Danika's Totally Terrible Toss by Dannah Gresh

Author:Dannah Gresh [Gresh, Dannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2008-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

The Egg Drop Soup Slurp

As soon as the bell rang for lunch, I sprinted for my locker and then out to the patch of soft, green grass under the maple tree. Fear of facing Laney and Riley kept me out of the cafeteria. I figured Kate shouldn’t have to face them either, so the whole club got outside lunch court passes.

Toni and Yuzi ran up together just as my mom’s BMW pulled up to the curb. Nai Nai stepped out from the passenger’s side, walked to the trunk, and retrieved a tray covered in red fabric. Anything covered in red is important to her. She took a few minutes arranging things and then proudly walked toward us while Mom drove away.

“Hey, Nai Nai,” said Kate, who was just arriving. “Can I help you with that?”

Kate took the load and Nai Nai pulled back the red covering to reveal five bottles of orange crème soda and five huge bowls of steaming egg drop soup. My grandmother carefully sprinkled some green scallions on the top, along with her special homemade fried wonton noodles. Then she passed everything out.

We were all carefully balancing our bowls when Nai Nai bowed her head. We bowed ours, too, but Nai Nai didn’t say anything out loud.

“Amen!” she said in her thick Chinese accent.

“No tell secret of soup now,” she said, getting right down to business. “First, we eat and speak.”

Nai Nai slurped her soup loudly. Toni and Yuzi’s eyes grew wide, so Kate picked up her bowl and totally out-slurped my grandma. Kate rocks! We all started slurping, and the soup was way too delicious for us to laugh at how silly we sounded.

I knew what Nai Nai was going to say next, but she didn’t say it. She just looked at me and nodded as if I should take it from here. Nai Nai always asks me the same two questions when we eat egg drop soup.

“So,” I started, “the first question to answer when eating Nai Nai’s egg drop soup is ‘What is the worst thing about your day?’”

Before I could go on I heard a guy’s voice yelling. “Heads up, Da-neeka!”

I knew that voice! I looked up and saw a soccer ball hurling toward our little circle. Yuzi shrieked and the ball dropped into the circle, nearly knocking over my soup.

“Chad-the-dork Ferner!” I shouted. “You did that on purpose.”

“Maybe I did. Maybe I didn’t,” he said, tugging on my ponytail as he retrieved the ball. He ran off before I could hit him.

Ugh!

“You wanna hear an answer to ‘What’s the worst thing about your day?’” I said. “Mine is Chad Ferner!”

Nai Nai giggled.

“I think you best thing in his day,” she said.

My girlfriends erupted into laughter. When everyone calmed down, Yuzi piped up, “The worst thing about my day every day this week is that I’m the new girl who everyone thinks is the bad girl. I did not pull that fire alarm on Monday morning and I’m going to prove it. It feels really lousy walking through the hall and getting called names!”

We were all quiet.

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