Chapter 2, At the School
Pearl walked in to her school, The Bikini Bottom High School, and sat down at her desk in room 9B. She wrote a note to Judy, and made a paper airplane, and sent it to her. The note read:
"Judy, I'm now 16 years old!"
Judy wrote a note back and threw it to Pearl. It read:
"Pearl, that is totes coral."
The teacher, Ms. Oxford, walked in. Ms. Oxford was an octopus who knew Mrs. Puff. Ms. Oxford proceeded to teach Pearl and her classmates about physics.
Throughout classes, friends signed a birthday card. A student named Dave whose arm was in a cast asked Pearl to sign his cast. She wrote, "I'm sixteen! Wahoo!". In the cafetiera, Pearl ate lunch, and took out her iPod. She went to iTunes and scrolled through the iPodcasts until she found the Boys Who Cry Podcast. When she turned it on, they played "Birthday Girl". Pearl took another bite of her tuna-fish sandwich, and began to daydream herself as a queen with a magenta dress. Her golden tiara sparkled as she walked up to Boys Who Cry, who she then proceeded to marry. Pearl woke up from her dream, dazed.
In Bikini Bottom High School, after lunch, the students return home for a while. They go back for their last two periods. Pearl went home, and looked in the mirror...and she found barnacle-acne on her face! Pearl got her favorite cream, ZitSplatter Cherry, and rubbed it on her face. The zits popped, and Pearl had a purple blemish on her face. She dashed to the spa and got facial treatment. Good as new, she thought. She rushed back to her school.
When school was over, Pearl asked her friends, "Are you coming to my totally coral sweet 16 today?". Breezie (a hedgehog friend) said, "I don't know. I hope it isn't like last year, when your dad passed out paper clips as party favors". Pearl laughed with Breezie, Judy, Natalie, and Tara. Judy said, "Remember the time we had to share one balloon? Please." At Pearl's 10th birthday party, Mr. Krabs bought only one balloon! "Remember the pony ride?" Tara added. There was a pony ride at Pearl's 13th birthday. The pony was made of sticks and pots! Natalie said, "I don't want to see how he ruins this year." Pearl laughed along with Natalie, Tara, Breezie and Judy.