How to die laughing

THREE

  News flash. When Dave said the project Jamie was working on was gonna blow everyone away, he meant it. Their project is a giant fan that dries clothes by blowing hot air on it. Out of three judges, only one nominates their project.

  That's how it works if a judge nominates a project, chances of winning are very slim. But if all three judges do, you got a shot at winning and that's what Jackson and I are hoping for.

 The three judges are headed our way. I only recognize Mr. Walter, my physics teacher. I pick up the universal translator. The device is like a microphone just that it has two mouthpieces ( the stuff you speak into) one up and one down.

  "What is this?" one of the judges I don't recognize asks. "It's a universal translator," I say. The judges don't follow, I need an example. " Just imagine being able to speak french and all your students understand," I say.

   One of the Judges scratches his black hair. "Hmm... I don't know french but I know Spanish," he says. "That's why it's called a universal translator since we are the only ones in the universe." I joke and then hand the device over to him.

    He holds the translator close to his mouth and then starts to speak, we all see his mouth moving but the words coming out from the other end of the device are different. " Hello everyone television is free my butt hurts," he says and then whispers in my ear, " sorry that's all I know."

   The judges all clap and take turns in using it, they like it, in fact, all the judges nominate us. We have a chance of winning. I slap some high fives with Jackson and actually dance, even though I'm terrible at it and it looks as if my body is gonna fall apart. Everybody laughs as they see me dancing and as I told you, I'm one of the class comedians.

  It's finally time to announce the winners, Jackson and I feel so pumped and awesome. I give my best bud a pat on the back, "you really outdone yourself, pal." I say to him, he chuckles. "What are we going to buy with the prize money?" He asks innocently.

I'm about to answer but stop when I hear the announcements. It's a total shocker. We got second place, who did we lose to? Two girls, Lola and Zee. Their invention is a drone that assists teachers in a class by spying on students. Extra pair of eyes.

   You're probably wondering what we won, nothing, we won nothing.