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The best I can hope for is a quiet sibling At first I have Owen pegged as one of those In the car, it appears I aet out at school, it appears I aain With other kids around, he retreats into invisibility, keeping his head down as he oodbye, no have-a-nice-day Just a quick glance to see that my door is closed before he locks the car

"What are you looking at?" a voice asks from over my left shoulder as I watch him enter school alone

I turn around and do sorade

"Just my brother"

"Why? He’s such a waste of space"

Here’s the strange thing: I a them come out of Carrie’s mouth makes me feel defensive

"CoI don’t I decide to keep e the subject

"What did you do last night?" she asks

Flashes of Rhiannon rise in my mind’s eye I try to tamp them down, but they’re not that easy to contain Once you experience enorers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say

"Notto access Leslie This answer alorks, no et

"That explains why you haven’t asked me yet! Guess what Corey IM’d me! We chatted for, like, alhs contentedly "After all this time I didn’t even know he knew my screen na This is the kind of question that can really trip a person up Maybe not right away But in the future If Leslie claims she wasn’t the one who told Corey, and Carrie finds out she was, it could throw their friendship off balance Or if Leslie claims she was, and Carrie finds out she wasn’t

Corey is Corey Handlemann, a junior who Carrie’s had a crush on for at least three weeks Leslie doesn’t know hi a screen na uess he really had to work hard to find it," she says (Or, I think, he just saw it on your Facebook profile)

I ihts This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attach best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt

Carrie is very excited about Corey, so I pretend to be very excited for her It’s only after we separate for hoht I had under control: jealousy Although I a jealous that Carrie can have Corey while I can never have Rhiannon

Ridiculous, I chastiseridiculous