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"Mariana Rivera" Maria screamed.

"That's you!!" She got up quickly and her and Mama hugged me tightly, I just sat there in shock watching the screen.

The picture of me popped up and I actually looked pretty my black hair was bouncy, my eyes were squeezed closed and my mouth was slightly ajar in an open smile that reached my eyes. I looked over to drake who was now at the edge of his seat with a slight smirk on his face.

"I'm so proud of you Mariana!" Maria squealed as my mom hugged me tightly, I hadn't even realized Mercedes had let go of my hand until I looked over in her direction.

Her eyes were glossy and shoulders slumped.

She quickly got up and stormed out of the room.

I sighed and shrugged them off.

"I'm going to go check on her" I said getting up off the floor.

I walked to our shared bedroom where Mercedes was on the floor crying.

"Are you okay?" I asked her sitting down besides her.

"Just peachy" I smirked even crying she was still a goof.

"I'm really sorry, you deserved this more than I did" she sniffed

"Yea, I did" I did a double take, did she?

"I mean, im the good kid. Straight A's I never got into trouble I was a model student and you" she turned her gaze to mine.

"You could never do anything right, your not even the pretty one"

"¿Disculpé?"(excuse me?)

"I mean look at me, then look at you" she said looking serious.

"Mercedes me molesto pero esa no es razón para decir cosas tan malas como que"(Mercedes I get that your upset but that's no reason to say such mean things like that)

"Oh my God just shut up! You didn't even want to win, you don't deserve this!" She yelled and I stood fed up.

"Conoces a Mercedes, puede que tengas razón. No quería ganar y no me lo merezco, pero adivina qué, lo hice, gané y preferiría tener tu apoyo que tu negatividad. así que si no puedes aceptar el hecho de que gané y no puedo decir nada positivo, ¡no me hables en absoluto!"(you know Mercedes, you may be right. I didn't want to win and I dont deserve this but guess what, I did , I won and I would much rather have your support than your negativity. so if you cant accept the fact that I won and cant say anything positive then dont talk to me at all!).

I snapped at her and stormed out of the room.

I walked back in the living room to see Maria awkwardly staring at the floor and my Mama's concerned expression.

Obviously they heard all of that.

I groaned and looked at the TV "congratulations everyone! I hope you are all excited as we are" then the program ended.

Yea I'm excited, excited to crawl in a whole and die.

***
The next couple of days were busy with people coming in and out sizing me and asking what I liked and what I didn't like all that jazz.

Mercedes was completely avoiding me, not that I minded.

and finally today was my send off.

We were instructed to dress in black slacks and a white T-shirt.

Naturally I wore my best black jeans, and my mama let me wear her white v-neck.

I was currently trying to figure out what shoes to wear.