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             Wanted him to like her. Don’t be such a cliché. Look at Angus
             instead, coming this way. Angus smiled and sat next to her.
                As they ran through a list of questions about who she was
             and where she’d gone to school before, Greta found her head
             turning toward Dylan. She caught his eye for a second. Was
             he looking at her too? Wasn’t he? Angus noticed her eyeing
             Dylan and trailed off mid-question. Then Angela came up
             behind Dylan, bent over and draped her arms around his

             neck. Her copper-red hair fell over his shoulders. She had a
             heart-shaped face and perfect skin. Greta snapped her head
             away, her face warm. The drink, which kind of burned, didn’t
             help. She tipped the bottom up and finished the last of it.
             “Sorry, what were you saying?” she said to Angus.
                Sam saved her by calling up all the Spice Girls, minus
             Chloe, to lip-synch “Wannabe.” Greta butchered everything                  ADVANCE READING COPY

             except the chorus, which made Dylan laugh. Was he watching
             her? When they finished, she stayed standing with Sam
             and Rachel.
                “Angus seems to like you.” Rachel gave her a conspira-
             torial smile over the rim of her plastic cup.
                “He’s, uh…nice. So are Angela and Dylan, like, together?”
                Sam and Rachel snorted at the same time.
                “What? Just curious. They’re a nice, sort of…couple.”
             She was becoming more stupid with every passing minute.

                “Sweetie, with the exception of me, everyone wants to be
             with Dylan,” Rachel said.
                Greta looked away to hide her red cheeks and tried not
             to watch Angela rest her head on Dylan’s chest. At the end of



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