From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks

Author:Janae Marks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Trevor’s eyes widened as he watched me take the boxes out of the grocery bag and line them up on his kitchen counter. Froot Loops. Reese’s Puffs. Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Cocoa Pebbles.

“What’s with all the cereal?” Trevor asked.

“I’m gonna use one of them in a cupcake recipe.” Cereal cupcakes! It was such a good idea; I wished I’d thought of it myself. Everyone loved cereal, especially the sugary kind. I couldn’t wait to start experimenting, so after I got Marcus’s letter, I asked Grandma to take me to the grocery store again. She wouldn’t let me get full boxes of each cereal, but she got me a variety pack of the mini boxes when I told her why I needed them.

“Cereal cupcakes?” Trevor asked, scratching his nose.

“Yes. Wait, does that not sound good?”

“No. I mean, I don’t know.”

“I think it could be really yummy,” I said. “But first I have to figure out which cereal to use. Wanna help me taste-test them?”

Trevor’s eyes lit up. “Sure! Mom never lets me eat this stuff. She says there’s too much sugar.”

“That’s kind of the point of it,” I said.

He grabbed two bowls from the cabinet, two spoons from the drawer, and the carton of milk from the refrigerator.

Trevor went straight for the Cocoa Pebbles, filling his bowl and pouring milk on top. “Mmm,” he said as he chewed his first bite. “I vote for these.”

“You’re only voting for those because they’re chocolate.”

“And?”

I shrugged and poured myself a small bowl of it, too. It was pretty chocolaty, but I could imagine pairing it with peanut butter. Like, maybe a chocolate peanut butter cupcake with Cocoa Pebbles in the batter, so when you bit into the finished cupcake, you’d get crunchy bits. And then I could put more of the flakes in vanilla buttercream icing.

I poured the rest of the cereal in the trash so I could try the next one.

“What are you doing?” Trevor’s face twisted in offense. “You’re wasting perfectly good cereal!”

I rolled my eyes at him and grabbed the next box—Froot Loops. “I like the idea of using this one,” I told Trevor. “Because it’s so colorful. Maybe I could make tie-dye cupcakes or something.” I took a bite and grimaced. It was a little too sweet, like in a fake way. “Hmm.” I stared at the bowl and thought about how I could make it work.

Then there was the sound of footsteps on our front porch, and a knock at Trevor’s front door.

“Trev! You home?” someone called out.

I froze. That was Lincoln’s voice. He was probably with Sean.

Trevor glanced at me and then toward the front of his house.

“One sec,” he said to me. “I’ll . . . tell them I’m busy.”

I didn’t say anything as Trevor left the room. Once he went down the hall to open the front door, I moved into the hallway and stood to the side of the staircase. I didn’t dare move closer to the front door, because I didn’t want the boys to see me.

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