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hey guys i’m back with another part from um katie and the cupcake cure and we are on chapter 14. the mix up cupcakes we should have a meeting so we can figure this out alexa suggested we could do it at my house this time how about saturday i’m going to my dad’s this weekend mia said next weekend should be fine emma said it’s a month until the dance anyway we need to figure out what kind of cupcakes to make i reminded everyone we can do that next week alexa said we’ll work out our work out a schedule too so the following saturday i showed up at alex’s front door with a whole bunch of recipes and enough ingredients for a couple dozen if we’re going to decide on cupcakes we should have to do some research alexa lives in a brick house with a very neat front lawn the bushes on either side of a white front steps are the kind that are trimmed into a perfect globe shape alexa looked surprised when she answered the door hi katie she said what’s all that it’s for our media explained so we can experiment with cupcake flavors oh she said i thought we were just gonna talk about it well i just talked when we can taste i asked alexa led me into the kitchen i’ve been in her house a few times so far and i’m always amazed how clean it is in there for example there’s nothing on the kitchen counter not even a toaster our counter has a toaster the big red mixer a cookie jar shaped like an apple mom’s spice rack and usually a bowl of fruit alex’s mom was at the kitchen table setting up a pitcher water and glasses for a meeting along with a bowl of grapes i noticed there was a piece of paper and pencil at each of our four places around the table mrs becker was wearing a button-down light blue shirt and dark blue dress pants i never seen her wear jeans not even on saturday her hair is auburn like alexa’s but it’s cut short hello katie she said when she saw me she noticed the bag i was carrying did you bring snacks how nice it’s actually supplies so we can make test cupcakes i told her you mean you’ll be baking she asked oh dear i didn’t know you’d be baking today alexa we’ll clean up when we’re done mom alexa said promise it’s true we’ll clean we clean up all the time when we bake at my house i added miss b becker gave a little sigh all right but let me know when you’re ready to turn on the oven she hurried out of the kitchen mom doesn’t like it when our plans change alexa explained especially when there’s a mess involved i promise we won’t make a mess i said then i remembered what my kitchen usually looks like when i bake cupcakes well not too much of a mess anyway emma mia and mia arrived next at the same time alexa neatly piled the pencils and paper and i took all the ingredients i brought out of my bag besides the basic cupcake making stuff i had mini marshmallows chocolate chips nuts sprinkles red hot candies tubes of icing and food coloring and a jar of cherries just about everything i could grab from the pantry everything looks so yummy mia said well i was thinking that we have to make a really incredible cupcake if we’re gonna sell a lot i said something we’ve never done before how do we do that emma asked we experiment i said mom and i do it all the time that’s how we came up with our famous banana split cupcake only i didn’t have any bananas so we have to come up with something else i turned to alexa do you have a mixer i asked not the kind you have she replied it’s the one you hold in your hand that’s fine i said first we need to make a regular vanilla batter i had made so many vanilla cupcakes over the last few weeks that i didn’t need a recipe at all pretty soon we had the perfect bowl of batter ready now we should figure out what to add in it i said everyone loves chocolate chips mia suggested we stirred some in marshmallows go well with chocolate said alexa emma nodded definitely we added some mini marshmallows to the batter what about nuts i’m asked it might be good to have something crunchy in there some people are allergic to nuts alexa pointed out that’s true i said but sprinkles are crunchy too maybe we could put sprinkles in alexa wrinkle their nose you mean put them in the cupcake instead of on top why not i asked nobody had a good argument i dumped in half a bottle of rainbow sprinkles they look good mia said and i don’t think there’s room in the bowl for anything else we scooped out the batter into the cupcake tins alexa put out for us because of all the stuff we mixed in there there was a lot of batter left over i don’t have any more pans alexa said no problem i told her we can bake more when the first batch cools miss becker came in to preheat the oven for us she raised her eyebrow when she saw her cupcakes my those look interesting she said wait till they taste it mom alexa told her you’re gonna love it while the cupcakes baked we whipped up some plain vanilla icing should we add anything to the icing i asked i think the cupcakes have enough inside the mia said good point i said we cleaned up our mess while we waited for the cupcakes to bake when the timer rang was becker helped us with the oven do we take them out now she asked we need to test them first i said mom had taught us how to stick a toothpaste toothpick into the middle of a cupcake if it came out clean it was done but if it had batter on it the