The national pageant

A few months after being named Miss Teen Minnesota, Bria Jeurgen travelled to a mid-sized metropolitan area in the Deep South to contest the national title. The challengers were quartered in a luxury hotel attached to the convention center where the pageant was being held. Bria shared a room with Rolanda, a feisty black girl and the home state representative, and two other suburban white girls, the youthful Kristen (Miss Teen Ohio) and the pious Jessica (Miss Teen Virginia). Over the next couple of days, the girls partied alot and became close friends, although Rolanda thought the other girls formed something of a clique, while Bria thought Rolanda had a somewhat twisted sense of humor, as she would tease the others and try to manipulate them into humiliation.

When the big night came, Bria and the other contestants paraded onto stage in dazzling silver dresses, on display for a national (cable-channel) audience. Bria smiled brightly into the spotlight and thrust her chest out proudly, confident that she would emerge as the winner. However, the blonde was stunned when she was among the first girls cut early in the program, along with Kristen and Jessica. Her dreams of fame suddenly cut short, tears welled in Bria's eyes as she located Jessica and they wrapped a consoling arm around each other, the orchestra playing as they made their final exit into the shadows.

"Ah just can't believe it!" the southern belle lamented. "We should have been in the final three, how could we both be out so soon?!"

"It was Rolanda!" Kristen interjected as she approached, a scowl on her pretty face. "She leaned over to me after the results were announced and said, 'You lose, cocksucker.'" The three girls exchanged a guilty look as the taunt sank in.

"Oh gawd," Bria groaned. "Is it possible... that the judges know...?"

Jessica went pale, her green eyes wide with fear. "If mah daddy finds out about those black men, he's gonna kill me!"

And that was how Bria Jeurgen's pageant dreams ended...