SP Chapter

It was Biology and the teacher was absent. The students in class used the opportunity to chitchat with each other.

“Excuse me, guys!” Selina abruptly hollered from the front corner of the classroom as she entered in. “I have an announcement to make!”

Ignorance and more noise.

“It’s about the prom, people!” Selina yelled louder. Everybody dropped what they were doing and rushed back to their seats. Their eyes focused on Selina.

“Good. Okay. As you guys might know, we’re having-”

“A prom in two days time. Yeah, we know, we know. Get on with it…” Jiro continued her sentence boringly.

Selina glared at Jiro in anger. Jiro, on the other hand slowly sank in his seat in fear.

All the students in the class chuckled. Jiro, Jiro. Always getting on Selina’s nerves despite the fact that they’re together.

“Okay. I, Selina, as the president of the school club would like to seek help from you guys to prepare for the prom, which include decorating the school hall and performances. Anyone interested?” Selina asked, a formality tone in her voice.

Silence.

“Oh, come on people! I seriously need your helps on making it a success! A little help wouldn’t kill anybody, right? Besides, don’t you guys wanna have the best prom ever since it’s senior year?”

“Yeah, but not if we’re the ones who’ll be doing the work…” One of the students replied.

“But-”

“I’ll do it.” Someone from the back of the class said abruptly. Everyone turned behind in amazement. They saw Arron, grinning at them sheepishly.

“Yeah, me too.” Jiro added once he heard Arron.

“Me three!” … Calvin.

“Me four!” … And Wu Chun. Somehow, all four of them had the same thoughts.

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“Ok. Arron, you carry and place that board over there. Jiro, move that pot somewhere less visible. Calvin, arrange that decorations nicely. Wu Chun, stop eating and get going to the shops to get all these things,” Selina ordered everyone about, giving Wu Chun a list.

“Mmph.... mmmhh.. MPH!!” Wu Chun was using an unknown language.

“Don’t understand what you’re trying to say. And, I don’t intend to understand, so shoo.. Go and buy the stuffs or I’ll set Ella on you,” she said, waving at Wu Chun who immediately looked a little frightened at the thought of Ella on him.

He nodded and left, taking many more bites on whatever he was eating which looked nothing like food.

“Done, Selina. What next?” Jiro asked.

“Help Calvin with the decorations. He’ll never make it as a designer,” Selina shook her head after looking at what Calvin had done. He had mixed the fake flowers behind the leaves instead of the opposite. The ribbons supposed to be surrounding the flowers were nowhere to seen.

“Ok,” Jiro replied cheerily as he went over to help Calvin.

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“Dude, you girlfriend’s such a bossy woman,” Calvin complained to Jiro.

“Yeah, yeah..”

“Unlike Angela. She’s like an angel. Almost like her name. Hahh...” Calvin practically melted while thinking of Angela, while Jiro was not so sure of what he just said as he saw both Angela and Selina talking and they both gave evil grins. Oh no, he thought, what were they planning?

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Hebe walked to Arron and gave him a peck on the cheek. He turned around and smiled. “One is not enough, you know,” he said as he tilted his head a little to ask for another on his other cheek. Hebe giggled and kissed him again.

“Need my help?” she asked.

“Of course not. How can I be a guy if I can’t even handle this kind of work? It should be do YOU need MY help?”

“I don’t even have anything to do. But I will if you’d let me help you.”

“No no no. Go chat with Selina if you’re too bored. Or you can order me about,” Arron said, with a twinkle in his eye.

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“I’m back!” Wu Chun shouted at the top of his voice.

“Yeah yeah,” Calvin replied.

“Who cares,” Jiro added.

“Hey!” Chun said.

“Anyone who goes against Chunnie is pitting himself against me,” Ella appeared out of nowhere.

“I didn’t say anything,” Calvin immediately said.

“Nor did I,” added Jiro.

Chun smirked but frowned when he heard Jiro saying “Wimp”. “Hey!”

“Joking,” Jiro said.

“You’d better be.”

“Hey, look at the two love birds there,” Selina stood beside Ella, gesturing at Arron and Hebe.

Arron was shifting the board as Selina instructed earlier. Hebe was trying to make him let her help. She pouted, making Arron put the board on the ground and giving her a peck on the lips. Hebe blushed and looked away. Arron smiled. He started poking her sides. Hebe started wriggling and laughing.

“They’re so cute,” Selina said, envious.

“We can be too..” Jiro whined while pouting.

“Not when you’re like that,” Selina replied, laughing.

The others with the exception of Arron and Hebe started laughing.

“Guess we better get to work, or we won’t have enough time to complete everything,” Ella said.

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“Where are they?”

Selina, Hebe, Ella and Angela were at the prom, wearing beautiful dresses. They looked perfect that night. Selina wore a light pink satin dress with frills at the end. She wore pinkish make-up and had on pink high heels. Her hair was let down and curled a little. Hebe was wearing a light blue satin dress without any frills. Just plain and simple. She had light make-up on and did not carry any handbag with her.

Ella wore a black dress which the others had forced her to. Her make-up was just compact powder, a little blusher and lip gloss. As for Angela, she wore a simply but sophisticated white dress that made her look like an angel. Her make-up was light too and she walked nervously with everyone to find the boys.

“Where are they?” Selina asked, feeling annoyed that the boys were missing in action.

“Maybe they got held up by something. Let’s wait for a little while longer,” petite Angela spoke up for them.

“Why must you be so kind-hearted?” Ella said, shaking her head.

“That’s just the way she is. Kind and cute,” Hebe chipped in, smiling. “But anyway, the boys said they were going to come on time. It’s just another ten minutes before the prom startes. So let’s wait anyway.”

The four girls sat down somewhere far from the food because Ella’s eyes gleamed the moment they appeared in front of her. They waited and waited. But no Arron or Jiro or Calvin or Chun appeared. Not even a look-alike. They got impatient except Angela. She kept finding excuses for them.

“Maybe they’re busy.”

“I’m sure they’re on their way.”

“They will come. I know they will.”

Hebe sighed. “Just one more minute to the starting of the prom.”

Suddenly, the lights went out. Everyone panicked and some girls started screaming. It was pitch black. No one could see anything. The four girls held hands as not to lose each other. A few seconds later, the light on stage flicked on. Everyone turned heads to look. And who were there but the four boys whom Selina, Hebe, Ella and Angela had been waiting for. “Everybody,” they said. “We have an announcement to make.”

Whispers could be heard.

“Selina,” Jiro said.

“Hebe,” Arron said.

“Ella,” Chun said.

“Angela,” Calvin said.

They took deep breaths and, “Will you marry us?”

The girls gasped and stood still in their places. What did they just say? Were they joking? Were they serious? They looked at their faces. The boys smiled a little, looking afraid if they rejected them. The girls nodded at each other and ran up on stage and hugged the boys.

“We DO!”

-brenda, co-written with ratana-