Cecily Von Ziegesar by The It Girl

Author:The It Girl [Girl, The It]
Language: eng
Format: epub

17

WAVERLY OWLS SHOULD BE CAREFUL

WHOM THEY TELL THEIR SECRETS TO.

Brandon spied Jenny in the distance, coming over the dewy green hill from Hunter Hall, the English building. She’d carefully arranged her long curly hair into two perky braids and was wearing a pink and white button-down shirt, her Waverly jacket, and a cute little khaki skirt. Brandon could almost imagine her as a farm girl, on her way to milk a cow or sing on a hilltop.

Two blond ponytailed girls hugged their books to their chests and smiled at him as they passed. “Hey, Brandon,” Sage Francis, an ice blonde in an ultrashort dove-gray pleated skirt and silver sandals, cooed. Brandon smiled distractedly. “Saw you eating dinner last night with that Jenny girl. Did she really sleep with the guy from the White Stripes?”

“What?” Brandon asked, scratching an artfully tweezed eyebrow.

“I heard she slept with the lead singer from the Raves, Jack White, and Easy Walsh—all in one week!”

“And don’t forget, she was ponied!” shrieked Sage’s friend, a girl named Helena who was well known for starring in school plays and making out with the student director at the cast parties. Brandon was a little tired of the term pony. All the girls were throwing it around and acting completely ridiculous about it. Worse, Heath loved that they’d made up a sex term just for him. Last night, before heading to dinner, Heath had poked Brandon in his power yoga–toned abs and boasted, “You wanna bet I can pony someone between first and second courses?”

“She didn’t say anything happened between her and Easy,” Brandon replied evenly, trying to sound calm.

“She’s worse than Tinsley!” Sage and Helena giggled, then linked hands and walked off.

“No she—” Brandon started. But they were already gone. Personally, Brandon felt nauseated over all the rumors about Jenny. He’d heard she’d been caught having loud sex with Easy Walsh last night wearing nothing but a lacy push-up bra on the roof of her dorm—the rumors were all over Waverly. Not that he believed Jenny had done it—she was way too sweet to do something like that. Especially with a dog like Easy Walsh.

Jenny was still walking toward him, looking even more innocent and wide-eyed than when Brandon had first met her. He reached out and caught her arm as she passed. “Hey.”

Jenny stopped, deep in a daze. “Oh!” she exclaimed. Now that she was looking at him, he could see the dark purple circles under her eyes. He wished he could gently pat his L’Occitane Open Eyes Magic Eye Balm onto her delicate skin. “Hey.”

“You okay?”

“Um, sure.”

“I got you this.” He searched through his John Varvatos tan suede satchel and found a turkey-and-Brie sandwich wrapped in a dining hall napkin. “I didn’t see you at lunch, and I thought you might be hungry.”

“Yeah, I was e-mailing my dad.” Jenny pressed her lips together, not looking him in the eye. “It’s just . . . I’m kind of ready to crack under the pressure,” she admitted, her lips trem-bling.

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