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grades (thanks to Tom), and Kelly Reeves— the girl Tom had been madly crushing on since forever. And for the first time Tom was thinking Chad might not deserve it. Any of it.
    From halfway across the room Tom could hear Kelly babbling on about her big move to Hollywood—mansions, parties, shopping Rodeo Drive alongside celebs.
    Standing still in the middle of the lunchroom, Tom suddenly felt like he’d had the wind knocked out of him. There was no air in there, and he had to get out.
    â€œKeep it cool,” he told himself as he walked out of the lunchroom and down the hall. It was hard not to run. He was almost to the door when his twin sister was suddenly in front of him.
    â€œGet this,” she said, blocking his path and holding up her phone. “Debbie number five just asked me to help her pick out flowers for the big day—like we’re going to bond over stargazer lilies or something.” Zoey laughed, but the lookof disgust on her face didn’t change. “Maybe I’ll suggest bouquets of weeds or poison ivy.”
    Tom stared down at his sister with her streaked bangs and black clothes. She was a weed, and he wished she wouldn’t talk to him at school. He wondered when exactly she’d turned into such a weirdo. Before their mom died, she was normal, and great. They were tight. Now they were practically strangers. She’d barely even spoken to him since her big return from boarding school. She never even told him why she got kicked out —he’d had to hear that from Kelly! And yet she expected him to listen to her gripe about Debbie #5? Who was she kidding?
    â€œExcuse me,” Tom said, ignoring what she’d just told him and pushing past her. “I need some air.” He shoved the metal push bar of the exit and threw his shoulder against the door. He couldn’t get away from her, from everything, fast enough.
    The wedding. Tom added that to his mental list of major annoyances. It was the last thing he wanted to talk about, and Zoey was the last person he wanted to talk about it with. He wasmad at her for bringing it up. Only it wasn’t her fault. She was just trying to connect with him. Maybe he should let her. But talking to Alison’s new best friend would not score him any points with Kelly, even if she was his twin sister.
    Tom paced back and forth in the school parking lot, trying to cool down. Maybe he should tell Chad he had to get a grip on his own homework, at least for a while. Maybe he should tell Kelly how he felt about her, before she was gone and it was too late. And maybe he could come up with a way to stop his father’s wedding…
    Shoving his hands into his jacket pocket, Tom felt a tightly folded piece of paper inside. He pulled it out and opened it. The handwriting was neat, all in block letters, and written with a purple pen. THEY DON’T KNOW YOU LIKE I DO , it read, and was signed, YOUR BIGGEST FAN . Tom crumpled up the note and tossed it into the garbage can. There was no way the note was intended for him. He did not exactly attract admirers.
    As he turned around, Tom suddenly got the feeling he was being watched. Looking up, he spotted a silver Audi with tinted windows anda blue clown-head stuck on the antenna. The car was idling by the curb, as if waiting for someone. He shivered slightly, then laughed at himself as he headed back into the school building. “Right, Ramirez,” he joked. “You’ve got a stalker.”

Chapter Ten
    Kelly kicked off her low heels and flopped back on her giant bed. She had homework to do but had decided instead to do some work on her latest masterpiece—a masterpiece to be left behind when she moved to California. It was a gift she planned to bestow on the underlings who were stuck in Silver Spring for the rest of their pathetic lives.
    Kelly never really paid attention in class. Or at least not to the teachers. Lately she’d been using class time to work on