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Dork Diaries Book 14

Dork Diaries

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October 2, 2017

BALL PIT BONANZA!

dork diaries-BALL PIT BONANZA!OMG! Some little kids are the WORST!!

My mom dropped Brianna and me off at Kandy Kingdom in the mall while she went to get her drivers license renewed (BTW, if you’ve already read my 6th diary, you know that Kandy Kingdom is this huge play land with an endless ball pit and lots of crazy little kids running around).

My plan was to watch Brianna play while I wrote in my diary. It was a good plan! She’d have some fun at Kandy Kingdom, and I could FINALLY spend some time alone with my diary. Everybody wins! (Except my mom, I guess, because she makes the Department of Licensing sound like TORTURE.)

The thing was, when Brianna got to Kandy Kingdom, there was nobody else there. If you ask me, that’s heaven! I mean, the WHOLE play land to yourself?! But, apparently the little brat decided that it was too scary or something.

“Come in with meeeeee,” she whined. “It’s creepy all alone!!!”

And okay, I could see that. Kandy Kingdom is pretty big, and just not the same without a bunch of nosy kids knocking each other over to get in.

So, I brought my diary over and sat down on a giant, plastic gumdrop in the ball pit. Since it was just Brianna, I could still write in my diary, right?

WRONG!! 🙁

Brianna started throwing balls from the ball pit. AT ME! At first I tried to toss them back and ignore her, but have YOU ever tried writing about your crush while little plastic balls bounce off your head???

I didn’t PLAN to jump in the ball pit. But there was this sign that said BALL PIT ONLY FOR AGES 4-10, and it was bugging me! Because why should being fourteen mean that I have to miss out on all the fun?! And WHY can’t I enjoy the fun of an almost empty ball pit?!!

So, I dived in.

And okay, I KNOW ball pits are total germ factories, but isn’t everything? If you ever have a chance to jump into an empty ball pit, I highly recommend it! 🙂

For five minutes, Brianna and I had an amazing time splashing around and tossing balls at each other.

But suddenly, and a FLOOD of little kids came running towards Kandy Kingdom. They were all around Brianna’s age, and there were like forty-seven of them!

Okay, more like eight or nine of them. But they were EVERYWHERE. And it was like they were totally hyped up on a bazillion juice boxes and triple ice cream sundaes! Then they ALL jumped straight in the ball pit!!

Brianna immediately joined whatever crazy freeze tag-dodgeball-duck duck goose combo game they were playing and I tried wading through the sea of balls and kids to GET OUT.

I was just pulling myself out when I heard my phone. It’s a MIRACLE I even heard it with all of the screaming and giggling! I checked the pocket where I kept my phone. But it wasn’t there! I checked my other pockets. I scrambled over to the gumdrop where I was writing in my diary. No phone!!

But it was still ringing!!

That’s when I realized…my phone must have fallen out of my pocket…and into the ball pit!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! 🙁

“My phone!” I shouted to Brianna. “My phone is somewhere in the ball pit!”

She did NOT look interested in helping me find my phone. I had to make it a game to entice her. So I said, “Let’s see how fast you can find my phone! And you’ll WIN A PRIZE!”

Brianna’s so easy sometimes. I could get her an orange soda for a prize and she’d be happy. So she started looking.

In less than a minute, a voice said, “Found it!”

Only the voice wasn’t Brianna! It was some other kid!!

Brianna went back to playing with the other kids as I knelt down towards the little girl that found my phone.

“Oh my gosh, thank you SO much for finding my phone!” I held out my hand.

But the girl ran away from me and stuck her tongue out. “It’s MY phone,” she said. “I won the game, so I get the prize!”

NO. FREAKING. WAY.

“Um, NOPE. That’s my phone, sweetie.” I tried to be nice. I really did. But this girl was big enough to know I wasn’t giving away MY phone as the grand prize!!

“You said I’d win a prize!” she quipped.

“Um…”

I looked around. What could I offer her?

“Do you want an orange soda? A milkshake? An ice cream sundae?”

She laughed. That girl actually LAUGHED at me!!!

“I want THAT,” she said, pointing at me.

