Confidentially Yours #6 by Jo Whittemore

Author:Jo Whittemore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

8

To Catch an Advice Column Killer

One of the amazing things about middle school is how fast news travels. Even made-up news. By Friday morning it was all over school that the girls selected to model for KV Fashions were also meeting a talent scout who could launch their modeling careers!

I of course told Katie and the models it wasn’t true, but nobody else knew except the advice column team and Mary Patrick.

I printed up the fake flyer and posted it on the board in the student lounge early that morning. Why? Because if Grace wanted to destroy the lucky girls, I was certain she’d do it in the same location their success was being announced. I just had to catch her in the act.

Luckily, I happened to be dating a boy who was a photographer, which meant he knew all kinds of camera tricks, including how to turn a smartphone into a motion-detecting camera using just an app.

“Whenever someone approaches the bulletin board, it’ll record fifteen seconds of footage,” said Gil. “Hopefully, whatever Grace is going to do, she’ll do within that time frame.” He held out his hand, and I gave him my phone.

“I have a feeling she’ll get in and out as quick as possible,” I said. “She wouldn’t want anyone to see her.”

Gil placed my phone on a bookshelf and hid everything but the lens. “Any time someone approaches the bulletin board, you’ll get an email, along with the recorded footage.”

“Have I ever told you how amazing you are?” I asked.

Gil smiled a dimply smile. “Yeah, but I never get tired of hearing it.”

He and I settled on a couch near the bulletin board, where we could see who came in and noticed the bulletin board.

“Are you excited to meet with the Lazenby’s buyer next week?” he asked.

“Excited and nervous,” I said. “I hope she likes the new designs. Especially with all the extra work we’re putting in to make sure they’re Lazenby’s material. We’re even having a sewing sleepover this weekend so we can have samples done in time.”

Gil scratched his head. “I think she’d like your original designs better, but if she does like the new ones, is that really what you want to be known for?”

I shifted to face him. “What do you mean?”

He took one of my hands in his. “You’ve got lots of talent, V, but your first show isn’t, well, showing that. You’re bringing out some fake Vanessa that you think people want to see. Not the real one they came to see in the first place.”

I stiffened and pulled away from him. I knew there was a compliment hidden in there somewhere, but the mention of me being a fake kind of stung.

“Don’t worry about me. I’ve got this under control,” I told him.

He nodded readily. “Of course you do. But maybe when you meet the buyer next week, after you show her the acorn blouse and anchor tank top, you could show her some of the stuff you were

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