“Well, anyway, the Flash Fortune app was right!” Frida said. “I am going to be such a great spokesperson for them now that I know it works. Maybe they’ll send me on tour. I’d love to go to Paris. . . .”

While Frida kept daydreaming about her world tour, I looked at the business card in my hand.

Me, a model? I thought. The app definitely didn’t predict that!

Chapter Five

“Devin! Over here!”

I kicked the ball to Grace, and she dribbled it down the field until she got into goal range. Then she kicked it over Zarine’s head, and the ball bounced into the net. Score!

Coach Flores’s whistle blared across the field. “Great scrimmage, everyone!”

We all jogged over to coach, panting and sweaty from the practice.

“Everybody, hydrate! Then I need to talk to you for a few minutes before I dismiss you,” she said. She walked off toward the locker room while we got our water bottles.

“That sounds ominous,” Emma whispered.

“Ominous. Wait, isn’t that on our vocab list this week?” Jessi asked.

Emma grinned. “Ominous. Giving the impression that something bad is about to happen,” she recited. “I’ve been studying.”

“Well, it does sound a little ominous,” Zoe agreed. “Do you think there’s more trouble over the whole blue roses thing?”

“I hope not,” I said, taking a swig from my water bottle.

Frida took her phone out of her duffel bag. “Let’s see,” she said. She started tapping on her screen.

“Wait, are you checking the fortune app?” Jessi asked. “I thought you said you shouldn’t check that all the time.”

“Well, now that I’ve booked the commercial, I really need to use the app as much as possible so I can get into character,” Frida replied. “Okay, here we go. It says, ‘Don’t worry. Be happy.’ So Coach isn’t going to say anything bad.”

“I guess we’ll find out,” I said.

We headed over to the locker room and sat on the benches.

“I just want to begin by saying that I’m really proud of how you played on Saturday,” she said. “Everyone had to step out of their comfort zone, and you did great.”

Everyone started cheering and clapping.

“The suspension against some of our eighth graders has been lifted, and hopefully won’t ever be repeated, so we’ll be able to focus on our game against the Bayside Bolts this Saturday,” Coach went on. “Keep focused and playing like you’re playing, and we’ll stay on track to make the playoffs.”

We all cheered again.