The Contaminated Case of the Cooking Contest

The Contaminated Case of the Cooking Contest — page 7
GALACTIC ACADEMY OF SCIENCE actually two cooking contests on board One is for adults and the other for kids your age You two should sign up When they came out of the bathroom Mae’s mom gave them some brochures and shooed them away Why don’t you go find a table while I finish up here I’ll be there in a minute Mae and Clinton made their way to the Calypso Buffet and found a quiet corner where they could look out to sea Mae flipped open the brochure for the kids cooking contest and started reading the contest rules aloud Clinton let his mind drift I like to eat Clinton said I’ll be too busy eating to cook I heard you can eat anytime you want on the cruise ship Mae let the brochure drop You’re probably right The only thing I know about cooking is from watching a couple of cooking shows I never cook at home and Mom’s always in too much of a hurry to make anything fancy We’d never win Wait a minute said Clinton I never said we couldn’t win Just then a whooshing sound filled the air and there in front of them in the seat they’d been saving for Mae’s mom sat their friend from the future Selectra Volt Selectra was dressed in her usual skin-­tight green outfit covered with pink puffballs Her green and pink hair stuck out in its usual cheerful way but she was frowning Whoa Selectra Clinton said How’d you find us here We try to keep track of our G A S recruits Selectra said You are Clinton Chang Asian-­American been on four missions Come on you know that Clinton said Can’t we do without this official stuff 4