Hitting the remote control on his teeth intermittently, John was sipping his coffee waiting to see the fate of his son in the contest.
The Arsenal match is 6 pm, won't you tune in and watch the match as usual?
Mrs. John walked in from the kitchen where she was preparing dinner to taunt her husband.
John turned his face to look at her in a scornful manner.
Even if Arsenal is playing the Champions league final today, nothing will stop me from watching the final of this show that has been on for a month. Don't distract me please. Go and continue what you are doing in the kitchen.
Mrs. John loosened her wrapper to tie it properly as she burst into laughter while making her way back to the kitchen.
I don't have your time, woman.
John waved aside his wife's intentions and concentrated on the show which was almost starting.
Lets welcome the finalists to the last lap of this four week long show. As you all know that 20 people started this journey but today, going by your judgments, our viewers, we have three finalists. Let's congratulate Peter, Joy and Dickson for making it to this level and also welcome them on board.
The show is an academic journey where the intellectual capacity of individual contestants is put to test as they interact with one another or compete to actualize a task under camera. After every five days, three people are evicted from the house through viewers votes. On the fifth and final eviction, five contestants are evicted to remain three finalists.
The task before you today is locating your position using a GPS device. The first to be back to his departing point wins this year's edition of think and act annual show.
As soon as this was announced, John excitedly smiled with the confidence that the son of a Geography Professor should find it easy to carry out the task. He dropped the coffee cup and the remote with all his attention now on the TV screen.
Honey, food is ready!!! Mrs. John interrupted his attention.
Keep the food and let me concentrate on my son coasting to victory.
I am still surprised at the kind of support you are giving this boy now, Prof. This same boy that you vehemently opposed his participation when he was invited after the audition? The wife asked.
Responding, Prof. John drew an analogy;
If you have a child that chooses to go to war against your instruction, you can't wish for him to be consumed by the war. I didn't know much about the show then but now I know. Peter will bring home the prize.
At this stage, the anchor was shown in a position in a forest with a pedestrian path handing over the GPS device to each of the three. It was at this point that the fold was loosened from their faces. He thereafter followed their movements with phone calls.
Here goes the journey. A drone captured video showing how the trio were forging ahead with their movements. A small flag was hoisted at the starting point to make it glaring for any contestant that found his way back to the point.
The journey was zigzag for each of them. Joy was the first to go close to the flag as shown on the video. She was about 500 metres away when she suddenly felt weak and needed to rest and hydrate. She reached to the water container in the bag hung on her back to drink. Sitting under a tree weak and tired, she checked her watch and realised that she was two hours into the journey. They were informed earlier that an average of two hours is enough to be back to the starting point. When the anchor noticed this, he called her to know if she was worn out and needed assistance to which Joy replied no.
Whereas Joy was 500 metres away, Peter was shown to be about 800 metres away from the point.
What are you doing Peter, read the information on the GPS properly.
An overly panicky John was giving Peter instructions as if Peter could hear him from where he was navigating his way in the forest.
The search for the location continued and in another 45 minutes, Peter was shown to be 20 metres away from the flag. Joy moved round a position and as a result, she was about 500 metres away from the flag. Dickson broke down at a point and called for assistance. He was picked up by the medical team leaving the contest for Joy and Peter.
The clock is ticking. The maximum duration for the search is 3 hours and they are having 15 minutes more.
5 minutes to the end of the search, Peter was shown standing behind the flag with a lot of excitement.
We have won!!!
John shouted on top of his voice immediately.
When the three hours elapsed, Joy was still metres away from the flag. A team went to pick her up.
Hearing the voice of her husband, Mrs John walked in from her room where she was watching the show to her husband to celebrate with him.
I thank God Peter was able to prove people wrong. My boy is a winner.
Forget the past and let's celebrate the present and future. John, who knew he was the recipient of the taunts, replied to his wife as they both hugged each other.
John checked the result of the Arsenal match and realised that Arsenal won.
My boy is bringing 70,000 dollars home while my club won the all important match towards the league title race. What a good day for me. John declared.