“Angela you’re so beautiful you could totally win the Miss Butter’s Pageant.” Angie’s mom coaxed.
“For the thousandth time Mom, pageants aren’t my thing.” Angie snapped back. Angie’s mom was right, Angie was beautiful. She had deep blue eyes, with smooth, sculpted cheek bones. Angie was tall and thin and she had long, silky, shiny, blonde hair. Beauty ran in Angie’s blood. Her mother was a model and her older sister, Kenna, won several pageants and was working her way towards “Miss North Carolina.” However Angie didn’t care about beauty. She hid her face under thick glasses, and kept her in a messy ponytail 24/7. Although she was supposed to get her braces 2 years earlier, Angie still kept them on because they made her the person she was. Angie was the biggest nerd in school. She was president of the chess club, had the highest GPA of her class, and was a math counts champion. Kenna was the exact opposite. She was the coolest girl in school with a gazillion friends and was captain of the cheer squad. Angie was embarrassed to know someone as dumb as Kenna, and Kenna was embarrassed to know someone as nerdy as Angie so they both agreed not to talk at school.
“Bye girls, have a nice day at school,” Angie and Kenna’s mom waved as they got out of the car. Angie was wearing a blue polo shirt with a plaid cardigan, khaki pants, and loafer while Kenna was wearing black cutoff shorts a cropped tee, and stilettos. From the back you couldn’t tell they were related. As always, the sisters parted at the cafeteria to head to their groups. Angie was part of a group called the “Nerd Herd” and Kenna was in one called the “Populars.” Angie found her best friends, Morris and Lilith in library.
“Hey Angie,” Lilith greeted her. Morris didn’t bother to say hi or look up from his laptop.
“Uhh, hi Morris.” Angie said.
“I hate the periodic table!” Morris snorted.
“Good morning to you too.” Angie replied sarcastically.
“Morris is having trouble finding the valence electrons in the aluminum atoms.” Lilly explained.
“Oh never trust atoms, they make up everything.” Angie joked cracking a smile on Morris’s face.
“Now I’m stuck on Sodium! Got any jokes for that?” Morris asked.
“Na.” Angie giggled. Lilith and Morris burst out laughing.
“You’re lucky you’re in the periodic unit in science, I’m in the force unit. Friction is such a drag.” Angie laughed. Morris and Lilith were on the ground with tears in their eyes. “
“I wish I could be funny like you Angie, I tried telling a chemistry joke the other day but it failed.” Lilith sighed.
“What happened, was there no reaction?” Angie asked. Lilith and Morris were dying of laughter.
“Alright, anyways my mom wants me to enter some stupid pageant called Miss Jelly or something.” Angie laughed.
“You mean the Miss Butter pageant?” Lilith questioned.
“Yeah something like that.” Angie mumbled.
“Angie! You have to enter that pageant! With a touch of makeup you could totally win!” Lilith said excitedly.
“Lilith, why would you say that? You know I’m totally against pageants.” Angie said with irritation in her voice.
“Because the prize is 10,000 dollars!” Lilith replied. Angie thought this over.
“You know that might not be a bad idea after all. That would be great college money.” Angie said considering the idea.
“Great I’ll sign you up!” Lilith said.
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A couple hours later Kenna came storming into Angie’s chess club meeting.
“Angie can I talk to you outside?” Kenna asked angrily. Angie followed Kenna outside.
“Kenna you just interrupted my-“ Angie started.
“Why are you entering Miss Butter’s pageant?” Kenna asked.
“Because I like butter.” Angie replied.
“Shut up. You are not entering that pageant. The money is mine. I’m not losing to my nerdy, little sister. You are my only competition because you look like me but you got the brains. You’re not entering!” Kenna yelled.
“Well it sucks for you because I am entering.” Angie snapped.
“I’m telling Mom!” Kenna stormed off.
“Well too bad, because she’s the one who told me to enter it.” Angie said to herself. Angie walked back into the meeting.
“I have to win this pageant.” Angie whispered to Lilith.
Later that afternoon, Angie and Lilith were practicing for the pageant.
“So I’m thinking I’ll say this at the beginning of my speech. A neutron walks into a bar and asks the proton bartender how much for a drink. The bartender says “for you no charge.” The neutron replies “Are youpositive?” Isn’t it good?” Angie squealed.
“Yeah, but nobody’s going to get it. Let’s see what else could you do? Can you sing?” Lilith asked.
“No.” Angie replied.
“Just sing your favorite song, we’ll see how you do.” Lilith said.
“I throw my telescope in the air sometimes, saying aaaaaaoooooooo, I’m Galileo!” Angie sung.
“Looks like we got a lot of work to do!” Lilith sighed.
