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"Me too," he answered
And then, slowly, Toby leaned forward and kissed her It was very soft and tentative, just a little whisper across her mouth When he pulled back, Eht still be on her lips
"What was that for?" she whispered
"I don’t know," Toby said "Should I not have…?"
"No," Eht was, I just kissed a boy Ali ht have kissed Her second was that ht that
"Toby?" a voice interrupted the, hands on his hips It was Mr Cavanaugh Eo…and frohtened If Mr Cavanaugh was here, was Jenna? Then she remembered that Jenna was at school in Philadelphia Hopefully
"What are you doing out here?" Mr Cavanaugh put his hand outside the awning, feeling the rain, which had just begun to fall "Your relay’s soon"
"Oh" Toby ju back in too?"
"In a sec," Eht now, they ht not work "Good luck with your race"
"Okay" Toby’s eyes lingered on her for anotherelse, but he broke away, falling into step with his dad
E through her jacket She felt strangely fizzy, like she was carbonated What had just happened? When her Nokia announced that she had a text, she flinched and dug it out of her jacket pocket Her heart sank It ho she thought it was
Emily, how about this picture of you for the yearbook instead?
She clicked on the attachment It was a shot of E into each other’s eyes longingly, inches fro the button in the booth to start the photos--but hadn’t Maya taken theet around, would you? said the line of text under the photo
And--of course--it was signed, A
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SHE STEALS FOR YOU, AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY HER
Mona ereen Calvin Klein dress Its full skirt fanned out as she twirled "What do you think?" she asked Hanna, as standing at the racks right outside
"Gorgeous," Hanna hts, she could tell Mona wasn’t wearing a bra
Mona posed in the three-way mirror She was so skinny, sometimes she dipped down to an enviable size zero "I think this " She pulled at one of the straps "You want to try?"
"I don’t know," Hanna said "It’s kind of see-through"
Mona frowned "Since when do you care?"
Hanna shrugged and looked through a rack of Marc Jacobs blazers It was Thursday evening, and they were at the designer depart for Foxy dresses A lot of prep school and out-of-college-but-living-in-the-estate-with-the-’rents girls attended, and it was iirls wouldn’t be wearing
"I want to look classy," Hanna answered "Like Scarlett Johansson"
"Why?" Mona asked "She’s got a big ass"
Hanna pursed her lips When she said classy, she irls in those diamond ads who looked sweet but had the words fuck me airbrushed into a strand of their hair Sean needed to be so entranced by Hanna’s virtue, he’d reject his V Club vows and tear her underwear off
Hanna picked up a pair of peep-toe, camel-colored Miu Miu shoes fro room "I love these" She held one up for Mona to see
"Why don’t you…?" Mona nudged her chin down to Hanna’s bag
Hanna dropped them back on the shelf "No way"
"Why not?" Mona whispered "Shoes are the easiest You know that" When Hanna hesitated, Mona clucked her tongue "You’re still freaked about Tiffany?"
Instead of answering, Hanna pretended to be interested in a pair of -backs
Mona pulled a fewrooed empty-handed "This place blows Let’s try Prada"
They walked through theEric what color flowers he’s getting me," she explained "Maybe I’ll o to Foxy with Noel Kahn’s brother, Eric, who she’d hung out with a few times this week already The Kahn boys were always a safe Foxy date--they were good-looking and rich, and society photographers loved the Noel, but she’d waited too long Noel had asked Celeste Richards, ent to the Quaker boarding school--a surprise, since everyone thought Noel had a thing for Aria Montgo with Sean, she wasn’t going with anyone
Mona looked up fro "Which spray-on tan place do you think is better, Sun Land or Dalia’s? Celeste and I o to Sun Land toe"
Hanna shrugged, feeling a pang of jealousy Mona should’ve been going tanning with her, not Celeste She was about to anshen her own phone rang Her heart sped up a little Whenever her phone rang, she thought of A
"Hanna?" It was her ," Hanna answered Since when did her o ho over"