Banana Splits by Coco Simon

Author:Coco Simon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

I stayed up late Friday, painting tiny bananas on a pair of white sneakers. I turned a basic white button-down shirt into a sleeveless shirt and added a cute yellow ruffle detail down the front. Then I sewed an embroidered banana patch onto a pair of jeans.

On Saturday I met Victoria by the beach for the photo shoot. She changed inside the bathroom at Molly’s, and I got pictures of her on the boardwalk, with the ocean in the background. Then we went to Molly’s, where Allie had prepared a perfect banana split for the shoot. I took pictures of  Victoria eating it at one of the tables in the shop. “When you’re a famous model, you can tell everyone that you got paid with a banana split for your first job,” I joked.

Victoria laughed. “This is awesome, Tamiko. Thanks,” she said. “I’m really glad you asked me to do this.”

“I think the photos are going to look great,” I told her.

“When will you be posting them?” she asked.

“Tonight,” I said, hoping I could follow through. “I want to keep the momentum going.”

After Victoria changed and gave me back the clothes from the shoot, I noticed that the shop was packed. Allie looked frantic behind the counter, even though the usual Saturday helpers, Rashid and Daphne, were there.

“Need help?” I called over the counter.

Allie nodded. “It’s crazy. It’s like the weather got a little bit warmer, and everybody came to Molly’s!”

I laughed, washed up, put on an apron, and helped until I had to go home for dinner. Mrs. S. was grateful and paid me for my hours, which I hadn’t even been expecting.

“You are a lifesaver, Tamiko,” she said. “And I know it’s been a busy week for you, but do you think you can answer the comments on the Molly’s page when you have a chance? I noticed there are a few of them that haven’t been answered in a couple of days.”

“Sure thing, Mrs. S.!” I promised. I’d fallen behind on checking the Molly’s page during my crazy week. “I’ll do it as soon as I get home.”

But I didn’t. I ate dinner, and then I started putting together my blog post. I still had to take photos of the banana sneakers and some banana earrings I had made. At around nine p.m. I put up the new post. Then I posted the link on SuperSnap, and I texted it to Sierra, Allie, and MacKenzie. And this time I included  Victoria.

Finally I went to the Molly’s website and added a post about the Molly’s banana split with Banana Pudding ice cream, and linked to my blog. Perfect! Then I noticed a bunch of new questions in the comments section. Even though I was yawning, I knew I had to answer them before my shift the next day. I’d promised Mrs. S.

I clicked on the first one.

“Is your ice cream gluten free?”

That question got asked a lot, and it was a complicated answer because some flavors had ingredients like cookies in them, or we used cookies as mix-ins.

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