It had been over a week since Charlie had sent out the five golden tickets hidden in five individual Wonka bars. For the first few days, Charlie and the Oompa Loompas were forced to sit through day after day without any word of a golden ticket being found, despite more or less the whole world going to all sorts of lengths to find one.
Nevertheless, it didn't stop him believing that sooner or later one of the tickets would soon show up in front of his television screen.
Letting out a small sigh Charlie turned on the television, the excitement of the possibility that a golden ticket was to be found already slipping as the television showed no signs of any ticket in sight.
However, as Charlie made the decision to channel hop a news report suddenly burst into action, making Charlie jump up from his seat while whistling for a group of at least forty Oompa Loompas to come forward to join him in witnessing the interview.
"Breaking news! The search for the first golden ticket finally proves to be worth the effort as the first golden ticket winner reveals herself to be the ten-year-old Mandy Perkins right here in the United Kingdom, and what better place to start the process than in the great city of London!"
As the scenery from the studio suddenly changed to a three-story luxury mansion where the first golden ticket winner was located, Charlie and the forty Oompa Loompas sat in silence as they listened closely to the interview.
The winner of the first golden ticket Mandy Perkins had long wavy blonde hair that neatly ended down to her shoulders, she wore a silky light pink dress with a rather big matching pink hair bow that was placed on top of her blonde hair. To accompany her dress she wore the same shade of pink tights with smart black shoes. Smiling sweetly towards the camera her teeth were a pearly shade of white that were perfectly in line, to add to her appearance she had deep blue eyes that anyone could easily get lost in.
Standing beside Mandy was her mother who was a lot taller than her daughter, unlike Mandy her mother had very short flat blonde hair that didn't even cover her ears which revealed some unwanted grey hairs. She was dressed in a black sheath dress with a silver badge ,spelling out her name Judy Perkins in big letters along with a white feather boa carefully placed around her neck. She too had pure white teeth and blue eyes, the only difference was her eye colour was slightly faded. To top off her outfit she wore long silver earrings that looked quite expensive.
With the numerous flashes of cameras focused on Mandy and her mother one reporter said, "now Mandy please tell us about yourself!"
The adorable smile that was previously used to charm the reporters transformed into one of greed as she snatched the microphone and said "I'm Mandy Perkins, well actually my full name is Mandy, Melissa, Annabell, Esme Perkins and as you can see I have the first golden ticket and it's mine, all mine!" When finishing her sentence she waved the ticket in front of the camera to prove her point.
"So how does it feel to be the official first golden ticket winner?" A female reporter asked.
"I don't need to say how it feels as I always come first no matter what!" Mandy declared, looking at her mother with confidence.
In a proud manner Mandy's mother added with a satisfied smile, "oh yes my Mandy's a girl who knows what she wants and when she wants it."
Quite surprised by their responses the reporter who introduced the Perkins decided to quickly change the subject and ask, "now the big question is how did you find the golden ticket?"
This time is was the mother who answered the reporter.
"Well as soon as Mandy informed me of her desire to have a golden ticket, I grabbed the opportunity by the neck and got all the Wonka bars I could get my hands on. You see I run a jewellery business which goes by the name of Perkins Boutique that only sells the highest quality of jewellery products, let's just say this earns us rather a huge amount of money per day seeing as I have hundreds of stores all over the country."
Charlie mentally winced at how similar the Perkins were to the Salts.
"So with all this money I was able to purchase up to nearly a million pounds worth of Wonka bars which I sat down and individually unwrapped each and every single one myself."
"And you still failed to get me what I wanted!" Mandy rudely interrupted, giving her mother a sharp glare.
Judy awkwardly coughed at her daughter's sudden interruption, nevertheless, she carried on explaining to the reporters.
"I searched and searched for a golden ticket for my darling daughter Mandy for three days in a row and within each day she became increasingly unhappy."
"You should have worked nights!" Mandy angrily interrupted again, showing no respect for the fact that her mother was trying to say something.
"Veruca salt all over" an Oompa Loompa commented, sending unpleasant shivers down Charlie's spine
Before Judy could attempt to explain any further Mandy decided to take the situation into her own hands.
"In the end, one of our many connections as my mother puts it managed to deliver a golden ticket to me, they were reluctant to give it to me at first but that soon got sorted out."
"Money speaks in many ways" Judy added before pulling out a heavy pile of cash to prove her point.
"Only because you gave it the voice in the first place, " said a man in the background who was sat on one of many armchairs reading a newspaper which he was currently looking up from.
Along with Judy and Mandy the man also had blonde hair, blue eyes but unlike the two girls, he didn't want to make a scene in front of the reporters.
"I assume he's the dad, " Charlie said in reaction to his first and probably the last sentence during the interview.
"With quite a different take on parenting I think" an Oompa Loompa added.
"Shut up Bernard!" Judy hissed as Bernard went back to reading his newspaper.
Trying to look good in front of the camera Judy kindly smiled before saying in a slightly intimidating manner, "no one says no to my daughter."
"And quite right too!" Mandy exclaimed in response.
" Alright! Just one more question Mandy, are you looking forward to seeing who else will be fortunate enough to join you on this remarkable opportunity?"
Mandy scoffed before practically shouting out, "No and you know why? Because I want the other four golden tickets as I want to be the only one who gets to go the Mr Buckets Chocolate factory!"
Mandy gave her mother a cold glare as if she was expecting her to rush off to see to her demands just as a slave would.
Once the interview had finished neither Charlie nor the Oompa Loompas said a word.
It had taken just over two minutes for the silence to be broken by one of the Oompa Loompas stood beside him.
"So I assume I'm right in thinking that we should work on an elimination song for this Mandy Perkins?"
"No!" Charlie exclaimed rather quickly before taking a deep breath and calmly adding, "no I want this tour to be a fair one, she may be horribly dislikable but that doesn't mean she deserves to be a victim of a life-changing incident."
The Oompa Loompa folded his arms and bowed to show his understanding of Charlie's wishes.
"However what I am going to do is take a few deep breaths to analyse what has just happened within the last ten minutes."
And with that Charlie then walked out of the room followed by a few Oompa Loompas who wished to do the same thing.
The remaining Oompa Loompas just stared at the television set, desperately trying to shake the worrying experience out of their minds and instead picture the next golden ticket winner.