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He was dressed like a hot dog: he wore a big stuffed hot dog in a bun, with mustard, over his shirt. On the bottom he wore jeans and sneakers.
    â€œKatie! You’re a chef! You can cook me!” he cried.
    Katie waved the rubber chicken at him. “Hot dogs and chicken, mmm.”
    Then he looked at me. “Wow, is that you, Mia? Awesome. But where’s your big red nose?”
    â€œI told her she should wear it,” Katie said.
    â€œHey, I’m in costume, right?” I pointed out. “And I don’t see any other clowns here.”
    Most of the boys had opted for gory zombie costumes, with gross, bloody faces and torn clothes. And most of the girls wore cute costumes from the party store, with short, frilly skirts.
    â€œWell, I’ll ketchup to you later,” George joked, pushing off into the crowd again.
    â€œBut you’re wearing mustard!” Katie called after him, laughing.
    â€œOh my gosh, Mia!”
    I spun around to see Alexis, Matt, and Emma standing there. Alexis had on a cute black dress and a black witch hat. Matt was dressed like a basketball player (which he is in real life). And Emma was anadorable fairy in a pink dress with a fluffy organza skirt, glittery white wings, and a fairy wand with an aluminum foil star at the top.
    â€œYou look amazing!” Emma said. “I love your makeup.”
    â€œThanks!” I said. “Katie hooked me up with a costume at the last minute. I know it’s goofy, but—”
    â€œIt’s supercute,” Emma interrupted. “And nobody else here is wearing anything like it. But there are a dozen fairies here.”
    â€œYou could start a fairy baseball team,” Katie joked.
    â€œAnd, anyway, your dress is really beautiful,” I said.
    Emma nodded. “Mona lent it to me,” she said. Mona is a Cupcake customer who owns The Special Day bridal shop, where Emma models part-time. “It was a special-order bridesmaid’s dress, and then the order was canceled. I got the cheapest wings at the costume store and put glitter on them, and Jake helped me make the wand.”
    â€œIt’s perfect!” Katie said. “How about you, Alexis?”
    â€œWell, I borrowed this dress from Dylan, and I got the hat at the dollar store,” Alexis said.
    â€œEconomical and chic,” I told her, laughing.
    Then her expression suddenly changed to a look of unhappy surprise.
    â€œAlexis, what’s wrong?” I asked.
    â€œUm, well, Chris is here,” she said.
    I turned and followed her gaze to the front door, where Chris was walking in . . . with Talia Robinson. She’s in a couple of my classes, but I don’t really know her. I didn’t think Chris knew her, either, but he obviously did, because it looked like he had come to the party with her.
    Chris was dressed like the old-fashioned kind of vampire, with a red bow tie and black cape. Talia looked like a girl vampire with pale makeup, a black T-shirt, a short denim skirt, tights, and boots. Plastic fake fangs stuck out from her red lipstick. She looked totally cute.
    I looked down at my polka-dotted clown suit and red, floppy shoes and wished I could sink into the floor. Chris had taken another girl to the party. Another girl! And she wasn’t wearing a ridiculous clown costume, either.
    Katie must have read my mind. “Maybe they’re just walking in at the same time,” she said.
    But then George walked up to them and started talking to them, and I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but they were all laughing, and then Chriskind of put his arm around Talia and led her over to the food table in the dining room.
    â€œUnbelievable,” Alexis said, and she sounded a little bit angry. “What is he doing here with her? He likes you.”
    â€œIt’s my fault,” I said miserably. “Matt is right. I totally blew him off, and he took somebody else.”
    â€œHe shouldn’t have