“3, 2, 1…” The judges counted. Once more, Jake made an unorganized appearance on stage; his hair was disheveled, his shirt was ripped, and to everyone's surprise, the sash was missing from around his neck.The judge asked him where it was, but before he could respond, Emily ran up to him and began crying fake tears while dusting his dusty suit. She exchanged eye contact with Jake, to which he responded with another eye wink, indicating that the plan had been completed.A few minutes earlier…..While Joe Cole was making his request, Emily suggested to Jake that he hide the sash in a box in the backstage area near the lights, and then she told him to go look for dust and rub it all over himself, as well as scatter his hair to make it appear as if he was going to the restroom and was ambushed by Joe Cole supporters who forcefully took the sash from him and harassed him. Emily had given Jake a fail-proof plan to implement, and they were nearing the end of it, hoping that the judges woul

As the judges were still calculating the scores of the final two contestants, the audience could tell who had emerged as the winner and the new campus Queen.  Joe Cole approached John with great enthusiasm, saying, "I know Mercury will win for sure, and I can not wait to spoil her with a well-deserved spa treatment to help her rejuvenate from all the stress from today," and John was laughing so hard at Joe Cole's glaring positivity.  John also responded by saying that Mercury really deserved this crown and that she has been contesting for two years and this is the closest she has been to winning the crown. He went on to reminisce how lucky they were for Mercury to have discovered that Jake and Emily were all putting on a show and for the evidence to prove it. "It w

The Beauty Goddess competition is held every year immediately following the campus king and queen competition to give one person on campus veto power over certain decisions made by the newly coordinated campus king and queen. This position was the dream of every student on the KQU campus, but for the past two and a half years, Mercury Carter has always won it, giving her the ultimate veto power to overturn decisions made by the current king and queen, and this time she wanted to be a queen as well as receive her EMERALD SASH as the beauty Goddess. Emily, too, desires the golden sash and has been attempting to obtain it for the past 21/2 years, but Mercury has always won. But as Mercury emerged as the KQU Campus Queen, she was confident that she would win the EMERALD sash, thereby becoming the KQU beauty Goddess, and using her veto power to destroy Mercury Emily and terrorize Joe Cole and his friends. Emily smiled as she had this thought and began to plan how she would prevent Mercu

Mercury, still held hostage by the kidnappers, blamed Hereford for falling into this trap, and she wondered if the call about her brother's accident at the club was just a ruse to lure her out and kidnap her if her brother was even injured, or if it was a ploy to exact revenge on her for the slap she gave him.She also suspected Emily's actions because she knew Emily would go to any length to win the title of KQU BEAUTY GODDESS and thus gain veto power, and she wondered if Jake's plan to kidnap her was a way of punishing Joe Cole for not allowing him to win the title of KQU CAMPUS King. She also wondered if she was a pawn in a diplomatic war against the US president; some of her father's enemies may be using her as a weapon to force the US to give in to their demands. A lot of possibilities ran through her mind as to why she was kidnapped, but she was most concerned about Joe Cole and how he would react when he woke up to discover that she was no longer beside him.She remembered th

He ran to untie her as soon as he saw her and gave her a hug and kiss in front of John. John was ecstatic to see her alive and hugged her back. She was relieved to see him again and could not believe he found her before someone else could hurt her.After they brought her to the car, she noticed her brother between two SS agents, his nose bleeding. She wondered why her brother was bleeding and why nothing was being done to stop it."What is happening, and why is my brother not receiving treatment?" Mercury inquired "It is his retribution for conspiring with his mastermind to have you abducted," an irate SS agent uttered.Mercury remained perplexed as to how her brother, who she had been searching for prior to her kidnapping, had been involved in the abduction. Joe Cole informed her that the marquis was employed by a competitor in the Beauty Goddess competition who intended to disqualify you and give the Emerald Sash to someone else."You are going to find it unbelievable who this per