Under pressure

21: The first boxes

*The next day. 29 August*

Betty's POV         

"Betty!" my mom shouts.

I sigh, "5 MINUTES!" I yell back and keep making the braid for Jellybean.

"You have to sign something! Now," I hear.

I sigh, "Come on," I say.

She giggles as we get up from in front of the mirror. "Be careful, not too fast," I tell her.

I keep braiding her hair while we go downstairs. We get there and some of the Serpents laugh at out position.

"What?" I ask my mom.

"Ms. Cooper? You hsve 5 packs," a man says.

I raise my eyebrows, "Me?" I ask.

"Yes and I need your signings," he says and points on the papers in my mom's hands.

I sigh, "Juggie," I say, seeing that he's in the kitchen.

He comes here and I oeck his lips, "Hold her hair and don't mess it up," I say.

He chuckles and we move our hands in unison. He holds her braid. I take the pen and sign the papers rapidly and then hand it back to the man.

"What are these?" I ask.

"No idea," he says and walks away.

I sigh and look at them, "Who would send me packs?" I ask.

"I don't know, now come on and take them to your room or somewhere," mom says, closing the door.

"Can you lift them into the kitchen? I'll jsut finish this," I say and take Jelly's hair back. She giggles as I keep braiding.

I do the same braids I had in that competition and then make it into a bun.

"Here you go," I say.

"Thsnk you," she smiles.

I nod with a smile and go into the kitchen, Jelly following. "Morning," I say to FP, Sweets, Slurpe, Cher, Jason, and my brothers. We usually eat in here and the other Serpents eat in the dining room, cause they insisted on getting banned from the kitchen, cause if not, they said they'll accidentally eat all the food.

"Morning," they say. Mom and Jug are here too, so all of us.

I take a knife from a drawer and cut my one box open. I open it and my eyes widen, seeing that it's full of muesli bars.

"Wow," Jug says in shock.

I take the card on it and read it quietly.

Dear Betty.
I am a huge fan of you. You did amazing on that surding competition. Also, I'm sorry about your friend and grandma. Sorry about the fighting and violence in your home town. I talked to my mom about it and she agreed that we should send you some food to give to people in need. Thank you for being such a nice person. -Love, Emily (16)