Wish Upon a Starfish by Debbie Dadey

Author:Debbie Dadey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Quitting Time

WHY DIDN’T I LET HER switch with me?” Pearl muttered to herself that afternoon at play practice.

Wanda and a group of mergirls clustered at a corner of the stage, giggling and practicing their lines. Pearl sighed. She didn’t think she could stand listening to that every day. It was just too painful to watch her best friend practice the part Pearl had wanted.

Suddenly she smiled. She didn’t have to listen to them. She could just quit.

Once Pearl had made up her mind, she didn’t waste a mersecond. She soared over to Mrs. Karp and announced, “I am quitting the play.”

Mrs. Karp’s eyes grew wide with surprise. “But I thought you loved plays.”

“I do—er—I did,” Pearl sputtered. “But actually being in a play isn’t as much fun as I thought it would be.” She didn’t add that it would have been fun if she’d been chosen to play the little human.

Mrs. Karp frowned at Pearl. “I’m sorry to hear that.”

After she handed Mrs. Karp her script, Pearl took one last look at the stage and at the scary statue of the shark. She wanted to kick that shark in the fin! After all, if she hadn’t been scared of the statue, she would have picked up the right script. Then she would have been chosen to be the little human instead of Wanda. Pearl fought back tears as she hurried out of the auditorium. Mrs. Karp had said the script didn’t matter, but obviously it had.

Pearl was almost to the front door of Trident Academy when she felt a tug on her gold tail. She swirled around to snap at whoever had grabbed her, but she stopped short when she saw who it was.

“Angelfish!” Pearl gasped. “I mean, Miss Molie.”

As Angelfish smiled, Pearl could see why she was a star. Her smile was so big it seemed to light up the entire front hallway of the school.

“Sorry to tug on your tail,” Angelfish said. “I came by to help JoJo again this afternoon, and she told me that you quit the play.”

Pearl nodded. “I did.”

“That’s the problem,” Angelfish told her. “I don’t think you should.”

Pearl couldn’t help herself. Something about Angelfish and her big smile made Pearl want to tell her everything. “But I wanted to be the star,” she blurted. “I wanted to be the little human so badly.”

“I know. JoJo was going to choose you for that part, but I talked her out of it,” Angelfish told her.

Pearl stared at Angelfish in horror. “Why would you do that to me?” Pearl said in shock.

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