Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel by Megan McCafferty

Author:Megan McCafferty
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Young Adult.Girl Stories
ISBN: 0609807919
Publisher: Broadway
Published: 2003-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

the eleventh

This is how Bridget greeted me this morning:

“AAAIIIEEEEEE!!!”

I didn’t even have to look at the magazine to know what had inspired this kamikaze outburst, but I did anyway. Miss Hyacinth Anastasia Wallace was in Harper’s Bazaar, clicked at some fashion designer’s thirtieth birthday party, wearing what appeared to be a red leather Band-Aid.

Wild-child turned writer/actress Cinthia Wallace flaunts her less cerebral assets in Gucci. Filming is about to begin on the celluloid adaptation of her soon-to-be-released novel, Bubblegum Bimbos. Both the book and the movie are inspired by the six months the Princess of the Park Avenue Posse went undercover at a New Jersey high school.

“AAAIIIEEE!” Bridget shrieked again. “I am, like, so sick of seeing that fat, ugly moonface!”

With the release of Bubblegum Bimbos just days away, Hy had been popping up all over newspapers and magazines in full-on promo mode. Bridget’s sanity was tested with each additional photo and caption. She’s pre-ordered a copy of the book, so she’ll be nice and nutty on the fifteenth. Oh, joy. I myself refuse to read it and I’ve warned Bridget not to say one word about it when she does.

I took the magazine out of her hand, rolled it up, and thwacked her over the head.

“Ow! Why did you do that?”

“I’m trying to knock some sense into you!”

“Her people called my people!” she said, repeating the line I’ve heard a bizillion times. “She, like, totally wanted me! Not vice versa!”

“I told you not to audition,” I said. “I warned you.”

But Bridget hadn’t heeded my advice. Nope, she let it all go straight to that bubblegum, bimbocious, blond head of hers.

It all started last June, when Bridget’s agent informed her that she had gotten a call from the agency that represented Cinthia Wallace. After seeing her work in the Hum-V video, Hy had specifically requested that Bridget Milhokovich audition for a very specific role: Gidget Popovich.

“Isn’t that, like, so cool of her?”

“Bridget Milhokovich. Gidget Popovich.” I had paused, hoping it would be easier to get through to her. It wasn’t. “Doesn’t this sound the least bit weird to you?”

“What?”

“She’s asking you to audition for the role of you!”

“She’s not me.”

The scary thing about Bridget’s inability to lie is that it means that she actually believes every idiotic word that comes out of her mouth.

“Describe her, then.”

Bridget instinctively picked her ponytail off her shoulder and started chewing on it, a sure sign of guilt.

“Okay. Like, Gidget is really beautiful on the outside but super-insecure on the inside.”

“And?”

“And, like, her parents are divorced.”

“And?”

“And . . .” She continued gnawing. “Like, she’s got this boyfriend who cheats on her.”

“Oh no, Bridget. Gidget doesn’t sound like you at all.”

She spit out the ponytail. “Okay,” she admitted. “She is kinda, like, inspired by me.”

“Inspired? She is you! Don’t you think that’s messed up?”

“Why should I? Like, Hy is playing the role of debutante-turned-reporter Rose Karenna Williams.”

That’s when I started to lose it. “Hyacinth Anastasia Wallace is portraying Rose Karenna Williams?”

Bridget continued, unfazed. “My agent said it’s, like, the next step of this whole reality-entertainment trend.

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