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1. met in practice.

Erela's POV:

While giving the rehearsal speech, I felt exhausted because my partner was supposedly not doing good even according to the teachers so I had to give the speech all from the start and then he's again gonna say.
I heard the teachers saying

"Erela's doing great but Asher isn't giving his best."

"What happened to his voice, he's voice is coming out hoarse."

"I feel like we are overworking Erela because of Asher. We should give her a break and work on Asher for a moment.

"Yeah you are right."

"Erela, have a break but Asher, dear you have to stay for a bit."

Asher: "That's okay miss." he says feeling a bit low.

"Asher, come on man, you can do this." I say trying to cheer him up.

I don't like talking to him or any guy honestly because whenever I do, It ends up with a rumor and I don't like it, I don't want to hear things about me from people who don't even know me personally.

That's one of the things that makes me popular and stand out.
But I'm not proud of it anyway.

Going away, I sit on the stairs beside the stage reading my script again. I feel bored bro, reading this the whole day. I'm not even studing these days so I go to my class and grab my chemistry book to read the upcoming chapter which Sir Julian was supposed to start but didn't because of this boring ceremony.
Not being rude or ungrateful, I love Christmas as a strong believer and follower of God and I love giving speeches but sometimes it exhausts me, but only the speech past though, I still love Christmas and I'm very excited to celebrate it with my loved ones.

This rehearsal is going on because Christmas is coming and it's going to be a big event in our school.
Our school is a posh popular school in London we celebrate everything grandly but Christmas function is different it's on another level of grand, rich and everything beautiful. It's definitely going to be on the news, It does every year.

After fifteen minutes or so, I get called again by some miss, she's calling me for my part I think but when I reach there, I didn't see a happy Asher, I saw him looking down while there was another guy.
Zion.
I think his name is Zion, he's super popular in school, every guy wants to be him and every girl wants to be with him, not me ofcourse.
I mean he is handsome and cute. He's everything a girl could ever want, athletic, smart, academically intelligent, popular, has abs and biceps and what not but I don't like him in that way.

I heard some rumors about me and him this year. Yeah my friend, Erika told me. It's because me and him our good speakers, he was the speaker when he was in grade 10 as well as being the head boy. That's impressive.
And now I'm the speaker but not the head girl. I don't like that role. I asked the principal not to give me that as that would be very stressful and would effect my studies and thank God, this principal took that into consideration. So um they think that we would look good together.
I don't know man, I never talked to him in my life. I came into this school recently and he did so as well but maybe he was here before I joined but I heard he's still new.
Doesn't seem like one because he's known by everyone, liked by all.

I saw him looking very confident, extra confident in my opinion. He's hair all slicked back, wearing a blazer ofcourse it's cold, hands at the back, smirking. I don't know why but he's smirking, probably looking at my confused face.

I heard the principal say
"Erela, thank you for giving your best and Asher, thank you too dear but I feel like this occasion is going to be all on the news and for that, we are going to give them the best event to watch, better than ever happened here and for that I'm going to hand over Asher's role to Mr Zion."

"Really sorry my love but you can give any other performance a try, you are good at everything, Asher but for this I think Erela and Zion are the best."

Asher replies to her "Very sorry sister for the inconvenience, I would like to take my leave." while he leaves the room and she says again.

"Zion, dear I'm really sorry for this. You must be very busy but this is very important you know that right."

Zion: "it's okay aunt Maria. I understand the situation and the importance of this ceremony, I would gladly take on this role again."

Principal: "Thank you honey for being this sweet. Your script I wait-" she says while looking at me.
"Miss Erela, can you handover the script to Mr Zion, please?"

"Ofcourse Sister" I reply.
Principal: "okay so Zion be ready for the speaker role again. I am so excited and happy to hear you speak as a speaker of this function after such a long time."
"You both may leave now."

We leave. He does first.
Im going to talk to Asher. It would definitely be embarassing for him.
I leave.
Going towards Asher's class. He's probably in his class, I mean where else could he be.

As I entered the classroom. There was him. I saw him keeping he's head down on the bench. I walked up to him and I tapped on his shoulder, he lifted his head towards my direction, looking straight into my eyes. That's when I realised he's eyes were teary.

I said being confused "Asher, what happened just now?"

He replied "what's there to be confused, Erela? She gave my role to Zion."

I said "I understand that he's good in giving speeches but you are good too and he is a senior, how could he give a speech in this ceremony?"

Asher: "Everything can happen in just a moment, Little girl. Be careful."

He left after saying that.

I asked him "what do you mean, I'm not done, where are you going?"

He said "Going to do some skit or something."

"See ya, little girl."

What's up with him now?
What's up with the nicknames bro?
"Be careful" for what?