Brownie Delight

Sarah climbed onto the bus with her plate of brownies and sat down next to Kim. Today had been the pep assembly, and Sarah had been in charge. Kim was impressed with Sarah’s creativity.

“Sarah, you did a great job today!” said Kim.

“I thought it was dumb!” said Thad. He was sitting in the seat in front of the girls.

“What was so wrong with it?” asked Sarah. She was annoyed with people like Thad. All they ever did was complain.

“You always call on the same students to participate,” explained Thad.

“How can you say that?” interrupted Kim. “Sarah called on Jace. It’s not Sarah’s fault that he refused.”

“Okay. So she picked one new kid,” said Thad.

“Thad, are you feeling left out?” asked Sarah with a grin. “Do you want one of my brownies?”

“Sure,” replied Thad. His face brightened at the thought of it.

Sarah grabbed the biggest brownie she could find and handed it to Thad. “Oh, wait! You are going to want a napkin to go with that!” cautioned Sarah.

Thad took a huge bite of his brownie. It didn’t take long before he was coughing and sputtering!

“What’s wrong?” asked Kim. “Thad, are you okay?”

“That’s disgusting!” called Thad, gagging.

Sarah began chuckling. “Now do you know why I didn’t call on you? The pepper in the brownie isn’t too good, is it?”

Thad continued coughing and sputtering. He moved to the front of the seat to be by the garbage can.