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Chapter 1

"Solance up froh Isabel Alonso, my best friend and fellow cashier at the Sur-N-Sav, leans back against her register and snaps her guainst the green of her apron

"Just now?" I ask The store is iant Walmart opened up on the other side of town, so Isabel and I are the only cashiers working today I haven’t had anyone in azine Still, I can’t believe I was absorbed enough to

Isabel rolls her eyes "It’s my fault the price of sour cream went up"

"That seems fair," I tell her with a solemn nod "You are a fabulous dairy heiress, after all"

Isabel turns back to her register, punching buttons at rando"

I don’t disagree, but when you live in a small town in north Florida, your options are kind of liet a job at the library last fall, but that hadn’t worked out--no funding--and one su out at Vacation Bible School had cured me of the desire to ith little kids, whichpart time at the local preschool was out So it was all Sur-N-Sav all the tiainst the register, I see that my time at Sur-N-Sav is up

"Ah, three o’clock, the roans "Not fair!"

"Hey, I’ve been here since seven," I remind her "You wanna leave early--"

"You have to take the early shift," she finishes, waving a hand at er of the Sur-N-Sav, and Isabel and I have gotten very used to her lectures over the past year

Sighing, Isabel leans next to her register, chin propped in her hand Her nails are painted three different shades of green, and a simple beaded bracelet slides down one slender wrist "Four more weeks," she says, and I repeat our favorite mantra

"Foura not-so-fond farewell to the Sur-N-Sav life and heading out to Key West for Key Con, then plan to spend a week bu around the town Isabel’s brother lives there with his wife and Isabel’s ridiculously cute baby nephew, so we have a free (and parent-approved) place to stay To say ht be soeek on, but ill also get to do fun Key West things Snorkeling, the Heal can holdyes, this trip is going toit for almost a year now, as soon as the con was announced Our favorite author, Ash Bentley, is going to be there talking about her Finnigan Sparks series, plus there are at least twenty different panels Isabel and I want to check out--on everything froeek heaven, and we are beyond ready

"You need to co outfits," Isabel says, straightening up and punching randoreatest love of all over the sound syste as Miranda froan’s Moon"

"Ben would probably prefer Jezza," I say Ben is Isa’s boyfriend, and has been for roughly eleventy billion years Okay, since eighth grade "Lot less clothes on Jezza"

Isa screws up her face, thinking "True, but Ben’s not even going to be there, and I don’t know if I’m ready to show a quarter of e "Besides, being Miranda er at o as?"

Sister "Cosplay is your thing," I re Girl in T-Shirt and Jeans"