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  They also have all these arcade games

  Remember, Gabs, when u mentioned St. Francis?

  GABRIELLE

  Yeah

  VICTORIA

  IT CAN BE A FUNDRAISER FOR ST. FRANCIS

  OMG I AM ON FIRE

  CECILY

  LOL go Vic

  GABRIELLE

  Yeahhhhhh

  But I gotta get back to hw

  CECILY

  Same

  VICTORIA

  Ugghhhh bye

  JK thx for the support

  Deleting text thread obvs

  Prianka, Sage

  PRIANKA

  Heyyyyyy

  SAGE

  Hey

  PRIANKA

  I have a question for u

  SAGE

  K

  PRIANKA

  Do u ever think people like to keep secrets to get attention and then trickle out info little by little

  SAGE

  Even your texts sound poetic lol

  PRIANKA

  Lol!

  SAGE

  Ummmmm

  Kinda yeah

  Sometimes people will do whatever it takes to get attention

  PRIANKA

  Yeah agree

  SAGE

  Why do u ask

  PRIANKA

  IDK just curious

  SAGE

  Yeah right

  Tell me

  PRIANKA

  Promise promise you won’t tell anyone

  SAGE

  Ummmm

  Yes promise

  PRIANKA

  K so if you google Victoria Melford Philadelphia . . .

  SAGE

  Yeah

  PRIANKA

  Just do it

  SAGE

  Umm ok hold

  Don’t see anything yet

  PRIANKA

  Keep scrolling down

  SAGE

  Whoa

  Reading now

  Victoria in her undies in the fountain!?!

  As a little kid??

  Who does that??

  I mean even @ 4 it’s weird no?

  PRIANKA

  Hahaha yeah kinda IDK

  SAGE

  Why do you know this

  PRIANKA

  She just told us

  But it’s like this deep dark secret for her

  I kinda think it’s funny though

  SAGE

  Yeah it is funny

  Anyway I won’t tell anyone

  PRIANKA

  K you BETTER NEVER

  SAGE

  Sheeesh ok

  Anyway did u hear the poetry club may all come to your award reception

  PRIANKA

  Really

  SAGE

  Yeah

  I overheard Mrs. Marburn talking about it

  PRIANKA

  Good eavesdropping skills, Sagey

  SAGE

  Lol thanks

  I have to confess something

  Speaking of secrets LOL

  PRIANKA

  Yeah

  SAGE

  I was soooo jealous of your win at first

  But I want you to know I am happy for you

  PRIANKA

  Oh, Sage

  Thank you for telling me

  And being open and honest

  SAGE

  Xoxoxo

  SAGE

  Is Vic ok though for real

  Not the fountain thing but after the whole scene w/ her mom @ sledding yelling @ everyone

  PRIANKA

  U know about it, too

  SAGE

  Umm yeah

  Everyone does

  PRIANKA

  Ohhhh

  She’s ok

  She doesn’t think the whole grade knows

  Let’s keep it that way

  Another secret I guess . . .

  SAGE

  Kk

  PRIANKA

  Xoxoxoxo

  Gabby,

  Thanks so much for walking Elroy my wonder pup! He loves you! I wonder if you are interested in keeping this up. Maybe a little part-time job. Let me know. No pressure if it’s too much.

  Thank you!

  Xoxo

  Your neighbor,

  Mrs. Minkin

  FROM THE DESK OF

  Cecily Anderson

  Ideas to make Valentine’s Day more meaningful:

  • Make heart artwork for people at Yorkville Nursing Home

  • Visit cardiac patients at St. Francis

  • Make little care packages of sweets for kids who visit the soup kitchen

  • Have a raffle and donate money to refugee families in Yorkville

  • Have photos all around the gym of different kinds of couples

  • Show love for all people

  • Take all phones away during the dance to focus on being in the moment

  • Make each student write a pledge to become more considerate & loving

  • Have a Post-it wall of goals to become more loving

  • Have a Post-it wall of things we love

  ***Have members of dance committee present ideas & plans @ next PTA meeting to parents***

  Dear Mara,

  I don’t want to be too overwhelming but just want you to know my feelings for you are true and still very much there.

  See you soon,

  Cecily

  Woo!!!!!

  GABRIELLE

  Guys!

  I am soooo fired up

  GABRIELLE

  That planning meeting was awesome

  Everyone seemed into the St. Francis idea and I think it can really work

  We can make cards for the patients and then go to drop off

  Was it bad not to mention fundraiser idea?

  Didn’t want to steal Vic’s thunder

  PRIANKA

  Yeah good idea to wait on that

  CECILY

  Love it, Gabs

  LOL sorry for the pun

  PRIANKA

  Hahahahahahahahah

  PRIANKA

  Love day every day!

