Ansley's Big Bake Off by Kaitlyn Pitts

Author:Kaitlyn Pitts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Published: 2020-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Before leaving my room the next morning, I leaned into my mirror and slowly smiled at my reflection.

Nope, I thought as I pulled back with a “tsk.” Not very convincing. I tried a bigger grin. Nope again. I shook my head. Too toothy. When I tried a third time, my mouth finally seemed right, but the eyes didn’t. The top half and bottom half of my face don’t match! The mouth looks happy, but the eyes look serious. Hmmm. How can I fix that? I tried crinkling my eyes to make them look cheerful, but when I did I could hardly see out of them! So I tried opening my eyes wider (without changing my smile) and ended up looking more terrified than happy. I couldn’t help but laugh at myself—and finally smiled for real.

As I watched my laughing reflection, I told myself, Remember how this feels and try to be this person when you see Taylor. Be so friendly and kind to her that she’ll have no choice but to be nice back!

I waved goodbye to my reflection (which I guess was kind of silly, but I had put myself in a silly mood) and was about to leave my room when instead I turned and grabbed a headscarf from the top drawer of my dresser. With its tie-dyed colors of emerald green and aqua, I thought it was very pretty—like the colors of a peacock. Whenever I wore it, it brought out the green in my eyes, and since the school colors were green and blue, it actually matched the uniform too. This is just what my outfit needs! I tied it around my hairline like a headband and knotted it in the front in a bow. My brown curls trailed out from behind it in what I thought was a pretty effect.

And then I whipped the scarf right off my head.

If the twins saw me wearing it, they’d probably want to wear bows in their hair too, I decided, and I stuffed the scarf in my knapsack. I’ll put it on once I’m at school.

I felt a little guilty hiding it from them since I actually didn’t mind their copying me so much. What bothered me is that they copied me immediately. If they would only wait for at least a day before imitating me, I probably wouldn’t find it as annoying.

When I knocked on their door, however, there was no answer. Are they really still asleep? It’s only the third day of school! I knocked a second time—a little more loudly. “Cammie? Kitty?” Finally, I used my fist as a gavel and thumped on their door. “CAMMIE! KITTY!”

“We’re downstairs!” Cammie yelled.

Feeling my cheeks grow warm, I ran down to find them.

As I hit the last step, I caught the twins leaving Dad’s office, giggling and nudging each other.

“What were you two doing in there?” I asked them.

They exchanged glances. Kitty spoke first, “We were just sending an email—”

Cammie jabbed her with her elbow. “Dad said we could.

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