Part II, Chapter one: Amber's Plotting Ways

Okay, this may seem cliché but I had make Amber the villain in this story. Trust me I hate her. So, don't yell it me if you're an Amber fan. Review my story. I wrote it. But I am a Tracy fan.

Amber was still quite nasty even though she had no authority to. But we will get to Amber a little later. And her plans.

Tracy asked me one day,

"Why isn't your hair 'ratted'?"

"Oh, when I went to my other school, we had so much homework. I had never had time but to do my homework."

"I can teach you how to do it. Come over early dressed for school to my place how to do this."

The next day, we did just that.

Okay. Amber's first plan of attack wasn't mean as most will think. She started a "silly" rumor that I was Tracy's cousin and that is why I was "overweight." (None of it is true).

A girl told me,

"Why didn't you tell me that you're Tracy's cousin?"

"I'm not. Who is the world told you that?"

"Amber Von Tussle."

I started to hate Amber with a passion and she started a rumor about me-a silly one-but a rumor nonetheless.

"I hate it when people start rumors about me, I thought. Amber's just using it as an insult and everyone thinks it's a complement."

I figured that Amber didn't like me just 'cause I was a friend of Tracy's and to Amber; any friend of Tracy was an enemy to her.

I asked Tracy why Amber hated her so much.

"Because I helped integrate the Corny Collins Show and her mother got arrested for cheating at the Miss Hairspray Pageant three months ago.'
"Oh, so she takes it out on you."

"No, she was mean to me, even before that, ever since I first audition for the show."

"I think she's just a nasty person."

Tracy knew that Amber might be afraid that I could audition and be in the show. Every six months they had auditions.

She asked me,

"Are you going to audition for the show?"

"No, Tracy."

"Why not?"

"Well, I am training to be on Broadway. I take theatre, I've taken several years of choir and dance lessons."

"But it could help with your dancing. But you seem capable."

"Audition for the show and everything will be more fun."

A week passed. There were going to be auditions for the council. Amber didn't want me to be on the council. Amber didn't want me to get on. She wanted not just that-but for me not to be a friend of Tracy's.

Amber is a lot like her mom and she stole the school's most valued trophy and I didn't know it. But she opened my locker somehow and planted in there.

The news of the "School of the Year Award Trophy 1960" going was tough on everybody.

Everybody's locker would be checked.
And they found it in MY locker.

"Miss Crystal," the principal said, "why did you take our most valued trophy?"
"I didn't! I didn't!"

"You've been caught red handed. Do you expect me to believe it?"
"Yes, for I had no plan. I have no record of causing trouble at school."

Amber smiled nastily. Tracy looked at me and asked,

"Did you do it?"

"No."

"I suppose, since no one saw you do it. I'll let it go, but next you're caught stealing anything here, especially of value. You'll be sent to Montrose."

Some gasped. I didn't know what Montrose was, so I asked Tracy.

"It's a reform school. Didn't they have reformatories in San Diego?"

"Probably, but not that I know of."

"You know, I don't know who did put that trophy in my locker, but my guess it was Amber."

I knew now that Amber wanted to send me to Montrose 'cause she flat-out hated me.
She knew she couldn't get to Tracy, but she could get to me. Amber decided next time, she would do something more drastic. She decided she would steal the Corny Collins Show camera. That night she planted at Crystal's house.