Teen Queen
From Blushes 26 ‘What shall I wear ?’ wailed Tracy, the excitement almost too much. ‘Just keep calm,’ her mother counselled. ‘There’s no panic. He wants to see you in your ordinary clothes first of all. But come straight home so I can brush your hair and see you’re looking nice.’ The town’s annual Teen Queen Contest, annual since three years ago at least when Eldridge Electrical started up in the town and decided to sponsor the event as a means of getting their name known. So was it any wonder that Tracy Simmonds was excited with the contest now begun, the finals just a week away ? And Mr Eldridge coming round to see her after work today . There had been some general talk of Tracy entering last year but of course she was barely 18 then and certainly too scared . This year though she had been persuaded. And why not: Tracy was an extremely pretty girl, a delightful blue-eyed blonde wit...