'Apple-C is the keystroke on a Mac that-'

'Oh, okay.' Claire used her thanks-that-really-clears-things-up-for-me tone, hoping they could fast-forward to something that didn't make her feel like a foreign-exchange student. 'Jinx is so second grade,' Alicia explained. 'Don't you say 'jinx' here? Is it a Florida thing? I could teach it to you.' They were wearing what Claire and her best friend, Layne, secretly referred to as 'black-tie sweats'-those velvety, two-hundred-dollar tracksuits that Massie described as 'casual-cute.' Claire, on the other hand, was 'casual-casual' in a long-sleeved red tee and the nail-polish-stained Citizens of Humanity jeans she'd 'borrowed' from OCD's lost-and-found before Christmas break. The girls looked at one another, then snickered into their palms. 'Jinx!' Claire giggled for the first time since she had been expelled.

And Visas are the new seventh-grade ID cards.'

'From this day forward, stores are the new classrooms. Myner: Thank you for kicking us out of OCD.' Her amber eyes flickered with delight. Massie nodded in approval, then continued. 'Oops, sorry.' Claire immediately scooped up the offending beverage and held it high. 'Hello?' Alicia widened her brown eyes and glared at Claire's Chantico drinking chocolate, which was still on the table. Her lips were so chapped it looked like she had been making out with the zipper of her puffy blue jacket. It was her first winter away from Florida and she was still adjusting to the cold. Myner.' Massie Block lifted her low-fat sugar-free iced vanilla crème.Ĭlaire Lyons folded her arms across her chest while Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, and Kristen Gregory raised their white cardboard cups. On their first school-free morning, the Pretty Committee gathered at Starbucks in the Westchester Mall and drank to their expulsion from Octavian Country Day. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at Thank you for your support of the author's rights. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher is unlawful piracy and theft of the author's intellectual property.

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