Mia Measures Up by Coco Simon

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

CHAPTER 9

This Is Messing with My Head!

No school tomorrow!” Katie announced when she boarded the bus the next morning.

“Good,” I said, relieved. That was one less day that Sarrah Sleepz could post a photo of me.

George leaned over the seat behind us. “A bunch of us are going to see that movie Pool Party tonight. You guys should come.”

Katie made a face. “Is that the one about those high school kids who work at a swim club? It looks kind of dumb.”

“What else are you going to see? Ninja Giraffe 2?” George asked.

“Why not?” Katie countered. “Ninja Giraffe was really funny. Remember when he fought all those monkeys?”

George struck a martial arts pose with his arms. “No more monkeying around!” Katie cracked up.

“Seriously, though,” George said. “You guys should go see Pool Party. Everyone’s going to be there.”

I looked at Katie. “Come on! It will be fun.”

Katie sighed. “Fine. I can see Ninja Giraffe 2 some other time.”

But our moms had a different idea.

“Absolutely not!” Mom said when I brought up the subject after school that day. “That movie is PG-13.”

“So?” I shot back. “So are all those vampire movies. You let me go see those.”

“This is different,” Mom said. “Sharon and I talked about it. Movies get PG-13 ratings for different reasons. And I don’t think a movie about a wild high school party is appropriate for you and Katie.”

“But everyone in school is seeing it!” I said, and I could hear my voice getting loud. “Everyone!”

“That is between them and their parents,” Mom said. “Case closed. But if you and Katie want to go see Ninja Giraffe 2, I will drive you there.”

I didn’t want to go see some dumb cartoon movie—no offense to Katie, but I didn’t. However, the thought of staying in the house with my mom was worse. I was going to the movies.

“Fine,” I mumbled.

Mom and I didn’t talk much after that, but she did take Katie and me to the Royal Theater, which is attached to the mall, later that night.

Inside, it was pretty crowded with people taking advantage of a no-school-tomorrow-Tuesday by going to the movies. We waited in line for the box office and then got our tickets for Ninja Giraffe 2.

“Can you believe our moms?” I said. “Like, suddenly we’re not old enough to see a PG-13 movie? How random is that?”

“Well, Mom has never let me see just any PG-13 movie,” Katie explained. “She reads the reviews first. It was probably her idea.”

“Well, my mom went along with it,” I said.

“Hey, cheer up!” Katie said, lightly punching me in the arm. “I promise you that Ninja Giraffe 2 will be fun.” We handed our tickets to the ticket taker and got our stubs.

“Now let’s get candy and mix it in with our popcorn,” Katie said. Katie has discovered this thing where she takes those small chocolate candies studded with white dots and mixes them into her popcorn. When you take a bite of popcorn, you get some chocolate with it.

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