Revenge of the wannabes by Lisi Harrison

Author:Lisi Harrison [Lisi Harrison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jeunesse
ISBN: 9781424238026
Published: 2008-08-15T07:00:00+00:00

THE BLOCK ESTATE GLU HEADQUARTERS

8:16 PM

November 21st

“Bean, stay away from the Godivas. They’re for the guests.” Massie pulled the gold foil out of her dog’s mouth and put the chocolate back in the center of Kristen’s goose down pillow. She smoothed the sleeping bags with her hands and pulled the bottoms to make sure there were no creases in the nylon.

“It’s easier setting up for three, isn’t it, Bean?” Massie said.

Bean barked twice.

At first Massie set up a fourth place out of habit but immediately stuffed the bedding back in the closet when she remembered that Alicia wouldn’t be joining them.

Massie checked her cell phone. Kristen and Dylan were sixteen minutes late. She added a few more BBQ soy nuts into the white china bowl on the juice bar and restacked the chocolate-covered Rice Krispie squares so they made a perfect pyramid. The Sub-Zero fridge was stocked with Perrier, Red Bull, and Inez’s virgin piña coladas, and the chilled pasta salad was the perfect temperature. Red licorice and big swirled lollipops jetted out of crystal Tiffany vases on the window ledges, and the thirty vanilla candles that had been placed around the room were already giving off a warm, sweet smell. Even the six-CD player was loaded with the perfect mix of pop and rap. Everything was in its proper place. Her guests were the only things missing.

Massie quickly looked up when she heard the sliding glass door open.

“It’s about time,” she said.

“What, sweetie?” Kendra said. Bean ran over to her side and started nipping at the bottoms of her black satin pajamas.

“Mom, what are you doing here?”

“I brought a few extra cashmeres just in case you get cold.” She pulled three cream-colored blankets out of an orange Hermès shopping bag.

“Thanks,” Massie said, looking at her naked wrist. She had taken off her red leather Coach watch while she was helping Inez ice the Rice Krispie squares and forgotten to put it back on. “What time is it?”

“I stopped wearing a watch three days ago,” Kendra said, shaking out the blankets. “We just finished The Power of Now in my self-help book club and it’s all about living in the present. So technically, the time is now.” She smiled and looked at Massie with raised eyebrows.

Massie rolled her eyes and grabbed her cell phone out of the pocket on her green Juicy hoodie. She flipped it open and saw that it was 8:19 PM … almost twenty minutes late! She snapped it shut and heard another purple rhinestone land on the new light beige floors.

Kendra hung the blankets over the thigh adductor machine. “It’s going to be great having a home gym, isn’t it?” She walked toward Massie, her kitten heel slippers clacking against the floors with every step she took. She put her thin, bony arm around Massie’s shoulders and pulled her close. “Isn’t it?”

“I guess,” Massie said, looking around the barn that used to belong to her horse, Brownie.

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

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