Chapter thirty six
The D day
"Val, wake up!" Alexander said and she opened her eye.
"Good morning Xander," she mumbled.
"Get ready for school" he said sitting on her bed.
"You can go Brian is the one coming to pick me up" she said yarning.
"He is here already, mum said he should wait in the living room" Alexander said and the sleep in her eyes vanished immediately.
"Are you for real?" Val said, sitting up.
"Yeah he said you guys should rehearse so as to be fluent during the debate" Xander said.
She said a short prayer and stood up. Alexander left already. She entered the washroom,did her business and came out.
She took a pencil jeans trouser and a white shirt with a white sneakers. She combed her hair and packed it into a messy bun. She applied lipgloss and used a stone earring. She went for a silver chain and checked herself in the mirror.
"And lastly…" she said and sprayed herself with perfume. She came out afterwards to the sitting room.
"Good morning Mum" she said, kissing her forehead and she smiled.
"Morning sunshine" she greeted back.
"Good morning Val" Brian greeted.
She looked at him and they both exclaimed.
Courtney looked at them and was also surprised. They are wearing the same outfit.
"It's really cool,do well and win the debate kids" she said and they left for school.
"You are really cute today..no doubt you got it from your mum" Brian said while driving and she tried to hide her blush. Why is his word always affecting me? She thought about looking at his cute face.
They got to school and started rehearsing.
The program started exactly at 10 a.m.
As they were about entering, Bianca blocked their way. Valerie gave her a questioning look.
"Why don't we make a deal Bryan?" She said smiling.
"Not interested" he said and made to go but Val stopped him.
"What's this deal about?" She demanded.
"Well if you guys lose then I get to go on a date with him or a kiss from him" Bianca whispered and the thought of him kissing Bianca made him scrunch his face in disgust.
"Still not interested" he said and Bianca frowned.
"Please Bryan, I love this deal" Valerie said, giving him puppy eyes.
"You are crazy, how could you love this kind of deal?" Bryan whispered.
"Please.." Val pleaded and he sighed.
"Okay fine it's a deal then" he said and pulled Valerie in.
"Seriously Val?"
"Just trust me I know what I'm doing here" she said smiling.
Everyone in the big Auditorium kept on Murmuring.
"What's wrong?" Bryan demanded, confused.
"Our same outfit" she said and he mouthed an "oh".
They sat down in front where the participants were. Bianca came afterwards smiling and sat down in front with her partner.
"Good day ladies and gentlemen. We're here for the debate and trust me it will be fun, we decided to choose from the government student and economics department to encourage the commercial students. The government student is supporting the topic which says social media should be stopped while the commercial students will be opposing. You are given three minutes each for the first round" the MC said and they nodded.
"Smile and wink at her anytime she stares at you" Val whispered and Brian scrunched his face in disgust.
"What the f*** she will start thinking of something else"
"Just do as I say," she said.
"Yes ma'am" Bryan jokes.
Bianca walked majestically to the podium smiling. She can't wait to have those pink juicy lips in hers.
"Hi ladies and gentlemen, my name is Bianca Chris,a bonafide student from this university of learning. You know I'm talking about our school and I'm here to support the motion which says social media should be stopped"
All the while, Bianca was talking slowly and all her classmates were so worried they were gonna lose with how slow she was. Bianca smiled again after taking minutes.
"Social media should be stopped…" She couldn't complete her sentence when she was told her time was up.
She looked at them.
"Please let me just wrap this up. I've not said the main point," she pleaded.
"Next person please" the time keeper said.
"You can do this Val..don't forget to make good use of your time huh?" Brian said and she nodded.
She got to the stage and looked through the crowd. Charlotte, Donald and Alex were sitting in the second role. They gave her a thumbs up and she smiled and started.
"How would you feel when you just woke up one day and noticed social media is gone? the television channel stopped working.. Instagram ,tik-tok, Facebook ,WhatsApp and so on stop working also.. downcasted.. sad..just name it all. Life is going to be boring without social media. Good day Mr Chairman, panels of Judges, timekeeper, my co debaters and my fellow students. Standing before you is Valerie Blake, a first-year student from this great Citadel of learning. I'm opposing the motion that state social media should be stopped. Social media is a very important site in our Society. Without social media there will be loss of lives. Most times when an accident occurs a call is put across to the emergency and there is a save of lives. Without social media one has to walk a very long distance before you deliver a little message but in this new era, you can send messages to anywhere in the world. How would you know what's happening around you without social media? During the covid-19 it was through social media schooling continued. Things would have been in chaos if there was no social media. So in essence, I strongly believe social media should not be stopped... thank you" Valerie said and walked majestically to her seat.
"I never knew Val was this aggressive," Charlotte told Alexander, smiling.
"I know right she took after me" he boasted and Charlotte scoffed. Immediately Val finished speaking, everybody went wild with applause. The hall was filled to the Brim mainly because of Alexander's presence.
Bianca's partner came forward.
"The use of social media should be stopped. Why? Because it has caused a lot of havoc in the state and the whole world at large. Good day ladies and gentlemen, panels of Judges, timekeeper and my Co debaters.. standing before you is Jace Manuel from this great Citadel of learning. I'm here to support the motion that state social media should be stopped. Social media has caused a lot of damages in our country and the whole world.. people have been heart broken because of social media . When they go on blind Date... some even commit suicide when a lot of people abuse them.. take for instance on Twitter so what's the essence of this social media? Also people defraud others through it.
Bryan walked to the stage "Good Day ladies and gentlemen, panels of judges,time keeper and my fellow student. I'm here to oppose the motion thatStates "social media should be stopped" we should be grateful. there is an existence of social media. Many youths have been employed to different paying jobs through the use of social media. Also we learn a lot on social media like hair making, cooking and a lot more. Thank you" people clapped immediately Bryan finished, and it was Bianca's turn.
"Behave Bianca, I will never forgive you if we lose this round" Her partner said and she scoffed and walked majestically to the stage.
"Always smile anytime she looks in your direction, to get her distracted" Val said and he looked at her like she was crazy but still answered "okay". Bianca stared at Bryan and he winked.
Perfect bad boy. Valerie thought, smirking inwardly. Bianca quickly looked away to avoid getting lost in those sexy eyes. She promised to stare at him for the last time and this time Bryan smiled broadly.
It's the end of the debate and sadly Val's team lost.
"You have to respect the deal, either go on a date or Kiss' ' Bianca said just like the bitch she is, her face heated up. Val stared at her and she had a smirk on. People started murmuring ``if he's gonna honour the deal.
Val was regretting it because Bryan wasn't interested in the first place but she forced him.
Hec moved closer to Bianca drawing her chin up about to kiss her.
"...I said time up" The time keeper told Bianca who kept. on staring at Bryan smiling. He frowned and that was when her senses Returned back to her. She dragged herself lazily and sat down.
"F!ck me" she cussed feeling angry at herself.. she should have stared at him. "Congrats babe, I told you we can do this? Bryan said hugging valerie
"Congrats sis" Alex and Charlotte greeted. Jasmine, Donald and Josh did the same thing.
"Lets celebrate this new victory, how about going on a date?" He said and Jaz stared at him suspiciously.
"I know what you're up to Josh, it's either we go on a date now or weekend" she said. He raised his hands up in surrender. He really wants them to be alone.
T.B.C.