Life Uploaded by Sierra Furtado

Author:Sierra Furtado
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

CHAPTER 7

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A Tale of Two Parties

At lunch the next day I sit down with the Jessicas, a look of regret and self-loathing plastered across my face. I should be pumped about London, and don’t get me wrong, I am, but the excitement is being almost completely eclipsed by my guilt about Ellie.

“Yikes, Harper, are you okay?” Jessa asks. “You look . . . ­exhausted.”

“Where’ve you been?” Jessie adds, “I feel like we haven’t seen you in forever.”

She’s right, it practically has been forever since I last saw the Jessicas. Last time I saw the Jessicas I hadn’t yet gone on a date with Dalton James. That was a lifetime ago, a “forever” ago, as far as I’m concerned.

“I’ve, um . . . I haven’t slept a lot. A lot has happened this weekend, you guys.”

“Like what? You can tell us.”

“Okay, but you have to promise not to freak out, okay?”

“We promise,” they say in unison.

“I went on a date with Dalton James, and well . . . now he’s my boyfriend.”

“What?!” gasps Jessa.

“The movie star?” Jess gawks.

“Shut up! I don’t believe you,” groans Jessie. “Okay, fine, I believe you, but I’m practically dead of jealousy.”

“Yep. We had an amazing night and things just sort of . . . moved fast, I guess.” My eyes brighten and lighten at the memories of that magical night. “He invited me to go to London with him this weekend. I think I’m going to go.”

“That is unbelievable,” says Jessa.

“Then wait, why do you look so miserable?” asks Jess.

“Yeah, if I were you, I’d be over the moon right now,” adds ­Jessie.

“All of that is the good news. The bad news is that I have a Twitter troll.”

“No offense, but don’t you have a million Twitter trolls?” asks Jessa.

“Well, yeah, but this one is different. It’s someone who knows me, like, in real life. I think this one might be serious.”

“What’s a Twitter troll?” asks Jessie.

“Honestly, Jessie?” Jessa frowns. “It’s someone who bullies you on Twitter.”

“She calls herself @ThatBitchHarper and she’s trying to ruin whatever this thing is I have going on with Dalton.”

“Who would do that?” asks Jessie.

“I don’t know, that’s the thing. It’s someone who knows me and my life, it has to be. I had reason to think it was my friend Ellie. I actually accused her of being behind it all; then I realized she couldn’t have been. Oh my god, I’m such an idiot. If I was her, I’d never talk to me again. I feel terrible. It kept me up all last night.”

“Okay, whoa, hold on,” says Jessie. “You’re being really hard on yourself. Someone is trying to tear you down and you don’t know who it is, so it makes sense that you got a little paranoid, who wouldn’t?”

“You’re in a really weird situation, Harper,” says Jess. “Like, this is not normal sixteen-year-old girl stuff.”

“Tell me about it.”

“You know what you need?” Jessa peps up then. “You need some good old-fashioned high school antics to put things in perspective, take your mind off of all this insanity.

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