cupcakes needed to cook more i stuck a toothpick in the middle of one of our mixed up cupcakes when it i took it out it wasn’t clean but it didn’t have batter on it it had gooey marshmallow chocolate and sprinkles stuck to it i frowned i’m not sure if it’s done or not i said alexa looked over my shoulder they’re done they’re a little brown on top see i realized there would be i realized there would be no sure way to tell if the cupcakes were done we might as well take them out besides i was dying to try one the delicious smell of baking cupcakes was taking over my brain we put the cupcakes on a cool on a rack to cool normally we talk a lot when we’re wanting sorry when we’re waiting for cupcakes to cool off but that day we started oh my goodness sorry we stared at our cupcakes like we were going to cool them off with amazing power of our minds alone finally mia blurted out maybe we should try them without icing you know to get true sense of how they taste that sounds very logical to me i said we each picked up a cupcake they were warm but cool enough to handle i unwrapped the paper and took a bite a hot gooey mess of chocolate and marshmallow exploded in my mouth mmm was all i could say alexa had a weird look on her face it’s too sweet there’s no such thing as too sweet i told her and i’m a nodded in agreement mia had another complaint they’re kind of messy she said wiping her hands on a napkin let’s see what mom thinks alexis says she left the kitchen and returned with both parents miss der becker was tall and skinny with curly hair and glasses like his wife i think you girls have a great fundraising idea he said everybody loves cupcakes alexa handed one to each parent they’re not iced yet she said they might taste different when they’re iced we held our breath as mr and mrs becker bit into the cupcakes mrs becker made the same weird face alexa had my they’re very sweet she said they’re tasty said mr becker but i’ll tell you something i’m not a big fan of marshmallow i never liked them you know what makes me happy a plain vanilla cupcake i thought of cali’s dad i think that’s a parent thing parents like vanilla cupcakes and don’t forget parents are a big part of our sales alexa reminded us i’m starting to feel discouraged but plain cupcakes are boring we need our cupcakes to be extra special special so everyone wants them well maybe they could look special mia said what do you mean i asked well this is a school fundraiser right maybe they could be in the school colors or something i said i immediately knew what she was talking about mrs becker can we have another bowl please i scooped half of the vanilla frosting we had made into the new bowl then i put a few drops of blue food coloring into one bowl and a few drops of yellow into the other emma help me stir them up make that one blue or mia said pointing after a couple more drops we had the perfect blue and yellow the official colors of park street middle school mia do your magic i told her mia expertly iced one cupcake with blue frosting and another cupcake with yellow frosting then she used the icing tube to write ps in yellow on a blue cupcake and ps in blue on the yellow cupcake just imagine they’re a plain vanilla cupcake inside mia said holding them tess they’re just right said mrs b becker i’ll bet you’ll sell 100 of those agreed mr becker 200 alexa cheered we will i said confidently we are definitely going to win this contest we just have to do one thing what alexa asked we have to make 200 cupcakes chapter 15 how to bake 200 cupcakes even though i was disappointed that we were making plain vanilla cupcakes i love mia’s cupcake design and the next cupcake friday emma brought in cupcakes first that she made herself when i bit into one it i tasted chocolate chips and sprinkles i left out the marshmallows so they wouldn’t be too sweet or too sticky she said what do you think i think they’re amazing i said i would blush a little well i really did like our mixed up cupcakes that made me feel better at least emma liked them as we ate our cupcakes we went over our plan for the next week our parents had agreed to last bake cupcakes once a day for four days before the contest we’d start baking on tuesday then finish baking on friday night then saturday morning we’d ice and decorate every single one we had a promise to get all our homework done right after school mom said we could do all the baking at our house each one of us would take turns bringing the ingredients and cupcake liners alexa had a whole thing mapped out in her and on a chart tuesday night katie would provide the supplies she said reading out loud i’ll bring them wednesday emma can bring them thursday and mia will do friday then saturday we’ll chip in for the icing we’ll have to make four dozen cupcakes every night and do an extra dozen on friday then we’ll have four left over i’ll lean across the table to get a better look at the chart alexa had worked out a whole system with stickers one cupcake sticker equaled a dozen cupcakes it looked very complicated it looks a lot harder to bake 200 cupcakes than i thought i said i heard a laugh when i turned around i saw sydney and maggie standing by the table i saw them sign i saw the sign up sheets for the fundraiser sydney said you’re doing a bake sale no that’s really original bake sales are so boring