Echo's Lucky Charm by Catherine Hapka

Author:Catherine Hapka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

“Because he’s jealous of my mom’s magic and mine, too.” Echo frowned. “That’s probably why he’s always talking about it. I bet he saw my shell fall off today during class and hid it somewhere!”

“Are you kidding? I wouldn’t do that!” Flip cried. “I can’t believe you would think that. You should apologize to me!”

“You should give back my shell!” Echo yelled in return.

Flip puffed out a whole cloud of bubbles. Then he spun around and swam away as fast as he could.

THE NEXT MORNING, ECHO WAS WAITING BY the entrance when Pearl arrived at school. “I’m glad you’re here,” Echo said. “I need to tell you something.”

“What is it?” Pearl asked. She could tell that Echo was still upset. Even though Pearl, Echo, and Splash had searched until it was almost dark, they hadn’t found Echo’s necklace.

Echo blew out a few bubbles. “I didn’t want to tell my mom I lost my lucky shell,” she said. “So I told her I loaned it to you—you know, to help you study for that Magic test tomorrow.”

“You did?” Pearl felt uneasy. It wasn’t like Echo to lie—especially to her mother. Losing her lucky charm wasn’t just making Echo worse at magic. It seemed to be turning her into an entirely different type of dolphin!

Pearl wanted to say that to Echo, but she didn’t dare. They hadn’t been friends for very long. Pearl didn’t want Echo to get mad at her like she had at Flip yesterday. She definitely didn’t want Echo to accuse her of stealing the lucky shell!

“I wanted to tell you, just in case you see my mom,” Echo said. “You know, so you don’t give away what really happened.”

That made Pearl feel even worse. She didn’t want to lie to Echo’s mother—or anyone else, for that matter! But she figured she probably wouldn’t see Echo’s mother, anyway. So she just nodded.

“Come on,” she said. “We should get to class.”

Echo was quiet during Music class. When it was her turn to sing, Pearl could barely hear her. Pearl also noticed that Echo and Flip were staying as far apart as they could. She was pretty sure that Bay noticed, too. But the teacher didn’t say anything about that, or about Echo’s weak singing, either.

When it was time to go to Jumping and Swimming, Flip swam off ahead by himself, even though Splash called out for him to wait. “Are you and Flip still mad at each other?” Pearl asked Echo.

Echo shrugged. “I guess so,” she said. “I don’t know. I barely saw him after school yesterday, and he left without me this morning. I swam here with some of the older kids from my pod.”

Soon they arrived at Jumping and Swimming class. Riptide announced that they wouldn’t be practicing tail walking that day.

“Some of you had more trouble than I expected,” he said. “We’re going to do swim sprints today instead. That will make your tails stronger for when we return to tail walking.”

Pearl almost groaned. Swim sprints were hard! But they weren’t as hard as tail walking, so she didn’t complain.

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