough one because every activity is always awesome.” Vivian gave it a harder thought “Oh yeah! Every show they do, towards the ending, they always select two people randomly from the audience, a male and a female specifically to both do something together, either they dance, or sing or whatever. And when they are done, they give them both something, kind of a price”
“Wow, that’s cool” Quinn said with interest as she turned off the recorder
“Wait don’t you know. Don’t you come for their shows? “Vivian asked
“No I don’t, this is my first to be honest, I’m not much of an extrovert, and apart from the fact that I and my colleagues divided ourselves, two focus on the entertainment stories while the other two, search for other stories, and this is the group I fall into. But since we got nothing these days, we all decided to do this together...”
“ALRIGHT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ITS TIME TO GET THIS SHOW STARTED…!”
“It seems they are starting” Quinn said
“Yup, and your colleagues are coming over here. So I’ll go on. See you later sweetie”
“Alright dear, thanks” Quinn turned towards the others with a smile”
“Why is she smiling” Alex asked curiously
“she looks weird with that kind of smile” Eli responded”
“This might not be so bad after all” Quinn responded as they all turned to face the stage
“Trust me girl, you haven’t seen a thing yet”
*****
“Wooooooooooo!!!”
The cheers went loud, so did the applauds
The atmosphere was lit up with all the screams
“Wow! How can someone with bones do a break dance like that” Quinn exclaimed as she kept her screams up
“Babe trust me, he has no bones” the quad busted into a laugh
“Look who is getting all enthusiastic, I thought you weren’t interested before” Tony said to Quinn
“Whatever” Quinn said wittingly
“Alright ladies and gentlemen” the anchor continued “we are coming to the end of this lovely event, but I hope you all have been enjoying what we offered you, because now, it’s your turn. So please bring out the tiny bingo balls we distributed earlier on to you, we are going to randomly call out two numbers as usual, one from the ladies zone and one from the guy’s zone. Are we ready people!!!”
“Yeaaaaaa!!!”
You could hear the screams from every angle and even the heart beats and anticipation from everyone on who the random two would be
“….from the guy’s zone, we haveeeeee…..” the anchor close his eyes as he randomly picks out a ball “NUMBER 32!”
The screams went wild. Although you would know it wasn’t universal as one part screamed in disappointment and the other in joy
Number 32 was pushed to the stage by his friends as applauds accompanied him. A brown skinned, tall, casually dressed guy, stood on the stage. With the way he looked, many found it obvious that he could sing.
“…and from the ladies’ corner, we haveeeeee” the anchor closed his eyes again and randomly picked a ball “NUMBER 1!”
The cheers went louder than you could imagine, but no one went for the stage. The hesitation got people worried but then the cheers went loud again and even louder when a fair skinned lady with gorgeous hair in polo and jeans along with sneakers, took to the stage.
“Wooooo…this is nice, I must confess. Dehm!” the anchor exclaimed. Are you guys loving our pick up today?”
The crowd affirmed with so much elation, but the two on the stage both gave awkward body language.
“Do those two know each or something?” Elizabeth asked the trio
“I don’t know, but I feel there’s something off“ Alex responded
“Okay lovely people” the anchor said “you know how the drill goes. You both should think of something to do together in two minutes, then you both introduce yourselves and show us what you got”
The crowd gave soft cheers as they awaited them but they both hesitated with no sign of interest
The guy on the stage collected the microphone “I’m sorry but I’m not doing this”
The crowd chorused a shocking gasp
The lady on the stage gave a snicker. It was obvious something was up
“I can do it with someone else except her if you guys don’t mind” the guy said
The lady gasped in surprise “neither I’m I interested in doing this with you. Stop trying to sound all cool” she said with so much irritation
“I’m not interested in exchanging words with you, you don’t listen either ways”
“Excuse you! Neither can I waste my precious words with you. I rather waste it on a deaf and dumb than you mtcheww” the lady was obviously infuriated by the statement
They both stormed off the stage and left the event.
The atmosphere was clouded with stiff silence. Everyone was shocked and so where the quad
“Did you guys just see that” Quinn said in amazement. “Do you guys know what this is?”
The quad chorused all together
“WE’VE GOT A STORY!”
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