Love Is In The Air is a Bratz book released in 2003.
The book is split up into four stories centred around Valentine's Day.
Blurb[]
Is it love for Jade, Sasha, Cloe or Yasmin? Share the girls' most memorable Valentine's Days ever in four stories of friendship and love.
Characters[]
- Cloe
- Jade
- Sasha
- Yasmin
- Cameron
- Dylan
- Koby
- Eitan
- Dana (photo)
Let's Hear it for the Boyz (Yasmin's Story)[]
Yasmin is nervous about Valentines Day and has trouble sleeping, meaning something bad's gonna bad. As she heads into school the morning of V-Day she bumps into Dylan and Cameron, who are missing the party for a snowboarding trip. She meets up with Sasha, Jade and Cloe with bad news: Cloe is upset because her planned Valentine's Day party is cancelled because her parents have to go out of town for work or something so they couldn't chaperoned. With her friends upset, Yasmin suggests they have a pamper night at her place, to which the girls unenthusiastically agree. All day, word spread about the canceled party in school. After school, they head to the mall which was quick and too quiet to buy new pajamas, but the walk was so awkward and depressing with the mall decorated in red and white papermache hearts and v-day banners all over and every guy is buying gifts for their girlfriends from roses to chocolate, making the girls miserable and down. Once they bought their pjs, they head to Yasmin's house. As they're dancing around with clay masks on and speeddrying the nail polish, they hear a tapping sound. They look out the window where they find Koby, Eitan, Cameron and Dylan waiting for them with white roses, the symbol of friendship, and 4 boxes of the coolest barrettes adorned with silk rose petals and rhinestones. Of course, the girls washed the masks off and changed into the outfits they were supposed to wear for the party to meet the boys outside and accept the gifts. Turns out the Boyz postponed their snowboarding trip to be with the girls after hearing the party was canceled. With that, they all headed to the pizza joint.
Not-So-Secret Admirers (Cloe's Story)[]
The day before the Heavenly Hearts Valentine's Day dance at school, Cloe and her friends went on a last minute shopping at the mall. All week, everyone was getting excited for "Sweethearts Week" by The Community Service Club who was selling chocolate candied hearts and red carnations, that was taped to everyone's lockers with notes from secret admirers, to raised money for the local retirement home. They return to Cloe's house where Yasmin tries on her brown swaue shoes with her leopardprint wrap around miniskirt. She show her friends a card she received from an unnamed guy in her English class who's apparently not a poet. Jade has received a secret admirer note with some chocolates after pe and Sasha had gotten a card and chocolates from an Australian exchange student. Cloe is bummed to be the only one of her friends who didn't receive a card and doesn't want to attend the dance. The girls try and convince her otherwise.
The next day, On Valentine's Day, Cloe decides she'll go to the dance with or without a date. Sasha is acting strangely and rejects Cloe's invite to join her and Yasmin at the mall. Yasmin and Cloe began walking around and did window-shopping before Yasmins heads off deep into the mall while Cloe heads to the Salon 'N' Spa to get her hair done for the dance where she meets jade who was getting her nails done. Cloe suggested that they should hang out for lunch but jade had errands to do. When she arrives home, she finds two Valentine's Day cards among the mail in her mailbox. As she is getting ready, she finds a box of red carnations and a box of sweet and sour candy shaped like hearts on her doorstep, both with notes.
At the dance, Cloe tells the girls she knows it was them who sent her the gifts and cards. The girls confirm they each gave her something, but didn't know the others were also planning on giving gifts. Yasmin sent the flowers, Sasha the candy and Jade one of the cards. Cloe realizes the last card was from a boy, however knows her friends are more important and the girls spent the night not only with each other but with their not-so-secret boy admirers.
Double Vision (Sasha's Story)[]
Stilesville is sponsoring a Valentine's Day Ball and the girls are all supposed to attend. The day before the event, they were at Sasha's house designing baseball caps in her room when she suggested on try on their clothes for the party. Sasha planed on wearing a black suede flair skirt with a fitted red vneck shirt while cloe tried on a offtheshoulder leopardprint gown with matching leopardprint high heel sandals. Jade and Yasmin are horrified to learn they plan to wear the exact same outfit to the party: a straight long skirt with a red and white swirl design, black boots and a scoop neck black shirt. Both girls demand the other changes their clothes, before storming out, leaving Sasha and Cloe confused.
Cloe and Sasha make up a plan to fix things. Sasha will take Yasmin shopping downtown to get her a new outfit and Cloe will take Jade to the mall. After buying new outfits they all head back to Sasha's house. Jade and Yasmin apologise to each other and Sasha and Cloe for shouting. They try on their new outfits, only to find they have somehow purchased the exact same outfit a second time: a sideslit red leather skirt with a black sleeveless cashmere sweater. But instead of shouting, the two compliment each other's fashion sense with Cloe and Sasha agreeing that they look radical. Jade like the first black skirt better and Yasmin the second red skirt. With that, Jade wore the long skirt with the sleeveless sweater while yasmin wore the red leather skirt with the black scoop neck.
Where is thy friend? (Jade's Story)[]
Stiles High is putting on a theaterational production of Romeo and Juliet, with Jade playing Juliet and Dylan playing Romeo, Cloe as the costume designer and Sasha as director. Yasmin came for support since she was busy with other things. During last minute rehearsal, Sasha begins demanding they repeat the scenes and gets angry at Jade for joking around with Cloe during a scene, even though they were whispering. Sasha confronts them in her 'office' or the restroom and they tell Sasha she is being a control freak. Sasha gets even more angry and storms out.
They decided to take a break and the remaining 3 girls believe that the pressure of the play proaction is getting to Sasha. Cloe repairs some broken costumes in home ec and Jade fixes her makeup backstage. After two weeks of practice, The play is a success, however right before Sasha is about to take her bow, a kid ran into her and spills his milkshake all over her sleeveless plaid miniskirt. Cloe and Yasmin pull Sasha into a room to try and fix her outfit. Dylan and Jade run back on stage to distract the audience.
Cloe finds an old t-shirt and jazzes it up with rhinestones and a belt. She gives it to Sasha who does her bow with Jade to a room full of applause. Sasha realize that a cold shake got her out of her power phase and immediately apologize to her friends.
Trivia[]
- Yasmin has this vibe, like she felt this horrible feeling in her gut
- There's a Community Service club at Stiles High
- Jade never planned on matching in 5th grade
Cover Art[]
Where to read[]
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