Movers & Fakers - 02 by Lisi Harrison

Author:Lisi Harrison [Harrison, Lisi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV014000
ISBN: 9780316088558
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Published: 2010-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

They call themselves the Jackie O’s

They put their friends ahead of the Brazille bros

(Except for one girl, a fake, a faux—)

But the truth won out and the lies exposed

And now the Jackie O’s are friends, not foes,

Because they have talent that naturally shows.

As AJ sang, Skye’s turquoise eyes met Charlie’s toffee-brown ones and silently beamed a message: SOS!

It wasn’t just that AJ was stealing Skye’s thunder—though that didn’t help. It was that the song seemed cheap. AJ had been a Jackie O for exactly one day—she hardly even knew them.

Charlie crossed her eyes and sucked in her cheeks, silently stabbing an imaginary knife repeatedly into her own chest.

Skye giggled. But all around her, Skye’s wild party had turned into a mellow folk-fest. The songstress was sucking up the attention in the room faster than a Dirt Devil. Skye bit her lower lip in fury. Did the girl have a MUTE button?

Nope.

“Shout out a word and I’ll turn it into song lyrics,” she commanded as she strummed her guitar. Her grass-green eyes circled the room, daring anyone to say no.

“Butt crack!” shouted Taz. Was it his way of derailing AJ and putting the focus back on Skye? Or was he just goofing around?

“But crack the surface and take a look,” sang AJ. “You can’t cover up an open book….”

“Wannabe!” Syd yelled, winking at Skye.

Skye shivered pleasantly; his intention was clear. Her party may have gotten the kiss of death from AJ, but if she was lucky, she might be kissing one of the brothers before the night was over.

“People will be who they wanna be,” AJ warbled. “So nurture your spirit organically….”

People started shouting out words left and right. Apparently, cheesy songwriting made a good party trick. Skye glowered at the enthusiastic crowd. She had a few choice words of her own for this eco-maniac.

“One-trick pony!” she shouted.

But of course AJ spun Skye’s words into green gold.

“Thought you were a one-trick pony,” the beastly brunette sang, “but you pranced in and became my one and only!”

Skye looked around helplessly as everyone in the room swayed to the rhythm of AJ’s music. What happened to my big night? Skye’s lungs were starting to tighten. She walked toward the corner of the room and lifted the edge of one of the sheets she’d painstakingly tacked up to crack the window and get a whiff of jasmine-scented air.

Just when Skye was rebounding from all of Mimi’s abuse, just when she’d started to feel like there was something at the Academy that she might be the best at, someone had to show her up. She couldn’t win! Everywhere she turned, some girl was there to outdo her. Triple out-danced her in class, and now AJ was out-partying her at her big event. Skye pulled her heel against her butt and felt the sweet burn of her quad stretching out. At least she still had two boys to choose from, she reminded herself.

She closed the window and began to move in Syd’s direction, until she noticed

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