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("I KNEW IT!!," from Cron)

Chapter 6

"Can I just state for the record that being called ‘the slutty one’ when I had exactly one boyfriend for less than a year is deeply unfair?"

Even through the cohten her shoulders as she shoots a glare toward the tiny ca room, me, Moh in the flat she shares with another girl orks at her publishing co in a whisper for the ency family Skype session She’s still dressed from work, too, which, weirdly, makes me feel kind of sorry for her "Jammies by 5 pm or die" is practically my motto

So maybe that’s why I keep my own voice soft when I reply, "Trust me, I know it’s not, El I’m the one who had to delete her Facebook Which, by the as so totally not boring I had all those pictures fro!"

"I feel the lack of a book of faces is truly the least of our concerns at thecranberry juice out of a wineglass

Moarette She quit about ten years ago but still gets three smokes a year to be used in either celebration or crisis

There is no doubt what kind of cigarette this is

"It’s just one blog post," Moarette in the luo when I went through a pottery phase It’s supposed to be shaped like a hand, but it looks a lothonest The fact that I painted it green doesn’t help "It isn’t as though this is in the papers, or on the telly Who reads those blogs anyway?"

"More people than you’d think Even the lower-level blogs like Cron get around a million unique visitors per month," a voice says off calance off to her right before she turns her laptop slightly, sharing the fraold pin winking at her throat Her hair is dark and sleek, tucked behind her ears, and honestly, she could be twenty-five or fifty It’s impossible to tell

"Mom, Dad, Daisy, this is Glynnis," Ellie says We can only see half her face now, Glynnis’s taking up most of the screen "She works for Alex’s family as a sort of"

When Ellie just trails off, Glynnis’s scarlet lips spread in a wider s the word the full French treat"

Another flash of teeth, and Dad grulass down so hard a bit of juice sloshes over the side "Oh, I know you people," he tells Glynnis, nodding at her "The ones who keep things out of the papers, you are The ones whopeople actually have"

Glynnis’s smile doesn’t falter even a little bit, which impresses me For the most part, my dad is the mellowest dude in the world these days, but when he uses that piercing stare, it’s easy to remember that once upon a time, he could hold the attention of entire arenas

"Even so," she says, her voice brisk Unlike my sister and Alex, Glynnis actually sounds Scottish, especially when she adds, "So it’s clear that we’re in a right fix now, isn’t it, Winters fa out betweenthat if I just pretended this blog post was no big deal, it actually wouldn’t be a big deal Kind of like how I thought I could just keep out of the wedding stuff except for actually showing up at the wedding Isabel would have called that naive, but I was calling it "self-preservation"