Chapter 5 (part 2)

In the second part of chapter 5, TJ, Cassie and Claudia finish eating dinner. TJ takes off right away to help his father set up the fireworks for the night's finale and Cassie and Claudia are left to admire the sunset together. After sitting for a while Cassie thinks to herself a little. What she thinks is how TJ is so handsome and such fun. She then begins to think that her sister Claudia is right when she says that TJ likes Cassie. She after that, she begins wondering what it would be like to kiss TJ. Little does Cassie know, though, that her twin, Claudia is thinking about a similar subject. Claudia starts thinking about how TJ might like her, but not exactly the way that a boy likes a girl when he wants to date her. She still strongly believes TJ likes her sister Cassie- she says she can tell. However, she goes back and remembers how he troubled to find out what interests her. Maybe he does like her? In the middle of thinking, Don walks up and says hello to the Fletcher girls. Cassie and Don start to walk together to admire the fireworks that start. Claudia doesn't get too upset because she was all right with enjoying the fireworks alone. However, TJ comes up soon after Cassie and Don leave. TJ asks Claudia where Cassie went and Claudia tells him that she and Don went down near the water to enjoy the fireworks. Later that night when the party is over, Cassie decides to write a little in her diary. She waves the book in front of her sister Claudia and Claudia reads about how Cassie is supposedly 'madly in love with TJ' and how, apparently, so is she. It also said that TJ was the nicest and handsomest boy either of them has ever met. She also reads that that 4th of July was the best one ever.