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cracked up laughing.
    I think this pissed Mom off a little, but my GOD.
    Finally, Ashley settled on a dress. She is going full-boreprincess. Pink tulle for daaaaaaaaays. Whatever, she seems to be really pleased with it. Mom bitched about my dress all the way back to the first store, and all the way home. I don’t care. I love it.
    And thank GOD Jess planned something tonight. I love my mom. Really I do. She just drives me CRAZY, and after today, I need some space.

Sunday, May 4
    Okay, I guess the headline here is that I did another tab of ecstasy. It’s weird because I told Jess that I wasn’t going to do any on Friday night, and then, I dunno . . . at some point, while I was shopping with my mom and Ashley yesterday, I realized that I was really looking forward to going over to Kelly’s with Jess, but like in a way that was more excited than just getting to go to her house and hanging out. I think I was excited about the possibility of doing more ecstasy. This started to dawn on me when I got to Kelly’s house—which, by the way, is gigantic—and saw that Brandon’s SUV was there. I rang the doorbell and Kelly answered and took me upstairs to meet her mother, who is the TINIEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD. I mean, this woman is smaller than Kelly is. I didn’t even know that was possible. She is very sweet, and she was setting out plates of foodfor us, and Kelly kept telling her she didn’t have to, and she kept smiling at me and offering me food.
    Eventually Kelly dragged me off to what I later learned was her and her brother’s wing of the house. Yes. Wing. They have a whole wing. Their house is this big, modern thing that sort of looks like an airport. Or an airplane. It has a central entrance, kitchen and living space, a giant open room with whole walls of glass windows that go floor to ceiling, and then on the left side of the house are her parents’ bedroom and offices on the upper level, and guest rooms on the lower level. On the right side of the central area are Kelly’s and Kyle’s rooms upstairs, and then downstairs, a giant sitting area and bar area that is really a full kitchen. There’s a fireplace, and the whole back wall of their house is glass, too. It looks out onto a big pool and hot tub. The sliders on the lower level open all the way up and disappear into storage compartments.
    When we got downstairs, Jess and Brandon were playing pool while Pete was mixing a cocktail at the bar. Jess looked up and saw the look on my face, which was one of the “holy shit” variety. She laughed, and Kelly acted all embarrassed. I said, Jesus! What does your dad do? Kelly was sort of sheepish, but she said that he runs a big manufacturing company that finds factories to make parts for companies like Apple and Samsung.She told me he goes to Japan and China for months at time, and is there now.
    Kelly said she had to go talk to her brother for a minute and while Jess and Brandon were shooting pool, Pete slid me a vodka tonic with a lime squeezed into it, and then made himself one. He said, Sure am glad you’re here tonight. I said, Why? And then I whispered, Oh wait. Do you guys have more ecstasy? And for just a split second he frowned, and it was almost like I’d hurt his feelings. He said, Nah, I just liked hanging out with you the other night.
    There was something sweet about this, but I didn’t really think about it much because at the time I was disappointed that he and Brandon hadn’t brought any ecstasy. I guess I’d secretly hoped that there would be some, despite what I told Jess. I took a sip of the drink, which was strong, and just as I was taking another drink I heard Kelly say, Don’t drink too much of that!
    When I turned around, Jess glanced over at me and then at Kelly, who was grinning like she’d gotten away with something. Jess said, NO WAY! And Kelly laughed and said, Told ya. Brandon asked what they were