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Chapter 30
Aaron’s band was good, but far from perfect. Even I could tell. Nevertheless, they were perfect for our party. Most people cheered for them whenever they started playing a cover from a popular song. Alegria was a good singer, her husky voice captivating. Lots of guys were checking her out, and she was flirting with most of them. That girl sure has charisma.
The living room was now the dance floor. Dinah, Emma and I were dancing our heels off together. When the Deadly Dogs started playing The Shoop Shoop Song, a song we’ve tortured Aaron with for months, we literally screamed, and then we started our little dance routine. I couldn’t believe that he really had convinced his band mates to play it for us. It was practically another birthday present!
The other party guests made some room for us and enjoyed our silly choreography. Lots of cheering and applause when we were done. That was so much fun!
Our birthday party was really good so far; everybody seemed to be enjoying it. Emma even convinced Brian, Mr. I-don’t-dance, to join us for a little bit and take each one of us for a spin. Cameron was beaming with joy. Although I suspected it had more to do with dancing with a guy in general. When she was dancing with Jason, she had pretty much the same expression.
Emma had made it her little mission to dance with every single one of our guests. She was a bit tipsy already and at the moment somehow dancing with Summer and Nick; both girls in some sort of giggling contest by the sound of it. I even saw Julie, Jefferson High’s queen bee, with some of her ladies-in-waiting. The crowning glory of our get-together! Our party was officially popular-approved. No need for her to be frowning, though. It was her own fault if she was just watching her best friend dance instead of enjoying the party and going with the flow. Maybe Julie didn’t approve of her bestie hanging out with Em instead of her.
Even though everything seemed to be under control so far, I had decided to remain sober and stick to water and soda for the rest of the night. Someone had to be on top of things. Emma clearly had forgotten about her hostess duties, dancing happily. Fair enough. No need for both of us to do it. She should enjoy her party the best she could.
I left my friends behind and collected some empty cups on my way to the kitchen. Someone had built a little pyramid out of them on our dining room table. At least it would be easy to clean tomorrow, seeing that it was a glass table.
Back in the kitchen, where I was busy refilling the chips, I ran into Lauren. This was a bit of a surprise. I had invited her, but I would have never thought that she would actually show up. Uh oh. She surely didn’t approve of the paper cups by the looks of it.
“Hi Lauren! So good to see you,” I welcomed her.
“Oh, hello Sarah,” she said with a very sweet smile on her face. “Happy birthday!”
Perfect! She wasn’t going to say anything about the paper cups at all. I had been wrong.
Lauren cleared her threat. “Hey, did you know that almost 60 billion paper cups per year are being used in the US alone?”
I was wrong to think I’d been wrong. How could that girl remember such facts? She was an environmental facts machine, spitting them all out with only the slightest push of a button.
“Um… I’m really sorry. We purely bought them for safety reasons,” I tried to reassure her before she had a chance to embrace her full-fledged lecture mode. “At least they are not plastic, right?”
“As if that would make a difference,” Lauren let me know. “They can’t be recycled. It’s their coating. It prevents breakdown.” She picked up an empty cup to emphasize her point. “This isn’t biodegradable. All the cups, hundreds of thousands tons of them, end up in our landfills. That’s one of the reasons why coffee on the go has such a huge negative environmental effect. You do bring your own reusable containers when you buy coffee on the go, right?”
From now on I definitely would! That’s such a waste.
“Of course I do!”
She smiled. “Good. Because it’s not only the quantity which is devastating. When paper cups are decomposing –“
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Living High School to the Fullest (Completed)
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