When the first annual Miss Teen Sweet Valley beauty pageant is announced, Jessica Wakefield is confident she'll be crowned the winner. But Elizabeth Wakefield is trying her best to get the pageant canceled. Elizabeth thinks beauty pageants are old-fashioned and sexist, and she can't understand why her sister would even want to enter one. The twins have had fights before - but never like this!
It's a standoff for the twins. If Jessica participates, she'll lose her sister's respect. If Elizabeth succeeds, she'll lose her sister's love . . .
That night whn the Wakefields gathered for dinner, Jessica decided it was time to make her announcement.
"Have you heard the Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a Miss Teen Sweet Valley beauty pageant this year?" she asked innocently.
Elizabeth looked up. "That's what I was going to ask."
"I've entered," Jessica blurted out, at the precise moment Elizabeth said, "I'm organizing a protest commitee."
Elizabeth stared at her sister in horror. "You're entering?" She folded her napkin and set it aside. "I don't believe it. Beauty pageants are demeaning to woman. They should be outlawed."
"Outlawed?" Jessica protested. "Demeaning? Now, wait a minute. How can being chosen prettiest, smartest, and most talented be demeaning?"
"You think parading up and down a runway in a bathing suit and high heels dignified?" Elizabeth asked sarcastically.
Jessica glared at her sister and then pushed nack her chair as if to leave the table. But she couldn't quite bring herself to leave without having the final word. "If you ruin this for me, Elizabeth Wakefield, I'll never forgive you."
"If I have anything to say about it," Elizabeth answered cooly, "there won't be a beauty pageant in Sweet Valley. Not this year, not next year, not ever."
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