EVERGREEN WOOD《COMPLETED✔》

SWEET RED CUPCAKE

Chapter 16

I ring the door bell at Noah's front door. Noah opened the door immediately and narrowed his eyes at the person beside me.

"Ivy agreed to help. We need all the hands we can get." Noah eyed Ivy for a moment then ushered us inside.

I noticed stacks of cupcakes on the kitchen counter, dining table. Everywhere I looked there were baked cupcakes.

"Jeez Susannah, how many are there?"

She came with another tray and put them on the corner of the counter. "Enough to feed your whole school." She came and gave me hug. Then she turned to Ivy. "Hello. I am seeing you after a long time, aren't I?" She gave Ivy a hug too. when we were little, Ivy used to hang out with us along with Luke and Jason. Then Jason moved to new York. We were still close. But when I returned from New York, things were different.

I distributed the cup cakes into three groups, one for violet, one for pink and one for blue. Susannah handed me the frostings. "Where is the blue one?" I asked Susannah.

"Blue is the color of sickness. I thought yellow would be better for gratitude or apology." I looked at the yellow frosting. It sure looked better than the blue one I had in mind.

"Why aren't we using red for love?" Ivy asked.

"Because it's high school love, innocent. red is more like passion and all." I gave her a skeptical look.

"Sweet." She took some icing on her finger and tasted it.

"Why are you helping us?" Noah asked her while piping a yellow cupcake.

"Because I like your idea. It's fun and casual." I raise my eyebrows at those words.

"Aren't you supposed to be on Luke's side? because Skyler is always on his side and you are her best friend?"

"Maybe, but they don't need any help. This one is fun."

Noah dragged me a little away from her and whispered, "Don't you think she agreed only to sabotage us?"

"No," I kept my voice down. "She plays fair. She would never pretend. You know Ivy."

Noah shrugged and we got back to our icing. By the time we finished doing our job, it was already dark outside. Ivy took off and we finished the rest. Susannah told me to stay and have dinner. But Jeremy was here. So I hurried back home.

"So, how was the prep?" Jeremy asked at the dinner table.

"So far so good. Let's hope for the best."

"Everything's going to be fine. That Noah is a fine young man," Gramps said amusingly.

"Yeah, you're going to be very nice vice president. But why don't you run for the president?' Granma asked me.

I had that thought a few times in my mind. But then I decided against it. I cannot take that much responsibility. I have soccer practice, then the grades. I can't do it.

"Because, I wanna rule staying as Vice president so that if anything goes wrong everyone blames Noah." With that the whole table burst out laughing.

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Noah, Ivy and I were setting up the table in the hallway. With all those colors, our table already looked better. I caught Cecil frowning at me. Clearly she blames me for that mishap yesterday. I could have busted out Luke. But I decided against it. There was a lot more important thing in my mind. Fun and Casual.

"All set. I should probably leave. Only campaign members allowed on that side of table. Bye," Ivy waved at us and left.

I checked everything one last time. The cupcakes were arranged in a neat stack divided into 3 parts as their colors.