In January, Jesse has practice with the baseball team after school, but Angela will be done with volleyball so she’ll chauffeur me around until I’m able to afford my own set of wheels—a slowgoing effort. Hard to save much working part-time at $7.50 an hour. I don’t love being dependent on other people for rides. Even though it’s handy that my current carpool driver is also my instructor for my super-secret dance lessons twice a week. We pull out of the school parking lot and head in the opposite direction from the playhouse. “Wait, where are we going?” I ask, my legs bouncing in anticipation of getting to practice. “Miss O’s” is all he says. “Who?” I slouch in my seat, wondering why he didn’t just drop me off first. “It’s a cupcake place.” “Cake?” I exclaim, my mood brightening. “This isn’t some kind of trick, is it? You can’t joke about cake with me.” “No tricks,” he says through a laugh. “I have to pick up an order for my mom and bring it to the playhouse.”
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