Just A Dare [Editing]

Chapter 13

Playlist: stay by Rihanna ft Mikky eko.

Today was the day of my school's talent show. The past week had been so stressful for literally everyone except maybe the juniors who had little or nothing to do.

At least I didn't have to go to school early today. The talent show was programed to start by 10am and no my school doesn't do "African time". At least they tried in that area. I went downstairs in my pjs to take food from the kitchen. I was really hungry; scratch that, I felt like dying internally.

My mom decided to take a break from work today; okay not really for today. Just for like three hours or so. She just wants to see her children performing. With my sister in creativity club, Nonso in dance club and me in music club. I'm sure she was very excited. One good thing about my mom is the fact that she was very supportive of her kids. I can't remember the last time my dad came to one of my school's functions. He always claimed to be busy; choosing money over his kids.

No one was in the kitchen which wasn't surprising. I'm sure Amara is probably going over the plenty speeches she'll deliver today and I can't really say what Nonso was doing and then I'm here looking for what I'll put in my baby. Thankfully the cook made pancakes. I took a few pieces; okay I'm lying. I took more than a few pieces, then I took a glass cup from a drawer and poured myself a glass of orange juice.

After about two minutes, Amara came into the kitchen with a huge grin on her face.

"Why are you smiling like that?" I asked her furrowing my eyebrows.

"Enemy of progress! You don't want me to be happy abi? I've caught you." I just stared at her like she wasn't making sense. Of course she wasn't making sense.

She walked towards the kitchen counter to take her own share of the pancakes. She then took a glass and poured milk into it. She's not really a juice person. She claims it upsets her stomach early in the morning so we don't push it.

"How many presentations are you people giving today?" Amara asked before drinking from her glass containing milk.

"About eight. Normal group presentation then three duets by me and Jeremy, Zainab and one guy like that and then two junior school students then there are solos too."

"Wow. You guys are prepared this year. Meanwhile my stupid club is doing the usual. Nothing fun." I eyed her. Anytime she says her club isn't doing anything fun, that's when they win.

"I trust you nah. Onye asi (liar)." She laughed. She knew I was saying the truth.

"Hello chikas. How y'all doing?" We turned to face Nonso who was walking into the kitchen in his pajamas too with a wide grin on his face. Wait! Why does he always smile in the morning? Am I the only one that doesn't smile in the morning? Nah I don't think so.

"Hey babe." I kissed him as he sat beside me.

"Awwwn so cute." Amara cooed. I rolled my eyes, she just likes being dramatic.

"Finally tomorrow is mid term break. The moment we've all been waiting for." Nonso said standing up to get his own plate.

"Right? No more school for a week or Zainab or the rest." I sighed.

"So how does this talent show thing work?" Nonso asked sitting beside me. My eyes widened at the amount of pancakes he took.

"When we go by 9:30, we can't go by 10. It'll be stupid obviously. So when we get to school, we go to our different clubs to practice and do finishing touches. By 10, we settle down in the hall then they do all those opening prayer stuffs. It's usually fun tho. Then at the end of all the presentations, parents will vote for the club that they think should win. Then the first three clubs will be given awards. But the club that takes the first position will be given a free trip to any place of their choice within Lagos here." Amara said. She obviously did what I couldn't do. I can't imagine myself giving this long explanation. Yes you can say I'm lazy. I won't argue with you; besides I want to save my voice before it cracks.