maggie added you know what’s boring and unoriginal i thought following sydney around and repeating everything she says like a parrot i thought it but i wasn’t brave enough to say it as usual though mia wasn’t afraid to speak up at all everybody likes cupcakes mia said so what are you guys doing on a fundraising sheet it says popular girls club it’s top secret cindy said nobody has ever done what we’re planning we’re gonna blow everyone away not everyone said alexa under her breath but cindy and maggie didn’t hear her and walked away i wonder what they’re planning emma asked worried lee i bet it’s really good i bet they haven’t even thought of it yet i said otherwise they wouldn’t be bragging about their idea to everyone alexa laughed you’re probably right after cindy’s comments i wanted to win that contest more than ever we had a recipe we had a plan now we just had to make it happen our first baking night was tuesday before the fundraiser i could tell mom was really excited too she even bought extra cupcake pans first to use mia alexa and emma all got to my house right at seven o’clock mom gave us a little pep talk and some instructions there are enough pans here for four dozen cupcakes she said but i wouldn’t make a double batch of batter baking is tricky make one batch first put it in the oven and then start the second batch then you’ll end up with the perfect cupcakes thanks mrs brown mia said now how about a mom asked oh mom to make her happy we all put our hands on top of one another’s mom led the cheer go cupcake club then we got to work but then we were getting into a cupcake groove emma likes sifting the flour alexa liked measuring things mia liked mixing things and i liked cracking eggs we had a first batch of two dozen cupcakes done in record time and then the phone rang i wiped off my hands and picked it up hey katie it was cali i tried texting you are you watching singing stars ryan just advanced to the finals can you believe it i realized that i totally forgot it was time for singing stars uh i’m not watching it i said we’re making cupcakes for the fundraiser hey katie how many eggs is again mia called out oh callie said you have company story to bother you there’s a little silence well i’ll talk to you tomorrow text me with the results okay i asked sure she said then she hung up i felt a little sad for a minute callie belonged in the cupcake club she could be having so much fun with us if she wanted to earth to katie how many eggs mia asked oh sorry two i replied by the time alexis’s dad came to pick up everyone we had four dozen cupcakes in boxes stored safely in our freezer 48 down 152 to go mia said as they were leaving actually it’s 156 since we’re making 204 cupcakes alexa pointed out 156 i cried we had worked really hard tonight yet it didn’t seem like we’d done much after all after my friends left i flopped on the couch for about five seconds time to jump in the shower katie mom told me i don’t want you to go to bed getting to bed too late i rolled onto the floor you’ll have to drag me hmm mom said maybe all this cupcake baking is too much for you i jumped to my feet mom always knows how to get me nope i’m fine i told her then i ran to the bathroom as i drifted off to sleep that night i thought about what the instructions would look like for someone making 200 cupcakes how to make 200 cupcakes one do homework in a dentist office two eat dinner three clean up after dinner four make four dozen cupcakes five clean up after making four dozen cupcakes six shower seven rinse eight sleep nine repeat ten repeat eleven repeat chapter sixteen the purple dress 201 202 203 204 we counted together as the last cupcake the last of 17 dozen exactly went into its box we did it woohoo i cheered everyone kind of jumped around you know it’s funny that there are exactly four cupcakes left over alexa pointed out one for each of us i think that’s a sign mia said we need to eat these four cupcakes to make an even 200 but four cupcake equals eight dollars alexa reminded us i know i chimed in but maybe it’s like a good lucky thing good luck thing that satisfied alexa good point we should probably taste them anyway to make sure they’re okay the vanilla cupcakes were delicious even without ice dicing so we’ll meet here tomorrow at eight twice then i reminded everyone the fundraiser starts at noon the doorbell rang and alexa’s mom came to pick her up and emma the mia’s stepbrother beeped his horn outside mom and i will pick you up after dinner mia told me okay i’ll be ready i said i forgot to mention that on friday we baked the cupcakes right after school because we didn’t have to do our homework right away the night before mia had had an idea about how we should spend friday night what is everyone wearing to the dance she wanted to know alex shrugged i don’t know what is what i always wear i was thinking about wearing my favorite dress emma said the one with pink flowers i don’t even i didn’t even think about it i admitted do i have to get dressed up to go to the dance well no me i made it you don’t have to but it’s fun i was thinking that tomorrow night we should all go to the mall and look for dresses to wear i can alexa said we’re going to my aunts for dinner i’ll probably just wear the dress i have emma said mia looked at me come on katie what do you say i have