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If Mo outside of Foretoken, she would kill rave kind of kill me And my mom totally had the means to do so

When she went fro brownies in the kitchen to Colonel Sylvia Dasher, she put the fear of God and then some in me

But knowing just how ht obviously hadn’t stoppedyet another coat of lipstick with a shaky hand Shoving the lipstick wand back into its tube, I watched fat raindrops boainst my ribs as if it were determined to punch its way out

I couldn’t believe I was here

I’d rather be hos in rae candleholders Mo paired with the pale blue and pink pillows I had in my bedroom

Frohed heavily “You’re second-guessing this”

“Nuh-uh” I eyed my final results in the little mirror in the visor My lips were so red, it looked like I’d French-kissed an overripe strawberry

Nice

Andfor my roundish, freckled face I looked scared, like I was about to walk naked into class twenty minutes late

“Yeah, you are, Evie I can see it etched into the five hundred coats of lipstick you just applied”

Wincing, I glanced over at her Heidi looked completely at ease in her strapless black dress and dark eyeI couldn’t re-create without looking like an abused raccoon Heidi had done an aiving theht I actually looked pretty good Well, except for the whole looking-scared part, but

“Is the red lipstick too much?” I asked “Do I look bad?”

“I’d be into you if I liked blondes” She grinned when I rolled my eyes “Are you sure you want to do this?”

I peeked out theat the dark, less building squeezed in between a closed boutique shop and a cigar store My breath hitched in my throat