#38 - Kristy's Mystery Admirer

Timeline: 
Halloween Hop time! (again) 2nd Halloween of their 6th grade/8th grade year.

Plot:
Kristy's Krushers beat the Bashers and it's absolutely the best thing in the world. Kristy also has a huge crush on Bart, the coach of the Bashers, and it seems like he has a crush on her too. He walks her home from that game and tells her he wants to see her soon, like before the next game. Kristy is swooning.

Then, Kristy starts receiving what can only be described as love notes - "I love you, I love you, I love you..." "You're as beautiful as a snow covered mountain"....things like that. Kristy takes all the notes to school to discuss them with her friends, and they all think they are from Bart, but Kristy isn't so sure. She asks Bart to be her date to the Halloween Hop, and they decide to have their softball teams play another game, but they make it a huge deal and call it a "World Series" even though it's only one game.

Then the notes start getting creepy...pretty much  threatening to kill Kristy. She even gets sent an envelope of fingernails, saying "that's the only thing that will be left of you". For some reason, now, Kristy decides they have to be from Bart and that he is a creep, or he's trying to psych her out for the World Series. She quits speaking to him and Shannon does too (Shannon and Bart go to the same private school).

Finally Bart is like WTF and he shows up at her house demanding to know why she's being mean to him. She confronts him about the notes. He admits to writing the gooey gooey ones, but not the creepy ones. So they call Shannon over and they try to figure out who is behind the creepy notes, but they've got no ideas.

The next day is the World Series, and the KRUSHERS win! Also, Cokie Mason (the girls' nemesis) is there and she accidentally quotes one of the notes, so Kristy is all "WTF" and Cokie is all "Well I hate you bitches". Cokie overheard the BSC talking about the notes during lunch and decided to pull a little prank. So that's that about the notes.

Bart and Kristy go to the Halloween Hop as lobsters and he gives her some lip on cheek action. She's in love. The end.

Takeaways:

I realize I say this all the time - but Gabbie Perkins is 2.5 years old and she's coordinated enough to play softball?! NOPE.

I do not understand why Kristy decides to just be weird to Bart instead of just telling him about these creepy notes she is getting and seeing how he reacts. Also, why doesn't she tell her freaking parents what is happening? The amount of things these girls try to keep from their parents is astounding to me. 

Shannon is in this book a lot, like way more than any other book so far. 

Best character: 
I think Bart is the best character of this book. He is super into Kristy, always offering to walk her home and dropping hints that he wants to see her more often. Then he writes her love notes. Then he just confronts her and is like seriously why the fuck are you ghosting me? Then he comes up with these amazing lobster costumes (aw, he's her lobster...) (pop culture crossover) for them to wear to the Halloween Hop.


Worst character:
Obviously the fucking bitch Cokie is the worst.