rain on me
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 | 10:24 pm

Desperate times, desperate measures

To Mr Chace Crawford and Mr Penn Badgeley

My name is Melissa, and I go to a forgettable school in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. How's it going guys? I hear you're dating Carrie Underwood and Blake Lively respectively. Well forget them for a minute. The real reason I'm writing this letter is because it's our school formal soon (that's the Prom to you)! By soon I mean like, 8 months. Oh well, you can never be too prepared.

Here's the part where I tell you some sob story and you both come jetting down here for our formal. You see, my friend Tara, who's an amazing, sweet and beautiful chick just broke up with her boyfriend. That jerk disappeared to Deutschland for 3 months and sent a grand total of two emails which don't count because they were sent to everyone. They got together a couple of months before last years formal and even did the debutante ball together. You can see why she's feeling pretty down at the moment. Oh, I just had a lightbulb moment. My friend is in love with you Penn, she would feel so much better if you were her date! I'm such a great friend.

Sob story the second. I am pathetically single in a school filled with boys who don't know what girls are. Oh yes it's true. Either that or I'm so hideously ugly that nobody will be my date. As a celebrity, it is your duty to help those less fortunate, ie. those who weren't blessed with attractiveness or acting skills.

Now for the best reason for you guys to come down here. Gossip Girl airs in Aus around that time so you guys would be down here for promotional stuff anyway right? Imagine the hype over Gossip Girl when the headlines read "CHACE CRAWFORD AND PENN BADGELEY ARE SYMPATHY DATES FOR A PAIR OF SINGLE AND DESPERATE TEENS". Mmm, I can see it now.

Yours most sincerely,
Melissa Ng

Pee.ess - You guys both coming here to be our dates is as far-fetched as me finding any date at all, therefore I suck. Kymbat, if you say "take youknowwho" one more time, I'll ask that person you don't like to take you. Here's a picture of Tara and I to make myself feel better.

Tara (left) and me. We're pretty, love us.