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guys?”
    â€œNot really. I made some good friends, though.”
    â€œToo bad,” Ana-Li said. She waved to Livvy across the room. “I struck out too. That physics workshop I went to at M.I.T.? Geek City.”
    â€œLet’s talk later. Just you and me,” Destiny said. “I love what you did with your hair. Wish I could have such perfectly straight black hair.”
    â€œThat’s so funny,” Ana-Li said. “I always wanted to be a blond.”
    Destiny tugged her friend’s hair. “Maybe we should trade.”
    They both laughed.
    Destiny turned to say hi to her other friends. They were all talking at once, their voices ringing off the low ceilings of the room above the garage. They sprawled on the cream-colored carpet, sat on the long, cushiony couch that divided the room between Destiny’s territory and her sister’s half, and perched on the edges of the beds.
    Destiny felt a wave of happiness sweep over her. The house had felt cold and gloomy last spring when her mother…when her mother killed herself. So many tears. So many long silences.
    And after it had happened, their friends suddenly treated the twins differently. No one made jokes. Everyone acted tense and awkward. The girls felt kids were watching them whenever they walked down the hall at school.
    We weren’t us anymore. We were the girls whose mother committed suicide.
    Eight weeks of working at Camp Blue Moonhad helped Destiny get away from all that. And now her friends’ voices warmed her, made her feel safe and comfortable in her house again.
    Standing by the door, Destiny gazed around the room at everyone.
    On one end of the couch, Ari was talking with Courtney DeWitt, gesturing wildly with his hands, as usual, telling her about a horror convention his cousin had taken him to.
    Courtney hadn’t changed a bit over the summer, Destiny saw. She was still skinny but round-faced, with her straight brown hair pulled back in a high ponytail, the kind everyone had in fourth grade.
    â€œI hate this round face,” she once complained to Destiny. “Every time my dad calls me Babyface, I just want to slug him!” Now she kept tugging at a hole in the knee of her jeans as she listened to Ari.
    Destiny turned to Ross Starr on the other end of the couch. Ross had shaved his blond hair short over the summer, and everyone had to comment on it.
    â€œWhat did you do this summer?” Destiny called to him.
    Ross lowered the Mountain Dew can he’dbeen chugging from. He flashed Destiny his winning smile. “I was a lifeguard. What a blast. Check out this tan.”
    â€œA lifeguard? For real? Where?”
    â€œJersey shore. My aunt has a house there.”
    â€œDid you rescue anyone?” Ari asked.
    Ross’s eyes flashed. “Well, no. But I had to give mouth-to-mouth a few times.”
    Everyone laughed. Destiny studied Ross. She’d been thinking about him all summer. “You’ve been working out?”
    He grinned and flexed his biceps. “Check out this new bod. I think I want to live forever!”
    â€œWhy?” Ari asked.
    â€œThink of all the girls I could have!” Ross smiled.
    Livvy slid next to Ross on the couch arm. “You’re bad,” she said. She tugged playfully on the tiny silver hoop in his ear. “Did you miss me this summer?”
    Ross squinted at her. “Which one are you?”
    More laughter.
    Destiny groaned. Is Livvy going to come on to Ross now? Does she have to have every guy?
    Livvy and Ross were laughing about something. Livvy had her arm loosely drapedaround his shoulder.
    I can’t believe she’s doing this in front of Courtney, Destiny thought. Livvy knows that Courtney is crazy about Ross. And she knows I have a crush on him too.
    Fletch Green sat on the floor at the other end of the couch, his long legs crossed in front of him. He was talking into a cell phone.
    When Fletch turned off his phone, Destiny