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hour on the phone with Carol explaining what the Earthbound t rilogy was about , what a fallen angel was, and why it was such a huge deal that Garrett had been cast as Lucas, the charming, sometimes mischievous angel who went toe-to-toe with Eli, who was good and pure .
    It was funny, though. I thought the weirdest thing about seeing Garrett in Earthbound would be seeing him with wings , but in actuality it was the fact that I forgot it was Garrett up there on the screen. I was so mesmerized with his portrayal of Lucas that I failed to remember it was the guy I’d known since before he ’d hit puberty. It didn’t hurt that he was playing a character so different from his true personality. Garrett was quite possibly the nicest guy I knew. He was rarely a jerk, but his character sure was.
    It was amazing how accurate his portrayal was, and I asked him after the movie just how many times he’d read the book. He’d just made a joke about wanting to be sure the fans bought that he could be a sexy angel , but whatev er he did worked. His fans fell head-over-heels for him. After Earthbound premiered, Garrett became a teen heartthrob overnight , and he was instantly dubbed as a bad boy, even though that couldn’t have been further from the truth .
    He could no longer go anywhere without being recognized, his picture was in every celebrity magazine , and he became instant fodder for the nightly entertainment shows. Until this summer, it had been a fun weekly event to find out just whe re he would be in the magazines, that is until I’d found myself on the pages next to him.
    “Personally, I see it as a sign that he’s arrived,” I said to Ethan, who ’d grabbed the magazine away from me , so he could stare at the smoking hot brunette on his brother’s arm. “You know you’re somebody when you end up on the worst dressed list.”
    “Those pants are just bad,” Ethan said, tossing the magazine back to me.
    “Claudia Dill on didn’t seem to think so,” I said , pointing to the pop star next to Garrett . “I bet he’s sleeping with her.”
    He probably wasn’t, but saying that was a good way to get Ethan riled up, and since he was already being ornery that day, it was fun to see how far I could push him.
    “Lucky bastard,” Ethan murmured, seemingly jealous. Like he had any problem getting girls who looked like Claudia or who were even better looking .
    “She pro bably gave him Chlamydia,” I said, and Ethan burst out laughing.
    “That’s disgusting,” h e said, but I could tell he agreed with me.
    The girl on Garrett ’s arm is what we like d to call ‘dirty-sexy’. She was sultry, underfed and half-dressed. She probably g ave one hell of a blow job, but she most likely also left you with a nice present when s he went home the next morning. I hoped Garrett didn’t sleep with her.
    “I’m totally going to give him shit when I see him ,” I said , and wondered if that was really true. I had a feeling I’d probably clam up when I next saw Garrett after what had happened between us .
    “Not if I get to him first,” Ethan challenged , a grin spreading across his face.              
    I just smiled back to hide my growing anxiety.

 

     
     
     
     
     
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    “We’re going to a party tonight,” Ethan said a few days later when he called me at home .
    “ A party ?”
    I was in Skylar’s room letting her give me a pedicure when he called, so she looked up at me expectantly when she heard the word ‘party’. I knew she dreamed of the day she’d be old enough to go to a real party and secretly hoped I’d bring her with me that night . Yeah right. That was so not happening. Because I loved my sister, I would not expose her to that kind of debauchery. I would wait until she was at least sixteen.
    “Yes, a party, ” Ethan said definitively, knowing I was likely to back out. “And before you say no, you don’t have an option of not going.”
    I groaned loudly .
    I wasn’t a big