A-List 06: Some Like It Hot by Zoey Dean

Author:Zoey Dean [DEAN, ZOEY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: JUV014000
ISBN: 9780316041638
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Anna gave her car to the valet and eyed the endless line that snaked down Hollywood Boulevard on the wrong side of Trieste’s red-velvet rope. Just like at New York’s trendiest clubs, there was nothing about the building but the line out front to indicate that this was Hollywood’s club of the moment. The outside of Trieste looked like an industrial warehouse. There wasn’t even a sign, just some worn numerals above the door.

She knew she could walk right in; Ben had assured her that her name would be on the guest list. She was glad she didn’t have to wait, glad she didn’t have to endure the humiliating process of having someone look her over to decide whether or not she was cute enough or rich enough or famous enough to be allowed inside, but the whole thing made her uncomfortable, too.

She’d been to pretty much every club in New York by the time she was fifteen; in fact, a professional-quality fake ID had been her best friend Cyn’s birthday present to her that year. Her sister, Susan, was a party girl, and Anna had gone clubbing with her any number of times. Somehow she usually ended up feeling apart from everyone else, almost as if she were outside a movie scene she was observing. Maybe it was because she was always keeping an eye on Susan. If she didn’t do it, who would?

Relax. Your sister is at the Kripalu Center in Massachusetts and totally sober. Your boyfriend works here. You’re fine.

“I’m a friend of Ben Birnbaum,” she told the door guy, a short, skinny guy in his early twenties with a rat-like face and dirty blond hair gelled to a point atop his head. He was dressed all in black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black jacket, black wingtips sans socks. A huge bald man stood next to him.

“Now you’re a friend of mine,” the skinny guy told her with a deviant grin, his large front teeth bucking over his lower lip. He motioned her forward.

“Hey, you didn’t even check to see that she’s on the guest list!” a girl in line yelled, pointing a savage index finger at Anna. She had a pumpkin-shaped head and wore her dark hair in some variation of a mullet. Her short, thick legs were encased like sausages in skintight jeans; her enormous breasts spilled out of a cheap red-sequined T-shirt.

“Take a look at her,” the doorman commanded. “She’s on the list even if she isn’t on the list. And you, Great Pumpkin? You might as well go down the block to Bar-Bar. There’s no line there, if you catch my drift.”

Anna wanted to kick the obnoxious rat-faced man in his black-clad shins. But she settled for a whispered “You are an ass” in his ear as she slipped into the club, and felt better for having done it.

A bored-looking girl with sexy, cropped black hair and sequined, black-rimmed, cat-shaped eyeglasses stamped the back of Anna’s hand with a Day-Glo green stamp, then directed Anna toward the juice bar.

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