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like that, Kara. That’ll improve your social life,” sputtered Maybelline.
    â€œExcept that she doesn’t have one,” added The Sponge.
    Then they walked off holding each other up. Apparently, my borrowing a book from Jonah Nate is the funniest thing either of them has ever heard.
    It’s okay to be furious with someone for saying something that’s basically true, isn’t it?
    I took my anger out on Jonah Nate. “You’ll have your precious book by the end of lunch. Do NOT ask me about it again!”
    So. I’m poring over this book, wishing I’d just gone ahead and read it last night. But last night I kept finding better things to do. Like creating a bead, button, and fishing line curtain to hang across the door of my room. I really got into making it, probably because whenever I’m concentrating on transforming something boring (like fishing line) into something amazing (like a beaded curtain), my problems (like Tabbi and Evan) seem far, far away.
    I guess every girl needs some way to escape her problems. Julie runs from hers. I mean, she runs every morning no matter what. But I’ve noticed that she also goes running if she’s just had an argument with Mom or something.
    She’s lucky that she’s picked a way to escape that actually does her some good! All of those hours escaping have netted her a MVP award and a bunch of shiny track trophies. Unfortunately for me, you don’t win room-enhancing trophies by escaping into a good book or a craft project. On the other hand, the beaded curtain is technically room-
enhancing. Plus, getting away from the idea of Tabbi and Evan for a few hours was great. But now it’s back to reality. And reality wants his precious book back. Better get to reading.
Ten minutes later . . .
    Okay, I just finished reading all about Lieutenant Dixon and his soul mate, Queenie Bennett. I know Lieutenant Dixon is dead. But if he weren’t, here’s what his information would look like:

    Even though researching a dead person in the stillness of the library is creeping me out a little bit, this stuff has raised some serious questions that need to be included in my research.
    Question 1: What if the person destined to be your one and only true soul mate dies before you have a chance to get married?
    Queenie Bennett and Lieutenant George Dixon were destined for each other! The gold coin she gave him acted like a powerful mini shield when it was in his pocket. It stopped a bullet! Clearly, the coin was protected by Queenie’s love.
    Over a hundred years later — when they pulled the
Hunley
out of Charleston Harbor — that gold coin was still next to Dixon’s body. If that’s not true love, I don’t know what is.
    Question 2: Can a person have more than one soul mate?
    Seven years after Dixon died, his true love married someone else! What if the question “Who is my one and only soul mate?” has a multiple-choice answer . . . and more than one answer is correct?
    Question 3: What if the universe got out of whack and your one and only true soul mate was Lieutenant Dixon or some other person from a century or so ago and you NEVER even had the chance to find him?
    It makes my head hurt to think about it. I mean, there are so many more possibilities for finding your soul mate if life works like it does in
Prada and Prejudice
, which is a book about a girl who stumbles into nineteenth-century England and then falls in love with someone there. It’s hard enough trying to find potential soul mates among my current classmates, never mind the entire world population, past and present. I’m giving Jonah Nate his book back right now!
Sixth period
    Tabbi asked me if I wanted to walk to Burger King with her and Evan after school to get a milk shake. I didn’t.

Saturday, January 13
After dinner
    There’s nothing like a little trip to the mall to lift a girl’s spirits, even if the goal of the trip