Boy Girl Games by Stella Wilkinson

Author:Stella Wilkinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: football soccer sport jocks team, girls playing sport, bend it like beckham, soccer romance, football romance, sports romance, young adult sports, young adult romance, high school jocks, High School Romance, teen love and romance
Publisher: Stella Wilkinson
Published: 2017-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

AFTER SCHOOL DINNER that night, Paige went back to her dorm room in South Tower and went straight to her desk. She lifted the lid on the box containing her cake and took another deep sniff of the contents. Her mother had loved to bake, and had been employed making cupcakes for a local deli/café, before giving it up to help her father with his rapidly expanding business. Paige felt like she had grown up in the kitchen watching her mother at work. As a little girl her best memories were of stirring cake mixes and then licking the spoon. Those experiences had shaped what Paige wanted to do with her life. Her father ran a publishing business, which had recently grown to be a large global company, and she had learned a lot about publishing before she had left home for boarding school. She now intended to take the best of both of her parents’ jobs and combine them. She wanted to write a cookbook and get it published, and she wanted to run her own business making wedding cakes. With her future plans in mind, she had chosen her A-levels carefully. As well as Home Economics, she had enrolled to study English Language, Art, and Business Studies. The Home Ec class would hopefully give her the skills she needed to make wedding cakes and do the costing of ingredients and so on. The English was to help her write her book, Art to improve her design skills for the more fancy cakes, and the Business Studies to help her with setting up and running her own business. She wasn’t even sure she wanted to do any further education. Her father was determined that she should get a degree, but what would college teach her that she didn’t already know or could learn at school? She just wanted to throw herself into having her own business and get on with it.

Reaching into the bottom drawer of her desk Paige got out her mother’s old cookbook.

The cookbook was her most treasured possession. It was really just a large ring binder file that her mother had kept recipes in, but over the years both she and Paige had added to it until it was overflowing with cuttings from magazines, photographs and drawings of dishes and cakes, and handwritten recipes of their own design.

Paige flicked through it until she found the Victoria sponge page and wrote in the margin: 3 drops of rosewater per cake.

When she’d finished her prep work, she lay on her bed and grabbed her sketch pad. She’d seen a beautiful red butterfly in the playground after lunch and it had given her an idea.

An hour later the bed was littered with pictures of butterflies of all different colours, each one sitting on top of a cupcake. It was a butterfly cupcake-wedding cake. Paige was itching to try and make it, maybe she would be able to make use of Kitchen Two in the Home Economics department during her free period the next day.

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