So Jelly! by Coco Simon

Author:Coco Simon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight
Published: 2019-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine Team Spirit At Last

Olivia was waving to me at the lunch table, and I groaned a little inside because I really just wanted to hang with Sophia, Michelle, and Riley so I could talk to them about my hockey doubts.

“Addition is better than subtraction,” I repeated to myself.

“Hello, teammate!” Olivia chirped.

“Hi, B squad teammate!” I said.

She laughed. “Go B team, go B team! Hey, here’s another B-lister!” she said as Hannah sat next to Olivia, setting her tray down carefully so she didn’t spill her chili.

“Hey, I can live with B-list hockey, but I hope I’ll be in A-list student council,” Hannah said. “We have so much work to do. I also have a lot of ideas.”

“Can I help?” asked Isabella, as she sat down and spread out her lunch.

“Sure!” said Olivia. “But I thought you thought it was a dumb idea to run for student council.”

Hmm, I thought. So maybe that’s why Olivia and Isabella weren’t BFFs anymore. Because Olivia decided to run for student council with Hannah?

“I didn’t say it was a dumb idea,” said Isabella. “I said I wasn’t as interested in it. And that’s okay. We can do different things and still be friends. Plus, I said I’d help you with your campaign.”

“Well, it hurt my feelings,” said Olivia.

“Olivia, I’m just not a student council person,” said Isabella. “I don’t have the patience to listen to people, and getting up in front of the school and speaking… ugh.”

I was surprised. Isabella was an outgoing person. “I get that,” I said.

“Right?” said Isabella, turning to me. “Can you imagine getting up at that podium?” She shivered.

“It’s not a big deal,” said Olivia. “We’ve known all these people for years!”

“It’s totes a big deal,” said Isabella. “Trust me.”

“Okay,” said Olivia. “Then if you don’t mind and you still want to, I need help. We need a whole strategy and a plan for what we want the council to act on in the next year.”

Isabella took out her phone. “Of course I want to help. That’s what friends do. I’ve got my list maker here. Let’s start.”

Sophia sat down. “The line in the cafeteria is so long and so slow that now I have about three seconds to eat lunch!” she said.

“Well, there’s one,” said Olivia. “Make the cafeteria more efficient.”

“Or give students a longer lunch period,” said Michelle as she wheeled over next to me.

“Oh, that’s a good one,” said Olivia.

Sophia turned to me. “You can work with student council when you become our class representative,” she said.

“I’m not even sure what the class rep does,” I said.

“You heard Principal Clarke,” said Isabella. “You represent us and talk through what our concerns are so that the council and teachers have some input. And the people who are in charge of making decisions will hear our voices and keep us informed about what’s going on. This way, if we request something, and if we can’t have it, hopefully we won’t just hear a flat no. We will hear the reason behind it.

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