Drama Queens Don’t Fall For Charming Boys (Invisible Girls Club, Book 13) by Emma Dalton

Author:Emma Dalton [Dalton, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Mia

While Valarina is crouching behind an NPC ready to snatch something from her satchel (yes, I’m leveling up her pickpocketing skills, thus turning her into a bad, bad girl), my phone rings with a video call. It’s Willow!

I answer it and gush, “Willow! Hi!” I haven’t spoken to her since winter break. “Darn it!”

“What happened?” she asks, adjusting her glasses.

“I got caught.” The guard chases me all over the city. No matter how many spells I use to run faster or heal myself, he pounces on me and shoves me to the ground. Everything I stole for the past half hour is confiscated and I’m thrown into prison.

“Bummer.” I push away from my desk and leap onto my bed with my phone, a huge smile on my face. “How are you doing on this fine Saturday afternoon? How’s Colt? Is he going to join the call?”

Willow is at MIT and Colt’s college is a few hours away from hers. They meet a few times a month so it doesn’t feel like they’re in a long-distance relationship, but it’s still hard. They’re not worried, though, because their relationship is solid and nothing can break it.

“Probably not because he has a very hard paper due on Monday,” she says. “But he’ll call you later this week. What’s up with you?”

“Everything is great. Well, other than the fact that I just lost all my progress on Chronicles of the Eternals. I was trying to level up my pickpocketing skills. Now I have to wait for my bounty to disappear.”

“Are there any cheats? Or I can access the game and remove your bounty. Maybe even revert your character to before she got caught, thus restoring all your stolen items.”

Oh my gosh, how tempting is that? Willow is such a whiz with tech. She even hacks sometimes, like when her best friend, and Rylee’s sister, Chloe, wanted to know who was slipping secret love letters into her locker. Willow hacked Edenbury High’s camera to find the guy.

“It’s an MMO, so it might be hard,” I tell her. “But honestly? I don’t want to cheat, even though it’s super tempting. Valarina got caught and she needs to live with the consequences.”

“Very mature of you.”

I bow. “Thank you. Is Colt working on the sequel to Detective Ret: Unsolved Cases? I feel like all I do is pester him about it.”

Detective Ret: Unsolved Cases is a point-and-click adventure video game Colton’s sister, Bri, worked on before she died in a helicopter crash, which killed her boyfriend, too. To keep her memory alive, Colt spent most of his high school years finishing it for her. He published it a few years ago on PC, and it just came out last year on console. It’s nowhere a bestseller or anything, but gamers who love the genre—like me, because I love all genres—are total fans. And we’ve been begging Colt for a sequel.

Another cool thing about it is that Ally’s oldest daughter, Evie, who is an extremely talented artist, does all the artwork and design for the game.

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