Movers & Fakers by Lisi Harrison

Author:Lisi Harrison
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: School, Young Adult Fiction, Girls & Women, School & Education, City & Town Life, Fiction, Social Themes, Young Adult, Boarding School, Boarding School & Prep School, Education, Friendship, Lifestyles
ISBN: 9780316088558
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2010-04-05T23:00:00+00:00

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CENTER FOR THE ARTS

THEATER OF DIONYSUS

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND

11:08 P.M.

Charlie stared helplessly at her right elbow. She could almost feel the heat from Darwin’s arm two inches away from hers. Her eyes followed his sleeve up to where it attached to his body and traced the profile of his face with her eyes, just like she used to do when they were a couple. She could scream out his name right now and he wouldn’t even notice. He was too busy swaying back and forth to the sounds of AJ’s pretentious crooning, staring at the songstress with the kind of adoration and pride that used to be reserved for Charlie.

Sighing, she spotted Taz standing on the other side of the pulsating circle of revelers with AJ at its center. He danced along with the music, clapping a set of ballet slippers together in time with the song. Syd, who was usually so remote and withdrawn and always hated crowds, seemed to have gotten over his agoraphobic tendencies. He clapped in time with AJ’s song, too, nodding at the skin-deep lyrics, cheesy rhymes about oil slicks and dirty tricks. Even Melbourne and Dingo had stopped clowning around and checking out girls to rock out with AJ.

It was official: Every one of the Brazille brothers was caught in AJ’s eco-net.

Charlie felt the heat rise in her cheeks. The dance studio was suddenly more suffocating than a too-tight turtleneck. She used to be the girl the Brazille brothers all adored—she was the sister, the girlfriend. The one they all secretly wanted to date. One Mother’s Day three years ago, Dingo had asked her if she would be his mum instead of Shira. If that wasn’t love and adoration, Charlie didn’t know what was. But her lifetime spent with the Brazille Boys clearly meant nothing to them now. Charlie was just another uniformed Alpha girl, and AJ’s star power had eclipsed even the shiniest of them. Next to her, a normal Alpha was practically a beta.

AJ may have been green, but Charlie was greener. Her envy was off the charts, so thick she was choking on it.

Allie A may have been a liar and a fraud, but at least she had made an effort to be a good friend, to really get to know the Jackie O’s, especially Charlie. She was a fraud, and yet she was so much realer than AJ would ever be. But why did she have to lie? Even though she was in a room packed with people, Charlie felt totally alone.

Bee had always told her that sometimes the only cure for loneliness was being alone. It’s worth a try, Charlie thought. If she spent much longer at this party, she might need professional help to fully recover.

Just as she was preparing to bolt for a long walk and a hot bath, her aPod beeped.

SHIRA: THE CAMERAS ARE STILL OFF—I NEED TO KNOW WHO’S SNEAKING AROUND AFTER LIGHTS-OUT. ANY NAMES FOR ME YET?

Ugh! Couldn’t Shira ever give it a rest?

Charlie: No

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