It took me a second to realize what she meant. I was wearing this super blingy bracelet with all these fake jewels. Chloe actually gave it to me as a joke last Christmas, but now because we think it’s funny, I wear it sometimes.

“My bracelet? Oh…gosh…it means a lot to me!” I pretended to act like I couldn’t give it up. I’ve been around the block with six-year-olds. I knew if I made it seem valuable, she’d want it even more.

Sure enough, she came right over to me and held out the phone. “Gimme the bracelet,” she said. “I won it, fair and square!”

Well…not exactly, kid. I made a big show of sadly taking it off and trading her for my phone.

Thank goodness I have my phone back!! If there’s anything I can’t survive without besides my diary, it’s my PHONE.

Hey readers, what’s the most important thing you ever lost? Did you or somebody else ever find it?

Category: My Diary Tags: cellphonenikki

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Comments

  1. Dream song Nikki says

    October 16, 2017 at 9:10 am

    You just gotta be clever to trick little girls who behave like impossible… do Nikki’s trick all the time..

  2. Anonymous says

    October 15, 2017 at 4:02 pm

    little kid like to take stuff when nobody is looking

  3. A1AWESOME says

    October 15, 2017 at 11:05 am

    My brother is so annoying. He takes my stuff ALL THE TIME!

  4. Ansu says

    October 15, 2017 at 10:42 am

    i love dork diaries

  5. fashion girl says

    October 15, 2017 at 8:57 am

    my iPad i really miss it

  6. Anonymous says

    October 15, 2017 at 1:49 am

    She should’ve told the kid parents to give it back to her.

  7. Dorky girl says

    October 14, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    Littl3 kids are SO annoying!

  8. Puppycrazy says

    October 14, 2017 at 11:12 pm

    U should have grabbed your phone and get out of the ballpit!!!!!!

  9. Lil,mk says

    October 14, 2017 at 7:44 pm

    I feel so bad for you nikki!!!!!!!!

  10. Mahathi says

    October 14, 2017 at 7:38 pm

    I love dork diaries!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. Coolgirl468 says

    October 14, 2017 at 6:00 pm

    OH NO SHE DID’NT!!!!!

  12. Coolgirl55 says

    October 14, 2017 at 5:59 pm

    NOOOOO!!! I FEEL SOOOOO BAD NIKKI!!!!

  13. I might be one of them age:9 says

    October 14, 2017 at 5:58 pm

    I HATE LITTLE KIDS!!!!!

  14. Gumball&Darwin says

    October 14, 2017 at 4:06 pm

    Awww… that must be like, SO annoying!!!

  15. Dork Girl says

    October 14, 2017 at 5:36 am

    It’s annoying when little kids always want what they want

  16. BB-8 cutie girl says

    October 13, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    LIKE OMG I can not belive that little girl TOOK YOUR PHONE!

  17. Smartestdoginschool says

    October 13, 2017 at 6:19 pm

    My little sister stole my old iPad and I never got it back! Then I got a new one for my birthday, nowadays my sister drops her iPad on the floor she then gets another crack. I’m glad I got my own one!

  18. Cutie says

    October 13, 2017 at 4:44 pm

    It was my Fitbit. I gave it to someone and totally forgot about it I went home without it. So that is it

  19. raven queen says

    October 13, 2017 at 10:07 am

    Hey Nicky I was so upset when I went to toys ur, us I I bought the last season 6 shopkins I put it in the shopkins in the trolley and went to check out the new American girl out and when I came back some one really wanted the shopkins and she took it OMG I was so mad

  20. Anonymous says

    October 13, 2017 at 8:54 am

    THATS JUST MEAN!

  21. DorkDiaries4ever says

    October 13, 2017 at 7:09 am

    I lost my phone once. My little sister took it to get on my nerves.

    • BB-8 CUTIE GIRL says

      October 13, 2017 at 9:24 pm

      One time I had my favorite golf ball on this gigantic hat and then it rolled of and I totally freaked out I searched all over the floor but I could not find it then I searched in my closet and I fond it!

  22. Anonymous Dork A says

    October 13, 2017 at 5:44 am

    Omg that must be so unfair for Nikki!!!

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