Hairspray

Chapter 1

The year is 1962. One of my best friends won The Miss Teenage Hairspray Spectacular pageant. The televison show I am on is now integrated. I kissed the man of my dreams on live televison. Two of my best friends are together. I'm free of any charges. My enemy's mother arrested. It's a very happy day.

Oh. I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Tracy Edna Turnblad. But you can call me Tracy. My mom's name is Edna and my dad's name is Wilbur. Dad owns a joke shop called The Har Dee Har Hut. Mom owns Edna's Occidental Laundry. I go to school at Patterson Park High School right her in Baltimore. I am in grade twelve. I graduate in one more month. My best friends are Penny Pingleton, Seaweed J and Inez Stubbs. Inez is the person that won the pageant. The show I'm on is the Corny Collins Show. Corny saw me at the hop and loved my dancing. I was on the show the very next day. My enemy's name is Amber Von Tussle. She wanted me off the show. So did her mom, Velma. While Mom and I were at Seaweed's mom's record shop, Velma was trying to seduce my dad. Velma made it look like Dad was cheating on Mom. Mom was so upset, even she wanted me off the show. Anyway, Velma canceled Negro Day. Seaweed and his family are black. White people and black people couldn't dance on tv together. Velma hated black people. When I see Seaweed, Inez, and Motormouth Maybelle, their mother, I see my best friends. I glad I am a Turnblad instead of a Von Tussle. I suggested to Maybelle that we should march. So on the Friday before the Miss Hairspray Spectacular, I met up with Maybelle and everyone. Maybelle said to me that I wouldn't dance on tv again, I told her that if I couldn't dance with Seaweed and Inez, I didn't want to dance at all. So I marched alongside them. Mom came to find me. One of the marchers grabbed my mom arm and she came with us. When we stopped, there were police officers blocking us. Maybelle was talking to the sergeant. He interrupted her. I hit him with my sign. Not hard though. He said I assaulted him. Mom told me to run. Mom, Maybelle, Seaweed and the others (that went on the march) got arrested. Dad bailed them all out. I ran to Penny's. She helped me. She got punished though. Seaweed saved her. I should tell you about Link. Link is the guy I loved for five years now. He only noticed me when he saw me dancing. Anyway, Link was at home putting a new twist on the twist when he heard. He came to the apartment. The news exaggerated on what happened to Sergeant Morris. They said I savagely bludgeoned him. Mom told him that he didn't even bleed. Mom made him something to eat. Seaweed helped Penny out of the ropes that were tied around her. She helped me of course. We went to the record shop. Maybelle and others helped to get me to get to the station for the pageant. Just as Corny was about to announce that Amber was the winner, I came in on the rocket throne that is used for the winner of the pageant. After I danced, Link danced with Inez. She got a wave of calls. That's how she won. Then a sergeant was going to arrest me. Seaweed, Penny and Link circled around me, trying to protect me. Corny saw what the sergeant was doing and told him to arrest Velma. He did arrest Velma on fraud charges. Link kissed me. Velma got fired and Mom became the station manger