Does She Deserve To Be Homecoming Queen?

“Last by not least, what you’ve all been waiting for: Homecoming Queen!” the booming voice announced, blaring loudly over the PA system. The students crammed into the gymnasium seemed apathetic and quite restless at the end of the long school day. “This year’s queen is, drum roll please... Marie Antoinette!” Soon after the voice announced her name, the rather extravagantly dressed girl walked across the gym to receive her crown. In response, the uninterested students rolled their eyes, some even groaning. Marie Antoinette, the newly crowned Homecoming Queen, was the epitome of “popular girl”. You know that girl; the Regina George of Mean Girls and Heather Chandler from the Heathers. As common for the “popular girl”, she was definitely disliked more than she was liked. With that in mind, you can imagine that the anticipated applause did occur, however was quite sarcastic.

Comments stirred through the gym quickly as the crown was placed on her little, blonde head and she sat down on the royal throne. You know, we shouldn’t have to deal with her anymore. How had she even won? She must have bribed her way into winning. She’s so oblivious. Why does she deserve to be Homecoming Queen? Nearly everyone in that gym was thinking the same thing; she shouldn’t be the queen.
All of a sudden, somewhat unexpectedly, a small voice decided to voice the collective opinion, coincidentally just as the whole gymnasium grew quiet. The voice that was heard throughout the whole gymnasium was from a quiet, “unpopular” girl. This was the same girl who had gone to school with Marie Antoinette for countless years, yet she was nonexistent in the eyes of the queen. The girl spoke with shocking authority and soon her phrase “Down with Queen Marie!” was being chanted by practically the whole