Being Nikki by Meg Cabot

Author:Meg Cabot [Cabot, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Romance, fiction, mystery, Science Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult
ISBN: 9780545040563
Publisher: Point
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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HANGING OUT WITH A HOT BRITISH singing sensation way past midnight on a school night probably wasn’t the best way to prepare for finals.

In fact, it was pretty much the best way to guarantee you weren’t going to perform your best the next day.

Another good way to assure you were going to bomb was to come staggering into your loft and then find your big brother waiting up for you.

Except, of course, he’s not really your big brother.

“Where’s Lulu?” I asked. Steven was sitting alone on one of the white couches, watching TV. Almost all the lights were out in the loft, and I nearly tripped over Cosabella as she darted over to greet me when I stepped off the elevator.

“She went to bed,” Steven said, switching off the sound of the show he was watching. I was almost not surprised to see what it was. Shark Week. Yeah. Nothing surprised me anymore. “Which is where you should have been hours ago, isn’t it? Don’t you have school in the morning?”

The idea of Lulu going to bed before me was so laughable I almost choked. I knew she had only done it to impress Steven with how responsible she was. As if.

“Uh, yeah,” I said. I collapsed at one end of the couch on which he was sitting and began tugging at the high-heeled boots I was wearing. They’d been killing my feet all day—except during the brief interlude when I’d been wearing the Louboutins, when my feet ached in a different way. I almost longed for the Stark brand imitation Uggs. “I better head to bed. Sorry I was out all day. Rehearsal ran late. Did you get dinner?”

“Lulu took care of me,” Steven said, with a nod. “She made sure I got the entire tour of downtown Manhattan, including Chinatown, Ellis Island, and the Statue of Liberty.”

“Wow,” I said. Cosabella hopped up onto the couch beside me, and now that my boots were off, I absently stroked her ears. “That’s a lot. No wonder she went to bed. Aren’t you tired, too?”

“I am,” Steven said. “But I wanted to wait up for you. We need to talk.”

I was instantly seized with alarm. I knew I hadn’t exactly been spending the hours since I’d last seen him doing what I’d said I’d do—hiring a private investigator. In fact, I’d been doing very little in the way of looking for his mom…unless you counted giving Christopher Mrs. Howard’s Social Security number.

Then there’d been that piece of information Dr. Higgins had told me. Which was not exactly the kind of thing you wanted to share with a guy. At least not at one in the morning.

“What?” Steven said, before I could say a word. “What are you not telling me?”

I blinked at him, wondering how he knew.

“Um,” I said. “I did hear something—”

How do you tell someone you’ve heard their mom is crazy?

I guess you just blurt it out. Which I did. Because I couldn’t exactly hide it, could I?

“Do you

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