Saad Mehmood
English Language Coursework
Production Piece One
Mokia 6230: The Faithful Sidekick.
Her gaze meets yours from across the dance floor. You coolly scan the place while sipping your drink as if it didn’t register. Aware of her stare you heartily laugh at a joke which barely deserved a smile. You look back to that spot; nowhere to be seen. High heeled footsteps are heard from behind you, they’re getting louder, they’ve stopped. Your stomach jolts, either that chicken vindaloo doesn’t agree with you, or she’s behind you.
You exchange cool pleasantries. Sara; works in media. She’s a looker, wait until the lads see her. You gave her your number, smiled and turned on your heels. The cat gets the cream.
Until she pops the question, the dreaded question. You try explaining it, that you’d remember it or write it on your hand; no use, she insists. Insists you put her number in your phone, if it can be called that. You reluctantly extract the machine from your pocket. You need two hands just to hold it, it was so big let alone attempt to break the code needed to unlock the damned thing. One look at the phone and she conveniently remembers she forgot to feed “Becks”, her goldfish and is gone. You quickly stash the phone in your back pocket. You’re left there. Middle of the club, alone and with vibrations from your back pocket so alarmingly loud, that bouncers come and warn they “do not allow such behaviour in this establishment.”