Background Machinations !

The next couple of weeks went quietly for Debbi, who was blissfully unaware of various machinations that were going on behind the scenes. There was a little teasing at work regarding the selfies a few people had from the night club but Debbi shrugged that off by pointing to the charitable collection that had resulted. Her routine weekly mentoring class at the college passed without incident, once she had been cheered into the classroom.

Solomon had asked her to give a motivational talk to a bunch of kids at the Black and Asian Community Centre which went very well after a brief early embarrassment. "Hello, my name's Debbi" she had begun. "Without an 'e' " the kids yelled back. "Yes, how did you know ?" A dozen phones were held up and Debbi heard the familiar tinny music while the kids began to chant 'Miz No-E, Miz No-E'. They quietened down soon enough and seemed to like her talk. She would have been more embarrassed had she known that, as well as the music track, the kids had the video of her cavorting topless to the rap at the Pink Pussycat !

And where had the kids acquired said video ? It had become an underground hit with Solomon's local community channel on cable TV, where it played two or three times a night after the watershed. Solomon had negotiated obtaining a copy from the manager of the night club and was eager to promote the musical abilities of Deacon and Clinton, who had provided the backing track, as well as the talent of Jody the lyricist. Solomon did not know that Debbi had not been an altogether willing participant in the venture and so did not think that his new friend would have any objection.

Consequently, Solomon also saw no harm when Jody approached him to publicise a sponsorship drive on the channel for a special charity follow up sequel, 'Miz No-E in the Raw.' Especially when Jody told him that the charity benefiting would be the same Black and Asian Community Centre, of which he was on the board of governors. Other students, armed with copies of Jody's new lyrics, were busy drumming up sponsorship pledges at college and in the pubs and clubs of the town. Lynn had contacted Debbi's old college rivals Jackie and Sarah who were energetically conducting a sponsorship drive among their alumni whats app group. Lynn thought it best to delay seeking sponsors at Debbi's company until the last minute, when things would have gone too far for Debbi to be able to back out !

Jody meantime had prevailed upon Deacon and Clinton to compose and record an even more extended instrumental break for the middle of the song when Debbi's choreography called for her to be on all fours, with what would now be her bare bum facing the camera and the audience. "Let the punters get their money's worth" she had laughed. She had also liaised with Solomon to negotiate that the Pink Pussycat would again be the venue !