Princess in the Spotlight (The Princess Diaries 2)
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Seriously. She actually said the Transit Museum was fascinating. Lilly Moscovitz.
I swear, hormones are way dangerous.
Then she went, “And on Halloween, there’s a parade in the Village, and then we are all going to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Have you ever been to that before?”
Hank said that no, he hadn’t.
I should have known right then that something was up, but I didn’t. The bell rang, and Lilly said she wanted to take Hank to the auditorium to show him the part of the My Fair Lady set that she had painted herself (a street lamp). Feeling that even a momentary alleviation from Hank’s constant stream of reminders of our last visit together—“Remember that time we left our bikes in the front yard and you were all worried so
mebody might come in the night and steal them?”—would be a relief, I said, “Okay.”
And that was the last any of us saw of them.
I blame myself. Hank is apparently simply too attractive to be released amongst the general population. I ought to have recognized that. I ought to have recognized that the pull of an uneducated but completely gorgeous farm boy from Indiana would be stronger than the pull of a not-so-attractive musical genius from Russia.
Now I have turned my best friend into a two-timer AND a class ditcher. Lilly has never skipped a class in her life. If she gets caught, she will get detention. I wonder if she’ll think sitting in the cafeteria for an hour after school with the other juvenile delinquents will be worth the fleeting moments of teenage lust she and Hank are sharing.
Michael is no help. He isn’t worried about his sister at all. In fact, he seems to find the situation highly amusing. I have pointed out to him that for all we know, Lilly and Hank could have been kidnapped by Libyan terrorists, but he says he finds that unlikely. He thinks it more reasonable to assume that they are enjoying an afternoon showing at the Sony Imax.
As if. Hank is totally prone to motion sickness. He told us all about it when we drove past the cable car to Roosevelt Island this morning on the way to school.
What are Mamaw and Papaw going to say when they find out I lost their grandson?
TOP FIVE PLACES LILLY AND HANK COULD BE
1. Transit Museum
2. Enjoying some corned beef at 2nd Avenue Deli
3. Looking up Dionysius Thermopolis’s name on the wall of immigrants at Ellis Island
4. Getting tattoos on St. Marks’ Place
5. Making wild passionate love back in his room at the SoHo Grand
OH, GOD!
Wednesday, October 29, World Civ
Still no sign of them.
Wednesday, October 29, Bio
Still nothing.
HOMEWORK
Algebra: solve problems #3, 9, 12 on pg. 147
English: Profound Moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
World Civ: read Chapter 10
G&T: please
French: 4 sentences: une blague, la montagne, la mer, il y a du soleil
Biology: ask Kenny