Drop Dead Gorgeous

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Piper POV

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Her name was Chloe Clayton. She was the school's most popular and most beautiful girl. That is, until I came along.

Of course I don't think I'm pretty, but at least I'm not fake like Chloe.

On my way to theatre class, I was ambushed by a girl with flyers for a school beauty pageant.

"Oh! Hi! I'm Lacey! Would you like to enter in the BAG Beauty Pageant?" She squeaked.

"Um...no...I..." I began.

"Of course she wouldn't, Lacey," Chloe's voice said behind me, "A girl like her wouldn't have the guts to get up onstage."

"It's nothing like that," I insisted, "Beauty pageants are just stupid, degrading, and sexist ways for perverted men to gawk at a natural phenomenon."

Chloe scoffed. "That's what a coward would say," she mumbled.

My blood boiled. Chloe signed her name on the sign-up sheet.

"Fine! Gimme that pen." I muttered an ancient Greek curse as I signed my name to become a degraded pageant girl.

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