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My mouth waters. I\u2019m definitely not worried about looking like a heifer at the party, so I say bring it on. \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 Three hours later, we\u2019re all stuffed to the gills. We\u2019ve eaten appetizers (calamari, mozzarella bread, and fried zucchini dipped in tomato sauce), entrees (chicken marsala, filet mignon, roasted red pepper ziti, and chicken and broccoli alfredo), and desserts (tiramisu and Italian mascarpone cheesecake.) \u201cOooh,\u201d Blake says, as we walk to the car.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to have to spend, like, three hours in the gym to work all that off.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re so skinny,\u201d I say. \u201cA little bit of food isn\u2019t going to hurt you.\u201d \u201cSo what did you think?\u201d my mom asks as she unlocks the doors to our van. \u201cLoved it,\u201d Blake says. \u201cExcept for the fact that I\u2019m going to have to be rolled home.\u201d \u201cMe too,\u201d I say. \u201cBut Angeline, what was up with her?\u201d \u201cYeah, she\u2019s definitely a little bit cuckoo,\u201d Blake says. \u201cYou\u2019ve never met Angeline, Avery?\u201d<\/p>\n

my mom asks. She glances at me in the rearview mirror. \u201cNo,\u201d I say. \u201cWhy would I?\u201d \u201cShe lives around the corner from us,\u201d my mom says. \u201cThat\u2019s how I know her. She brought us that delicious zucchini bread a few weeks ago.\u201d I vaguely remember something about zucchini bread being brought to our house, and my mom making some kind of really big fuss about it, but once I heard that vegetables were in bread, I decided I wasn\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n

I rest my head against the window and lapse into a food coma as we pull around the corner. \u201cSee?\u201d my mom says. \u201cThere\u2019s her house.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s her house?\u201d I say at the same time that Blake says, \u201cThat\u2019s her house?\u201d I turn around and we look at each other. \u201cAngeline is Sam\u2019s grandma!\u201d<\/p>\n

we say at the same time. And then we burst into giggles. I vaguely remember my mom mentioning something about Sam\u2019s grandmother being a caterer, but I totally forgot! \u201cSpeaking of Sam, how\u2019s the birthday party planning coming?\u201d \u201cGood,\u201d Blake says quickly. She turns around and looks at me.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight, Avery?\u201d \u201cRight,\u201d I say, figuring out that her tone means she probably doesn\u2019t want to mention that it\u2019s morphed from a birthday party into something called a \u201cLast-Minute Leap.\u201d \u201cWanna take Princess and Gus for a walk?\u201d Blake asks me as we pull into our driveway. \u201cWe can walk off some of the food we just ate.\u201d \u201cSure,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to get a glass of water and grab a sweatshirt, and then I\u2019ll meet you out front with Gus in five?\u201d \u201cSee ya there,\u201d she says. She heads toward the garage to grab Princess\u2019s leash, and I guzzle a glass of water from the kitchen, then run upstairs to my room.<\/p>\n

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Thank you so, so much to: Fiona Simpson, for taking over with such grace and amazingness. Kate Angelella, for loving this book from the moment I told her the idea, and for helping to make it the best it could be. Alyssa Eisner Henkin, for being the best agent a girl could ever ask for\u2014I am so lucky to be working with you! Everyone at Simon & Schuster, for working so hard on my behalf.<\/p>\n

My mom and my sisters, for being my best friends. Jessica Burkhart, for being the other half of Team Barnhart and an amazing friend. Scott Neumyer and Kevin Cregg, for their support. And Aaron, again, always, for more than I can say. OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com one SO I\u2019M KIND OF IN THE MARKET FOR A new best friend.<\/p>\n

Reasons: 1. My old best friend, Sophie Burns, has apparently decided that we are not friends anymore. I\u2019m still not clear on the exact reasons for this, but from what I can tell, it has something to do with us starting seventh grade. At the beginning of the year she found some new, more popular friends (Kaci Mitchell and K.J. Reynolds), who love to do nothing except talk about boys, boys, boys. And when they\u2019re not talking about boys, they\u2019re texting them, following them, or getting their hair highlighted in order to be noticed by them.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I like boys as much as the next person. (Especially Kevin Hudson, who, as far as I\u2019m concerned, is the cutest boy at Heights Middle School, so totally cuter than Sam Humphrey, who everyone thinks is the cutest boy, but who definitely isn\u2019t due to his arrogant personality.) I just don\u2019t think they should be talked about and obsessed over all the time. 2.<\/p>\n

Everyone needs a best friend. Under normal circumstances, getting a best friend this late in the game would be almost impossible. I mean, everyone at my school either already has a best friend from elementary school, or they\u2019ve already found their new middle-school best friend and ditched their old best friend for no reason (read: Sophie Burns). Which is why it\u2019s totally lucky that I\u2019m getting a new sister. And not a baby sister either.<\/p>\n

(Which would actually be a disaster, since who wants a baby crying and screaming and making messes all over the house?) No, I\u2019m getting a real, honest-to-goodness thirteen-year-old stepsister. Her name is Blake (I know! How cool is that name for a girl?), and she\u2019s coming to live with us. Like, today. \u201cDo you think she likes green?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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