  GABRIELLE

  Ooooh that can be the theme of the dance

  PRIANKA

  Yessssssss

  Vic where r u now

  GABRIELLE

  She left school early

  PRIANKA

  Oh no

  CECILY

  So sad she missed the planning meeting

  But so pumped we can present @ next PTA meeting

  CECILY

  Getting the parents excited will be key

  Especially Mama Melford

  GABRIELLE

  Vicccccc

  Where rrrrr uuuuuuu

  PRIANKA

  K stop harassing her

  CECILY

  Gabs do u feel like you’re closer to finding your passion

  GABRIELLE

  Not really

  PRIANKA

  What else can you do??

  GABRIELLE

  Now u r harassing me

  GABRIELLE

  But I’m gonna be rich

  PRIANKA

  GABRIELLE

  Gonna be walking the neighbor’s Elroy more often & get for it

  CECILY

  Woooooo

  PRIANKA

  Wow that’s great

  GABRIELLE

  Thanx

  TTYL

  CECILY

  Mwah

  PRIANKA

  BFFs

  GABRIELLE

  Oh one more thing

  Did u hear they’re letting people from other schools come to the dance

  Maybe Ivy will want to join

  She could sleep over after

  CECILY

  Oooh really

  Fun

  PRIANKA

  That’s a cool idea

  GABRIELLE

  People need to sign something, though, and get a reference from their own school

  GABRIELLE

&nbs
p; Like for safety

  How nutty is that

  PRIANKA

  Omg wow

  What kind of reference

  GABRIELLE

  From like a teacher or something

  CECILY

  Omg

  I wonder if anyone wants to come that badly to go through that

  PRIANKA

  Lol, Cece, but I get what you’re saying

  CECILY

  Like it’ll be fun but that fun??

  GABRIELLE

  IDK

  Guess we’ll see

  Gabrielle, Miriam

  MIRIAM

  Omg Sami might come for the V Day dance

  GABRIELLE

  Really

  Is she allowed

  MIRIAM

  Well yeah they’re allowing out of school people

  GABRIELLE

  I know but she literally got kicked out of school soooo . . .

  MIRIAM

  Haha true

  Did you hear Eloise is bringing her boyfriend from her theater group

  GABRIELLE

  No omg

  Didn’t know that they were so serious

  MIRIAM

  Oh yeah

  They are

  She tried to sneak out of her house once to go see him

  He lives around the corner but still

  GABRIELLE

  Lol wow

  MIRIAM

  I kinda wanna bring this boy Jonah from camp

  He’s soooo cute

  GABRIELLE

  Send me a pic

  MIRIAM

  K hold

  GABRIELLE

  Ooooh he’s cute

  MIRIAM

  I feel nervous asking him, tho

  GABRIELLE

  Does he live far away

  MIRIAM

  Not really

  GABRIELLE

  Hmmmm

  Just make it seem like a low-key thing

  MIRIAM

  IDK

  I’ll think about it

  GABRIELLE

  K good luck

  Can’t believe we’ll see Sami again

  MIRIAM

  LOL I see her all the time

  GABRIELLE

  I know

  I mean the rest of us

  MIRIAM

  It’ll be fun

  She’s chilled out a bit

  GABRIELLE

  She has

  MIRIAM

  Pretty much yeah

  GABRIELLE

  K cool

  Gotta go walk neighbor Elroy

  He’s cute

  GABRIELLE

  MIRIAM

  Xoxoxo

  Squad Forever

  GABRIELLE

  hiiiiiiii

  Guys guess what

  VICTORIA

  What

  Sorry I have been so MIA

  My mom has been picking me up right after school

  VICTORIA

  And I have been trying to stay off text so she’d chill on snooping

  Don’t think it’s working

  Anyway . . . what?

  GABRIELLE

  I’m gonna be going to my first wedding

  Ya know how I have one cousin on my dad’s side but he’s way older and we never see him and I barely know him

  PRIANKA

  Ummm sounds kinda familiar but IDK

  GABRIELLE

  Anyway so he’s getting married

  In 2 months

  And my dad & I are going

  CECILY

  So fun

  PRIANKA

  Can we go shopping with you

  Is it a major fancy wedding

  GABRIELLE

  IDK

  Yeah my dad texted me a pic of the invite

  Says black tie

  VICTORIA

  Oooohhhhhh

  Too bad ur too old to be a flower girl

  GABRIELLE

  Yeah that would be awk

  CECILY

  This is gonna be so fun, Gabs

  GABRIELLE

  IK

  I’m excited

  VICTORIA

  R u gonna have to dance with ur dad

  GABRIELLE

  Umm maybe

  PRIANKA

  Is that awk

  GABRIELLE

  Not really

  He’s pretty low key

  PRIANKA

  So cool

  I’ve only been to 1 wedding and it was a hardcore Indian wedding so this will be way diff

  GABRIELLE

  Yeah Jewish weddings are kinda hardcore, too

  Lots of specific traditions

  Plus a super long dance called the hora

  You know it from bar and bat mitzvahs

  They raise the bride and groom in chairs and everyone dances around them

  My mom has a book on Jewish weddings and I skimmed it once when I was bored so I know about allllll the traditions now LOL

  PRIANKA

  Wow

  U must’ve been really bored

  CECILY

  LOL, PRI!!!

