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"Well, I thought Ian's father was cool," Ethan said. "I mean, for an old guy."
He took a sip of his Coke.
"Did you see when that fat lady kissed him!" his kid brother Wills asked.
"Megadeath!" He held his throat and pretended to strangle himself.
"Eeee-yew!" the Jacobs twins cried out in unison. "That was like the grossest
thing I've ever seen," said Becky.
"Totally," Allie said.
Well, that's unusual, Carrie thought to herself with a smile. They're actually
agreeing on something.
"Hey Ian," Becky said, fluttering her heavily mascaraed eyelashes at him, "do
you think your father can get the band-our band-on Donahue?" Carrie chuckled.
The Jacobs twins had recently joined Ian's group, turning Lord Whitehead and the
Zit Men into Lord Whitehead and the Zit People. And she knew that Ian, who
looked young for his age, had a crush on Becky Jacobs, who along with her sister
was quite well-developed and dangerously precocious for fourteen.
"Don't know," Ian said noncomittally. "Maybe." "Well," Allie said, "it sure
would be good for our careers." "Uh-huh," Becky added. "I mean, any publicity is
good publicity." Carrie saw Sam roll her eyes. She and Emma started to laugh.
"I'll, uh, see what I can do," Ian said as emphatically as he could. "Let's go
get something from the buffet." All the kids stood up and took their plates over
to the buffet on the far wall.
"Ah, sweet silence," Sam said. The girls all laughed.
"What's your schedule for the rest of the day?" Emma asked Carrie.
"The usual," Carrie replied, taking a bite of a piece of bread. "Graham and
Claudia come home tonight. Thank God. I haven't seen Billy in days. How about
you?" "Not bad," Emma said. "I have a date with Kurt tonight. He's not working
for a change." "Get down Emma!" Sam cried. Carrie smiled. For the last two
summers, Emma had been involved in a major league romance with Kurt Ackerman, a
very buff guy who lived year-round on the island. To help put himself through
college, during the summers he worked days as the head swimming instructor at
the country club and evenings as a taxi driver.
"Did you talk to Kurt about, well, you-know-what?" Carrie asked quietly. Okay, I
won't say it out loud, she thought to herself I'm sure Emma knows I'm talking
about our trip out to California, where she had a hot and heavy romance with-
Just then a loud argument broke out by the buffet table, where an embarrassed
Ethan was blaming his brother for spilling a ladle full of gravy on him in front
of the ultra-cool Jacobs twins.
"My kiddies call," Emma said, throwing her napkin down and heading for the
buffet.
"You didn't answer her question!" Sam called after Emma.
"Call me later, after my date," Emma called back to her friends. "I'll tell you
then." "You got it," Sam yelled. "This could be the best gossip of the summer!"
She turned to Carrie. "You think she told Kurt?" "Honest Emma?" Carrie said. "I
say she told him." "You think?" Sam asked. "Not me. If she had told him, she'd
be one sad little heiress." "Oh, come on," Carrie said, sipping her diet Coke.
"Kurt loves her. He'd forgive her." "Carrie babe," Sam replied. "You sure do not
know guys very well." Sam looked over at Emma who had managed to calm the feud
between Ethan and Wills. "If Kurt Ackerman knew the truth about what Emma did,
he'd drop her like a hot potato." TWO.
It was almost five-thirty that afternoon when Carrie finally unloaded Ian and