The Brittle Battle For Queen of Hearts Part 1

By M2

Ansley stood there in a dreaming trance, looking at the Valentine Dance poster.

"Ans? Earth to Ansley?" one of Ansley's best friends, Lia Simone called. "C'mon! We just GOTTA go to our seats at the dock. I'm dying to see my Justin!" she said love-struck.

Ansley smiled. "Of course! Only your POPULAR Justin, Kia's POPULAR Cale and my POPULAR Joshie would be on the dock! We ALL are popular!"

Ansley was so caught up on boasting about how popular she was that she hadn't noticed a runaway corn dog stand hurdling toward her.

Luckily, her boyfriend, Josh Dweller, pushed her out of the way. Unfortunately for her, the chili sauce on the cart tipped over, and landed right on her designer, chic, white blouse and splattered a smaller portion on Lia and Kia.

A boy her grade came running over. "Man, my cart!" he exclaimed pulling it upright to it's normal position.

"That's YOUR cart!?" Ansley screeched looking at the disaster on her clothes as the boy nodded. "YOU, YOU GEEK! DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU DID TO MY SHIRT?! THIS IS GENUINE!"

"Look, dork face." Josh reached for a napkin on the cart and tried to help his shrieking girlfriend. "Just take your dumb corn dog cart away, and you are forbidden from coming to the 'popularity dock' ever."

Shame-faced boy picked up his cart, and walked away.