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“What? Like you’ve never seen one in the flesh before?” Missy
his huge hands. She tilted her head back, her long tresses tumbling said. “Half the girls in my building back home have done the spring down behind her, and he leaned down for a kiss.
shows.”
“More like he’ll go wherever she goes,” Diana said. “I highly I glanced around and noticed that at least half the male population doubt Dash wears the pants in that relationship.”
of the room was in fact watching Kiran, most of them practically
“When Noelle’s in the room, she’s pretty much the only one
drooling.
wearing pants,” Lorna added.
“And then there’s Taylor Bell,” Diana said. “From all accounts,
“That’s true. I take it back,” Missy said.
the smartest girl ever to step foot on the Easton campus.”
“Who’s the reader?” I asked, noticing that ethereal girl once
Across the way, the cherubic girl laughed and had to slap her
again had her nose stuck in a book.
hand over her mouth to keep from spitting out her oatmeal. Didn’t
“That’s Ariana Osgood,” Missy said. “Her family owns half the
look like a genius to me, but then again, I’d never seen one of those South. Which means the rest of the Billings Girls forgive her for in the flesh either.
being from the South.”
“Best schools. Hottest boyfriends,” Diana said. “Yeah. Being a
Diana, Constance, and Lorna all snickered.
Billings Girl definitely wouldn’t suck.”
“They’re in oil,” Missy added. “All big, cigar-chomping, bane-
I stared across the room at the four girls and the guys who hovered of-the-environmentalists types. God only knows how they pro-around them, my pulse racing with a new sense of excitement. A few duced her.”
more girls sat down at the other end of their table, every last one of
“She’s a poet,” Diana explained. “She writes half the literary
them beautiful and poised, though to me they seemed second-string magazine every quarter. She’s really good.”
compared to the four girls I had seen the night before.
“The model is Kiran Hayes,” Lorna said. “She’s done
“What about the others?” I asked.
Abercrombie, Ralph Lauren . . .”