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"Don’t get distracted by hair color" He shook his head, hair falling perfectly around his face, and leaned closer "Dudes It’s obviously the Hispanic guy Look again"

Quinton stared, frowning "I still don’t see it"

Tadd rolled his eyes "That’s because you are disproportionately straight"

"Excuse ed And BTW, Reid, dibs on the sister who looks like Halle Berry’s reincarnation"

Tadd pursed his lips "Dude, Halle Berry isn’t dead, thus she can’t be reincarnated"

Quinton eoing in"

Tadd and I each grabbed an aret Halle and Mr Tall Dark and Gay to bring their irlfriend and trot over here"

Quinton sat, still unconvinced "We can do that?"

"Watch and learn" Tadd turned to " And then he laughed his patented Tadd-Wyler-Sexy-Laugh while I s

A dozen pairs of eyes shifted to us Tadd et while Quinton--who’s a remarkably fast learner--did the sa intothe olive from the tiny plastic sith lance back a few seconds later Quinton s his arms behind his neck in a blatant display of biceps And then we sat back and waited for recognition to flicker

A few hours, several dirtythe bride-to-be fro Town Car Personal policy--I don’t wake up with theoing to pull off wearing white, long before I ca

Eripe about some lady in a wheelchair at the front of the plane as "holding everyone up" They have to collect Chloe’s bags after deplaning (she can’t travel without at least two colossal suitcases and several smaller ones), so I have about an hour before they arrive, which I spend wishing ere filingain from the shuttle, annoyed that there wasn’t a limo to pick them up They booked a room in the same hotel, and she wants me to come down to the lobby to meet them when they arrive When I exit the elevator, I catch her irate voice at the front desk one second too late to scramble back in She’s pissed that their room isn’t on the same floor as the cast and crew The producers left strict instructions for hotel uests for rooms on our floor There are no exceptions, for privacy and security reasons Unfortunately, "no exceptions" isn’t so that makes sense in that moment I make a beeline across the marble elevator bank and hide behind a coluhter is on the fourth floor!" Her voice pitches higher, and I picture every head in the rooe begins to speak in soothing tones, assuring her that there’s a lovely room reserved for the up a co their stayspotted, Chloe harrumphs her halfhearted consent and they board the elevator with their overloaded luggage cart The doors close and the dial shows their assent to the third floor, and I’e chastising the desk clerk

"In the future, simply say, ‘I’m sorry, ma’am, that floor is fully occupied’"

I inch around the colu, dark-haired and slendar, with classically pretty features Chloe would hate her on sight Red-faced, she stares at the marble countertop

"Relatives of celebrities can be unreasonable, and if the relative becoe"

"Yes, sir," the clerkdiscussed isbetween the coluasp "God"

"Who are we hiding from?" She peers around the iot here, they haven’t even seen me yet, and she’s already bitched out the desk clerk and the concierge They’ll be here all week They’re going to be interacting with everyone" I close my eyes "Oh My God"

MiShaun takes my arm and leadstruth concerning our relationships with our parents, especially as we become adults" She pushes the fourth floor button and the doors shut us in "The people who know and love us will not hold our parents, or their crazy-ass behavior, against us"

"But what about everyone else, all the people who don’t know and love me?"

"Screw everyone else"

Chloe and my father have been invited to dinner by Adah in itself, but a few of the castexcuses (sore throat, seizure, untie calls to say the taxi is here; an i sense of disaster followsa black dress and black patent stilettos; the dress is shorter and tighter than ideal, but for my stepmother, it’s practically de since I got off of the elevator, her eyes sweep over ? Stylish jewelry auzy skirt with a fluid watercolor pattern in various shades of aqua I’ on le princess-cut diahs, refreshing her dark lipstick in the " She blots her lips with a tissue "Some makeup wouldn’t hurt, either"

My father exits the bathroo a tie "I think I look beautiful just as I a one arm around my shoulders, oblivious to her attack on me, as usual

"Oh, Connor" She pushes him playfully in the chest

Screw everyone else, screw everyone else, screw everyone else