Teacher's Day

It was the eve of Teacher's day. Jolene felt very excited as she was going to perform a dance on stage during assembly. Her backpack was bulging with presents for her teachers. Jolene half-staggered to school to school, the heavy load fully weighted on her shoulders.
When Jolene reached the school, she immediately changed into her costume. She waited impatiently behind the curtains as the principal gave a long speech. At last, it was her turn to perform. She was so nervous that goosebumps popped out everywhere on her body! She had to breathe in deeply to compose herself.
As Jolene emerged from behind the curtains, a dazzling ligwt flashed into her face for a moment. Blinded by the bright light, she accidentally stumbled and tripped over a wire and crashed against her dance partner, Freda. There was a sickening thud as they collided against each other. Both girls fell backwards. A panic-stricken Jolene flailed her arms wildly in attempt to save from crashing onto the floor, but to no avail.
Luckily, the girls had only bumped their bottems on the ground and were not severely injured. Only when the audience started laughing uncontrollably, did the girls realise that they looked hilarious. Freda's face turned as red as a beetroot and so did Jolene's. A stagehand popped out from behind the curtains and helped the flushing and embarrassed girls to their feet.
As Jolene and Freda limped back behind the curtains, she felt paticularly downcast as she could hear the audience voicing discontent in the performance and murmering sarcastic remarks about her. She could also unconciously feel Freda throwing cold looks at her.
Despite Jolene's slip-up in her performance, the rest of the performances were a great sucess. By the end of the day, everyone was good-natured again. This event would stay in Jolene's mind forever.