THE MIRRORED WEREWOLF MODEL

#15 Crowning Of The New Miss USA

It is Saturday evening, around 19:30pm, 30 minutes before the start of the event. The hall inside the Eminent's club's is buzzing with music and performances from different USA's best artists. The people from different walks of life are flooding the venue, all dressed to kill. The people from the media are there with their cameras capturing everyone walking on the red carpet for a grand entrance. Everyone is anxious to see who will be walking away with the million dollar cash price, an extravagant apartment located in the luxurious area of Manhattan where most of the previously crowned Miss USA's are staying, including Chloe, the Miss USA of all time.

Amongst the judges is the Miss World, Miss Universe, current Miss USA and four other female judges who once held top titles in the beauty pageant industry years ago. Chloe, dressed in her black shiny long dress, looking like one of the contestants, is seated alone on the table not far from that one of the seven judges. She is not in the judging panel as she is the CEO of the company running the competition, her input will be considered in the crowning of the winner, though. Sandra on the other hand, is the MC of the day, while Stacey has been chosen by the Eminent's club management to serve the judges with the refreshments.

There goes the first round of contestants introducing themselves with Busi being the second on the line..the crowd could not help but cheer as soon as she walks on the stage and holds the mic. She introduced herself with so much confidence which left the crowd cheering endlessly and which left the judges slack-jawed. "Yeah, that is my girl" Chloe murmurs to herself in silence while smiling secretly in case Sandra might glaze at her direction.

There comes a second round of swimsuits, and still Busi tops the list. Her posture and confidence are out of this world. While the contestants are still at the back changing into their evening gowns, which is the last outfit of the night. Chloe stands up and goes to the big table of the judges to see who they think might walk away with the crown. She smiled all the way back to her table after seeing Busi scoring higher from all the judges.

Soon after she sat back on her table, there appears Stacey carrying a tray with all sorts of snacks and bottled drinks to her table. She slowly serves her while also engaging in a petty conversation, hoping to get her attention but Chloe subconsciously cuts her petty conversation in a very professional manner by telling her to quickly attend to the other judges before the contestants come back on to the stage. Stacey, feeling very disappointed that how come the person who used to pay so much attention to her everytime she came to the club is now behaving as though she does not exist. She quietly leaves her table anyway and goes to serve the table with other judges.

Few minutes later, the contestants come out to the stage for their final questions, dressed in their extravagant evening gowns. Again Busi wowed the judges with her answers, adding points to her scores.

"Now the moment we all been waiting for is finally here." Says Sandra, opening the envelope in her hands to announce the winner.

"The new Miss USA is….." The lights dim before she could call out the name.

"Congratulations to Busisiwe Dube, our new Miss USA." The previous Miss USA comes forward and nicely puts the crown on Busi's head as Sandra mentions the name. All the other contestants jump to Busi and embrace her, while others kiss her on forehead. Pride, amongst the audience also runs to the stage to hug her.

"You may take your last walk on the stage as our new Miss USA." Adds Sandra

Busi indeed takes her walk, tears of joy streaming down her cheeks.

While she is still gracing the audience with her last walk on the stage, Chloe calls Sandra on the side and instructs her to organise Winston to come pick her and Busi up. Sandra, puzzled by the mention of Busi's name within the instructions, she turns back to Chloe to confirm if what her ears heard is indeed correct.

"Did you just say I must call Winston and tell him to come pick both you and Busi up?"reassures Sandra

"Yes Sandra, we must make sure that our Miss USA arrives safely home while she is still waiting for her new car to be delivered to her." Confirms Chloe.

"I am on it." Responds Sandra, moving away to a more quiter place to ring Winston. After the call, she suspiciously murmurs loudly to herself.

"Ever since I started working for CMA, I do not recall my boss organizing the transportation for any newly crowned Miss USA. This South African model must be the luckiest of them all."

Within a blink of an eye, Winston was already parked outside. Sandra quickly runs to Chloe and tells her that Winston says he is already outside.

"Please check for Busi and tell her our transport is waiting for us already." Chloe instructs Sandra

Sandra goes at the back room and finds the ladies still surrounding Busi, congratulating her.

"The boss has organised the transport for you, please follow me." Says Sandra looking at Busi's direction.

Busi looks side to side, thinking perhaps Sandra is talking to one of the ladies.

"I am talking to you." Sandra emphasizes her statement, boring into Busi's direction

"Me?" Asks Busi, pointing at herself

"Yes Busi, you. Come, follow me." Sandra turns to exit the room

"Oh, please give me a minute." Says Busi, searching for Pride with her eyes. Just as she was about to call her using the cellphone, there emerges Pride from the corner coming from the bathroom.

"Pride, let's go. My boss has organized me a transportation to home." Says Busi, holding Pride by the hand as they walk behind Sandra.

The three of them stand beside Chloe and wait for her to finish talking to few people who were demanding her attention.

"Oh Busi, you here already." Chloe holds Busi by the hand whilst wrapping up the conversation with the other people. Pride turns to look at Chloe's hand holding Busi and she smiles then winks at Busi.

Sandra walks the three of them to where Winston is parked before she could drive off to her house. But before she leaves, she waits for all of them to get settled inside Chloe's car driven by Winston. She is waiting more specially on Chloe, hoping she will say something about Winston concerning his looks but Chloe just occupies a passenger seat without saying anything while Busi and Pride climbs at the back.

Soon after Sandra drove off and before Winston could start the car, Chloe introduced herself and Busi to him. Only then she asked Busi about Pride, apologizing for not having greeted her earlier on while she was tied up with a whole lot of people.

"Oh this is Pride, my roommate." Says Busi, pointing at Pride

"So pleased to meet you Pride, you surely know who I am I guess." Responds Chloe

Pride nods in agreement and everyone inside the car giggle.

The car finally reach Busi and Pride's place. Both pride and Busi climb off the car. To their surprise, Chloe also gets off and insists on following them inside the flat.

"Sorry man, I need to use the bathroom." Pleads Chloe, tapping her feet as a sign of being pressed by urine.

Busi points her the bathroom as Pride heads to the bedroom. She later comes out of the bathroom and asks Busi to walk her out to the car. They stand outside the gate.

"Is this where you guys leave, a one room apartment and you share a bed?" Asks Chloe in disbelief. "I need to get your apartment's papers signed as soon as possible." She adds, glancing at Winston who is starring at them from inside the car.

"Look at how this moron is starring at us, now I can not kiss Busi, and this was the perfect place for me to do it and it would seem as if I was rejoicing her winning." Says Chloe silently to herself.

"Congratulations once more." She whispers into Busi's ear as she squeezes her tightly in her arms and then rushes to the car.