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not an outfit a normal person would wear in their every day lives. It was all flimsy pleats and wisps of fabric, and barely covered her curvy frame. She pouted her lips; they were coated in a sugary layer of bubblegum-pink lip-gloss that looked like it was that fake, chemically strawberry flavour.
    “Hi,” the girl said.
    “Hi,” Farley returned.
    The girl with the lip-gloss raked over her and raised an eyebrow. “So you’re Farley?”
    It was an accusation rather than a question. Farley shrank back behind the door a little, self-conscious in the thin camisole and scruffy shorts she’d worn to bed. Her hair was probably standing on end as usual. The other girl appeared to take her silence as an affirmative.
    “I’m Anna. This used to be Charlie’s room. I’ve been storing some of my shoes in her closet. I’ve run out of space in mine. Is it alright if I grab them?” She didn’t wait for an answer; she stalked into the room and pulled open a door to the built-in wardrobe, stooping to collect a pair of bright pink stilettos. They had heels big enough to impale people on.
    “Killer, right?” the other girl smirked.
    “Yeah, sure.”
    “I heard about last night,” Anna continued, hooking the heel straps of the shoes onto her index and slinging them over her shoulder. “Cassie was all wound up when I saw her and Daniel leaving this morning. I usually tell her to go get laid when she’s like that, but from what I hear that’s not going to happen. Are you really Daniel’s girlfriend?”
    Farley couldn’t open her mouth for a moment. Swearing had been an offence punishable by grounding when she had been growing up, and she’d learned a long time ago to keep her jaw wired shut when she wanted to scream something seriously foul. Daniel had already gone off somewhere with Cassie this morning without even coming to see her? What did that mean?
    She took a deep breath and said, “After last night, I don’t know. So he and Cassie used to sleep together?”
    At no point since she’d met him had she ever imagined Daniel was a virgin, but she’d never really considered the fact that he might have slept with anyone before either. Of course he had, but it was a horrible thought, made even worse by the concept that the person he had slept with was here and she was stunningly beautiful in an exotic, delicate kind of way. If Cassie were a flower, she would be an orchid. At that precise moment, Farley felt closer to a dandelion.
    Anna smiled an innocent kind of smile. “Oh, I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get anyone in trouble. All I know is that they made some pact. Y’know, one of those stupid, if we’re both single when we’re two hundred, we’ll get married and have lots of babies, agreements.”
    The sudden urge to throw up flooded through Farley, making her slight headache jump from a level three to a level eight. Anna’s smile spread a little wider. She practically skipped out of the room and paused in the doorway, turning to give Farley a look over her shoulder.
    “Oh, BTW, Grayson said to tell you to meet him downstairs in the library. He’s with your friends right now. He thought you might like to learn all about your forebears. See you later!”
    Farley replayed Anna’s last comment in her head. The fact that she had actually said the letters BTW instead of the words was just way too clichéd. She sauntered off down the hallway with a practiced swing in her hips that probably drove guys wild. It only made Farley want to push her down the stairs. Everything about that girl made her uncomfortable. Even her teeth were itching . Didn’t want to say anything that would get anyone in trouble. Yeah, right. Anna had almost purred like a cat when she’d said, ‘get married and have lots of babies’.
    The whole conversation left Farley feeling slightly dirty. She needed to get clean. It didn’t take long to find the bathroom: it was the next door along- a light, airy room with pale yellow