Schooled by Anisha Lakhani

Author:Anisha Lakhani
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781401395667
Publisher: Hachette Books

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The crisp November air was a welcome change, and I was enjoying the looks of envy I was getting as I marched up Park Avenue to school. The Sass & Bide jeans did cling pretty low on my waist, and the saleswoman at Bendel’s had assured me that they were sold out all over the city. Walking past the horde of Nightingale, Chapin, Brearley, and Spence girls (all distinguishable by the patterns on the über short skirts of their uniforms), I had a wild impulse to carry a sign that read: NEED A TUTOR? CALL ME AT (212) 555-8290. How else would I get these kids? I was tutoring Katie and Jake that afternoon, but that was only two hours. I could take at least two more clients easily. As I approached Langdon, I passed a group of Spence girls who went quiet as they eyed me up and down. If they were focused on the label on my ass, I was even more focused on their quilted Chanel schoolbags. Chanel as a schoolbag. How impossibly chic. I swung my Kate Spade tote (a gift from my mother for getting the Langdon job) to my right side so the girls wouldn’t see it. I felt dimly guilty that I was competing with fifteen-year-olds; still, it took all of my willpower to teach my class when all I wanted to do was run to Chanel and charge the bag on my credit card.

Lynn Briggman and Maxine Landau beamed at me as I approached. Both were wearing tight yoga pants and carrying identical Louis Vuitton yoga mat holders as totes.

“Anna!” Lynn smiled, her Fendi sunglasses sparkling against her honey highlights. She was holding up an envelope that was half the size of the imposing French doors. “I wanted to give you the invite in person!” Maxine’s eyes narrowed and she looked positively evil for a split second, then her face smoothed into a serene smile.

“You must come to Jessica’s as well. It’s in December,” she urged, her white-blonde ponytail bouncing like a fifth-grader’s. Jessica Landau: Mother is a lesbian. Ran away with Core Fusion teacher when Jessica was in the fourth grade. Was Maxine going to meet her lover at core fusion class after she dropped Jessica off at school? I shook my head and forced myself to focus.

“You’re both too kind.” I grinned broadly, thrilled to see that Dr. Blumenfeld was watching me intently from the lobby. Maxine had simply welcomed me and begged me to “keep social tabs” on Jessica because “Charlotte and Blair can be so cruel and exclusive.”

Standing in front of Langdon Hall and chatting with Lynn and Maxine, I felt a sense of belonging to this school, to these people, to this world. That letter of complaint had been a mere bump in the road. Now these women really liked me (I had lost count of all the coffee and lunch invitations I had been offered) and my next three weekends were filled not only with bar

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