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PRAISE & ACCOLADES FOR THE
INTERNET GIRLS SERIES
New York Times bestselling series
San Francisco Chronicle bestselling series
Publishers Weekly bestselling series
School Library Journal:
Both revealing and innovative, this novel will inspire teens to pass it to their friends… nonnarrative communication can be a great way to tell a story.
Publishers Weekly:
Myracle’s approach is creative… an engaging quick read… readers will cheer.
Booklist:
Myracle cleverly manages to build rich characters and narrative tension without ever taking the story outside of an IM box.
Kirkus Reviews:
A surprisingly poignant tale of friendship, change, and growth. Perfectly contemporary. ROTFL.
Teen magazine:
Changing the way you read.
OTHER BOOKS BY
LAUREN MYRACLE
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l8r, g8r
bff
The Infinite Moment of Us
Shine
Bliss
Rhymes with Witches
Luv Ya Bunches
Violet in Bloom
Oopsy Daisy
Awesome Blossom
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Thirteen Plus One
Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (with John Green and Maureen Johnson)
How to Be Bad (with e. lockhart and sarah Mylnowski)
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for and may be obtained from the Library of Congress.
ISBN: 978-1-4197-1142-8
Text copyright © 2004, 2014 Lauren Myracle
Book design by Maria T. Middleton
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CONTENTS
Tues, Sept 7, 5:39 PM E.D.T.
Tues, Sept 7, 6:01 PM E.D.T.
Wed, Sept 8, 8:14 PM E.D.T.
Wed, Sept 8, 9:21 PM E.D.T.
Thu, Sept 9, 7:46 PM E.D.T.
Thu, Sept 9, 8:25 PM E.D.T.
Thu, Sept 9, 9:05 PM E.D.T.
Fri, Sept 10, 8:51 PM E.D.T.
Fri, Sept 10, 9:19 PM E.D.T.
Sun, Sept 12, 8:52 PM E.D.T.
Mon, Sept 13, 5:15 PM E.D.T.
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A CONVERSATION WITH LAUREN MYRACLE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tues, Sept 7, 5:39 PM E.D.T.
SnowAngel:
hey, mads! first day of 10th grade down the tube—wh-hoo!
mad maddie:
hiyas, angela. wh-hoo to you too. and yr FB post made me laugh. that pic of u, me, and zoe at the beach with our arms around each other? perfect, perfect, perfect—tho of course it made me sad.
SnowAngel:
did u get the daisy i put in your locker?
mad maddie:
i did, and *that* made me happy
mad maddie:
what’s the story?
SnowAngel:
i just know that the end of the summer always throws u into a funk, so i wanted to do something to defunkify u.
mad maddie:
u wanted to DEFUNKIFY me?
SnowAngel:
so that’s why i gave u the daisy, to remind u of the beach, and also our park picnics and hanging out at the pool and going to tuckaway with zoe’s parents. happy, smiley, daisy kinda stuff, u know?
mad maddie:
oh. well, thx.
SnowAngel:
cuz even tho school’s started, nothing has to change. u, me, and zoe—we’re gonna have a great year.
mad maddie:
r we?
mad maddie:
i’m already depressed just from watching everyone compare tans.
SnowAngel:
why did that depress u? ur brown as a berry.
mad maddie:
all day long there was far too much squealing going on, too much “ooo, u look fabulous!” and “it’s SO good to see u!”
SnowAngel:
why is that bad?
mad maddie:
cuz it’s so fake. all that clique stuff, i hate it. i hate feeling like everyone knows the secret handshake but me.
SnowAngel:
at least u and zoe r in the same homeroom. i am insanely jealous. *shakes fist at sky*
mad maddie:
i’ll see you in math, tho. whoopee.
SnowAngel:
and thank god all three of us have the same lunch period. *raises champagne glass* TO THE WINSOME THREESOME! BFF!
mad maddie:
cheers!
SnowAngel:
anyway, it doesn’t matter how many secret handshakes pop up, cuz we’ll always have each other. unlike susie smith—did u hear? all summer she hung out with catherine and leigh at the piedmont driving club, but now that school’s started, leigh and catherine have totally dumped her.
mad maddie:
what a pisser. susie must be heartbroken.
SnowAngel:
come on, it would suck to have your friends drop u like that. supposedly leigh wrote an entire blog post about how susie needs to shave her pubes. isn’t that awful?
mad maddie:
have u read it?
SnowAngel:
and catherine tweeted the condensed version. so uncool.
SnowAngel:
(read the tweet. L’s blog post? too long.)
mad maddie:
too LONG? just like susie’s pubes?
mad maddie:
my brother’s new girlfriend doesn’t shave her pits OR her pubes. he brought her to this family party at lake lanier last weekend, and she wore a bikini.
