Purity by Jackson Pearce

Author:Jackson Pearce
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: JUV039190, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780316201988
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2012-04-23T14:00:00+00:00

22 days before

I’m still thinking about cakes the next day—probably because the sugar high doesn’t show signs of wearing off for a few weeks at best. I head to Flying Biscuit to meet Jonas for lunch. Apparently he’s been there all day continuing to work on college admissions essays, because he doesn’t know how to use his summer vacation for anything other than evil. I barge in the door and glance toward my and Jonas’s normal booth.

To my surprise, sitting to Jonas’s right is Anna Clemens. She looks up at me and waves with a big grin on her face. I nod and wait for Jonas’s eyes to rise and meet mine. He shrugs, and I wind through tables and empty chairs to take a seat across from him in the booth. The table is covered in papers with college logos at the top, but very little work seems to have actually been done—the legal pad beside Jonas’s plate is empty. I step toward their table, but Ruby suddenly steps in front of me, cutting me off.

“I got you an early birthday present!”

“My birthday isn’t till November,” I remind her.

“A really, really early birthday present, then. Jeffery, cover my table for a second?” she calls across the restaurant, and he nods. I raise my eyebrows as Ruby ducks behind the hostess station, then pops back up with a Victoria’s Secret bag.

“They’re not the expensive ones—do you have any idea how much nice lace naughty panties cost? I was floored. Especially considering they’re made to end up on the floor.”

I peer into the bag, where a pair of black panties with little pink bows on them rests amid tissue paper.

“For Ben, you know. So you can knock this thing out. See, I’m a supportive friend, even if I don’t keep your list!” she says.

“Much appreciated,” I say, grinning. I look back at Jonas and Anna. “So has she been here all day?” Flying Biscuit is sort of my and Jonas’s and Ruby’s place, I thought, and I’m surprised that Anna’s presence feels so… strange.

“Yep. Why?” she asks.

“No reason.” I shrug and walk over to the booth. I try to hide the pink bag from view, although I can tell from Jonas’s expression that Ruby has already told him—and probably shown him—her pity gift to me. Anna grins as I sit down.

“Hey, Shel!” she says. “How’s your summer going?”

“Pretty good, yours?” I ask.

“I got invited to the drama department’s year-wrap party next Saturday,” Anna says with a shrug, though her eyes are sparkling with delight.

“The wrap party? Who goes to that?” Jonas asks with a note of concern. “Wrap parties” are the drama department’s way of throwing giant alcohol fests. I don’t know why they need an excuse—the cheerleaders certainly don’t—but they always call them wrap parties.

“Everyone, especially since Kell was in the spring play,” Anna says gleefully. Kell was a cheerleader who somehow got into the musical-theater class. She managed to bring a huge crowd to the spring play’s opening night, despite the fact that she had a nonspeaking part and kept waving at people from the stage.

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