Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown

Author:Amanda Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: e9781626819085
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2015-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty

Eugenia called when she returned early from her visit home and promised Elle she had significant news that she must relay in person. Though Elle was impatient to tell Eugenia more about Christopher Miles on the phone, she accepted her friend’s congratulations and agreed to meet her on Stanford’s main campus with Underdog in tow.

She hung up the phone, threw on one of Warner’s old sweatshirts, and put Underdog’s collar on, all the while wondering what the news could be.

Underdog ran to meet Eugenia. Elle didn’t recognize her friend at first. She was wearing a ribbed white mock turtleneck sweater of a beautiful cashmere. The contrast made her blue-black bob resplendent. Her nose was chapped with a fading ski tan.

“Warholesque!” Eugenia said, and winked.

Elle gripped Eugenia in an excited hug. “You look gorgeous,” she said. “Very Liv Tyler.” Eugenia blushed happily. Though Elle would rather she had highlighted her ash-blonde hair, she had to admit that against Eugenia’s flawless ivory complexion and her blue eyes, her newly black hair was stunning. Elle had thought many times about bringing Eugenia under the masterful painting hand of Che-Che at Savoir-Vivre, but she knew Eugenia labored under the debt of heavy student loans and avoided putting her friend in an uncomfortable position. She had found a good colorist, wherever she had gone. “You look gorgeous!” Elle repeated. “Did you get it done while you were home?”

“I did!”

“What gave you the nerve to do it?”

“I went to Vermont knowing that I was going to break up with Kenneth, and I wanted to look my best.”

Elle grinned at her steely friend with admiration. “Better to drop the ax than to suffer it, I guess.”

“He wanted us to get married,” Eugenia said with disgust.

“Eugenia!” Elle felt the melancholy that usually afflicted her with any mention of someone else’s marriage. “Why don’t you want to marry him? He was your college sweetheart!”

“Elle,” Eugenia chided, amused with her friend’s sensitive naïveté, “we went to Yale, remember? Nobody has a college sweetheart at Yale. People don’t even date. They just go out drinking in groups and sleep together at night because it’s freezing cold.”

“Gross.” Elle wrinkled her nose, finding a new reason for distaste with the Ivy League.

“He told me I broke his heart,” Eugenia said with pride, “and I told him it was never mine to break.”

“Saucy,” Elle said. “I thought you missed him.”

“No, but MCI sure will.” Eugenia shrugged. “I guess now he’s neither friend nor family. No more long-distance love for me. I can’t believe I spent so much time on the phone with him in the first place. All he talked about was college and our college friends. He’s boring, Elle.”

“We’ll have to get you out on the scene,” Elle began, but she halted with the quick recollection that she had no social life in Palo Alto. “If you don’t mind the trip to L.A.,” she said.

“That’s the other thing I need to tell you,” Eugenia said. She was smiling. “Come here.” She motioned to the bench of a picnic table and sat down across from Elle, gathering Underdog in her arms.

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