Wish Upon a Star by Sabrina Sumsion Page A

to convey my horror. She simply grinned in return.
    Everyone looked at David and waited for his response. It took him a moment to realize we were waiting for him. “Uh, yeah. I saw something about it. Are you guys going?”
    “Definitely!” Lacy blushed after her enthusiastic outburst.
    David shot one of his charming half-grins. “Who’s the lucky guy?”
    “Well, I sit next to a guy in Algebra II who is really nice and funny. I’m thinking about asking him.”
    “What’s his name?” Jamie asked.
    “Greg Horrocks.”
    “I know him,” said Dierdre, “Well, kind of. I had him in science class. He was super smart. We were paired up on an assignment and it’s the only one I got an A on.”
    Lacy smiled weakly. “He’s not a total geek. He’s really nice.”
    “You think he’s cute, don’t you?” I asked.
    She nodded.
    “You don’t have to explain yourself to us! Ask him already. You don’t want someone else to snatch him up, do you?” Dierdre said.
    “Isn’t that him over there?” Jamie pointed a few tables away.
    I looked towards where she was pointing. There was a table of guys and a couple of girls. “Which one is he?” I asked.
    “See the one in the blue shirt?” David asked.
    I noticed a scrawny kid with zits, a head of curly hair redder than mine and full head gear. “Yeah.” I said weakly. I didn’t want to judge, but he wasn’t what I expected for Lacy.
    “That’s not him,” David continued.
    I punched him in the arm. He laughed while rubbing his arm.
    “He’s sitting next to that kid,” Lacy said.
    I looked again and spotted a nice looking guy in a pale green polo shirt. He looked a little taller than Lacy, short hair, glasses. He was smiling at something someone at his table said. I could totally see him and Lacy as the cutest couple ever!  Next to David and me, of course.
    “How are you going to ask him?” Dierdre asked.
    “Um. I don’t know.”
    “You could do something really fun like hire an airplane to write the message in the sky after school!” Dierdre suggested.
    “Yeah. I’ll have my chauffer call my personal pilot and arrange it,” Lacy deadpanned.
    “Okay, so maybe not,” Dierdre laughed.
    “You could make him cupcakes and take one to each of his classes with part of the invitation message on it,” Jamie suggested.
    “That’s a good one Jamie. Guys like food,” Dierdre said. She pointed at David with his stuffed mouth to make her point. He grinned.
    “Oh, I know! You can buy a box of Cracker Jacks, open it really carefully, take out the prize and put a message in there asking him to Sadie Hawkins!” I chimed in. Inwardly, I did a face-palm. Now I had to come up with a different idea if I gathered the courage to ask David.
    “Ooh, ooh, I have another idea. You could have the chorus serenade him at his locker!” Dierdre said.
    We all nodded. Lacy looked unsure.
    “Why don’t you just ask him?” David asked.
    We all looked at him as though he’d sprouted a third eye in the middle of his forehead. I noticed he had finished his whole platter of food. I looked down at my half eaten meal. How did he eat so fast?
    He wiped his mouth with a napkin. “What?”
    “Just ask him?” Dierdre asked.
    “Yeah. Why not?”
    “As in, simply saunter on up to him and ask him to the dance?” Jamie asked.
    “I don’t know about the sauntering part, but yeah. Just ask him.”
    Lacy sat up a little. She seemed interested in what David was proposing.
    “But that’s no fun,” protested Dierdre.
    “Look, we guys are simple. Give us food, we eat. Ask us to a dance, we say yes or no. You don’t need all this fluffy, hard work stuff.”
    “But, but . . .” Dierdre stuttered.
    Lacy sat forward. “But what if he says no?”
    “Well, then you find someone else to ask.” David shrugged.
    Lacy flopped against the back of her chair. “I couldn’t handle the rejection. I wish I knew what the answer would be before I asked.”
    “Welcome to my world,” David