Vega and the Fashion Disaster by Ahmet Zappa

Author:Ahmet Zappa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2015-12-23T05:00:00+00:00

Katie pushed open the door to room 261. “Come right in,” she said. About ten students sat in a circle. Vega stared at them. They had large balls of thick string in their laps and long sticks in their hands. They moved the sticks back and forth. It was very strange.

“What club is this?” Vega asked.

Katie laughed. “You’re so funny! What else could it be? It’s Knitting Club, of course!”

Vega knew that the only reason she was making everyone laugh was that she didn’t understand Wishling ways, but she still enjoyed it, basking in the warm glow of her classmates’ grins. Back home she was the serious one; on Wishworld she already had a reputation as a joker. It felt good to be thought of as funny.

“Welcome,” said the teacher, a tall thin woman with curly brown hair and thick glasses. “I assume you know how to cast on?” She handed Vega her own ball of string and two of the pointy sticks. “You can borrow these for today. Next week you should bring your own yarn and needles.”

Vega knew that no matter what happened, good or bad, the Countdown Clock would have run out of time before next week’s class. Still, she nodded in agreement. She was afraid to ask what “casting on” was, in case it was a special Wishling skill that everyone was born with. So she stared at the needles and the ball of yarn, willing herself to figure out how to do it. As you might imagine, that didn’t work. Not about to waste any of her precious wish energy in the attempt to acquire knowledge, she decided she’d fake it. But she had no idea what to do. She was tempted to leave the room and consult her Star-Zap for possible directions, but then she glanced down at her lap and saw her Wish Pendant. It was glowing! Her Wisher was near. Startastic!

She looked around the room eagerly. Who could it be? The girl with the long dark hair and nervous laugh who was knitting so quickly her needles flashed? The girl with the short blond hair who was creating what looked like the world’s longest (and lumpiest) scarf? Or maybe it was the girl who was sitting next to her, scowling as she ripped out a row of stitches?

Keep cool, Vega, she said to herself. You’ll figure it out. She remembered what she had learned in Wishers 101 class: FIGGO—Fitting In Guarantees Good Outcome. She picked up the needles and began to wrap the yarn around them. Maybe this is how you start, she thought in desperation.

She looked at Katie for help. But she was talking a mile a minute to another girl and gesturing with one of her needles. The other girl was half-listening, a nervous eye trained on the moving needle in Katie’s hand.

Vega stared down at her own needles helplessly.

“Hey, do you need help?” someone asked.

She looked up hopefully. A girl was smiling down, peering at her from behind funny-shaped

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