I’ll never forget how all started, I was admiring the billboard of a beauty contest where the first prize was a date with the famous actor and singer Pelvis Parsley in Las Vegas. “I wish I could win this contest” I though in that moment, but that was impossible, the only thing I had were the rags I was wearing, and my hair and skin were in bad shape, it was just an impossible dream, so I returned, defeated, to the little cabin that was my home back then. I was sat in my bed, thinking in my misfortune, when suddenly, after a wink, I saw that my house now was a meeting room finely decorated, and I was sat on a sofa. “I must be dreaming”, I though, so I pinched my cheek, and no, it was real; “What is happening?” I though in despair; I ran out, and I couldn’t believe, my little house, was much bigger; “How was this possible?, or maybe I walked inside someone else’s house without noticing it?”, I exclaimed in admiration, when I felt someone touching my shoulder with a finger and when I turn back, I was terrified.
A pink panther as tall as me was there, and my reaction was as natural as could have been in that situation, I scream and ran inside the house. “Why is here? What does he want?” were my thoughts in that moment, I put out my head, and I could see clearly that he was not menacing. He pointed a star on a stick that he was holding, telling me that with that magic wand, he could help me to win the beauty contest. “Me? Really?” is what I could say in the moment, happy with the idea that I could met Pelvis Parsley. He just nodded, and with a moment of his wand, he changed me totally, my skin and hair were cleaner, and my rags were now a fine sild white dress with slippers included, I couldn’t believe, it was fantastic, I couldn’t thank him enough, but he just said he was glad to help.
Next he went for a pumpkin, and he tied three mouse to it, he was going to transform it into a carriage, but at the moment he was preparing to do his magic, the mice ran, taking the pumpkin with it, turning on a corner, but then they had to escape from a bus, it was a funny scene, but I didn’t dare to laugh, because he was doing his best, and was asking me nothing in return. With optimism, he told me to wait a little more, and he’ll bring my carriage to take me to the TV station. Despite it were just a few minutes, the wait felt longer, but then I saw him approaching, driving a pretty luxurious black car, I could have sworn it was just a dream, if not were because each time I tried to wake up, nothing had changed, it was all real, and I couldn’t be more thankful to this pink panther for giving me this chance.
The excitement to be on a car for the first time lasted little, I was so nervous for the contest that I couldn’t enjoy the ride, it was like if I were in a catatonic state, until I hear the voice of the panther asking me if I was feeling good. “I’m… pretty… nervous”, I answered, he assured me I had nothing why to worry about. “Will you use your magic to help me win?” I asked him, just to feel more comfortable, but he said that no, because first, it was not necessary, I looked pretty beautiful, even a blind jury would give me the first place, and second, he asked me if I would feel right in Las Vegas with Pelvis knowing you didn’t win for your own merits; but I told him that I was not going to participate for my own merits, it has his magic what turned me in this… Mae West wannabe, but he said that his help was not different from going to the beauty parlor and a tailor, he just made a cleaning and fixed some clothes that would fit me, but personality, attitude and charm was all on me, while I kept that in mind, everything will be all right. His calmed voice and security in his words calmed me down; I still have doubts, I will not deny that, but if he believed in me, then I could also believe in me.
