My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours Read Online Free PDF Page A

Daphne grabs my arm. I look down at her hand and then at her.
    â€œSo listen, we were just talking about Wittler. You know, our science teacher? What do you think her story is?” She rubs her hands together and shifts her weight from one foot to the other, like she’s waiting for me to really dish it good.
    I hesitate. It’s not that I don’t
want
to talk to these girls. It’s only that they’ve never talked to me before so I have to wonder what their motivation is here. Am I being set up, or are they truly being friendly?
    I look at each girl. “You mean with her happy juice?” I finally ask.
    Daphne slaps Bella’s shoulder, and Bella mouths an “ow.”
    â€œI told you, Bella!” Daphne exclaims. “I told you there was something funny in that little silver bottle she has.” Daphne looks at me. “She’s drinking, right? In class. Right in front of us!”
    I shrug. “That’s what I thought.”
    â€œOh my gosh, Tori, you totally have to sit by us in science today. We have to get to the bottom of this. I want to know if my teacher is getting sloshed during school,” Daphne says.
    I raise my eyebrows like I’m mulling it over. “Okay,”I agree. “See you then.” I walk past the girls into school and head to my locker.
    So that was kinda weird. Daphne and Bella want me to sit with them? While Bella has never been mean to me like Daphne, she’s never gone out of her way to be nice either. I wonder why the change.
    Sienna is already standing at my locker, waiting for me. “Hey, Sea. Sorry about cutting you short last night on IM,” I say. And I really am. That wasn’t me. Not how I am with Sienna, anyway. I mean, she’s my only friend. Well, I’m not a leper or anything. I have some “friends.” She’s just my one truest bestest friend. We’ve never kept secrets from each other and I’ve never lied to her. Before now, that is. I guess my feelings are hurt from the summer of ignoration. Is that a word? It totally should be if it’s not. I’ll have to Google it later.
    â€œDon’t worry about it, Tor. I know how it is. Boyfriends require a lot of attention,” she says.
    Oh. So we’re continuing with this then? All righty. “Yep,” I agree, “they sure do.”
    â€œSo listen,” Sienna begins, “Lauren and Anica want to walk to the public library after school today to hang out. Can you come?”
    Lauren and Anica? As in Lauren Hanson and Anica Speckler? Okay, if Daphne and Bella are “popular,” then Lauren and Anica are three levels above that. Most ofthe seventh-grade girls are afraid to even talk to them. They just stare at them in awe and then try their darnedest to copy their look. I’ve often thought it would be a fun little social experiment for Lauren and Anica to make a really crazy fashion statement—say, come to school with twenty rainbow-colored ribbons tied throughout their hair—and then see how long it took before the rest of the class was sporting the same style. They’re certainly a powerful duo. Which begs the question, Why on earth would they want to sit at a library with us? With me?
    â€œUm, are you sure they want to go with us?” I ask.
    Sienna giggles. “Well, yeah. Lauren is really sweet. She’s in my history class and we were talking about this one-page assignment due on Friday and she mentioned going to the library today to work on it.” Sienna gives me a concerned look. “Do you not want to go?”
    â€œOh, no. I’ll go. I just didn’t know, you know, that we were, uh, friendly with them.”
    Sienna looks relieved. “Oh, yeah. It’ll be fun. You can do whatever homework you have. Or go online or whatever.”
    â€œOkay. Sounds good,” I reply, and we head for homeroom together.
    After homeroom, I head for my science class. There, Daphne and