Awkward

The day after the field trip, Peppi is still trying to figure out how to apologize to Jaime. She wants to draw a comic about their experience at the Discovery Center but is having trouble fitting it into four panels. The rest of the art club is having trouble thinking up ideas for their school life comics. They are visited by the newspaper’s editor and staff reporter, Jenny and Akilah, who give them some tips and inspiration for school-related ideas.

Meanwhile, a ruckus from outside reveals that some of the science club kids are aiming a rocket at lockers to collect velocity data. Miss Tobins scolds them for setting up “unsafe experiments” (86). The art club kids comment on the nerve to ignore orders from Miss Tobins. As Peppi and her friends walk outside, discussing the science club, Peppi sees Jaime gathering data while he and some girls fly a kite. The accompanying illustration shows him with a huge smile. 

Later, in her science tutoring session, Peppi asks Jaime about the kite. The science team is doing a presentation for the regional science fair about aerodynamics, but he asked to be taken off the team because he just likes science, not competition.