Chapter 45:
Entertain Us
"Welcome to challenge two", Mr Miller announced in front of the 30 students. All the students walked closer to him as he said that. "Can all of you stand in line with your teams?" he ordered. The students did as they were told and organised themselves in their groups. "The livestream will start in a minute; I will explain the rules once it starts. Let me remind you this will be live; whatever you do or say cannot be taken back", Mr Miller warned them.
"You hear that, Malakai?" Luna teased, looking back at him.
"Don't worry, I won't say anything", Malakai replied, looking away and looking away and shrugging his shoulders. He was definitely going to do something stupid.
"Look, it's starting", William alerted the others, causing everyone to look at the TV. The livestream started showing Mr Miller; it then panned to the students in their teams.
"Malakai's with Akari", Delilah noticed they were on a team from the jump.
"He's with that girl I talked to at the minigames as well", Lucas also noticed Luna's long hair.
"His team looks interesting; he's got that guy that's with Dillon all the time", David added, looking at Malakai's team. He recognised Jason but didn't know his name.
"Do you guys recognise anyone else?" Benjamin asked, looking at the other teams. Everyone tried to look for people, but,
"It looks like he got lucky; I don't notice anyone", David replied, trying to see if he saw anyone he knew.
"He's the only noticeable one there", Lucas said, sipping a drink.
The camera then focused more on the teams, getting closer to the students and showing their faces.
"Why are they treating this like the Olympics?" William giggled at how the camera moved across each team, showing each student. The camera moved to team 4 and went down the line, eventually coming close to Malakai. Malakai looked directly at the camera and,
"Why does he also put his middle finger up when he sees a camera?" Tanisha questioned, as she'd seen Malakai do it a few times. Whenever someone recorded Malakai, his natural instinct was to put his middle finger up.
"I don't know, he just always does it", Ray replied, smiling, seeing his friend on camera. When the camera reached Malakai, he looked directly into the lens, smiled, and raised his middle finger.
"That's Mally for you. Can't change him", Benjamin smiled. Everyone was happy to see Malakai on the TV.
The camera focused back on Mr Miller as he started his speech.
"Welcome to challenge two!" He announced for the second time. "This year, we are changing, evolving, and increasing our standards. You recently partook in the minigames which were introduced this year, and now you will participate in a challenge introduced for your year group".
"Oooooohhh", Malakai quietly ad-libbed, only so his group could hear. The only reaction he got was a smirk from Nina, but he didn't know that as she was behind him.
"As you can see, there are six cars behind me. This challenge will involve driving, so one person on your team must be the driver. Let me explain the challenge", Mr Miller said. "This challenge is to open the safe and retrieve whatever is inside at the final location. Each team will have a car. In the car, there will be a map that shows three different locations. They are marked A, B, and C. Here's the twist: you need to go to locations B and C and get whatever is there to open the safe at the end; you don't have to go to location A. However, going to location A will massively help with the challenge at location B. So it is up to you whether you decide to skip it." Mr Miller took a second to catch his breath.
"That sounds fun", Ray said to the group.
"I know, right? It's much better than the first challenge," William replied, putting a sweet in his mouth. The camera panned to the students again.
Lucas started laughing, "What's Mally doing?" He shifted everyone's attention to find Malakai on the screen.
"Is he braiding her hair?" Delilah tried to make out what he was doing. The camera eventually got closer to Malakai's team as it went down to each team again.
"He is", Benjamin laughed.
"That kid", David said, shaking his head.
"Why does it look good?" Tanisha asked as the camera caught an angle that showed the back of Luna's hair.
"Maybe he has a weird hobby no one knows about", Ray replied, amused at what he was seeing.
"I might ask him to braid my hair", Delilah said, touching her hair.
"I don't think your hair is long enough", Benjamin commented, causing everyone to laugh except Maria, who watched silently. She was in a daze, watching the screen.
Malakai was braiding Luna's hair, but not entirely. As Luna's hair was long and had a lot of volume, Malakai got a small part and started messing around with it while listening to the challenge explanation. Surprisingly, Luna hadn't noticed.
"As I said before, one person will be the driver. What I mean by this is they cannot get out of the car at any location; they have to stay in the car. They are only allowed out at the final location; otherwise, they cannot exit the vehicle", Mr Miller explained.
"What are the challenges at the different locations?" a student shouted.
"You have to find out yourself. All I'm telling you is the bare minimum," Mr Miller replied. This was fair enough, but it added to the students' curiosity.
"The points", Mr Miller started. "First place will get 1000 points".
"A THOUSAND!" William exclaimed, nearly jumping out of his seat.
"This is serious", Benjamin said, leaning forward.
Did the students hear right? A thousand points? This wasn't a small challenge. This is nothing like the minigames. This was what the students wanted. More points.
"Second place gets 800 points, third place gets 600 points, fourth place gets 400, fifth place gets 200 and last place gets 0 points".
"CMON MALAKAI!" Willaim shouted.
"Imagine all of us on a team with this challenge", Ray said.
"That wouldn't work; there's six of us", David replied.
"We can kick Will out", Benjamin grinned.
"Shut up, man", William smirked, used to the mean comments. Everyone laughed at the joke, so it wasn't serious. Everyone was pumped up as it was about to start.
"TEN! NINE! EIGHT!" Mr Miller started counting down.
"Is everyone ready?" Malakai asked his team.
"Yeah!" "Yup!" "Let's go" "Make us win, Malakai",
"ONE!"
BBEEEEEPPPPP!!!!!
Malakai did his usual smile,
"Hang on tight".
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