Kenzie Kickstarts a Team by Kit Rosewater

Author:Kit Rosewater
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Kenzie, Shelly, Tomoko, and Jules headed out to their separate classrooms.

All morning Kenzie tried passing notes to the other girls in her class.

Do you like roller skating?

Circle one: Y/N

But the only person who saw her note was the teacher, who it turned out wasn’t interested in roller derby either.

During P.E. class, Kenzie ran through the field in the middle of a soccer game to ask the players if any of them skated, but before she could ask, the ball bounced hard into her shin and she limped back off the field.

No one at lunch wanted to hear about the league, even when Kenzie offered to trade her cookie if they would let her sit and talk derby with them.

“What did you do to it?” one girl asked suspiciously as Kenzie waved the cookie in her face.

“Nothing!” Kenzie said. “Just eat it!”

The girl turned back to her table. Kenzie sighed. None of her Hail Marys were working.

She found Shelly and Jules at a corner lunch table.

“Any luck?” she asked.

Shelly shook her head. “It’s really last minute,” she said. “Everyone seems to have plans this weekend.”

“Heck, even I had plans with drama club,” Jules said.

Kenzie and Shelly raised their eyebrows.

“I’m not going,” Jules said defensively. “I’ll be at derby with you guys. All I’m saying is . . . I’m on the team and I had plans!”

Shelly drummed her fingers on the table.

“What do you think they’ll say if we only show up with four?” she asked.

Kenzie shrugged. “I don’t think it will be good.”

Tomoko sat at the table next to Kenzie. She buried her face in her arms.

“Ugh,” she grumbled. “People don’t want to do anything fun.”

Jules held up her juice box. “You said it.”

Kenzie scanned over the cafeteria as the other girls ate. Why was it so hard to find another skater? It seemed a lot easier to add beginners to the team. They found Tomoko right away at the park, and Jules stood out of the crowd with her sword fight.

Wait, Kenzie thought.

“I have an idea for our fifth member,” she told the group.

“Who is it?” Tomoko asked.

“A skater?” Shelly asked hopefully.

Kenzie smiled. “Meet me in front of school after class gets out,” she said. “And you’ll see.”

She stole a look at Jules, but Jules was poking at the blob of food on her plate. That was OK. Jules could be surprised too.

“Places, everyone!”

Miss Moss clapped her hands from the front row of the auditorium.

Kenzie held the door behind her so it would close without making a sound. She snuck into one of the back rows and waited as the lights dimmed down. Shoes scuffled across the stage. A spotlight rose in the center over the same kid who had broken up the sword fight in the lunchroom. He stood next to two other boys.

“By my head, here come the Capulets.”

“By my heel, I care not.”

Another group of kids charged onto the stage. Near the back of the group was the girl with the long, shiny hair. She held a fake sword out.

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