In his dressing room at the television studio,he sat quietly trying to relax. He had told the producer of the show that he wanted to be alone. He was nervous. He had been a TV presenter for several years now, so he was surprised at how nervous he felt. He didn’t know what he was going to say when the show stared. When he thought about the whole hour the show was going to last, his mind was suddenly empty. Now, he was very frightened. AND the show was going to start in a few minutes. He took a bottle a bottle of vodka from his overcoat pocket.
There was bottle of water on a table in the dressing room. Presenters usually took a bottle of water onto the set with them. The studio light were always very hot and they often needed to drink some water when they were off-camera. They couldn’t something to clear his mind, not something to wet his mouth. He emptied the water into his washbasin and refilled the bottle with vodka. Then he put it back on the table. It looked the same as before. Nobody would know that was drinking vodka.
‘HEY THERE!’ said a loud voice. ‘WELL, HOW ABOUT ALL THIS?’
The owner of the loud voice was Suki Meadows. Suki was already a popular presenter of late-night TV shows. Now she stood at the door smiling at Dexter. She was a small, pretty, friendly person and she was always cheerful. Always! It didn’t matter what was happening around her. She was cheerful and she was noisy.
‘why does Suki always speak in capital letters?’ Dexter had sometimes asked himself. But tonight he was thinking something else. ‘The viewers all love her. And she is very sexy.’ He was thinking. And I’m sure she’s crazy about me.’
Suki was wearing a very short skirt and a shirt made of very thin cloth. And she was holding her own bottle of water. ‘COME HERE, DEX,’ she said, entering the dressing room. She put her water bottle on the table next to this and put her arm around him ‘YOU’RE GOING TO BE GREAT TONIGHT! WE’RE GOING TOBE GREAT TONIGHT! DEX AND SUKI, SUKI AND DEX! WHAT A TEAM, DEX!’