“I’ve got it!” Arlo yelled as he reached for the plate. As he caught it, though, he tripped over his skateboard, and the plate flew up into the air again, this time landing upside down on the nearest person’s head. And that person just happened to be Jessi!

“Arrrrgggggghhhhhhh!” Jessi yelled. The paper plate looked like a silly white hat. Red sauce dripped down her face, and spaghetti noodles hung over her head like a weird wig.

As everyone watched, astounded, the plate slid off Jessi’s head and down her body, leaving a trail of sauce, bits of spaghetti, and meatballs down her whole outfit.

“Jessi!” I cried, and I ran over to her.

Then Mrs. Castillo’s voice rang out through the cafeteria. “Arlo Anderson! My office, immediately!” Arlo put his head down and skulked out of the cafeteria while everyone laughed.

“This is not funny!” the assistant principal barked. She shook her head. “We’ve been lenient letting students keep skateboards in their lockers. If this is how you are going to behave, then that privilege is revoked until further notice. Just being seen with a skateboard on school grounds will result in immediate detention. Understood?”

The cafeteria grew quiet as she walked over to Jessi. Mrs. Castillo shook her head. “Oh, Jessi, how awful! I’m going to make sure you get an apology from Arlo. We are going to have to call your parents. You need to go home and take a shower. You are covered in sauce. I’ve never seen anything like this. What chaos!”

Jessi sighed. “Let me get my backpack.”

All eyes were on her as she walked back to the table. I walked with her silently, not sure what to say. Part of me wanted to laugh, but I knew Jessi wouldn’t find it funny right now.

Frida looked up at us, her eyes wide. “Chaos! Jessi’s fortune has come true.”

“Aw, come on, it’s just a coincidence,” Zoe insisted.

Frida smirked. “Let’s see. Two fortunes down. Mine came true, and now Jessi’s. I wonder who will be next: Emma, Zoe, or Devin?”

Zoe just shook her head. “No way. I don’t believe in this stuff.”

“How can you deny it?” Frida asked Zoe. “Look at everything that happened so far, including me getting the commercial and scoring the winning goal in our game against the Roses.”

“If Devin and you have that whole lucky vibe thing going, then why didn’t we win the game against the Bolts?” Zoe shot back.

Frida waved a hand in the air as if dismissing the idea. “Good luck doesn’t mean everything is going to go your way every single time. In fact, we could have lost by a lot more to the Bolts. And it’s not like we asked Flash Fortune about that game and it told us we were going to win.”