#normal:event2

Edwina followed behind Holly as the other girl was way more assertive in telling people to move their feet so they could get by. With only three a incidents of almost tripping and one-thousand “sorry, excuse me!”s, the two girls finally escaped the row of annoyed pageant moms and bored boyfriends coming to support their high school sweethearts.

After a few minutes of squabbling over which way they should go to get backstage, they finally wound up smacking into Violet in her yellow pageant gown. The two stopped their old married couple bickering when they realized their argument was solved for them. 

“Okay, so do we know what this box looks like? Are you just picking up any box we see? Do we even know where we’re going??” she asked as they began the venture backstage. Normal Secondary had an odd auditorium set up which made Edwina question how a public school this size afford backstage space so generous. In fact, it actually started to feel more and more like an unfamiliar maze as they kept walking. She didn’t know if she just didn’t remember the backstage area as much or the summer heat and lack of AC in the building was causing her to start hallucinating. She took a nervous puff from her inhaler before a pile of cardboard boxes that had previously held the programs for the pageant caught her eye. Edwina kicked them over like she was the shortest Godzilla in the world. She looked to Violet, who still didn’t seem to have her voice back. “So we can rule those boxes out as the ones we’re looking for.”

// @hollys-eve @violet-matthews

EVENT 2 // MISS TEEN NORMAL PAGEANT 2019 (HUSH PART 5)

The town is buzzing with life and murmurs about the Miss Teen Normal Pageant come Friday night. After a tumultuous few months of silence and deaths, the committee had agreed that the show must go on for the sake of retaining some of the town’s joy and livelihood. There were mixed reactions among the townsfolk but ultimately the need for a distraction won out. There was no better distraction than the glitz and glamour of pageantry if The Hunger Games taught anyone anything.  

The show opens up with celebration and fanfare, hosted by none other than the ever-so charismatic councilwoman Suzanne Princely with the help of the Normal Secondary’s marching band. You think it’s suspicious that she’s so cheerful after losing a daughter, but a brief scan of the name sashes shows you that she had yet another daughter in the running. You think to yourself that pageants moms are ruthless, but your disparaging thoughts disperse when the girls line up and perform a lip sync of ‘The Sign’ like they do every year, only it’s just a little lacking this time around without vocal accompaniment. 

The girls are all beautiful in their gowns but you notice that there’s only twelve of them, among them a newcomer, Violet Matthews and reigning queen, Dolly-Ann Dixon. You can’t help but marvel at their commitment as you watch them introduce themselves over a projector across the stage. You realize that the girls are all mute, which piques your interest a little bit when so many of them chose to sing for their talents. To make it worse, it sounded like the judges have decided to extend the talent portion of the show for the sake of putting on a good performance for all who gathered.

You sink in your seat and dread having to stay but you’re the only one who’s unenthused about contributing to Normal’s outdated values because you see the veneers of the three judges sitting in front of the stage grinning from ear to ear. You think it’s weird, but so are old men and these guys look like they’ve been in Normal for a thousand years. 

Funny, because you don’t think you’ve ever seen them before.

OOC //