Chapter 3

Natalie's POV

I was walking around town getting free stuff for my birthday today. I recently found out that I could get anything I wanted with the bugs. People would see them coming out of my mouth and give me anything I wanted! I came up to the bakery and went inside. I would get the biggest cake ever!

"I would like the biggest cake you've got, for free, and as quickly as you can or I will send more bugs into your bakery," I said, as a swarm of cockroaches crawled out of my mouth. The man looked at the roaches nervously. This was so fun!

"Dan!" He called into a back room. "Start making a really big cake." Then a boy about my age came out of the room.

"What kind of cake, chocolate or vanil…." His voice trailed of as he saw the bugs.

"Whoa, awesome." He said. "Where did the bugs come from?"

"I want a vanilla cake with vanilla frosting and Happy Birthday Natalie! In pink frosting on the top. I also want fondant snakes, and frogs, and flies, and cockroaches, and nats, and beetles on the sides of the cake. I want it in less than two hours so hurry up and make it, peasant," I said, squishing a roach between my fingers. Dan, who was now staring at me said,

"You are totally awesome. Can I keep a snake?"

Interesting. Nobody has actually liked the fact that when I talk insects and things fall out of my mouth! I might like this Dan person.

"You can have one as soon as you finish my cake perfectly." I said, leaving. "Remember, two hours!"

I walked out of the bakery and realized that I finished getting all of the things for my birthday party. Now it was time to hand out invitations! I like this part. I'm going to invite everybody. But they probably won't come because of Amy and Prince Ian's wedding.

As I was giving everybody invitations I thought about Amy and about the wedding. I of course was not coming. I can't believe that AMY of all people got to marry the prince! It just wasn't far. Yesterday when I found out that she was getting married to him I wanted to cry. But of course if I did that I would ruin my mascara! Mother was very mad that I wasn't going to be the queen, but she was at least happy that one of her children would be royalty.

After I finished chasing the prince Amy told me the good-for-her news. I then shut myself in my room. In my despair no one and nothing could make me happy again. It didn't help that everybody was too busy preparing for the wedding to notice that I hadn't even come out of my room for tea!

After some time I came up with an idea to make me feel better. I had decided to throw a birthday party for myself. (My birthday wasn't till December, but who cared?) I had planned everything out myself, made the cards, planned the events, and even blew up the balloons! Normally mother would hire someone to do this, but I had been ignored ever since that day Amy told us about the Prince.

I worked very hard on the party, but now I was almost done. Tomorrow was the wedding and my party. All my work will be for the better because this will be the best birthday ever.

Just then I finished handing out invitations but I still had one left! I thought I made the exact amount. Maybe I forgot somebody. I looked over my checklist of people to give invitations to. No, I didn't miss anybody. I guess I just made one too many. Oh well. It was three o'clock. My cake should be done. I walked back to the bakery.

"My cake should be done now," I said, letting some frogs hop out the door.

"Yes it is," said the boy whose name is Dan. "Can I have my snake now?"

"Well the cake has to pass inspection first." I said as I walked over to it. While I was inspecting the cake I thought about this boy. Maybe I could invite him to my party. And before I could think about it any further I said,

"Would you like to come to a party I'm having this evening?"

"Um…ok." He said.

"Oh and you may pick your snake now. The cake is perfect," I said. And it was. All the fondant creatures were made perfectly.

"Can I have this one?" Dan said as he picked up an orange corn snake out of a jar he had collected them in when I first came to the bakery.

"Ok," I said as I picked up the cake and started out the door, "Good bye. I will see you later." I might just like this Dan person,

just maybe.

A/N: This chapter is for all the Natan fans out there. I don't really like them together, but it was good for the story. Please review and tell me what you think.