The Wild One (rh-2) by Melinda Metz

Author:Melinda Metz [Metz, Melinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sf

*** 7 ***

"Do you care if I cut this up?" Maria picked up a magazine from Liz's dresser.

As soon as they got back from the movies they had dissected the whole Isabel-Nikolas-Alex situation. Then they had dissected the movie. Now Liz was working on her college applications and Maria was working on her nails. Maria loved the way she and Liz could just sit in the same room together, each doing their own thing, sometimes talking, sometimes not. You had to be really good friends with someone before it felt this comfortable to basically ignore them for long stretches of time.

"Sure. Should I ask why?" Liz asked. She stuck some stamps on the application package she was sending to UCLA.

"I saw this girl at the mall who had little words glued on each of her nails. I wanted to try it," Maria answered.

Liz powered up her computer and opened her chart of college applications. She typed dates in the application-mailed column for UCLA and Brown.

"So what words should I use?" Maria asked.

"You could spell out a ransom note," Liz suggested. "Don't kidnappers always use letters torn out of newspapers and stuff so the police can't identify them by their handwriting?"

Maria threw a pillow at her. "Very funny. I was thinking more like some kind of subliminal message."

"Oh, like, 'I'm easy' and your phone number?" Liz teased.

"Ha. Ha. Ha. Let me know what weekend you'll be playing Vegas," Maria said.

Liz grabbed another magazine and flopped down on the bed next to Maria. "Maybe I'll do a subliminal message, too. Something that will get Max to give up this just friends deal."

"I'm surprised he hasn't cracked by now," Maria said. "If you could see the way he looks at you when he knows you're not watching… whoa."

Liz shook her head. "We're doing it again. We're talking about Max. I promised you I was going to give you a break."

"Talk about him as much as you want," Maria said. "I'll be sending you a bill." She snagged a pair of cuticle scissors off Liz's dresser and cut out the word love.

"We need to get you a guy so you'll have someone to complain about, too," Liz said. "I think Kyle Valenti is available."

"Kyle 'the octopus' Valenti?" Maria wrinkled up her nose. "You know, it's not the worst idea. I could go out with him and use my feminine allure to get all kinds of secret info on Sheriff Valenti."

Liz's expression turned all serious. "Promise me you would never do anything like that. Its way, way too dangerous."

"I promise. I promise the best friend promise," Maria said. The best friend promise was something Liz and Maria had made up in the fifth grade. Maria still had the list of horrible things that would happen to anyone who broke the "Superserious Absolutely Unbreakable Best Friend Promise."

"Good." Liz flipped a page in her magazine.

"Anyway, watching you and Max and Alex hasn't exactly made me wish I could fall for someone. It's not like I need more pain in my life.

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