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"Let's get started." Helen Sweeney clapped her hands. "Today is a very exciting day! Today I will have all your amazing new ice cream flavors in my ice cream tindahan for the grand opening!" My twin sister, Ashley, took a big silver mixing bowl from the cabinet over our cooking station. She put it on the counter. "Okay, Mary-Kate" she said. "First we need milk." Ashley is very organized. It's one of the things that makes her a great detective. But today we weren't Olsen and Olsen, detectives. Today we were Olsen and Olsen, ice cream makers. A group of our mga kaibigan were ice cream makers today too....

"Sweet freedom, here we come!" Mary-Kate Olsen called out at the tuktok of her lungs. A cheer went up from the crowd around her, and she laughed, loving the light-as-air-feeling in her heart. Mary-Kate was perched on the roll bar of her friend Trevor Reynolds's new Jeep Wrangler, surveying the massive party. The entire senior class of Ocean View High had gathered at the tabing-dagat on this last Friday before finals, parking their cars right up against the sand and bringing all kinds of drinks, snacks, and CDs to help them party the night away. A bonfire roared, and music blared from a boom box as people...