I really wish, there were some kind of advisor who could train me on the topic 'How to inspire a nervous person!"
-"Don't worry! You'll make it. You can do it. Even if you lose,just accept it. I bet you can make it. Okay?" I just noticed the furious glare of Rosa where I saw extreme nervousness just a moment ago. The next moment, I understood my disability of consoling someone.
-"Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I mean, you can do it. But in case,...", this time I stopped before Rosa jumps on me with her glare. But I guess, Rosa isn't even in a situation to get inspired or demoralised.
Whatever, I tried to inspire her the whole rest hour time. As she's a player, she got down earlier than others with her team. Finally, all I could do was to wish her luck.
Just when she got down, I remembered it was phone call date.The most pathetic thing about this school life. Like seriously! They neither let students keep any kind of electronic devices, nor let talk with their family as much as they want. All we get to do with those antique phone sets after standing in a long queue for the half time of 1 hour rest time is to talk to our family members for 5 minutes at best. Sometimes it feels like, the only motive behind the phone call event in our busy schedule is to say to our family,"DON'T WORRY, WE'RE ALIVE HERE."
The whistle got blown. I didn't see Ele in the dormitory, neither found Myraein anywhere on the 3rd floor. Whatever I got to get ready now and yeah, I couldn't take shower,talk to family over phone;nor could #inspire Rosa.
-"Senior Haze! Mrs. Jwerta sent the list of today's result compiler and here you go." the junior whose name I don't know or maybe forgot, gave that file to me while I just finished wearing my socks and yet to put on sneakers.
The hell! The file actually was a curse. No! Today is a curse for me. Huh! Why the hell I had to be the result compiler! Moreover today! Only if it were yesterday, I'd be more okay with this type of decision. But today, I need to be in the bleacher as a SUPPORTER. Anyways, what's the reason of yelling all on my own! Goddamnit! I was the last hope of Rosa to be there as a supporter as Ele is announcer as always and Rae is the cheerleader group member this time.
"Today I welcome you all to the 'Versheeyank Volleyball Ground' to witness the last day of 'Redpeers Volleyball Team Vs Versheeyank Volleyball Team' match 2020. We all witnessed two great matches between Redpeers and Scholastica previous day and 'Scholastica Vs Versheeyank' on the very first day of the tournament. I humbly request the supporters, cheerleader team and referee to take their respective seats. Now the match of 'Redpeers VolleyTeam Vs Versheeyank VolleyTeam' is going to start within a few minutes."
Though I knew beforehand that Ele wouldn't be there as supporter, still I feel super bad for Rosa now. She must have tried to find us! I was left with only one option and that was 'to heave a sigh' and move to the compilation booth.
I can clearly see Rosa being as much nervous as she could have been. Maybe because her team has already lost one match, or maybe because she lost her self-confidence.
The match started!
My hand was trembling as I added the 1st point of very 1st set to the Redpeers'. Rosa is the starter in her team! I wish she could keep the ball to herself until the scireboard stands 5-1 or 7-1.
God actually fulfilled my wish but not exactly what I wished. The scoreboard never showed points with a difference of point 2. It was either like 20 all or 23-24, though the Redpeers' team was on lead mostly. I ain't the player, but my heartbeat wasn't any different than that if the players, I guess?
The 1st set of the match finally ended with 27-25 points on the scoreboard. I was about to run toward the court when the announcement booth just congratulated Versheeyank Team, but unfortunately, as a compiler team member, I had to control myself. I don't know why but took a sudden look at the announcement booth and wow! Ele is looking at me hopefully as if she knew I'd check on her. We exchanged a playful giggle and our baseless expression stopper was the beginning whistle of the next set.
And this time, I could feel the nervousness with all my blood cells and bloods passing through the veins. But no! Redpeers snatched the victory. 3rd set of game needed to be held this time, just as the match of 1st day. Supporters were like-"So, when people say 'neck to neck' game, they mean this type! MARVELLOUS!", "Ayoo, I can't help admitting both of the teams are super strong.", " I don't know why but I feel like Redpeers just got lucky this time".
And "I don't know why but I feel like Redpeers just got lucky this time", got to be my favourite comment. Whatever, finally Redpeers' won the championship trophy and Scholasticians, the Runner-up trophy.
This time, I was sure Ele was staring at me as the final result was in my hand as she had to announce no matter how hard it is to agree with the result! But I couldn't accumulate enough 'something!' to look back at Ele.
" Congratulations, Redpeers'! The very last match of Volleyball Tournament 2020 has been won by Redpeers'", I looked back at Ele this time. But she was looking straight."At the same time, I want to express my heartful thanks to Versheeans for competing generously till the end of the tournament. Thanks to all."
As I followed Ele's eyes, I saw Rosabel leaving the ground immediately. She's crying, I know.
OMG! What's this? I calculated the 'player review paper' twice. But I can't believe my eyes. The highest scorer was Rosabel Grace! I ran crazily to the announcement booth and started to jump hugging Ele. She stared back at me as she was sitting on chair, totally concentrated on announcing. She just smiled back at me and got back to announcing.
"Now, it's time for the individual prizes. Wow! Guess who's the best scorer of the volleyball tournament 2020?" The audience kept shouting for different players, different names. And after a moment, the announcement started on again.
"The best player of Volleyball Tournament 2020 is none but" Ele paused again. It was when I understood the power of the verbal creativity of announcers. A moment ago the vast gathering was shouting crazily but stopped when the announcement started on and now again when it got paused,their screaming sound got doubled up. "Rosabel Grace from Versheeyank High School. Congratulations, Rosa!" She suddenly remembered that she's supposed to announce formally,as soon as she remembered,switched her microphone on and announced "bel" separately. It somehow sounded funny but to us, we just added a new page to our sweet memories.
At the end of the day, this type of little incidents get to occupy space in our memories. And yeah,at teenage maybe our hardworks pays off immediately as a shape of these sweet memories we call 'Happiness'.