Mates, Dates and Diamond Destiny by Cathy Hopkins

Author:Cathy Hopkins [Hopkins, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848122918
Publisher: Piccadilly Press

‘We need a good theme for the dance,’ said Lucy in the lunch break at school the next day.

‘Yeah,’ I agreed. ‘It definitely needs something. I couldn’t believe those posters. A dance. The first Saturday in May. Like, so what? How dull is that? Wouldn’t attract me to go. It has to be like an event. Something you feel you can’t miss out on. A happening type of happening.’

‘Exactly,’ said Lucy. ‘Which is why we need a theme.’

‘But what?’ asked TJ.

‘Don’t know,’ said Lucy. ‘But we need to give people an excuse to dress up. I think people like that, least I know I do.’

‘Yeah, speak for yourself,’ said TJ. ‘I’m happy in my jeans and T-shirt. How about we do a barn dance sort of thing.’

‘Not glam enough. Who wants to dance about with a bit of straw stuck between their teeth?’ said Izzie.

‘Sounds OK to me,’ said TJ.

‘You have much to learn about being cool my dumb little chum,’ I said.

‘So what can our theme be?’ asked Izzie. ‘All in red, all in gold, all in silver?’

‘Cowboys and Indians. Vicars and tarts. Hollywood,’ suggested Lucy.

‘I think we should write down an A–Z of themes,’ said TJ. ‘Be useful for when one of us throws a party in the future, as well as for the dance. Plus, it would be great to put in the mag as a feature. In fact, it would be cool to do a whole section on parties.’

We spent the next fifteen minutes trying to think up themes and although some of them were really good, none of them felt right for the dance.

‘Some people hate dressing up,’ I said. ‘And it might put them off coming if they think they’ve got to hire a fancy dress costume. No. All in silver or all in white or something like that is more do-able and won’t cost a lot but . . . I don’t know. As Izzie said, it just needs to be more glam, I think.’

‘I know,’ said Lucy. ‘As I said, a chance to dress up, that’s it. A chance to put on your bling and strut your stuff. How about something like the Bling Ball?’

‘Yeah, great idea,’ said Izzie. ‘But not sure about the name. Sounds a bit downmarket. We need to sell a lot of tickets to fill the place and get some atmosphere going.’

‘But even if we sell a load of tickets,’ said TJ, ‘at only eight quid each, we still need to do something else to raise fifty thousand. I had a look on the Net last night and found a few sites with some really good ideas.’

‘And I’ve had a few ideas,’ said Lucy.

‘Me too,’ said Izzie.

‘So let’s hear them,’ I said. ‘Let’s brainstorm.’ I’d heard my dad use this term a million times when sitting round the table at home working on film ideas with his various producers.

We spent the next half hour writing down everything we could come up with for Miss Watkins and the Dopey Doreens.

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