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Prince Dream Rose
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Okay, Nacha! Deep breath. Remember what Trish said. Smile as big as you can, and get excited!
“I am ready!” I declare. My English isn’t great, but I know enough to be excited! “I am tough!”
“Tough, eh?” the interviewer asks. “But are you Texas Tough?”
“¿Qué? Estamos en Ohio, hombre tonto,” I blurt out, then quickly correct myself. “Ah… this is Ohio.”
“Texas has come all the way up here just to fight you,” the interviewer says. “Your opponent tonight is… Tex, the Amarillo Armadillo!”
“¡Vámonos! I will fight Texas! ¡VIVA OHIO!”
“He’s waitin’ for you out there. He’s already dissed the great state of Ohio and the whole country of Mexico, so go get ‘im! Dispense some frontier justice!”
I don’t know who Tex is, but he sounds like he doesn’t like me. Is it because I’m from Mexico? Well, I won’t show fear! I’ll fight him no matter how armored he is!
“For frontier justice!”
I stride out the locker room and hear a strong Latin beat playing. That’s my cue! I rush down the hall and burst out of the double doors. The gymnasium bleachers are five rows deep and all the fans are cheering for me.
It’s everything I dreamed of!
I see Trish waving at me from the ringside, holding T-shirts and smiling. Oh! Smile! T-shirts!
I bound down the aisle between the bleachers, waving and smiling. Some fans are pointing at the big Armadillo already in the ring and telling me to kick his butt.
I’m smiling and waving and loving the attention. But people are staring at me very intently. Judging me. Wondering what kind of luchadora I’ll be.
Tex is a big armadillo with a bigger sneer.
“The Nacho Dip arrives!” Tex declares. “Crowd here’s a bunch ‘a buffoons, cheering for a freak like you. Where I’m from, we don’t wear costumes ‘fore Halloween. I’m here to knock you back over the border, where you belong!”
He’s a jerk!
Should I:
1. Grab the microphone from Tex and declare I’ll fight him because of how he’s insulted me and everyone here!
2. Ignore Tex and upstage him with how impressive my moves are and how flexible I am!
3. Surprise Tex and just kick him in his smug face!
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