Situations(MaNan FF)

Part 17

"Nyonika!! What the hell just happened here. That was supposed to be our performance. How could you let him take over it!?"

Manik exclaimed in anger looking at the woman who was unfortunately the one responsible for bringing him on earth.

Nyonika just looked at them with a bored expression while also keeping on Harshad through her peripheral vision who was quite predictably opening his mouth with a smirk to make some
snarky comment and make things worse.

Turning her head away from her son, she looked at Harshad with a professional smile.

"Mr. Saxena, you can leave. You must be getting late for your classes."

The words were polite, but her tone was clear, it wasn't a suggestion or permission but a clear command.

Harshad looked like he wanted to argue but knew that he couldn't, so he just closed his mouth, exhaled in annoyance and left the hall. But he couldn't stop himself sending a smirk across to Navya who looked down uncomfortably till he passed her.

Once Nyonika was sure that he was gone, her eyes went back to the 5 students standing in front of her clearly unhappy.

Mukti and Cabir had thier arms crossed in front, Dhruv held Alya's hand in a comforting manner and the monster himself had both hands fisted to his sides.

She gave them all a look of pity as she addressed them.

" Fab5, what was supposed to happen was your performance at 10 AM on stage after you finished the rehearsal scheduled at 8. And forget the morning rehearsal, you guys couldn't even make it to the actual performance in time. We were still lenient and waited for almost 10 minutes, but when you all didn't show up and the chief guest was getting late for his next appointment, we had no option but to improvise. Harshad volunteered, so we gave him a chance to take over your performance and earn your credits. Maybe this will teach you guys a lesson. Now, excuse me."

Shaking her head at the end, she stepped aside, intending to leave, but stopped hearing Mukti's counter argument.

" Haven't you ever heard of fashionably late, Ma'am. The lesson you're talking about, why don't you hope that you don't get one instead. We had an agreement, that we would perform and get those credits, you can't rob us of those because we were a little late. After all it's better to wait for talent, than use something worthless on time."

Navya hit her forehead at her friend's stupidity and opened the door to try and sort things out by making some excuse but just as she opened the door, Nyonika had already turned around, ridicule written all over her face. She scoffed at the words shaking her head again.

" Miss Vardhan, it's exactly 11:15 now. Over an hour from your reporting time for your performance. I don't know about you, but to SPACE, that is definitely not a "little late". And need I remind you guys, we didn't need you to perform, you needed to perform to earn your credits which you haven't, meaning you will not clear your 6th semester and since we're shifting to yearly terms now, you will have to repeat your entire 3rd year, because we aren't going to make any exceptions. Also, just refreshing your memory, you can only do your album with A-Star Records if you pass your 3rd year. And as we can see, that's not happening. Let's see how long you can fest on your overconfidence now. "
Nyonika simply cut to the chase and left after looking at all of them with the same condescending look they gave Harshad earlier.

Navya too looked at the 5 disappointed, and left without saying a word.

Mukti looked at her leaving and called her name only to be ignored.
She stomped her foot in frustration while they all reacted similarly.