to ask my mom i said honestly i don’t like shopping at all but i think mia could make anything fun but yeah why not my mom agreed after talking to mia’s mom of course and so miss velaz and mia picked me up at 7. the west grove mall is really big with a lot of buildings all connected together it reminded me of a big maze when we walked through the doors mrs velez turned what store are we gonna go to first she asked mia looked horrified mom seriously of course this is a big mall her mom pointed out besides i promised mrs brown that i’d stick with you girls i felt like sinking into the floor my mom sticks to me like glue when we go to the mall she used to make me wear one of those kid leashes until i was five here i was in middle school and i could still feel the invisible leash tugging at me miss velez must have seen the look on my face you know you girls are lucky to have an expert fashion consultant accompanying you mia grabbed me by the arm come on there’s a super cute store right around the corner mia’s mom walked slowly behind us as we raced into the store loud dance music blared through the speakers the store was pretty crowded with girls looking through racks of dresses skirts shirts skirts and jeans mia skidded to the stop to a stop in front of the black dress with a zipper down the front this is so cute she said katie you should try it on i don’t know i said it’s black black clothes remind me of vampires mia looked me up and down i was wearing a pair of old jeans with a grip in the knee and a red t-shirt with a pea sign on it so you like bright colors she said what else do you like i shrubbed i don’t know i don’t know what’s in style and what’s not when i go shopping with my mom we get some jeans and then i pick out whatever shirts i like so you can do that with a dress too mia said just look around and see what you like that sounded easy enough i started looking through the racks of clothesline with mia at first i was just confused there were so many dresses and even though they were different colors and different styles they kind of all look the same to me then a splash of purple caught my eye i walked over to the display with the headless mannequin wearing a purple dress it was really purple grape jelly purple but i liked it it had short sleeves and a straight skirt with black belt around the middle i took one off the rack i kind of like this i told mia it looks good on the mannequin but she doesn’t have a head so anything would look good on her i guess no i like it mia said i could tell she was excited try it on the dressing rooms were lined up on the side of the wall a salesperson used a key to open one of the silver doors for me i stepped inside and tried on the dress i looked at myself in the mirror not bad i had to admit then i heard mia’s voice outside katie come out i’m dying to see how it looks i cautiously stepped out of the dressing room mia’s eyes got wide when she saw me oh it’s perfect turn around she ordered i felt like the world’s worst fashion model as i turned in a circle for mia’s inspection you have got to get it she said wear it with some short black boots and it’ll be fabulous what if i don’t have short black boots i asked then you can borrow mine i looked at the price tag it cost less than the money mom had given me to spend i think i’ll get it i said that was easy then i heard a familiar voice nearby that dress is gross megs i would never wear that to gym class sydney i had to get inside the dressing room before she saw me i turned to run but it was too late isn’t it a little too early for halloween katie there she goes i thought if i couldn’t escape i might as well face her i spun around what do you mean sydney well that’s a great costume isn’t it she asked no wait you’re that purple dinosaur she made a bit me so angry i wish i had something some great comeback to give her but as usual she left me tongue tied you know sydney violet was a hot runway color this fall mia said in the super cool tone of hers i was just reading about it in the color trends column in fashion weekly now with sydney’s turn to get tongue tied but she managed to recover violet or not it’s an ugly dress for the first time ever i thought of something to say to sydney and i wasn’t afraid to say it either maybe mia was rubbing off on me a little i don’t care if you think it’s ugly i said i like it then i marched back into my dressing room and out of the corner of my eye i saw mia smirk my heart was pounding something about that dress made me feel good good enough to tell stupid old sydney to shut up and that’s why my purple dress is still my favorite dress to this day and it as it turns out it’s my lucky one too chapter 17 pgc secret is revealed saturday morning was as the skateboard dudes in my school would say intense mom and i got soup got up super early and started mixing batches and batches of icing the girls came over and emma’s mom came over to help too it took hours but we got everything done my mom and emma’s mom iced the cupcakes with me mia wrote the letters on them with her perfect handwriting alex and emma made big card board signs for the table that said cupcakes two dollars then they helped us with the icing by 11 o’clock we had 200 perfect cupcakes we carefully transferred them to emma’s mom’s minivan she drove them to school my mom and i