Volunteering is F.U.N.!!

Chapter 1:Placards

"40 placards!!! are you kidding me?!",I said,completely freaked out.

"No Ciena we're so not kidding",said Eleanor and Jessica in unison.

Eleanor was an eleven grader and Jessica was my friend.

"But we don't have enough cardboards to do them!!",I said,trying to remind them.

"Hmm,I know,just try to fit them somehow okay?",said Jess,giving me a there's-no-other-way look.

"okay",I said letting out a sigh.

It was a busy morning of the 28th of April.Yes.The day before World Dance Day.Unfortunately,we volunteers were informed in the morning that we had to make forty placards! Four of each school,and our school Management department had provided us with only 5 sheets of cardboard!! It was impossible to do it! We were in a great stress that morning.How on Earth were we supposed to make forty placards out of 5 cardboards!?!

"I'll seriously kill Mr.Grover for not supplying us with extra cardboards.",I said in a low voice.

I seriously could kill him at that point of time.No kidding.

"okay Ciena,I'll help you to kill him too,but for now,lets get to work",said Grace.

Yeah...lets get to work.

Time to move your lazy ass Ciena.No running away.

We made five placards out of each cardboard.So,the number of cardboards landed upto twenty-five.Yes!Twenty Five!How are we going to make forty placards? We definitely needed 3 more sheets of cardboard.

"Lets go and tell El and Amy about it Ciena.",suggested Grace.

"Yeah lets go...but",I said,leaving the sentence incomplete.

"But?",said Grace,raising an eyebrow.

"We have to climb up all the way to the 6th floor Grace!!",I said acting exhausted.

"Oh c'mon Ciena,stop being so lazy!",said Grace.

"You go Grace,Pwwleease?",I said,making an adorable puppy dog face.

"Nope.Either we'll go together or we won't go at all and that's final",She said crossing her arms and sat on the floor.

"Ahh! Fine Grace!You win!",I said giving up.

"Yayay! I win!!",said Grace clapping her hands and smiling widely.

We stood up from our respective seating posture and started on with our "Amazingly Tiring" Journey to the 6th floor(we were on the 1st floor).

"Oh My God Grace,I can't do this anymore",I said while climbing the stairs leading up to the 6th floor(we were currently at the 4th floor).

"Stop being an actress Ciena,we're almost there",she said.

"yeah right...'almost'",I mumbled.

And finally!!After climbing God knows how many stairs,we reached the 6th floor!! Hurray!

"Congratulations to us!",I said.

We went to the Computer Lab,where El and Jess were printing out the name of the school's for the placards.

"Hey guys wassup?",asked El,facing the printer.(She could sense us coming.I guess?)

"El,we're short of 15 placards",I said.

"what?",she asked with her eyes wide.

"You heard me",I said.

"Oh God we're so dead",said Amy,her eyes fixed on me.

We were seriously in deep shit.

What were we gonna do?

Oh God where are you?

I thought you helped people who helped themselves!

And then... a little later... He surely did.

We were busy wondering,what we were going to do,how to make things right etc,when someone's voice brought us back to reality.

"What's wrong girls?",asked Mrs.Miller.

Oh Great timing Mrs.Miller...

"Mrs.Miller!We ran short of cardboards and we've been able to make only twenty five placards!!",said Grace,with a lot of confusion and tension in her voice.

"So do you need more cardboard sheets?",asked Mrs.Miller.

"Yes!!",we all said in unison.

"okay,I'll tell Mr.Grover to get more cardboards,is that okay?",asked Mrs.Miller.

"Are you kidding? ofcourse it is okay!Oh thank you Mrs.Miller,you're the best!",I said with excitement(well ofcourse I was oiling her).

"You're welcome",said Mrs.Miller and she left.

Oh God! Thank you for helping! I promise to go to the church every sunday from now !

Phew...problem solved.We gave each other a high-5 after Mrs.Miller left and most importantly,breathed in deeply(we had almost forgotten how to breathe in the last few hours!).

The cardboards were given to us at 2:30 p.m. that is  One hour before our school shuts down.

Yeah,we had to cut fifteen more placard sheets,paste fifteen more school tags and stick fifteen more cardboard supports for the placards.....Great.

However,we,especially " I" managed to move my lazy ass and did a hell lot of work in that one hour.We finished making everything on time!

What an achievement!!cheers to us! Great work Ciena! I am proud of you girlie!!Oh and ofcourse,you guys!

While making the placards in that one hour,we were also going through the names of the schools that were going to be performing as well as coming.Suddenly,as I was going through the school name tags,my eyes caught the sight of the name of a school,which tightened my muscles for a bit.

"Umm,Amy?",I said.

"yeah?",asked Amy.

"The Jacobean High School is gonna be coming??!",I questioned her.

"Yep babes,The Jacobean High is gonna be coming tomorrow!",exclaimed Amy and gave me a quick wink.

Holy moly,The Jacobean High is going to be coming.The Jacobean High,whose boys are pretty famous among the girls in our City.All the very best Ciena.You never know what tomorrow holds for you.

Tomorrow's gonna be an exciting day...

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Hey Guys!! Sorry for the late update!I was kinda involved in some school work.:)

So,how did you find my first chapter?! :D I am also sorry for such a short chapter! This is what had actually happened in reality!

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Till the next chapter....Goodbye!!:D

lots of love-koyena <3