Brilliant Hues by Naomi Kinsman

Author:Naomi Kinsman [Kinsman, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780310726692
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Published: 2012-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The Plan

Bri tossed a pillow at Juliet, missing her by miles. “No one wants tea sandwiches, Juliet. Starving. For Brownies!”

Juliet passed the pillow to Pippa. “You’re the pitcher. Make sure you hit her in the nose. I made you a three-course snack, Bri. The least you can do is enjoy it.”

Bri caught the pillow inches in front of her face. “Okay, okay. Tea sandwiches it is.”

Juliet laid out a white tablecloth on the carpet and gave us each a white plastic plate, the fancy kind that looks like china until you pick it up. She had plastic champagne flutes, and she passed around sparking apple cider.

“I’ll be right back with the first course,” she said. “Cheers.”

“Brownies!” Bri whined.

“Be nice, Bri,” Alice said. “She worked hard.”

Juliet brought back a three-tiered plate piled with tea sandwiches. She set it in the middle of the circle and pointed out the different flavors as she explained. “I made cucumber and cream cheese, rosemary chicken salad, peanut butter Doritos — in honor of Sadie and Pippa—pesto, brie, and tomato, and smoked gouda, turkey, and dill pickle. The dill pickles are for you, Bri.”

“What’s for me?” Alice asked, pretending to pout.

“The next course,” Juliet said. “You’ll see.”

We dug in, and even Bri got over her brownie fixation as she crunched into the dill pickle sandwiches.

“We think we have a plan,” Alice told Pippa and me.

Not what I wanted to hear.

“What?” Pips asked.

“Margo has no ideas. Her teammates never agree on anything. The only thing they’ve decided is to use black fabric and to ring their eyes with eyeliner so they look tough,” Alice said.

“So, Margo will just lose on her own?” I asked hopefully.

“We don’t have to count on it,” Bri said. “Since Margo has already started snooping around, trying to swipe our designs, we’ll just make it easy for her to cheat. Each designer has their own room where the other designers aren’t supposed to go. While we work, we’re totally isolated. If we leave the door unlocked, and maybe drop a few hints about being away for awhile, and rig up a video camera so we make sure to catch her, we’ve got her.”

“You want her to cheat?” I asked.

“If she copies Bri’s idea, probably the two of them will tie,” Juliet said. “The other designer YaoYao is good, but she isn’t as good as Bri. If Bri and Margo tie, we’ll force Margo to forfeit the win and give it to Bri.”

“Or else we’ll show the video of her cheating,” Alice added.

“So by tempting Margo to cheat, you’re basically making sure Bri will win?”

“Perfect, isn’t it?” Juliet asked.

I exchanged a look with Pippa, who now picked at her sandwich nervously. Didn’t they realize they were planning to cheat in order to catch a cheater? Pips knew. I could see the worry clearly on her face. Maybe she’d thought more about what I’d said about blackmail after all.

“Maybe we should just let Margo lose on her own, like Sadie said,” Pippa finally said.

“You can’t just wait for everything to work out on its own,” Alice said.

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