brought the sign a cash box one blue and one yellow tablecloth and plastic trays for the cupcakes the day was perfect for fundraising sunny but not too hot when we got to the school the big parking lot was roped off with police tape there was a bunch of canopies set up in squares in a square all around the lot blue and yellow balloons tied to the canopies waved and wiggled in the air we searched around until we found a table with a note that’s a cupcake club on it we started setting up we spread out the blue tablecloth and draped the yellow one over it in another direction so you can see both colors alexa and emma taped up their sign we put about a half the cupcakes on platters then we stood back and checked out our table not bad i said it’s a little flat mia said turning her head sideways maybe next time we could put the platters on pillars or something so that somewhere high and some are low mom walked up behind us and put her arm around me well i think it looks perfect she said why don’t you girls go stand out in front of the table and i’ll take a picture we quickly lined up me me and alexa me me alexa and then emma say cupcake mom called out cupcake we shouted alexa glanced at our watch we still have 15 minutes let’s go check out the competition good idea i agreed we walked around there must have been about a dozen tables beside us the basketball team was still setting up their dunking booth at the end of the parking lot the girls soccer team had a booth where you they would take your picture print it out and put it in a frame then you could decorate the frame with shapes like stars and soccer balls then we walked past the chess club’s table oh no emma cried a bake sale the table is covered with paper plates topped with cookies brownies and yes cupcakes i think our table stands out marmia whispered to us and they don’t have the special park street middle school cupcakes either besides they have mostly cookies alexa pointed out and they’re only charging 50 cents for those me and alexa made me feel better i think emma felt better too then we heard loud music coming from the other side of the parking lot it was dance music just like we heard in the clothing store that night before we all turned our heads at the same time the pgc had set up their booth let’s get closer mia suggested we walked across the parking lot i hated to a minute but the pg c booth looked really cool the table was covered with a black cloth with silver stars dangling from it there were glittery makeup cases all over the table they had a banner they printed kind you order from the store tied to the canopy up above it’s read pgc’s makeover magic what exactly are they doing i wondered out loud we walked even closer cindy and bella were busy spreading out makeup and brushes and stuff on the table bella had a small sign on the table in front that said goth makeup makeovers are my specialties she was wearing a black dress with a puffy skirt her reddish brown hair was pulled back in sleek ponytail and her face looked kind of pale smudgy dark makeup ridged her eyes next to her sydney wore a long blonde hair straight and sleek she was wearing a long white t-shirt over a gray tank with black leggings and boots it reminded me of an outfit that mia might wear cali was sitting at a tiny round table set up next to them with a cash box behind her i noticed that she was dressed exactly the same as sydney so was maggie she looked as perfect as sydney and callie except that long lock of frizzy brown hair was hanging over her eyes she darted through the crowd finding handing out makeover magic flyers flyers why didn’t we think of that alexa said with a frown we don’t need flyers to sell cupcakes mia said cupcakes sell themselves the pgc booth worried me i mean it looked really good a lot better than our table with its cardboard sign maybe sydney had been right all along they were going to win the contest with their secret weapon speaking of selling cupcakes we should get back to the booth alexa said that’s what mickey bumped into us oh hi she said shoving a flyer of my hand when things get slow your cupcakes stand stop by for a makeover we’ll try but i don’t think things are gonna get slow i said we walked away determined more than ever to sell every last one of our cupcakes the pgc might have music and flyers and glitter but we have delicious cupcakes i cheered let’s go win this contest we ran back to our cupcake booth just as the fundraiser officially opened a bunch of people came in all at once we were right by the front entrance which was a good thing almost everybody stopped to check us out they said nice things like wow it’s school colors and what nice cupcakes but for the first few minutes nobody bought one then mrs moore my math teacher came to the table i almost didn’t recognize her when she’s teaching us she wears skirts and blouses and dark colors her hair is mostly gray and she’s always had a zip pulled back but today she was wearing a sweatshirt with a teddy bear on it and jeans her hair was loose and went down to the top of her shoulders i thought it looked very nice that way hello miss brown she said she looked at the table it must have been a lot of work to make all these cupcakes there are more in the box as i told her we made 200 well 204 actually that’s 17 dozen i was hoping my mouth would