SnowAngel:
that’s sick
mad maddie:
it was basically like she had a pelt. the pops pulled me aside and said in this really loud whisper, “guess she forgot to mow the lawn, huh?”
SnowAngel:
SICK!!!
mad maddie:
he was drunk, of course
SnowAngel:
i could NEVER not shave my pubes. that is just gross. but even if i did have a pubic hair problem, which i do not, u and zoe would still luv me, right?
mad maddie:
hmm…
SnowAngel:
i just mean we would never turn on each other for something stupid.
mad maddie:
no, just for something un-stupid.
SnowAngel:
i’m serious! ppl always say that high school friendships don’t last, but we’re gonna prove them wrong.
mad maddie:
right on, sister
SnowAngel:
remember the first day of junior high, when we all got put in the same PE class? and we had to do that horrible president’s fitness dealie, and ms. cahill made me do the flexed arm hang even tho i told her i totally couldn’t?
mad maddie:
that wasn’t on the first day. that was like a month into the semester.
SnowAngel:
and my arms gave out before she counted to three. it was so humiliating. and everybody laughed except u and zoe.
mad maddie:
cuz we are true blue
SnowAngel:
that’s right. and we’ll STAY true blue forever and ever. we’ll all three go to the same college and fall in love with awesome guys who are also best friends, and we’ll be bridesmaids in each other’s weddings and live happily ever after. *sigh*
mad maddie:
whatevs. but i’m not wearing pink, even for u.
mad maddie:
g2g, the moms is yelling her head off for me to come to dinner.
SnowAngel:
first u have to say it: maddie, angela, and zoe—together forever!
mad maddie:
er, maddie, angela, and zoe… what was that last part?
SnowAngel:
*glares*
mad maddie:
i’m kidding, i’m kidding. but i don’t HAVE to say it, angela, cuz it’s true no matter what. don’t make me get all mushy.
SnowAngel:
atta girl, mads. see u tomorrow!
Tues, Sept 7, 6:01 PM E.D.T.
zoegirl:
angela, thank u for the daisy!!! that was SO sweet.
SnowAngel:
zoe! u found it—yay!
zoegirl:
i was all overwhelmed with first-day madness, and then i opened my locker, and voila!
SnowAngel:
i gave one to maddie too. they’re to remind us not to get caught up in stupid school stuff. we’ve just got to be ourselves and have as much fun as possible.
zoegirl:
well, it totally made me smile.
SnowAngel:
a fabulous start to a fabulous year. and it *is* gonna be fabulous—i can feel it. i’m gonna meet the boy of my dreams, maddie’s gonna stop being so down on herself all the time, and ur gonna… huh. what r u gonna do? ur already perfect.
zoegirl:
what?!! hardly
SnowAngel:
ok, then what’s your goal for sophomore year? AND DON’T SAY STRAIGHT A’S, CUZ I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL.
zoegirl:
my goal?
zoegirl:
i have no idea
SnowAngel:
well, think of something
zoegirl:
i guess…
zoegirl:
i guess i just want something meaningful to happen. something BIG. my life is so boring compared to yours and maddie’s. for once i want something exciting to happen, and i want to be the one it happens to.
SnowAngel:
yeah, baby. i can groove to that.
SnowAngel:
but u’ll have to MAKE it happen. u can’t just sit back and be good little zoe like u usually r.
zoegirl:
that’s my point. i want to STOP being good little zoe. i want to try out whatever comes along.
SnowAngel:
excellent plan, just as long as it doesn’t involve goin
g to the sit ’n’ snip. promise?
zoegirl:
silly. your haircut looks great.
SnowAngel:
right. i hate my hair! even my mom was like, “well it’s not the most flattering cut u’ve ever had, but it’ll grow out.”
SnowAngel:
i always get these grand ideas of “oh, this style will be perfect,” and then afterward, all i wanna do is go back in time to the good ol’ days of ponytails and braids. but noooooo, it’s too late, and now i’m in clippie hell till it grows out.
zoegirl:
please. you couldn’t look bad if you tried.
SnowAngel:
if i wore a t-shirt that said, “i got my hair cut at sit ’n’ snip,” i’d put them out of business in an hour.
zoegirl:
angela, angela, angela. do you remember last year when you hennaed your hair? only, mary kate thought you said hint a’, like just a hint a’ red, not too much and not too little? and she went to walmart to buy some and was SO bummed when they didn’t have any?
SnowAngel:
yr point…?
zoegirl:
that even though you hated your henna look, everyone else wanted to steal it for their own. mary kate’s going to show up tomorrow in a jillion clippies, just wait and see.
SnowAngel:
ha. ur so full of it.
zoegirl:
anyway, must stop chatting. i’ve got to read three chapters of “The Great Gatsby” by tomorrow.
SnowAngel:
the horror!
zoegirl:
thanks again for the daisy!!!