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Chapter 19 - I'll sign up too, Helena./ January 1973

POV Helena

January 1973

I returned to London on the eighteenth of January. Rog waits for my parents and me at the airport. My trip to São Paulo, to visit my relatives, was wonderful. What amazed me was the woman I saw, that it was a spirit, but I will not speak it, since no one will believe me.

On the 19th of January, my parents returned to Truro. They return to work on the twenty-second of January, at the hospital. My classes at college come back on the 12th of February. I could go back to Truro with my parents and enjoy the holidays more, however, I will sign up for some beauty pageants and I will also paint some pictures and take them to some art galleries. Who knows, they are interested and put the sale. I do not work yet, but, I get a student aid from the government, which gives to pay the rent of the apartment, telephone bill, light and water, I divide with the girls. I can only get an internship in the art gallery from August that year.

The next few days I began to paint a new painting, and then to present the art galleries.

On the twenty-ninth of January, I went to do my application to attend a beauty contest, organized by the North London Polytechnic College. Rog had warned me of this contest that will take place in March. After I made my application, when I see someone call my name. When I see it, it's Alicia.

"Friend, what a good surprise, to meet you here," Alicia said, kissing me on the cheek.

"Alicia, what a surprise I say. How are you, friend? I missed you. How did you spend the holidays? I asked smiling.

Alicia was excited about Christmas and New Year's Eve. After some time, she lifts a paper with me, with her application to attend the beauty contest at the North London Polytechnic.

"As long as you tell me to sign up for a beauty pageant, I did not resist and I applied," smiled Alicia. "We'll be colleagues and rivals in the contest, but this does not really matter to me because I know you'll win This contest.

- No one guarantees that I will win - I smile to Alicia - Amiga, you are too beautiful and make sure that if we went to a final you would be the winner. You're a beautiful blonde with green eyes, you draw attention wherever you go.

"Not like you, Helena," Alicia smiled. "You have beautiful long black hair, straight to the waist and black eyes. The boys think you're beautiful, they often flirt with you. You who do not care about them.

"I do not really care," he told Alicia. "There are other, more important things at the moment. He laughed. "Shall we have lunch at the mall or are you in a hurry?"

"We can have lunch at the mall," Alicia said, smiling, and we were both talking happily to the subway.

"You have Roger and Bri, who are at your feet, in love with you and do not choose between any of them," Alicia laughed.

"Rog and Bri are just friends. And I could never choose one or the other. It's very complicated, "he said with a laugh.

"You'll have to choose one hour," Alice said, smiling.

POV Alice

While we were having lunch, I thought in every way, that now that I will participate in this contest, I will do everything to overcome it and I will show Helena that her reign in beauty contests is over. I will make her more successful. I'm more beautiful than Helena and since she does not want Roger or Brian, I do. I want to date one of them and be a girlfriend, a future wife of a Rock Star. If Helena has the ability to let Rog and Bri in love with her, I too have that power.

From now on, I will participate in all the beauty contests that she attend. Since I have not been able to ruin your paintings, at least I will be more successful than her in beauty contests. I really am more beautiful than her. Wait for Helena, that her debacle for the beauty contests are in the days.

To be continued...