A/N - make sure that you have watched the tv show The Next Step before reading :)
For as long as anyone can remember, the students of Stepping High School have arrived at school on the last Monday in September to find a list naming the prettiest and the ugliest girl in each grade.
This year will be no different.
Roughly four hundred copies of the list currently hang in various locations across the school. One is taped above the urinal in the first floors boys bathroom, one covers the just announced cast for the fall drama production, one is tucked between pamphlets for depression in the nurses office. The list is pinned to locker doors, slipped in classroom desks and stapled to bulletin boards.
The bottom right corner of each copy has been dimpled by an embossing stamp, leaving behind the scar of Stepping Highs school emblem. The stamp had certified every graduation diploma before it was stolen from the principals desk drawer decades ago. It is now a piece of mythic contraband used to discourage copycats or competitors.
No one knows for sure who authors the list each year, or how the responsibility is passed along, but secrecy has not impeded tradition. If anything, the guaranteed anonymity makes the judgments of the list seem more absolute, impartial, unbiased.
And so, with every new list, the labels that normally slice and dice the girls at Stepping High into a billion different categories - populars, users, losers, social climbers, athletes, airheads, geeks, bad girls, girlie girls, slackers, achievers, outcasts and freaks, to name a few - will melt away. The list is refreshing in that sense. It can reduce an entire female population into three clear-cut groups. Prettiest. Ugliest. And everyone else.
This morning, before the homeroom bell, every girl at Stepping High will learn if their name is on the list or not.
The ones who arent will wonder what the experience, good or bad, might have been like. The eight girls who are wont have a choice.
THE LIST
Freshman
Ugliest: Piper Tordjman
Please don't cry.
Prettiest: Richelle Nolet
The new Queen Bee!
Sophomore
Ugliest: Giselle Clark
Two years in a row, after being held back a year...
Prettiest: Riley Beaton
Bonus points awarded for overcoming family genetics!
Juniors
Ugliest: Emily Beaton
Beauty isn't just skin deep, btw.
Prettiest: Michelle Baldesarra
Everyones hot for the new girl!
Seniors
Ugliest: Amanda Fabbro
The only four-peer in Stepping Highs history, congrats traitor!
Prettiest: Beth Mackenzie
All hail this years homecoming queen! What a difference a summer can make.
A/N - This is just for the book, I think all the actresses are beautiful :)
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The Next Step - The List
FanficA fan fiction based on the Next Step characters at High School. It happens every September - THE LIST is posted all over the school. Two girls are picked from each year. One is named the prettiest and one is named the ugliest. Once you're on the lis...
