Linda was the type that tried very desperately to fit in. She was Lucy’s friend but at times seemed like she would rather to play with the popular kinds. She would laugh and make jokes about Lucy’s love for ballet and call her names behind her back. Lucy herself didn’t understand why they were friends. Linda herself wasn’t the prettiest girl. She was a lot shorter and fatter then Lucy was. She had wavy brown hair that fell on her shoulders and wore glasses.
One day as Lucy sat in class practicing pirouettes in her head an announcement came on the speakers. The announcement was about the school dance competition. Lucy never attended the dance competitions her school threw every year. It was always the same popular boys and girl wearing revealing clothing, jiggling their butts to nerdy singers like Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys. Lucy didn’t want to be made fun of even more by embarrassing herself as she fell on floor from attempting to do her clumsy pirouettes, but this time it was different. This time Lucy’s heart nearly skipped a beat as she listened to the announcement. ‘’Come all to the school dance competition’’ it said. ‘’Winner will get a $400 gift certificate to ‘’Dance with me’’ the local dance equipment store, and an audition to a professional dance school, you could be the next star!’’ The announcement said.
It wasn’t the certificate that Lucy was excited about but the dance audition. This was what she had always wanted. It felt as though her dreams were coming true. Lucy always had dreams about going to dance schools and becoming a professional ballerina. Even though she was very nervous about performing in front of her entire school she knew she had to do it. Everything was finally coming into place.
Lucy was quick to find out all the details about the dance competition. Even her teachers had never seen her so determined. She found out that the competition was only three weeks away. This was a very short period of time to get herself ready. How would she teach herself to do a perfect pirouette in so little time she wondered, but it didn’t matter, she had to do it. Lucy ran home right away and began to practice her jumps in front of the mirror. ‘’Graceful like a swan, graceful like a swan’’ she kept repeating to herself. ‘’Don’t fall, please don’t fall‘’ she said angrily as she fell to the ground. ‘’Oh well, she told herself. I will win the competition. I know its meant to be.’’
The next day at school everybody already knew that Lucy was going to attend the dance competition. ‘’The dork’s going to perform some ballet for us’’ they laughed. ‘’Cant wait to see you fall on you face!’’ called another kid from across the room. Nobody in school had any fait in Lucy, not even her best friend. ‘’Lucy, she said. ‘’The entire school is laughing at you. Please don’t do this, they know I am friends with you, I don’t want them to think that I do ballet too.’’ It was so like Linda to only think about herself though Lucy. Nobody was going to stop her from winning this audition. She didn’t care if nobody had fait in her, cause she knew that she was going to win this competition and go to a better school. Where she wouldn’t have to see any of these kids anymore. She would go to a school where everyone was like her and shared her love for dance. ‘’Its all meant to be’’ she repeated to herself for the thousand time.
For weeks in a row Lucy did not leave her room or her ballet slippers, for fear of not being ready for the competition. If she was going to win, they she would have to practice day and night for two weeks she told herself, and that’s just what she did. Her parents would get very upset with their daughters refusal to leave her bedroom. ‘’What are you doing up there?’’ they called. ‘’Please don’t tell us your doing that dumb ballet again. Why cant you be more like the rest of the kids your age and actually have a life?’’ They even tried hiding her ballet shoes and ballet records in hope that she would stop dancing, but not even that could stop her, Lucy would spend hours rummaging around her house until she found her precious shoes and records, and continue to dance. It was clear to everyone that Lucy was on a mission, a mission to win.
Finally the night of the competition was nearing and Lucy was one hundred percent ready. She had never been more ready for anything in her life. She even rented out a professional ballet outfit from ‘’Dance with me’’ to impress the judges. She was sure that she was going to win. After all it was meant to be.
Little did Lucy know the kids in her school didn’t feel that she should win the competition. They had been watching her getting ready for two weeks and felt threatened that she might actually pull it off and win. After all she had been living, eating and sleeping ballet for two weeks in a row, which was more then they ever did. They had to make sure that she didn’t win. They couldn’t let a dork beat them in a contest as important as this. They decided to play a prank on Lucy during the competition to make sure that she didn’t win. ‘’This will be so funny’’ they thought. She will be so embarrassed. Lucy’s best friend Linda jumped at the chance to hang out with the cool kids, so she agreed to help with the prank as well. They decided that they were going to dump a bucket of water on Lucy from above the stage. ‘’This was she will look nerdy in from the judges and maybe even slip and fall on her bum.’’ They thought. ‘’It will be even more funny if Lucy is doing one of her pirouettes when we pour the water’’ added Linda. ‘’I know how bad she is at those, this will make her stop doing ballet forever!’’
