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more like a wind than a breeze. And not just any wind.
    This was the magic wind!
    Before Katie knew what was happening, the magic wind was circling wildly around her. Katie grabbed onto the sink and held on tight. The tornado was really wild. Maybe the strongest it had ever been. Katie felt like she was being blown away.
    And then it stopped. Just like that. The magic wind was gone.
    And so was Katie Carew.

Chapter 10
    Katie opened her eyes slowly. She blinked a few times, getting used to the bright lights that were shining on her. There was a mirror right in front of her face.
    “Oh, no!” Katie exclaimed as she looked at her reflection. Suzanne’s face stared back at her from the mirror!
    “What’s the problem, Ocean?” Jessica asked her.
    Katie gulped. How could she explain that the problem was that she was Ocean?
    “I, uh . . .” Katie began.
    “Five minutes, girls,” a woman called out from the front of the dressing room.
    “I’d better go get a seat,” Jessica said. “You have to put those pants on. Isn’t this exciting? In a few minutes, you’re going to be a real model.”
    “Exciting isn’t the word for it,” Katie replied slowly.
    As Jessica left, Katie stared at the black leather pants. She’d never worn anything made of leather! Katie was more into jeans and wool skirts. Leather was Suzanne’s type of thing.
    Of course, she was Suzanne now.
    “Hey, Suzanne, you’d better finish getting dressed,” one of the teenagers called to her. “We’re starting to line up.”
    Katie sighed. She didn’t know anything about modeling, other than what Suzanne had told her. There was no way she could go out there and walk like a model the way Suzanne did. She wanted to run away and hide somewhere until the magic wind came back.
    But Katie knew she couldn’t do that. This fashion show was really important to Suzanne. And as mad as Katie was at her, she couldn’t let her down. She was going to have to try and be Suzanne.
    “Line up, girls,” the woman in the front of the room called out. “The music’s starting.”
    Katie quickly threw on the leather pants and zipped them on the side. Then she slipped on Suzanne’s high heels and hobbled over to where the other girls were standing.
    “Okay, ladies,” the woman said. “It’s showtime!”

Chapter 11
    As she waited backstage, Katie’s stomach was doing flip-flops. She peeked out from behind the curtain. Yikes! The runway looked really long. She hoped she wouldn’t trip and fall.
    Katie watched the little girls parading in front of the audience. Desperately, Katie hoped the magic wind would come back. If it returned right now, Suzanne would be herself, just in time to go onstage.
    But deep down, Katie knew that would never happen. The magic wind never came when there were people around. It only showed up when Katie was alone. And that meant Katie was going to have to go out there, in front of all those people, and model the leather pants.
    “Okay, Suzanne, it’s your turn,” the woman who was running the fashion show said.
    Katie took a deep breath. She lifted up her neck and pushed her shoulders back, trying to copy the way Suzanne had been walking in the school yard.

    Then she strutted out onto the runway. It wasn’t easy, since Katie had never worn such high heels before. She blinked hard as the lights blasted right into her eyes. She couldn’t see a thing. Of course, that was probably a good thing. Seeing the people in the audience would be too scary.
    But she sure could hear them.
    “Hey,” one girl giggled. “That model is wearing her pants backward .” The crowd of kids she was sitting with began laughing with her.
    Katie looked down. Oh, no! They were right. The big back pockets were in the front. Katie had been in such a hurry to get the pants on that she hadn’t noticed!
    “Why is she stretching her neck that way?” someone else said. “She looks weird.”
    “Do you see the way she’s walking? It’s like she’s on