by Coco Simon
Still, things were a little different now that Allie went to another school. When we used to see each other every day, we didn’t seem to have any problems, but now that we saw her only one or two times a week, things were different. She was still my best friend, but I didn’t know every detail of what was going on with her anymore.
I started snapping photos. First I took a picture of the menu sign where the flavors were written in colored chalk. I typed in the caption, Sprinkle Sundays squad goals: try a new flavor at Molly’s #IceCream #Bayville #Yum, making sure to throw in some hashtags so people knew how to find the store.
Then I started snapping photos of the shop. It was so gorgeous that sometimes I wished I could live there. I took a photo of the vintage metal letters behind the freezers, with light bulbs in them that spelled out ICE CREAM. Then I got a wide shot of the parlor, with the cool black-and-white checkered floor flecked with gold; the high counter with stools looking out the window; and the three round, white tables surrounded by wire chairs. The chair cushions had blue- and cream-colored stripes, which matched the awning on the outside of the building.
There was so much to photograph! Above the register, light fixtures that looked like ice cream cones hung down from the ceiling. So cute! Then I moved on to the buckets inside the counter that held all of the toppings that customers could choose to put on their ice cream or have mixed in. I got a close-up of a bin of rainbow sprinkles, and then a jar of red and yellow and green gummy bears, and another one of some glistening blue gummy fish.
Then I grabbed Allie and Sierra and pulled us all together.
“Sprinkles selfie!” I cried, and I held out the phone and clicked.
“Let me see that before you post it!” Sierra said, grabbing the phone from me.
“Don’t worry. You look gorgeous,” I said, and I wasn’t wrong. Sierra had an amazing smile.
I handed the phone to Sierra so that she could see.
“It’s not bad,” Sierra said, looking at it. “Just don’t tag me.” Then she continued scrolling through the photo feed on my phone. “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe that outfit Jenna wore on Wednesday.”
“I know! She looked stunning,” I agreed.
“Jenna Robinson?” Allie said. “I thought she always wears jeans and sneakers.”
“No, Jenna Horowitz,” I corrected her. “Remember her? She was in my fifth-grade class.”
Allie shrugged. “So, what was she wearing?”
“A black miniskirt and a long-sleeved white shirt with a collar, and black ankle boots,” Sierra reported. “It was so sophisticated!”
“Well, she did copy the whole outfit from the fall cover of Teen Trend magazine, so minus ten points for being unoriginal,” I pointed out. “But only Jenna would have the guts to wear it, so ten points added.”
I liked to pretend to score people’s outfits, almost like I really was a TV show host.
“Speaking of guts, did you read that chapter about the digestive system in biology?” Sierra asked. “That was so gross. But Mr. Bongort made it really funny, thank goodness.”
“Yeah, he was joking around the whole time,” I replied. “Cole was picked to reenact the bathroom bit in class,” I added for Allie’s benefit. “It was hysterical.”
“Cole is so annoying,” Sierra said. “But it was pretty funny, watching him not be able to find a bathroom fast enough!”
“Well, I wouldn’t know,” Allie chimed in, and there was that edge to her voice again.
Sierra and I exchanged looks. It was really hard for Allie when she felt left out.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
From cupcakes to ice cream! Having written more than thirty books about middle-school girls and cupcakes, COCO SIMON decided it was time for a change, so she’s switched her focus from cupcakes to her second-favorite sweet treat—ice cream. When she’s not daydreaming about yummy snacks, Coco edits children’s books and has written close to one hundred books for children, tweens, and young adults, which is a lot fewer than the number of cupcakes and ice cream cones she’s eaten. Sprinkle Sundays is the first time Coco has mixed her love of ice cream with writing.
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