Mia in the Mix by Coco Simon

Author:Coco Simon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

CHAPTER 10

An Invitation

Mom, can we go to the mall?” I asked. We had just dropped off the girls and were heading home, but I needed a serious mall experience.

“Why not?” Mom asked. “I need a new charger for my cell phone anyway.”

Soon we were walking through the doors of the Westgrove Mall. “Are you going to Icon again?” Mom asked.

“I was thinking Blue Basics,” I said. It’s a great shop that sells every kind of jeans you can think of, plus classic shirts and sweaters. I love jeans because everything goes with them. Plus I grew, like, a foot over the summer, so all of mine were too short.

Mom must have been reading my mind. “Good idea. You need some new jeans anyway. I’ll meet you there in a little bit. Cell phone on?”

“And charged,” I told her.

Mom turned the corner, and I headed to Blue Basics, which is on the first floor. I hadn’t gotten far when I saw Sydney, Maggie, Bella, and Callie walking toward me.

“Hi!” I said.

“Wow, I can’t believe we ran into you again!” Maggie gushed.

“It’s like destiny,” Bella said in a serious voice.

“Or maybe it’s just that we all like to look at clothes,” Callie pointed out.

I smiled. “I don’t know. I think fashion is my destiny, sometimes.”

“Well of course it is, with a famous mother like that.” Maggie brushed a stray lock of frizzy hair out of her face. “It’s in your blood.”

“She’s not famous, exactly,” I replied.

“But she knows famous designers!” Maggie said. “I still can’t believe she knows Damien Francis. Have you ever been to his house?”

“It’s not like that,” I tried to explain, but I don’t think Maggie was interested in the boring truth. So I changed the subject. “I’m going to Blue Basics. Do you guys want to come?”

“Ooh, the Double B!” Maggie said. “I could use some new jeans.”

Then Sydney spoke up for the first time. “We’ll go with you,” she said, and I got the feeling that the decision was hers to make.

Sydney walked beside me as we made our way to the store. “Maggie can get soooo starstruck,” she said. “Once she spent a whole day outside Dave’s Pizza in Manhattan because she heard that Justin Bieber liked to eat there when he came to New York.”

“That was such a lie!” Maggie said with a pout. “But at least the pizza was really good.”

“So, does your mom know any other designers?” Sydney asked casually.

“She knows a lot of them,” I said truthfully. “She was in charge of choosing the clothes for the magazine’s photo shoots. So any designer who wanted to get into Flair had to get friendly with my mom.”

“So you must get a lot of free clothing samples, then,” she said.

I shrugged. “Sometimes.”

“But your mom doesn’t work at Flair anymore?” Sydney asked.

“No, she started her own consulting business,” I replied. “So she’s still in fashion.”

Sydney was being nice, but I was starting to feel like I was being interviewed or something.

Thankfully, the questions stopped once we got to Blue Basics.

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