8. FLASHBACK 2 [A Competition}

6^th February 2016

“Alright guys. So here’s what we should do. I prepared our speeches days ago. Have you practised?” I asked Kate and Jos. They both nodded. “Good. Then it mustn’t be difficult. If we don’t stammer and deliver our speech without any faults, we can earn points. We need to win. Is that clear?”

Once again they both nodded. I while later, I nodded too.  I didn’t know why I wanted to win so badly, even when I knew that winning is not important as long as one participates. Maybe because I was the best debater in my school and I wanted to show it off, or maybe just that it was my first debate competition and I wanted to have a win record. 

I was completely sure I would win, a strong debater like me, of course no one could defeat. At least not in my school. But I just went to over board and thought that even the neighbouring  schools won’t be able to defeat me. I was such a fool.

Kate and Jos where we