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splotchy.
Blair had seen this transformation in Serena many times as they
grew up together. Once, when they were both eight, they had
walked the three miles from Serena’s country house into the town
of Ridgefield to buy ice cream cones. Serena stepped out of the ice
cream shop with her triple strawberry cone with chocolate sprinkles
and bent down to pet a dog tied up outside. All three scoops fell
splat into the dirt. Serena’s eyes had grown huge and her face
looked like she had the measles. The tears had just started to roll,
and Blair was about to offer to share her cone with Serena, when
the shop owner came out with a fresh cone for her.
Seeing Serena on the verge of tears once more touched something
deep inside of Blair, like an involuntary impulse.
“Um. But we’re going out on Friday,” she told Serena. “Drinks
around eight at the Tribeca Star, if you want to come.”
Serena took a deep breath and nodded. “Just like old times,” she
said, staving off her tears and attempting a smile.
“Right,” Blair said.
She made a note in her mental PalmPilot to tell Nate not to come
out on Friday now that Serena was coming. Blair’s new plan was to
knock back a few drinks with Serena at the Tribeca Star, leave early,
go home, fill her room with candles, take a bath, and wait for Nate
to come. And then they’d have sex all night long to romantic music.
She’d already burned a sexy CD to play while they did it.
Even the best-bred girls resort to cheesy things like burning CD
mixes when they’re losing their virginity.
The bell rang and the girls went their separate ways to class; Blair
to her AP Academic-Achievers afternoon, and Serena to her plain old
Kraft-American-Slices classes.
Serena couldn’t believe she had just been rejected not once but
twice in the last ten minutes. And as she gathered her books from
her locker, she tried to come up with a new plan of action. She
wasn’t going to give up.
Her picture wasn’t on the side of a bus for nothing.
Vanessa skipped the first five minutes of Calculus to call Daniel on
his cell phone. She knew he had Study Hall fourth period on
Thursdays, and he was probably hanging out outside, reading
poetry and smoking cigarettes. A girl was using Constance’s pay
phone in the hallway by the stairs, so Vanessa slipped outside to
the pay phone on the corner of Ninety-third Street and Madison.
The lower-school boys were playing dodgeball in the Riverside Prep
School courtyard, so when his cell phone rang, Dan was sitting on a
park bench in the traffic island in the middle of Broadway. He’d just