I Need OMG Makeup!
My name is Dana Sprouse, and my embarrassing moment happened when I was applying makeup in our school’s restroom. OK, I don’t really like lipstick or eyeliner, but my old BFF Sandra dumped me for the popular people since my makeup and looks weren’t stylish. So I sneaked some blush, eyeliner, shadow, and a really pretty pink lipstick out of my mom’s makeup bag and brought it to school to put on. I decided to put my makeup on in the restroom and who did I see applying eye makeup on but Sandra!!!! Well, I quickly went to a mirror and started applying eyeliner on. Sandra stopped putting on lipstick long enough to check out my makeup set. I turned around so she could have a better view of my makeup. “You know, you can use any of my makeup if you want, Sandra. That’s what friends are for, correct?” I told her, beaming. “Like I would ever use this stuff!” Sandra scoffed. She picked up the pink lipstick. “You wear Soft Stable makeup? I wouldn’t even be caught dead in Soft Stable makeup. And we’re NOT friends, got that, Dana?” I was so shocked I couldn’t speak.. I watched her toss back her long silvery blond hair over her shoulder and stalk to her new popular friends, who were huddled near a mirror applying red Cover Girl makeup on and giggling softly. Suddenly Sandra turned around and sneered: “BTW’ cute cheeks and pretty eyes.” She laughed and continued toward her new friends. I peered  at myself in the mirror. My cheeks was as red as a cherry. Looked like the blush was  too red. And I put on so much eyeliner I looked like a panda! I probabil looked rediculous!

Losing the Game
My name is Jackie, and I’m in the fifth grade. I’m on the school’s basketball team, and that day my teammates and I were competeing against the Tigers in the state championships. We’re the one of the top teams in Kentucky, so my teammates and I set very high standards for ourselves. And I’m captain of the team, so everyone, even the coach , expects me to help my teammates win this championship. But, you see even a team captain gets nervous sometimes. Reality check. We were competeing against the Tigers, last year’s state champion. It was likely we could lose. Anyway, we were just one point down from the Tigers, and there wasn’t much time to lose. It was better to tie in points with the other team than to lose, and, since this was a tense time, my teammates threw the ball to the captain. I jogged down the court, dribbling the ball. I was about to make the 1-pointer, so we’ll tie with the other team, but then thought: What if I could make the 3-pointer? That’ll even be better than tieing with the other team! So I jogged to the 3-pointer, and I threw atthe net. It was going into the net! I thought excitedly. But at the last minute, the ball bounced off the rim of the net, and crashed down to the floor, and at that second, the buzzer rang, signaling the end of the game! The Tigers had won the state championships, and we lost, because of me! Wendi, a popular girl from my class, started yelling to me that I didn’t deserve to be the team captain. She always wore the best clothes and tons of makeup. Like clothes could matter in basketball! And how could she even see the baall in all that eye makeup? But everyone else started booing at me, and I felt so embarrassed!

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