Novels by Cecily von Ziegesar: Gossip Girl You Know You ... - Weebly
Novels by Cecily von Ziegesar: Gossip Girl You Know You ... - Weebly
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Vanessa said. “Aren’t you going?”<br />
“Nah,” Serena answered. “I wasn’t invited.”<br />
Vanessa nodded, processing this information. Serena van der<br />
Woodsen wasn’t invited? Maybe she wasn’t so bad after all.<br />
“Well, do you want to come out with us tonight?” Vanessa offered<br />
before she could stop herself. “Me and my big sister are going to a<br />
bar here in Williamsburg. Her band is playing.”<br />
“I’d love to,” Serena said.<br />
Vanessa gave her the address of The Five and Dime—the bar her<br />
sister was playing in—and hung up the phone.<br />
Life was so strange. One day you could be picking your nose and<br />
eating donuts, and the next day you could be hanging out with<br />
Serena van der Woodsen. She picked up the red shirt, pulled it on<br />
over her head, and looked in the mirror. She looked like a tulip. A<br />
tulip with a stubbly black head.<br />
“Dan will like it,” her sister Ru<strong>by</strong> told her, standing in the doorway.<br />
She handed Vanessa a tube of dark red lipstick. Vamp.<br />
“Well, Dan’s not coming out tonight,” Vanessa said, smirking at her<br />
sister. She dabbed on the lipstick and rubbed her lips together. “He<br />
has to take his little sister to some fancy ball.”<br />
She checked herself out in the mirror once more. The lipstick made<br />
her big brown eyes look even bigger, and the shirt was kind of cool,<br />
in a loud, look-at-me way.<br />
Vanessa stuck out her chest and smiled invitingly at her reflection.<br />
Maybe I’ll get lucky, she thought. Or maybe not.<br />
“I have a friend coming to meet us,” Vanessa informed her sister.<br />
“Boy or girl?” Ru<strong>by</strong> asked, turning around to check out her butt in<br />
the mirror.<br />
“<strong>Girl</strong>.”<br />
“Name?” said Ru<strong>by</strong>.<br />
“Serena van der Woodsen,” Vanessa mumbled.<br />
“The girl whose picture is all over town?” Ru<strong>by</strong> said, clearly<br />
delighted.<br />
“Yeah, that’s her,” Vanessa said.<br />
“Well, I bet she’s pretty cool,” Ru<strong>by</strong> said, rubbing hair gel into her<br />
thick black bangs.<br />
“Maybe,” Vanessa replied. “I guess we’ll find out.”<br />
“What fantastic flowers,” said Becky Dormand, a junior at<br />
Constance. She kissed Blair on both cheeks. “And what a hot dress!”<br />
“Thanks, Beck,” Blair said, looking down at the green satin sheath<br />
she was wearing. She had gotten her period that morning, but she<br />
had to wear extremely flimsy underwear with her dress. It made her<br />
nervous.