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“God, I hope so” Sebastian eyed the pool “Nothing’severyone to a horseshoe tournament”

I dropped my purse by several others and said, “I can’t believe his parents are cool with these parties Iparties every weekend”

“Guess Keith and Jiled his body toward mine The cap hid the upper half of his face “Before ere interrupted by the disturbing sight of Keith, I—”

“Yo! Seb” Over his shoulder, I saw Phillip pop up froht “When did you get here?”

“Just a few seconds ago,” Sebastian answered as he turned

Phillip swaggered over to where ere standing He clapped a hand on Sebastian’s shoulder as he nodded in ers at him

The two started talking about the scria “It’s a Small World” in my head Eventually Keith returned to deposit a red plastic cup in my hand and another in Sebastian’s

“Only one,” he said, sipping at the foaht”

Keith snorted “Pansy ass”

“Whatever” Unbothered, Sebastian grabbed soers “You see the quarterback for the Wood team? He can throw”

I zoned back out of the conversation, sippingaround the corner of the house Slipping away froate

“Thank God you two are here,” I said “They’re talking about football Nothing else but football That’s it Only football”

“No bathing suit?” was the first thing out of Megan’scutoffs and a bikini top Half her face was covered by black oversize sunglasses “You and Abbi have no concept of how to dress when you come to a party that involves a pool”

Abbi’s curls were sectioned into two pigtails “Heads up, she’s been bitching the whole ride out, about everything and everyone”

“It’s been a long day” She snatchedat least half of it in one iulp “First off, that jerk over there,” she said, extending her finger—er—in Phillip’s direction, “didn’t text , and you kno Meg has been obsessed with him for, like, two years”

I pursedCarr had been obsessed with anyone, but I wisely remained silent Abbi didn’t

“Do I need to reuys are actually broken up? I , but that doesn’ther arm on my shoulder “So what’s the point?”

“There’s a point I’ulp of et back with et back withto my texts”

Abbi looked at me

I kept quiet

“Then er went toward Chris, ith Sebastian and the guys “—who,Mandi like crazy on the way over here And I’oing to die a horrible death”

My stohtly Mandi was friends with Skylar If Mandi was seeing Chris, which was a new developht So would Skylar, because those girls traveled in packs

So did I, but whatever

“That last part is true,” Abbi confir to die, too”

“Finally, Moht Who, by the way, is ross”

I glanced over at Abbi She was grinning slightly, despite what she suspected her fah

“So I had to explain to her that this wasI wanted to do was spend it with her and the guy who’d be replaced by a newer, shinier version next month”

“Uh-oh,” I murmured

She lifted ain “That went over well, but I’m here, so I win” She raised the cup in a toast and then offered it back to me