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asked. “How will my date’s costume match mine? I don’t want to go as Juliet with a hobbit as my date.”
    â€œThat will be the responsibility of the girl who’s setting him up,” Cassidy declared. “Don’t you think?”
    They all decided that made sense.
    â€œAnd except for our agreement not to match a DG member up with Jason Levine, we can pick anyone for a blind date?” Emma asked.
    â€œWell, I’ve been thinking about this,” Bryn said. “Won’t it be nearly impossible to set a girl up with someone she doesn’t know? I mean, our school’s not that big.”
    â€œGood point,” Abby conceded.
    â€œSo maybe we just do what we can to keep the blind dates under wraps,” Emma suggested.
    â€œYeah.” Devon nodded. “So it’s mostly about the surprise, right?”
    â€œRight,” Cassidy confirmed. “Everyone should be surprised—no matter what.”
    â€œIncluding the guys?” Cassidy asked.
    â€œOoh, that’s a good question,” Bryn said. “It might be cool if we didn’t tell the guys who they were taking out either. We could just assure them that it is one of us five.”
    â€œI like that,” Devon said eagerly. “That might make it easier to get them on board.” She pointed at Bryn and giggled. “We can make them all think they’re going with you.”
    â€œThat’s not fair,” Cassidy protested.
    â€œYeah—what if my date’s disappointed?” Emma said. “Like he got me and he wanted the beautiful Bryn instead.”
    Bryn laughed uneasily. “That’s silly, Emma. Any guy would be glad to go out with you. Anyway, we’ll make it clear that if these guys aren’t into the spirit of the blind date, then they can just forget it. Okay?”
    Everyone agreed, and Cassidy wrote it into the meeting notes. They kicked around a few more ideas until finally Bryn could stand it no longer. “Let’s go do some window-shopping,” she suggested. “I want to see if I can find some shoes that would work for Daisy.”
    It didn’t take long before the other girls got bored with shoe shopping, and nothing at the mall was really suitable for the Gatsby era anyway. Besides that, it seemed like Devon only wanted to look for boys. When it was getting close to 9:00,Cassidy announced that, since she was the driver, it was time to go home.
    As Cassidy drove them home, Devon started dropping hints about her hopes for her blind date. “For whom it may concern,” she said, “I will be most grateful if you’d match me up with a guy who is fit to be my Romeo.”
    â€œAnd I’d appreciate it if my blind date is someone my parents will approve of,” Abby said uneasily. “You all know how my dad can be. Don’t you dare set me up with anyone like Jason Levine.”
    â€œAnd I would like a guy who’s a good dancer,” Bryn told them. “And as you know, I do think Harris is a nice guy, but the poor guy has two left feet.”
    They all continued to drop hints, and by the time Bryn got out of the car, she was feeling rather hopeful. The masquerade ball and the DG blind date plan might actually turn out to be pretty fun. Well, if it didn’t turn into a train wreck.

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    A bby would have preferred to find any of the girls—anyone besides Devon—a blind date. But it was Devon’s name that she’d picked up on Friday night. She had resisted the urge to toss the paper back onto the table and grab another, but if there was some way to get out of it—or get it over with quickly—she would.
    It wasn’t that she disliked Devon exactly, but she just didn’t get her. Devon was pretty and witty and smart. In so many ways she had everything going for her. But then she invariably said or did something that just did not make sense. Sometimes it felt as if she were on a path to