Camp Confidential 07 - Second Time's The Charm by Melissa J Morgan

Author:Melissa J Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781101040928
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 2006-04-05T22:00:00+00:00

“Okay, so you have your pick,” Natalie said. “Lucky us, I just got a brand-new shipment in from my mom yesterday.” She fanned a handful of magazines out tantalizing them, like a card dealer at a casino. “We’ve got People, In Touch, Us Weekly, and—my personal favorite—Star.” She giggled gleefully. “Note that this may or may not be the very same photo of a certain blond pop princess on each cover.”

“So, in effect, they’re all really the same magazine,” Alyssa noted drily.

“Well, sure, but that’s that beauty of it. Multiple viewpoints!” Natalie exclaimed brightly. “I mean, you can’t ask for more incisive coverage, right?”

Chelsea dropped her towels next to where the girls had set up camp. “Whatever,” she muttered, managing to sound incredibly bored and totally irritated all at once. “It’s so lame that you never bother to go in during free swim.”

“Yup, we’re lame,” Alyssa said agreeably. She and Natalie couldn’t have cared less what Chelsea thought of them. She smoothed a glob of sunscreen onto her pale shoulders and leaned back onto her elbows. “And we like it.”

“Amen,” Natalie said, popping a pair of oversized sunglasses on her face. She poked Alyssa. “Warn me if I start to get that weird glasses tan, okay?”

“Definitely,” Alyssa promised.

Chelsea glared at the girls and wandered down to the shoreline with Karen. The rest of the bunk was in the water, too—all except for Tori. She’d been joining them in their sunbathing more and more lately.

“Tori’s taking forever to change, huh?” Natalie observed, flipped idly through a magazine.

“Yeah, I think she was helping Mia bring something to the kitchen. I don’t know for sure.”

“Speak of the devil,” Nat said, looking up as a shadow fell across her torso. It was cast by Tori’s tall, lanky body as she leaned over the girls.

“Here I am! The party can start!” she said playfully.

“We were just starting to worry,” Alyssa said. “We wouldn’t want you to miss a moment of celebrity gossip.”

Natalie laughed. It was true, Tori knew a ton about Hollywood and could always be counted on to tell good stories. But . . .

Well, maybe she was being crazy—probably, she was being crazy—but there was a part of her that didn’t want to share Alyssa with Tori. She felt like she hadn’t had any one-on-one time with her BFF lately. And then there was that odd moment at the end of newspaper. . . . She and Alyssa really needed some quality time. But she couldn’t just exclude Tori. Tori was her friend, after all. And, anyway, that would be just . . . rude.

“Goody!” Tori squealed, spreading out a huge, fluffy beach towel and stepping out of her flip-flops. She took off her shorts and T-shirt to reveal a very adorable ruffly tankini that did little to quash Natalie’s mild waves of irrational jealousy. Tori was the picture of a cute California surfer girl. How . . . annoying. “Oh.”

“What, ‘oh’?” Natalie asked. “You’ve got your tabloids, you’ve got your sunscreen . .

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