Perfectly Imperfect

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~KUNMI~

"That was a very very nice speech."

I turned back at the surprise filled and awed voice. Skye and Elyon were walking towards us, I mean Aminah and I, their faces full of contagious smiles.

I had won.

I mean I actually won the oratory contest.

I still couldn't believe it.

One minute, my brain was blank, my body was trembling with apprehension, my palms sweaty, my throat clogged up and no matter how hard I tried to open get my mouth to form words, it just remained closed.

I thought it was over.

I had failed myself, the friends that were rooting for me, Crescent High.

I thought I had completely embarrassed myself.

But then, I remembered what Sophia said one day during one of our tutorials.

If you ever lose it in front of the crowd, you just have to remember that there's a reason why you're up there and they're not.

And well, if that doesn't work, you can just pretend you're in front of that goddamned mirror and do your thing.

I never thought that could work, not with too many people staring at me, not with too many people expecting me to deliver a mind blowing speech, worthy of Olympia.

But it actually did.

Maybe not exactly but I actually did think of why I was up there on the podium, I actually focused more why I was the one representing my school and not someone else.

And like an hour after that moment, I was actually proclaimed the winner. It was unbelievable and unexpected that for a minute or so, I thought I was hearing things but then, the loud cheers and applauses from the Crescent High Students were enough for me to confirm that I wasn't dreaming.

It was real.

Sophia was the first person I saw on that podium and she had hugged me, a bone crushing hug that made me sure that my bones must have actually crushed.

"You see, I told you that you were going to win this thing. Now, we can sit around the table and plan how we're going to murder your boyfriend."

That made me smile but also made me worried because Adam was no where to be found.

He wasn't here to congratulate me, he wasn't here to do anything.

Where was he?

"I'd have to leave now. I have to go and get ready for swimming."

She whispered before she left me to shouting Crescent High students, screaming ones, cheering ones. They were all energised, excited, happy and to think I made them that way.