‘I know,’ Whitney murmured to her reflection. Lindsey Jacobs, seated in the row beside hers, stared at Whitney admiringly and whispered, ‘That shade of gloss is so you.’ That’s because she had dug her compact mirror out of her bag and was gazing at her own reflection. We’re going in reverse alphabetical order, remember?’Ĭhagrined, I slid out from behind my desk and made my way to the front of the room while the rest of the class tittered. It’s time for you to give the class your two-minute persuasive oral piece. Only I’m guessing it wasn’t because he’d been frantically finishing his homework for this class, like I was.

I guess he’d been up pretty late last night too. To which she responded by narrowing her heavily made-up baby-blue eyes at me and mouthing back smugly, You wish. I threw her a dirty look and mouthed, Bite me. ‘Here,’ I called, jerking my head from the top of my desk and surreptitiously feeling the side of my mouth, just in case I’d been drooling.īut I guess I didn’t do it surreptitiously enough, since Whitney Robertson, seated with her long, tanned legs crossed beneath a desk a few feet away from mine, snickered, and hissed, ‘Loser.’ Do they really expect us to be alert at eight fifteen in the morning? Come on. ‘Emerson Watts,’ called my first-period Public Speaking teacher, Mr Greer, startling me from the light doze into which I’d drifted. Laura Langlie, Abigail McAden, Rachel Vail and especially Benjamin

Many thanks to Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown, Michele Jaffe, Susan Juby, Now getting her best friend Christopher to notice that she’s actually a girl is the least of Em’s problems.īut what Em’s pretty sure she’ll never be able to accept might just turn out to be the one thing that’s going to make her dream come true…. How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her - and life as she’d known it - forever? One devastating accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the party princess, is no longer herself. But someone needed to look out for her sister Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there - along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening.

Airhead by meg cabot