Airhead by Meg Cabot

Author:Meg Cabot [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780330479363
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
Published: 2009-02-20T02:33:05+00:00

Fourteen

I was back in my hospital room – the only occupied patient room in the entire A wing of the Stark Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery – and back in a hospital gown. Dr Holcombe and his staff wanted to run some more tests. How well I did on the tests would dictate how soon I got to go home – or, I guess I should say, to Nikki Howard’s loft, since that’s where my home was going to be once I was released, now that I was to resume Nikki Howard’s contractual responsibilities.

Of course, Mom and Dad told me I didn’t have to go through with it. The part about pretending to be Nikki. They said (later, when Stark’s legal eagle, Mr Phillips, wasn’t around) that they’d find a way to pay the two million – and the legal fees and fines – if I didn’t think I could handle it.

‘We can always declare bankruptcy,’ Mom said, way too cheerfully.

Yeah. Because that’s so what I want my parents to have to do for me.

I told them I wasn’t worried. Not about Nikki Howard’s contractual responsibilities. And I wasn’t. I mean, come on. How hard could modelling be anyway? You just have to stand there in front of the camera with your stomach sucked in, right? Look at all those models Frida’s always reading about in her fashion magazines. They’re not exactly rocket scientists.

But I’d already experienced enough of Nikki Howard’s personal life to know it wasn’t going to be easy. Nikki’s love life alone was . . . complicated. To say the least. That had my stomach twisted up in knots (although that could have been the acid reflux Lulu had warned me about).

The fact was, I was basically going to have to act like Nikki all the time. Only our immediate family was to know the truth about who I really was. According to Mr Phillips, a story was going to be released to the public that Nikki had suffered a head injury when she’d fainted due to her exhaustion and hypoglycaemia, and that the head injury had resulted in amnesia. This was so that when I showed up for photo shoots and didn’t recognize make-up artists and stylists Nikki had worked with before, there’d be a rational explanation.

Though if Stark Enterprises really thought amnesia was a rational explanation, they needed a major reality check.

I’d told Mr Phillips right away that there was one problem: I might have already mentioned to Lulu Collins and Brandon Stark that I wasn’t Nikki Howard.

But Mr Phillips didn’t look worried. He said, ‘The amnesia story will take care of that.’

And I realized he was right. Lulu and Brandon would totally believe I had amnesia. They were already prepared to believe I’d been the victim of brainwashing by Al-Qaeda or a spirit transfer. They’d believe anything.

That wasn’t what I was worried about. Really worried about, I mean. What I was really worried about was . . . well, Stark Enterprises. I mean, they

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