Love the One You're With by Cecily von Ziegesar

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar [VON ZIEGESAR, CECILY]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: JUV014000
ISBN: 9780316071611
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

besties on the beach

“Oh my God! Jack!”

Baby woke up to squeals emanating from the sitting room. What the hell? She’d been having this weird dream where she’d been in charge of planning Riley and Layla’s wedding, except somehow, she’d ended up marrying both of them. It seemed very weird and Freudian and she was sort of glad to be woken up.

“What are you doing here?!”

Baby hadn’t heard Avery so excited since she’d won the Miss Lobster Queen title back in ninth grade. What the hell was Jack Laurent doing here? Didn’t she have enough lives to ruin in New York? Baby closed her eyes again, hoping it was just some sort of weird dream-within-a-dream.

“Well, I missed you.” Jack’s voice carried through to the other room.

“I can’t believe your dad let you come! This is so perfect!” Avery cried, completely ignoring the fact that Baby and Layla were sleeping in the next room. Or rather, Baby was pretending to sleep. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and padded over to her suitcase, which was bursting with flowy, cottony dresses, cutoff skirts, and bathing suits. She’d never been a good packer, preferring to just throw the contents of a drawer into her suitcase and see what happened. Besides, she could always borrow from Avery. She rifled through her suitcase until she found a string bikini and a skirt she’d made out of a pair of Avery’s discarded Sevens. She pulled on an aquamarine thrift store T-shirt that had a Blue Bunny ice cream logo on the front. She’d cut the back into strips to give it a little bit of punk sex appeal. Avery hated the shirt, which was why she wore it.

She walked across the cool stone floors and opened the door to the sitting room, where Avery was pawing through Jack’s Louis Vuitton duffel trunk. The two girls were totally oblivious to her presence.

“Is this new?” Avery demanded, holding up a strappy lemon-colored dress in front of her frame. Jack was wearing a similar dress in apricot. “I like it.”

“Of course you do. Did you notice you’re wearing the same one?” Baby said, interrupting their fashion show. Was their friendship really just about complimenting each other’s clothes all the time?

“Oh, your sister’s here.” Jack glanced up from her perch on the brown-and-white-striped love seat. “Nice shirt,” she said, not even bothering to hide her sarcasm. Ever since J.P. and Baby had briefly dated, Jack had made it no secret that she hated Baby. Now that she and Avery were friends, Jack wasn’t overtly mean, but the two of them tried to stay out of each other’s way.

“Why are you here?” Baby asked directly.

“I needed a change from New York.” Jack shrugged but didn’t offer any more details. That was the truth, after all. Jack had left J.P.’s quickly after their non-attempt at sex and had gone back to the town house, where her family had already come back from their dinner at Rebecca’s parents’. As soon as she stepped in the door, she knew she had to get out.

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