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sister, but Liberty stopped her.
    â€œI got this,” she said, ignoring Miss Toni’s order not to talk to City Feet. “If it isn’t Mandy Mouse.” Liberty grinned. “So nice to see you and your Stinky Feet again. Would you like to congratulate us now or later for beating you today? Your choice.”
    â€œOuch!” Hayden commented. “That’s gotta hurt.”
    â€œSometimes I really love Liberty,” Scarlett remarked. “She always knows just what to say.”
    â€œI’m glad she’s on our team . . . and not theirs,” Bria added.
    â€œOur coach told us not to listen to you,” Mandy said with a sniff. “You’re just little mosquitoes, buzzing in our ears.
BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ.
”
    â€œAnd you know what happens to mosquitoes,” said Regan, another girl on the City Feet team. She was eleven, the same age as Scarlett, Rochelle, Liberty, and Bria, and she wore her dark hair in a short pixie cut. Rumor had it that Justine was grooming her for stardom. She clapped her hands together. “SWAT!”
    Anya suddenly stepped forward. “I wouldn’t be too sure about that,” she said.
    Regan froze; she and Anya had been friends on City Feet. “You’re on their team? I thought you went back home to L.A.”
    â€œWell, of course she is,” Liberty quipped. “She wants to be on the winning team . . . not with the losers.”
    â€œWell, we don’t need Anya,” Mandy shot back. “We have Addison.” A tall, blond teenage girl stepped forward. She was wearing the City Feet black-and-white satin jacket.
    â€œHey,” she said simply.
    â€œHay is for horses, Baddison—didn’t Miss Justine teach you that?” Liberty chuckled.
    â€œNo, but she did teach me to do fifty
fouettés
in a row—which is more than you can do,” Addison replied, grinning. “Unless you’d like to prove me wrong.”
    â€œAnytime,” Liberty growled back.
    â€œLadies, ladies,” Hayden said, pulling Liberty away from their rivals. “Can’t we all just be friends?”
    â€œWho’s this? Your bodyguard?” Addison taunted them.
    â€œHa-ha! The Divas are scared of us! They need a bodyguard to protect them!” Mandy said, laughing.
    â€œYou just bring it!” Rochelle exclaimed. “I am so gonna kick your butt, you mean little munchkin!” Then she remembered she was in a cast and on crutches. The entire City Feet team erupted in laughter.
    â€œOMG, that is too funny!” Regan laughed. “Look, Rochelle has a boo-boo! I wonder how many
pirouettes
you can do in that thing!” She snapped a photo of the ugly black boot on Rochelle’s foot. “I’m so posting this on Instagram!”
    Justine grabbed the iPhone out of her hand. “You’ll do nothing of the kind,” she commanded. “We do our fighting on the dance floor.” With that, she ushered her team down the hall.
    Hayden shook his head. “I take back everything I ever said about Divas not being tough.”
    â€œAre you proud of yourselves?” Toni asked. Shehad seen the whole argument go down. “Didn’t I tell you to steer clear of City Feet?”
    â€œMandy started it,” Gracie tattled. “She called me a scaredy-cat.”
    â€œI don’t care what she said or what any of them said. We don’t stoop to their level.”
    Gracie raised her hand. “Miss Toni, does Justine really have a broomstick like you said? Is it like the one in
Harry Potter?
”
    Rochelle giggled. Leave it to Gracie to call Toni out!
    â€œNo, I was making a joke. But you’re right—it wasn’t funny and it wasn’t nice. So let’s all just forget about City Feet and focus on our own team.”

    In the gymnasium, Scarlett felt the floor with her jazz shoe. It was rock hard and slippery with wax.
    â€œWe’re not used to dancing on a floor