  PRIANKA

  Sorry true tho

  GABRIELLE

  Yeah I was realllllllyyyyyyyy bored LOL

  So yeah all these rituals and stuff that I don’t understand

  CECILY

  So fun, tho

  GABRIELLE

  K back to hw for me

  CECILY

  Same

  Good luck w/ everything, Vic

  VICTORIA

  Thx

  PRIANKA

  Ta ta loves

  From: Gabrielle Katz

  To: Doug Katz

  Subject: Wedding

  Hi, Dad!

  I am sooooooo excited about cousin Ethan’s wedding. I know we haven’t seen him in so long but I’ve never been to a wedding! YAY! Thanks for texting me a pic of the invitation. It’s so pretty. We’re gonna have so much fun!

  Xoxox Gabs

  Gabrielle, Prianka

  GABRIELLE

  Omg I can’t even believe this

  GABRIELLE

  Wedding is same weekend as the awards reception for the poetry contest

  PRIANKA

  OMG WHAT

  GABRIELLE

  I just checked the calendar

  PRIANKA

  Oh noooooooo

  GABRIELLE

  I am sooo sad

  I can’t do both

  PRIANKA

  Me too

  GABRIELLE

  What am I gonna do

  PRIANKA

  Ack IDK

  PRIANKA

  I can video reception for you

  GABRIELLE

  But all of our friends are going & I hate to miss group stuff

  Will feel so left out

  PRIANKA

  But u are sooo excited for wedding

  Plus you see us alllll the time

  GABRIELLE

  I know but still

  Wahhhhh

  Why does stuff like this have to happen

  PRIANKA

  IDK

  PRIANKA

  So annoying

  GABRIELLE

  Grrrrr

  Grumpy again

  PRIANKA

  Sorry, Gabs

  We’ll fig something out

  Gotta go to bal vihar

  GABRIELLE

  K have fun learning about your heritage

  Love u

  PRIANKA

  Love u

  BFFS

  VICTORIA

  hiiiiiiii

  Are all ur moms @ the Parents in Action meeting rn

  Why do parents have so many meetings anyway

  Super stressed

  GABRIELLE

  VICTORIA

  Can we make this a non-emoji conv

  Really feeling anxious

  PRIANKA

  Wow that is big for you to not want emojis

  PRIANKA

  Ummm IDK if my mom is there

 
I’m just getting home from bal vihar

  Carpooling with Arj . . .

  VICTORIA

  LOL

  PRIANKA

  Why do u ask

  VICTORIA

  My mom is at the meeting rn & I’m nervous the dance is gonna come up

  CECILY

  My mom is @ the meeting, too

  GABRIELLE

  Mine, too

  Don’t stress, Vic

  GABRIELLE

  The dance is totally PG

  VICTORIA

  IK but my mom always goes bonkers

  PRIANKA

  Hahaha, Vic

  U gotta chill

  U can’t control her

  VICTORIA

  Um duh but she can control me and not let me go and get dance canceled maybe

  Who knows what she can do

  CECILY

  Parents in Action is different, tho

  I don’t think they talk about the dance and plans there

  PRIANKA

  Chill

  VICTORIA

  K gtg

  CECILY

  It’s gonna be ok

  Sending

  To: Mr. Carransey

  From: Victoria Melford

  Subject: Valentine’s Day Dance

  Dear Mr. C:

  I know we are trying to bring more of a community service element to the dance and so I have an amazing idea! I missed the planning meeting the other day but I will definitely be at the next one.

  We should make it a fundraiser for St. Francis Hospital (THE HEART HOSPITAL). I know we’re already doing stuff with them but if we make it a fundraiser, it would be great.

  My neighbor owns Party Like It’s 1999 party company and they are willing to donate a photo booth, three arcade games, and some centerpieces if it’s a fundraiser.

  What do you think?

  Thanks for considering!

  Victoria Melford

  *sent from my iPad*

  Quick Side Chat

  CECILY

  Guys

  No side chats but

  Quick side chat & don’t hate because of it

  Also sticking w/ non emojis for a bit, too

  I think we need to be more sensitive to Vic & her issues with her mom

  They seem difficult

  GABRIELLE

  Yeah

  PRIANKA

  I don’t get it, tho

  What is the actual thing going on

  CECILY

  Hard to say

  PRIANKA

  I know the fountain thing when she was little but can that still be so so hard for her?

  CECILY

  IDK

  It’s like her mom can’t deal with her growing up AT ALL

  All our moms snoop but Mama Melford is different

  And really gets intense

  GABRIELLE

  Hmmm

  CECILY

  I’m just saying we need to be more aware

  PRIANKA

  Ur prob right, Cece

  PRIANKA