The Big One-Oh by Dean Pitchford

Author:Dean Pitchford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US

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As I skateboarded to school the next morning with the invitations in my backpack, I knew I was going to have to be very careful about who I invited to my party. That way I could pick the perfect mix of personalities.

But things didn’t work out that way.

And it was all Donna’s fault.

I turned a corner in the hall and saw Donna at her locker, giggling and gossiping with Dana and Dina.

As always, she looked amazing.

I don’t know what came over me; without even thinking about who the other six party-goers would be, I just stepped up and nervously held out an invitation to her.

“Oh. Hi, Charley,” she said when she noticed me. Then she saw my piece of paper. “What’s this?”

She took it, opened the folded purple page and, with Dina and Dana looking over her shoulder, she read what I had written.

“ ‘A House of Horrors Birthday Party’?”

I nodded, tongue-tied.

Donna turned to Dina and Dana and chirped, “Whaddya think?”

Dana wrinkled her nose. “Mmm. I dunno.”

Dina rolled her eyes and whined: “Sounds . . . weird.”

So Donna made up their minds for them. “Sounds like fun to me!” she announced. And then you won’t believe what she did. She plucked two more invitations from my pile and handed them to her girlfriends! She slammed her locker, said, “Thanks, Charley!” and they all walked away, laughing and tossing their hair.

It all happened so fast!

Even though I was just getting started, I had only four invitations left. And once Donna and Dina and Dana started blabbing, everybody, I was sure, would be after me. So my original plan—to pick my party-mates carefully—would have to be tossed right out the window.

Now I had to act quickly.

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