impress her and maybe it did i’ll take one please she said i handed and handed me two dollars in exchange for a cupcake she took a bite right in front of me vanilla she said my favorite then she walked away i couldn’t believe it it’s our first sale i cried everyone let out a cheer i turned over the money to alexis who was in charge of the cash box mrs moore must have brought us good luck because we started selling cupcakes like crazy after that some people asked for blue some people asked for yellow but most people didn’t care which ones they got they’re so busy selling cupcakes that i forgot about we were so busy selling cupcakes that i forgot about the pgc booth until a friend of mia’s came to our table i recognized her as one of the girls mia talks to in the hallway hi sophia mia said then she gave a little gasp i turned away from the cupcakes to see what had startled me out then i noticed sophia’s face looked really strange her skin had so much white makeup on it she looked like a clown the dark makeup around her eyes was smudged everywhere i know sophia said noticing me his face it’s terrible isn’t it and it cost me five dollars that’s when i realized sophia was a victim of the make over magic booth it’s not so bad mia said i was hoping to look pale and mysterious but this is too much sophia signed you should see what’s going on over there it’s more like makeover tragic than makeover magic me and i looked at each other then i turned emma can you and alexa handle things for a minute i asked emma nodded no problem we quickly made our way over to pgc booth a big crowd had gathered around maybe sophia just got unlucky i said it looks like they’re doing great we inched our way closer so we could get a better view i realized that most of the crowd wasn’t in line to get a makeover instead they’re watching the action of the booth cindy wiped a brush across the face of a girl sitting across from her there she said you’re ready for the runway the girl turned around and a few people giggled i try not to laugh myself sydney had put so much fake tanner on the girl that her face looked like a tangerine glittery blue eyeshadow covered her eyelids i don’t know much about fashion but that doesn’t look right to me i said to mia that shouldn’t look right to anybody mia whispered back okay sydney called out who’s next nobody stirred then the girl with the orange face nudged her friend you promised you would get one if i got one the friend looked terrified but she knew she had to go through with it she slowly walked up to cali and handed her five dollars thanks callie said with a smile but i know kelly really well and behind that smile i knew she wasn’t really happy i just felt a little bad for her the crowd thinned out and kelly noticed me and mia standing there hey katie she called out do you want a makeover um you know i don’t wear makeup i said sorry you should come check out our cupcake table i bet your dad would like one they’re vanilla a woman i didn’t know tapped me on the shoulder she wore sunglasses and her brown hair was swept back in a tan scarf with designs on it did you make the cupcakes with the school colors she asked yes i mean we did i said we have a cup uh club the cupcake club they are beautiful and delicious he said made from scratch i could tell i would love to have you make some for the pta lunch in the spring we’d pay you of course me and i exchanged glances someone wanted to pay us to make cupcakes just like professionals how awesome was that maggie flew up to the woman mom the cupcake club is a rival booth you’re consorting with an enemy calm down maggie her mom said it’s all for school it’s i was just coming to get my makeover maggie glared at us but i didn’t care i was feeling pretty good then callie stood up maggie can you look at the cash box for a minute i’m going to get a cupcake sydney dropped the makeup brush she was holding callie you absolutely cannot buy a cupcake do you want to win the contest or not it’s just a cupcake callie said quietly callie walked over we smiled at each other maybe callie was right maybe it was just a cupcake but to me it felt like so much more chapter 18 the icing on the cupcake the fundraiser ended at 3 o’clock and by then we had sold almost every single cupcake then mia’s stepdad eddie came to pick her up hey girls he said smiling big how did the cupcake sale go great me i told him alexa counted the remaining cupcakes we sold 183 she reported so that means you have 17 left he asked alexander tell you what eddie said he took his wallet out from his pocket i’ve got a big meeting on monday i bet everyone at work would like some cupcakes i’ll take everything you have left wow thanks i said that’ll be thirty four dollars please alexa said matter of factly mia smile thanks eddie she said and she looked really happy you didn’t have to do that i did said eddie i’m making them all work late but they don’t know it yet he laughed i still couldn’t tell how mia felt about eddie but he seemed nice enough to me i wondered what it would be like if mom got married again that would be weird too weird to think about that thanks to eddie we sold every single one of our cupcakes we turned over our 400 to principal lacosta then we headed home to get ready for the dance that night i put on my new purple dress and mia’s black boots i checked