How To Be Popular by Cabot Meg

Author:Cabot, Meg [Cabot, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humor, Young Adult, Romance, Chick-Lit, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780060880125
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2006-07-12T23:00:00+00:00

How to be Popular

Fourteen

How to be Popular

DAY TWO OF POPULARITY TUESDAY,AUGUST 29, 1:30P .M.

Mark Finley spoke to me at lunch again today.

I was sitting there, trying to draw Darlene out on the few subjects she seems to know anything aboutmakeup and Brittany Murphy movies (I had just said everything there is to say about8 Mile , with the help of Darlenes assorted suitors, several of whom volunteered that their favorite part was in the factory, where Brittany licks her hand)when one of the guys went, Oh, hey, Mark, and I looked up to see Mark Finley standing by my chair.

Hey, Mark said, and swung a chair from a neighboring table around until it was near mine, and straddled it.

Listen, great flyer, Mark said to me.

Yes. Mark Finley had come over to our table on purpose to speak to me. ME. I cant get Jason and Becca to sit with me at lunchJason, still excited about the fact that, now that he has a car, he can leave campus for lunch every day, insists on doing so, and Becca, because of her conviction that Jason is The One, has to follow him...even though today Jason invited his friend Stuckey to come along with them, and Becca cant stand Stuckey, due to his custom of endlessly relating pivotal moments in Indiana college basketball games.

Clearly, they dont want to eat with me. Which is just as well, since the ride to school with them this morning was excruciating. As if it werent bad enough that Jason felt compelled to comment on every article of clothing I had onWhats wrong with that skirt? Whys it so tight? How are you supposed to run if Gordon Wu blows up the chem lab again and theres a fire and we all have to evacuate?there was the fact that Becca can apparently no longer speak in his (Jasons) company, on account of being too shy, since hes Her One, so I had to do all the talking.

I may just start taking the bus. But Mark Finley doesnt seem to mind eating with me. At all.

Oh, I said, immediately flustered. Because, you know, even though he had e-mailed me last night, and all, speaking to Mark Finley in person...well, thats totally different. Because of his eyes, which looked greener than usual for some reason.

Yeah, it was nothing, I said.

It HADNT been nothing. That flyeradvertising Thursday nights auctionhad taken half the night to come up with. Id had to blow off my homework, but it was worth it, since in the end, Id come up with something semiprofessional-looking...which was good, since I had to buy ad space in the local paper to showcase the event, and needed something especially eye-catching.

I could, I suppose, have sought my moms help on this, since ads and window displays are her best thingher ONLY thing, really, that shes good at, insofar as running the store goes. Shes great at figuring out what will sell like hotcakes in our townbiographies and Madame Alexander dollsand what wonttell-alls and Sanrioas well as physically making sales.

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