Love, Peace and Chocolate (Pocket Money Puffin) by Cassidy Cathy

Author:Cassidy, Cathy [Cassidy, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

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hey jess, thanx 4 being so cool about jack. yr the best friend eva! told miss Anderson about your festival idea and she’s going to ask the head. fingers crossed!

love, peace & chocolate,

kady xxxx

that’s great about the festival. and seriously, kady, if anyone deserves jack it’s gotta b u. i’m happy 4 u, really.

love, peace & chocolate,

jess x

Lies drip off my tongue like ice cream. No, I’m not happy for Kady. No, I don’t think she deserves Jack. Not really. If I can’t have him, why should she? I’m jealous, pure and simple, except that there’s nothing pure and nothing simple about it.

Sometimes, I guess, the truth is something you just have to keep to yourself.

I’d like to tell Kady how I feel. I’d like to see her face fall, watch her try to talk her way out of this one. She said she’d ditch Jack in a minute if I wasn’t happy about the two of them, but talk’s easy. Would she do it? I don’t think so. I wouldn’t, I know, if things were the other way round.

Y’see, Jack’s too good to be true. It’s like if you paid 10p for a lucky dip and came up with an iPod when everyone else was stuck with penny sweets and plastic whistles. You wouldn’t exactly hand it back and say it wasn’t fair, would you? It’s the luck of the draw.

It’s not Kady’s fault, not really. She just got lucky, and I didn’t, and I can’t tell her how I feel because then I’ll lose her, as well as Jack. Instead I paste a fake smile on to my face and pretend everything is fine, and the lies just keep on coming.

‘No, of course I don’t mind if you see Jack this Saturday. Why would I?’

We’re in Kady’s room, supposedly revising for a history test, but the only dates Kady has mentioned so far are dates with Jack.

‘Well, we usually hang out together on a Saturday, that’s all,’ Kady says.

‘I know, but that was before,’ I shrug. ‘Things can’t stay the same forever.’

I lean back against the wall, listening to the new compilation CD Jack made for Kady. The Fratellis are singing that a girl like me’s just irresistible, which is kind of ironic.

‘We’ll make it another night, then,’ Kady says. ‘By the way, Miss Anderson wants us to put some plans on paper for the Parkway Peace Festival. It looks like it could really happen!’

‘I know. I never thought they’d actually go for it!’

‘Maybe we should all meet up and brainstorm ideas again?’ Kady suggests. ‘You and me and Jack.’

‘No way,’ I say, a little too quickly. ‘I don’t want to tag along on your dates, thank you!’

‘It wouldn’t be like that,’ Kady says. ‘We’re all friends, aren’t we?’

‘We were,’ I correct her. ‘Not now. It’d be kind of awkward for me.’

‘I don’t see why,’ Kady frowns. ‘Jack wouldn’t mind.’

‘I’d mind.’

‘Well, I suppose you might feel a bit left out. Jack suggested we double-date sometime, if you’d like to,’ Kady tells me.

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