Duke's Den by Becky Citra

Author:Becky Citra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV002190, JUV013000, JUV039060
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2016-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

“The first thing,” Liam said, “is you can’t email celebrities.” He was sitting at his desk in his bedroom, his chair tipped back, waiting for his computer to fire up. Amelia and Roshni stood behind him, staring at the screen.

“Why not?” Roshni said.

“Because you can’t get their email addresses. It’s a privacy thing. Why would they want to be bugged with thousands of emails every day? And it would totally overload their inboxes. Nope. Not going to work.”

The annoying thing was, Liam was usually right about stuff. “So what are we supposed to do?” Amelia said.

“Write letters.”

“Are you serious?” Roshni said. “You mean, like, on a piece of paper?”

“Snail mail,” Liam said cheerfully.

“Great,” Amelia said. “It will take forever. And we need the money fast.”

“The second thing,” Liam continued, “is they won’t send money anyway.”

“Liam,” Roshni snapped, “are you with us or not?”

Liam shrugged. “I’m just telling you the truth. Celebrities get sick of being asked for donations.”

Roshni leaned over his shoulder and grabbed the mouse. She clicked on Google, typed in Writing to Celebrities and clicked Search.

“Look at all the sites!” she crowed. “If this was such a dumb idea, why are there so many sites about it?”

“Click on Contactinganycelebrity.com,” Amelia said.

The first thing that came up was NEED TO CONTACT A CELEBRITY? in bold letters. “There’s a video,” Roshni said. “Cool.” She clicked on the starting arrow.

The video made Amelia think of a space movie. The background was starry, and captions zoomed in and out with Star Wars-y kind of music. NEED TO CONTACT A CELEBRITY? NOW YOU CAN! 60,000 + CELEBRITIES + PUBLIC FIGURES. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? START MY FREE 14-DAY TRIAL NOW!

“Should we do it?” she said.

“Sure!” Roshni clicked on the Free Trial link.

Pictures of credit cards—Visa, MasterCard—flashed on the screen.

“Big surprise!” Liam said. “They always want your money!”

“I don’t suppose your dad gave you a credit card too,” Amelia said.

“Not yet. Not that I’d let you use it anyway. “

“Okay,” Roshni said. “We find a site that really is free. All we need are some addresses for the celebrities. It’s not like we want to buy something.”

No one was faster with a mouse than Roshni, so Amelia just watched. Liam watched too. He was bouncing a tennis ball against the wall and pretending not to watch, but Amelia saw his eyes darting across the room to the screen.

“Okay,” Roshni said. “Here’s one. Fanmail.biz. Perfect. Let’s try it out. Give me a name. Any name.”

“Taylor Swift,” Amelia said.

“Coming up.” Roshni’s fingers flew. “Here it is! Taylor Swift Entertainment, 242 West Main Street, Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075, USA.”

“That sounds like a real address,” Amelia said.

“Of course it’s a real address.”

The girls spun around and grinned at Liam.

“I never said you couldn’t write to celebrities,” Liam said. “I was actually the one who said you’d have to write letters. I just said they won’t send you any money.”

“Give me a piece of paper out of your printer,” Amelia said. “I’ll start writing them down.”

One hour later, Amelia

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