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confident façade when all the time she was petrified she and Sarah would be edged out and become social outcasts. They were barely on the periphery as it was. She wished mightily that her school days were over. The only small comfort she had was that she’d survived her first year in secondary school, and her first year as a teenager. When she went back to school in September, she’d be in second year and fourteen to boot. Fourteen seemed a hell of a lot older than thirteen.
    It would be a lot different going back to school in the autumn. She wouldn’t be a new girl, plus she’d be thinner, because she was already losing weight, having heard herself described as a little fat tart at her half-sister Debbie’s wedding. Pink scorched her cheeks at the memory. That had ruined what had been the very best day of her life. Until that moment she’d actually felt completely happy. It was the first time she could ever remember having such an amazing feeling, and then that horrible drunk girl had ruined everything with her vicious remark. Who is that little fat tart? It haunted her. It took the good out of her life. It made Melissa painfully aware of every fat flaw.
    ‘Oh no! She’s heading our way,’ Sarah groaned as Evanna pushed open the door and walked purposefully in their direction.
    ‘Hi, guys. How are things? Melissa, what a seriously cool top.’ She beamed at them as though they were her very best friends. Insincerity was Evanna’s stock in trade.
    What a brown-noser, Melissa thought in disgust, privately vowing never to wear her top again. If Evanna Nolan thought it was cool, it was seriously flawed.
    ‘Hi, Evanna,’ she murmured. Sarah ignored Evanna and kept flicking through a book she’d picked up.
    ‘What are you reading, Sarah?’ Evanna inquired, keeping her smile pasted to her face.
    ‘A book,’ Sarah said coolly. She wasn’t willing to forget being called a philistine because she’d got mixed up during a school quiz and lost valuable points because she’d answered Keats instead of Wordsworth when asked who had written ‘Ode to Daffodils’.
    ‘I can see that.’ The smile was starting to slip, but Evanna persevered. ‘What book?’
    ‘It’s called The Power of Now , by Eckhart Tolle,’ Sarah said airily.
    ‘Totally never heard of him,’ Evanna declared dismissively.
    ‘ Really? He’s like a world-renowned sage and mystic. He writes about how authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now.’ Sarah eyeballed Evanna, while Melissa tried to hide a smirk.
    Evanna was gobsmacked. ‘Didn’t know you were interested in stuff like that, it sounds totally like gobbledy-gook to me,’ she rallied.
    ‘It takes a certain questioning mindset to appreciate it,’ Sarah sniffed.
    ‘Oh, I’m sure. I just didn’t think that would be your kind of thing.’ Evanna smiled sweetly.
    ‘There’s more to life than Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, Evanna,’ Sarah remarked pointedly, seeing the popular read poking out of her classmate’s tote bag.
    Evanna blushed to her roots. Ross O’Carroll-Kelly was far from literary, and to be caught reading him was totally mortifying. ‘Oh, isn’t it a hoot?’ she twittered. ‘Have you read it?’ She turned to Melissa.
    ‘No,’ fibbed Melissa. ‘Not my type of book.’ Evanna blushed again, raging at having been caught reading a tome that was even worse than chick lit.
    ‘So, what are you guys doing for the rest of the day?’ asked Evanna brightly, changing the subject.
    ‘Chilling on my balcony after we have lunch,’ Melissa retorted.
    ‘Savage, I’ve never seen the view from your balcony, I’d say it’s awesome,’ Evanna gushed.
    ‘Yep it is,’ Melissa agreed.
    ‘So where are you going for lunch?’
    Sarah flashed a warning glance at Melissa.
    ‘Oh . . . umm, haven’t quite decided. We might just pick up a take-out and eat al fresco at mine.’
    ‘Sounds perfect for a day like today. Why don’t I join you?’ Evanna