Did I really....?

 “Twinkle look at this picture, he is Sahil and I like him. Actually all the girls in my school love him.” Mansi said as I was going through her Facebook timeline.

“He is so cute and smart… Ok shush for now, it’s my teacher calling.” I nudged her while picking up the call.

“Hello, Twinkle, we have this competition in NGF School, and there is this recitation competition in 2 days, and you have to recite one of Shakespeare’s soliloquies. So would you like to participate?”

“Yes sure ma’am, I would love to, but ma’am 2 days? How I’m I supposed to learn it?”

“Try it, and tell your friends too.” And she hung up.

I wasn’t quite sure about this competition as our seniors had been participating in this fest of NGFS in various competitions and yet they hadn’t won anything. Still I thought of trying it and just giving it a shot. I told my friends Soumya and Yashika about it and later our senior Tanu joined us too.

Finally the day was here. We had to go to NGFS for the competition. That day there were 2 more competitions, and they were “Street Play” in which our seniors had participated and they really had prepared well and the other one was “Story-writing Competition” in which my friends Ayushi and Bhavya had participated and believe me, they are the best writers of my school. In the way, we all friends had made plans that we all will flirt with those smart boys there, and for sure will get their numbers.

COMPETITION

We all were set, and then it started. The Street Play girls did their drama and they did very well but they didn’t win it. I literally lost my confidence when I got to know of this, I went all like “Damn, our seniors who are the best in drama didn’t win means I have got like no chance of winning. Holy shit, I never should’ve said yes”.

The problem was that the judges were actually biased and were only giving awards to their sister school which was totally unjustified. And now it was time for the “Recitation Competition”. I had lost my self-confidence already but now I had to give my best. At least I could try. So after some 9 fantastical participants it was my turn.

“…. Let me go with him, let me go with him.” 

And I ended with this. The judges had a huge smile on their faces, well maybe because I had greeted them nicely while going on the stage. Then it was Yashika’s turn, then Soumya and then lastly Tanu.

We all were eagerly waiting for the result when they said that they will be announced after the “Story-writing Competition” means now it was Ayushi and Bhavya’s turn to show their magic. They were provided with some rhyming words and related to them they had to write a story. They were given 2 minutes to think and write and 2 minutes to narrate their story. In those 2 minutes, the audience was entertained by the school band. There were some really cute boys, and yeah the host was good too and that guy actually liked my name and while calling me on the stage he said my name with a smile and when I finished he commented that I was really good.

OK so Ayushi had written really well and I thought that she may receive an award but after her there was this guy who had actually copied the story of some Justin Timberlake movie and judges mustn’t have seen it so they really liked his story and loved his creation. That was totally unfair. Well Bhavya too had said well but I guess she was a bit nervous.

BREAK

We all were having our refreshments while the judges were finalizing their results and guess what we got two extra boxes of refreshments as Yashika had a fast and some teacher too (who had accompanied us). We were chit-chatting and just roaming around when I saw a group and there I saw a face quite similar to Sahil (the guy Mansi had showed me a few days ago). I told my friend Soumya about him but I wasn’t quite sure. So I told Soumya to go and look for the name in the certificate in his hand. And guess what she literally went near him, peeked into his certificate and came over to me and said “Yeah it is Sahil”. I first didn’t believe her words and then after some time I was sure it was him. I started jumping and literally went crazy. At last I had something to tell Mansi.

RESULTS

We had not won anything yet in the whole fest and that day was the last day. The Street Play girls hadn’t won anything and literally I was totally sure that we too wouldn’t win anything. The “Story-writing competition” results were getting declared; the 3^rd prize had gone to some girl, 2^nd prize to that guy who had copied that movie’s story and 1^st prize to of course some girl from their sister school. (Huh! This was so not done, I literally felt bad for Ayushi she had really written well).

Now my competition result was being declared, (fingers crossed) 3^rd prize had gone to some dude. At this point I told my friends to move and just get back to school because we were definitely not going to secure any position. But they told me to wait.

“…So the 2^nd prize goes to Twinkle Jain”.

I couldn’t believe my ears, I had won it! I went over to the stage and my friends really started clapping really hard and when I was getting off the stage the host said to me “Congratulations Twinkle!”

It was something really awesome, I had secured the second position and actually I was the only one who had won anything in the whole fest. Later my day too went awesome!

So never give up. You never know what may come to you in the end. Expect the “Unexpected”.