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MARGOT SAYS THAT JUNIOR YEAR is the most important year, the busiest year, a year so crucial that everything else in life hinges upon it So I figure I should get in all the pleasure reading I can before school starts next week and junior year officially begins I’ a 1980s root for seventy-five cents at the Friends of the Library sale

I’el to gain access to the spy codes!) when Josh walks out of his house to get theto wave and not come over, but then he does

“Hey, nice onesie,” he says as he ht blue with sunflowers and it ties around the neck I got it froe store, 75 percent off And it’s not a onesie “This is a sunsuit,” I tell hi back to my book I try to subtly hide the cover withto enjoy a relaxing afternoon

I can feel hi I look up “What?”

“Wanna see aWe can take Kitty”

“Sure, text e ofCressida’s blouse and she’s wondering when the sleeping pill she slipped in his Merlot will kick in, while siel is actually quite a good kisser

Josh reaches down and tries to get a closer look at my book I slap his hand away, but not before he reads out loud, “Cressida’s heart raced as Nigel h” Josh cracks up “What the heck are you reading?”

My cheeks are burning “Oh, be quiet”

Chuckling, Josh backs away “I’ll leave you to Cressida and Noel then”

To his back, I call out, “For your inforel!”

Kitty’s over the irl at the concession stand to layer the butter on the popcorn (botto nod Kitty sits in the hs so hard she kicks her legs up in the air She weighs so little that the seat keeps tipping up Josh and I share sot, and I went to the ot always sat in the middle too It was so she could whisper to both of us She never wanted me to feel left out because she had a boyfriend and I didn’t She was so careful about this that itfrom before But she’s not someone to hold back or pretty up the truth She’s just a really good big sister The best

There were times I felt left out anyway Not in a romantic way, but a friend way Josh and I had always been friends But those tiot ere in line for popcorn, or in the car when they’d talk softly to each other and I felt like the kid in the backseat who can’t hear what the adults are talking about, it made me feel a little bit invisible They made me wish I had soe to be the one in the front seat now The view isn’t so different froood and normal and the same, which is a coht while I’ round she has to yell “Guess what!”