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"What?"

"You were totally right He told his friends the party was off But I told her that Roth was a piece of shit as cheating on her and that she should come anyway I told her we could prove it"

"You didn’t," I said

"She cursed me out, too" She raised both her eyebrows "But if she coive us--"

Wren cutto have to prove to Pen that he’s a rat Noe just have to prove it to Silke, too"

"There’s nothing we can do about the way she feels We’re her friends Our job is to roll our eyes and stand by her, right?"

"Well, I have a plan," Wren said, looking at et Roth really drunk and confess to being a douchenozzle, and if that didn’t work, I thought we’d trap him in the bathroom until he told the truth"

I wanted to take the phone out of her hand and see what she’d told Silke and what she’d said back "That’s a terrible plan That ged "I just think he would aduess eventually someone else would want to pee"

Wren sees turned out to be true But I wasn’t so sure about her intuition this ti in the borrowed heels "It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t coet Silke and Pen to coame on them"

In that moment, I wished I could take back the whole party It had been a ton of work, I was broke, and noas pretty sure it would be a catastrophe But all I could do was go home, collapse on my bed, and pro to throw a party ever again, no matter how much I wished I was the kind of person who ate crudités and canapés

Dad was right I needed less iination

The next day, I crawled out, took a super-hot shower, and got ready for the party I had borrowed a dress out of Grandth cocktail number in a shimmery silver-black semi-sheer fabric with billowy sleeves, heavy cuffs, and a peekaboo front