Trading Faces by Julia DeVillers

Author:Julia DeVillers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Sixteen

MONDAY, HOMEROOM

Lip gloss! Oh, no!

Did I forget Payton’s lip gloss? I opened her tote, felt around, and—whew! I found it! Without it I couldn’t be Payton.

As I walked into Homeroom 220, I realized:

Payton’s tote bag was really light and easy to carry around.

I wouldn’t have to think so hard for a change today.

Jazmine James wasn’t in any of Payton’s classes.

Being Payton = one day of:

Carefree! Brainfree!

And Jazminefree!

Hee!

“Hi, Payton!” a girl said to me.

“Hi!” I looked at her and flashed her a big friendly smile. Just the way Payton had coached me.

“Payton, hey!” A boy nodded at me.

“Hey!” I nodded back. Maybe Emma was tongue-tied around boys, but Payton wasn’t. Okay, so maybe I only said one word, but still.

I walked to the back of the room and saw her: Payton’s frenemy, Sydney. I breezily walked past her and nodded confidently. I sat in the desk behind her. Homeroom was fifteen minutes long, just long enough to review my Spanish tenses. I closed my eyes to run through a few.

“Ohmigosh, Payton!”

Ugh. It was Sydney. I opened my eyes to see her turned around, looking at me.

“You are such a liar!” she said.

Huh?

“You said CocoBella wasn’t coming out with their sneaker line till December,” Sydney said. “You didn’t tell me you already snagged a pair!”

I was wearing the ones I’d shown Payton Friday night.

“Um . . .” I held up my foot to show off Ashlynn’s/Payton’s shoe. “I . . . It’s . . .”

“Silence!” the homeroom teacher yelled, saving me from having to come up with an answer.

Sydney turned back around.

I could now continue my Spanish tenses.

“Ow!” A square of paper hit me in the forehead and landed on my desk. What now? I opened it.

I totally love those shoes, the note said.

Um, okay. That was worth a note and a potential bruise to my forehead? I sent her one back.

Thanks.

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