We arrive to the TV station where the contest was taking place just minutes before the contest begins, we run as fast as we could, I just remember he was telling me to keep going; I arrived to the inscription booth, and received my number; I turned to see the panther, but he was not there, “Maybe he couldn’t come in, and will be with the rest of the spectators or waiting in the car”, is what I though in the moment, it was until later that he informed me that the witch who owns the wand came back for it, and he tried to recover it.
I was there, alone, seeing the rest of the contestant, all of them were so beautiful, that I thought that I didn’t have a real chance to win. As the contest continued, it felt eternal, my cheeks were hurting for smiling all the time, and my anxiety just grew with the passing of the other contestants, the only thing that we had to do was a walk cat across the stage, sounds easy, try to do it while you have a lot of eyes aiming at you, judging every movement, the form of your body, the features of our face with the make-up, and you just wanting not to trip and hoping your wardrobe didn’t have a malfunction. Finally, it was my turn, and I did my walk, I heard the cheers of the public, I tried to look for my kind sponsor, but I couldn’t see him among the public, not to mention that the reflectors were making really hard to see everyone out of the stage, but I was confident he was there, cheering for me. I passed to the other side of the stage, and when I was sure I was out of the reach of the TV cameras, I could sigh of relief, and relax. The rest of the contestants made their walk; we were just waiting for the results, I could hear them saying that they were going to win that travel with Pelvis Parsley, and how they were going to seduce him to make him her man, I couldn’t feel more than ashamed hearing them, for them, Pelvis was just an object to have fame and fortune, but for me… was in that moment that I noticed, I never thought about what would happen if I win, yes, to go to Las Vegas with a big celebrity with Pelvis was a dreaming prize, but then what?, what would happen after that?, I was just a simple girl who was having a big chance thanks to the pink panther, but everything will have to come to an end, eventually. I was so immersed in my thoughts that I didn’t notice when a member of the staff was calling for me, I answered, and he told me I have to go to the stage.
Once on the stage, everyone was on silence, when suddenly, the host mentioned that I was the winner, everyone cheered up, I couldn’t believe it, I won!, the host approached to me, and placed a golden crown with red rubies around over my head, maybe it was just a fantasy accessory for the contest, but I didn’t care in that moment, I, who just less than a couple of hours ago, was a simple girl wearing rags, wishing to meet Pelvis Parsley, was now considered the most beautiful girl of the contest, I couldn’t avoid to let escape some tears, then, then they announced that Pelvis was going to meet the winner; I was so excited in that moment that I forget to get nervous, then he appeared on stage, looking all cool and handsome, when he opened his eyes to see me, he froze; maybe I also froze, because I couldn’t believe it, he was more handsome in person than in the billboards, and my heart begun to race fast. In a moment, he was next to me, looking eye to eye, and in the next moment, we were kissing, right there, on national TV, but I didn’t think in that in that moment, I was just enjoying the moment. I don’t know how long we were kissing, when suddenly, I felt someone grabbing me from the waist, and pulled me away, I almost lost a slipper of how fast was that movement, when I reacted, I saw it was the pink panther who was pulling me and telling me to run as fast as we could.
