Gonna Be Me (A Turning Red Story)

Tyler's Invitation

General POV

Three weeks into the plan, the six girls were doing very well for money. They had managed to get to $1100 using the power of red panda pics and merchandise! There's only one week left and they needed at least $100 more before they could finally reach their goal and see 4★Town. None of us were very stressed about needing more money because we knew that if we continued with the panda pics and merch, we would get there in no time! Well, not all of us were chilled about it...

One day, the six of them were sitting on the bleachers by the basketball area at lunch, making panda keyrings and keychains to sell for merch. Mei and Kendra were counting the money and writing new merch ideas to get money, Priya was making the heads of the keyrings, Xia was gluing the ears on, Abby was gluing the eyes on and Miriam was putting them ready in the box.

"Check out Number 12, he's got delts for days," Miriam sighed as she looked over to the basketball team.

"Forget that, I need lunch, I'm starting to black out!" Abby shouted before dramatically pretending to pass out.

"I am pretty hungry myself, I am craving for fudge brownies right now," Kendra suggested.

"I think I'm getting carpal tunnel," Priya groaned.

"No pain, no gain, Priya!" Mei said while quickly counting through the money, "Come on, chop-chop! Five, ten..."

"Girl, relax!" Miriam told her.

"True," Xia agreed.

"Yeah, we're doing our best!" Abby explained, sitting up.

"It's not enough!" Mei exclaimed as her panda ears, tail, hands and teeth appeared, "The concert is this Saturday and we're still a hundred short! Ugh! I knew we should have charged more for photos! Stupid, stupid, stupid!"

"Mei, calm down, it's in the bag," Kendra told her.

"But-" she started.

Miriam pretended to zip Mei's mouth shut.

"What's the point of getting to the concert if you're too exhausted to enjoy it?" she smiled, "Now, take a break and help me appreciate some boys."

"Okay," Mei grinned as her panda features poofed away from calmness.

She, Kendra, Miriam, Kendra, Priya, and Abby looked at the boys and sighed. Of course, Xia wasn't the sort of girl who found many guys cute, she only had my eyes set on one person. So she didn't like any of them but she waved over to the basketball team.

"Looking good!" Miriam grinned.

"Nice calves!" Abby complimented.

"Your layup shot yesterday was excellent!" Kendra added with a thumbs up.

"Are you a triangle? Because you acute!" Mei smiled, causing the rest of the group to laugh and applaud at her cheesy pick-up line.

"You guys are so weird," Tyler remarked from behind the bleachers.

The girls sat up in shock, they weren't expecting to hear him. They turned around and looked through one of the gaps and there he was. He was standing smugly while playing with a toothpick.

"Hey!" Miriam hissed at him.

"Tyler?" Kendra raised an eyebrow.

"Are you spying on us?" Mei asked angrily.

"I wanna talk to you, Mei, and possibly you as well, Xia," Tyler told us.

Xia blushed because she never thought he'd want to genuinely talk to her without teasing her or her friend group. Nevertheless, she stopped blushing.