Joe, Okey and Iyke àre friends childhood friends. They also attend the same school and live in the same boarding house. One day they decided to sneak out and attend a disco party in town. The school authority have banned students from going out from the school premises once it is 7:45pm. All students are therefore expected to be in their boarding houses on or before 7:45pm everyday.
News had gone round however that the nation's reigning pop sensation will be in town to perform in a popular night club. The three friends who adore this popstar does not know how to go out into town and watch him perform. The school will suspend them if they are caught.
They decided to hatch a plan; to sneak away and jump over through the fence and also climb over the fence and sneak into the boarding house before the wake up bell by 5am.
The D-day came and the 3 friends waited patiently for all to disperse from the dining room. Thereafter, they sneaked away and scaled the school fence and made their way to the disco party in town.
After the dance, they quickly left the venue feeling happy after seeing their pop idol perform live in the disco party. When they got to the school they successfully scaled the fence and started creeping towards the boarding house. But unknown to them a security man was watchful. He noticed some movement in the dark and flashed his touch light towards them: "hello boys, where are you people coming back from"? he bellowed. Joe and his friends started stammering, mumbling some meaningless explanations. The security man rounded them off and matched them to the security post for further explanation.
This short story is a five-minute freewrite inspired by the prompt: "Hello Boys". Join the @freewriters community to receive daily prompts, hosted by @mariannewest.
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