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know which details she was highlighting about my horrible personality. A random track from The Greatest Hits of Allison Sucks.
    I slammed my door, muttering curses under my breath. Washing up, I dimmed my bathroom light so I wouldn’t have to see my hideous face.

5
    F RIDAY , J ADE SAT DOWN next to me on the bus in the morning. Serena sat glumly across the aisle. “You want to come over before we go to the movies tonight?” Jade asked.
    So she had forgiven me, and our movie plans were on again. I’d been thinking I’d be spending the night trolling the Internet at home, alone.
    “Sure,” I said.
    “What should we wear?” Serena asked, leaning toward us.
    Jade rolled her eyes subtly, just to me, and then said, “Just henley shirts and Hard Tails, I think. Right?”
    “Yeah,” I agreed. “Whatever. I’ll probably wear a hoodie.”
    “So stylin’,” Jade teased me. She pulled a pale pink lip gloss out of her bag and handed it to me. “I got an extra one for you at Sephora. My mom dragged me to the mall with her yesterday, so this was my reward. Try it.”
    I smoothed some across my lips, reluctantly.
    Jade looked at me critically. “Nice,” she said. “You definitely need gloss, Allison, or your lips disappear. And if you don’t look good, I don’t look good.”
    I tried to return her smile without losing my lips.
    “So you don’t like Ty anymore?” Jade whispered.
    I shrugged.
    “If you still do, he’s dead to me.”
    “Thanks,” I whispered back. “But, I mean, he’s free to…Anyway, he’s probably out of my…whatever. So go for it, if you want.”
    “He’s probably way out of my league, too.”
    “I don’t know about that,” I said, sinking lower. “Thanks for asking, though.”
    “Friends first,” Jade said. “Absolutely. But if you aren’t putting a hold on him…”
    “He’s not a library book.”
    “Okay, Miss Snippy.” She smiled at me, her smile that let me know I was being a bit obnoxious, but that she forgave me, all at once.
    “Sorry,” I muttered.
    “Forget it,” Jade said, bumping me with her shoulder. “And may the best girl, you know…not make a fool of herself over him.”
    “Right,” I agreed.
    She swiveled around in her seat toward Serena, whose sulk instantly brightened. “Doesn’t Allison’s hair look cute today, Serena?”
    “Yes! I was just going to say—”
    Jade cut her off, turning back to me. “Not frizzy at all, in the front. Do you want me to do a loose braid in the back, Allison?”
    “Sure,” I said. I turned away and closed my eyes while her gentle fingers tugged at my hair and then tied one of her hair bands around the bottom.
    She and Serena flanked me all day long, and Roxie hardly spoke to me. That night when I got dropped off at Jade’s, Serena was already there. We hung around for a while, and then Jade’s dad drove us over to the mall. We wandered around until the movie started, then sank into our seats twenty minutes early, because Jade likes to get tenth row center seats and settle in without rushing. We slumped down, knees against the seats in front of us, and watched the ads and then the previews and then the movie. Afterwards, Jade’s dad picked us up and drove us all home. I got dropped off first.
    “Hi,” Mom said when I walked in the door. She was sitting at the kitchen counter, bent over her laptop as usual. “Have fun?”
    “A blast,” I said, and clomped up to bed.
    Another large weekend in the fabulous life of a glamour girl.
    But then Saturday morning, Roxie called me. I picked up my phone from a sound sleep and it took me a minute to figure out that it wasn’t Jade I was talking to. What gave it away was when she asked, “Is there anything at all to do in this town?”
    “Nothing at all,” I said, and sat up in my bed.
    “Want to come over and watch movies all night at my house, then? Or we could play Guitar Hero, or stare at the walls until our eyes fall out?”
    “Sounds awesome,” I said. I took