out my reflection in the mirror i still didn’t feel like i could be in a magazine or anything but i thought i looked pretty good mom got teary-eyed when i came downstairs my baby’s first dance she said gripping me in a hug oh you look so glamorous um i said in a complaining voice but to be honest i kind of liked it we picked up mia who of course looked great and then mom dropped us off the gym was decorated just like you see in the movies or on tv there were more blue and yellow balloons and streamers and a dj was set up over by the basketball hoop i was happy to see alexa and emma were there already over by the food table well you look nice emma said so do you guys i replied so what’s to eat there’s punch some veggies platters and cupcakes alexa reported i’m a ground i don’t think i can look at another cupcake today i can always look at a cupcake i said examining the trays they look normal chocolate with chocolate icing and i could tell the icing came from a can speaking of cupcakes alexa said i talked to my parents at dinner about our pta cupcake order you know they’re accountants so they can help us figure out what to charge so we make a profit they said we could even set up as a business if we want our own business i asked i hadn’t thought about our little cupcake club as anything more than well making and eating cupcakes but making money too that couldn’t be bad i like it i could design the logo said mia i bet i could make more than i do babysitting my brother said emma excitingly i’m in then i proclaimed alexa we are officially the cupcake club open for business yay we all laughed and went for a group hug it felt good for the first time in a while i wasn’t really worried about anything not cali not middle school not even math then some girls i didn’t know came up to us those cupcakes you made were so good one of the girls said yeah said her friend how did you make them it’s easy i said you just follow the recipe then a funky beat blurred through the gym hey i love this song mia said before i could say no she grabbed my arm and dragged me onto the dance floor alexander followed us we danced to the whole song and then the next one george martinez was dancing by himself he pointed to me hey silly arms i started waving my arms around like silly arm sprinkler george cracked up then mia started doing it too hey that’s pretty funny she said then the gym got quiet principal lacosta walked up to the dj and took the microphone from him students welcome to park street’s first dance of the year she cried a bunch of people cheered and whistled now it’s time to announce the winners of our first contest the winning table today raised 400 dollars for our school alexa gasp i still wasn’t sinking in with me though not principal lacosta called not until principal acosta called her names let’s hear it for the cupcake club emma letter to loud squeal then i realized i was squealing too we won we actually won it was like sweet icing on top of a delicious cupcake the four of us ran up to the dj booth and principal acosta handed us our prize congratulations girls you’ve each won a park middle school uh sweatshirt everyone clapped i still couldn’t believe it then the dj started blasting a song celebrate mia draped the sweatshirt over her shoulders victory dance she yelled justin kelly ran up to me and gave me a big hug katie that’s so awesome she said then we both stopped stared at each other and started to laugh we were both wearing the same dress i had forgotten that purple was cali’s favorite color you look great she said you do too i laughed i wonder if sydney told callie she thought the dress was ugly me and alexa and emma were running out of the to the dance floor i didn’t know i was doing it but i must have been following them with my eyes i kind of sad smiled across cali’s a kind of sad smile across kelly’s face go dance with your friend she said callie was the one who said we should make new friends in middle school when the she first said that i was hurt but she was right i felt good to have new friends but it felt good to have old friends too come dance with us i said callie shook her head no you go i’ll call you tomorrow okay okay i told her moving towards the club then i looked back i saw her walking towards sydney maggie and bella sydney did not look happy hey callie i called she turned around i’m glad we’re friends i yelled i said it loud so she could hear it over the music but i also said it so sydney could hear me too or could hear me me too callie called back and then walked towards the pg p gc i ran off to dance with the cupcake club as i waved my silly arms in the air i realized something the first day of middle school had been awful cali had let me down i got in trouble things didn’t go the way i i planned at all but the weird thing was that middle school was not a total disaster everything had worked out somehow maybe it was time for a new recipe mix together one purple dress one corny mom 204 cupcakes three new friends one old friend stir gently until they’re all blended together then dance and that is the end of that part and the end of the book i hope you enjoyed and if there’s any other books that you would like me to read just leave them in the comments and i’ll be sure to get to them i hope you enjoyed and i’ll see you very soon with a new book bye …