If I tell someone I’m gay, they usually just look at me with open mouths. Well anyway, I am about five feet and six inches. I’m rather short for m... age. I have short brown hair, and dark brown eyes. I’m rather in shape, but I’m not bulging with muscles like I would like to be. The story starts off as a normal day of school. First I sit threw a boring lecture of The Raven. Then I go off into some lame algebra junk. Finally end up in English class. I waited as my eyes were glued to the clock on. ” Melody and Lissa had been in Minneapolis since Sunday afternoon. I got in about two Tuesday afternoon. We’d been waiting for Allie’s flight, but it was delayed and didn’t get in until eight.“Three nights, three partners,” I said. “Teasing, but no coming.” She groaned.“And just to make it interesting,” Lissa continued, “when your name is drawn, the other players will undress you.” We’d already all brushed our teeth and were about to get ready for bed, none of us anticipating wearing anything.. Nye and I have just been informed that the twenty-five finalists include two high schoolers, and the other one is from Boston." It took a second to register before the applause started. I think Tami was first. "Kelly will be invited to Houston to discuss her entry with the judges' panel in December, and invited back for an eight-week internship this summer. If she wins, her prize is a fifty-thousand dollar SCHOLARSHIP, so don't start hitting her up for loans." The applause was even louder this. “Deal’em Mr. Kopf, it’s your hotel.”Harvey Kopf shuffled the cards for what seemed to some to be longer than necessary, but finally he placed the deck in front of Clete to be cut. Clete flicked his fingers and Mr. Kopf dealt the cards.Clete had one Ace and not much else. He drew four cards.Harvey Kopf had three tens, he drew two cards, he had nothing to lose. He got nothing on the draw, but he felt a cool breeze waft across the room and knew he had as good a chance to win this hand and all his.