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missed while I was out back with Nigel. She said two guys almost got in a fight because they were drunk, Ben and Emily seemed to hit it off, which we agreed was too cute, and girls clung to Alex all night.
    “I can’t believe how gorgeous geeky Alex Holman is now. You were crazy to let him go,” Adrienne said.
    “Let him go? What are you talking about? He was never mine. We were just friends.” I lay back down on the couch. Sitting was too much work.
    “Really? Everyone thought it was something more. You guys were practically joined at the hip for years.”
    I pulled the comforter over my head.
    “So what is up with you guys, anyway? How do you go from being best friends to practically enemies? I mean, you were at least best friends, right?”
    I sighed. She wasn’t going to let this go. I emerged from the comforter. “Yes, he was my best friend for a long time—since second grade.”
    I wondered if she would admonish me for ruining the friendship, like my mother, but she just stared at me, her mouth twisted in thought.
    “Is it weird, being best friends with a guy?”
    “Huh? Alex isn’t like other guys. I mean, he’s not your typical boy. Don’t get me wrong, he loves sports and bugs and getting dirty, and there’s nothing feminine about him--”
    “That sounds like a typical boy.”
    “—but he would also act out shows with me, playing whatever role I asked him to and wearing whatever stupid costume I put together.” This wasn’t completely true. I remembered the time I insisted he be the princess so I could try being the knight in shining armor, but most of the time he refused to play unless he got to be the knight.
    “That just makes him sound like a really good friend.” Here we go – now comes the lecture. “Don’t you miss him?” Wrong again.
    I sighed, louder than last time, and turned my head away because my eyes were moist. “Yeah, of course I do, but he’s different now.” I knew she wouldn’t buy that so I elaborated. “We don’t have as much in common now, with him a sports star and me still focused on CDC.”
    “So you can’t be friends? Because you don’t do the same activities?”
    It sounded so stupid when she said it.
    “What makes someone your friend anyway, when you think about it?” I was glad she was musing on this tangent. It gave me time to get my eyes back to normal before turning to face her. “Is it common activities and hobbies, do you think, or common personalities? Or is it opposite personalities like they say in romance – that opposites attract? I think you do have to have the same basic values to be friends with someone, don’t you? I think that’s why we get along. We’re basically both nice, honest people who wouldn’t hurt someone else on purpose, unlike some of the people at school.”
    I shrugged. This was dangerous territory. Lately I avoided analyzing my relationship with Alex, or my own motives for that matter, at all costs. “Adrienne, I’m too brain-dead to talk about this now. But when it comes to Alex, maybe we were good friends just because we were next-door neighbors. Maybe it was a proximity-driven friendship.” The thought depressed me, but it could be true.
    She nodded and dropped the subject. But I needed to know one more thing. I rubbed my head again and tried not to sound too interested. “So, did he end up with anyone? At the party?”
    “I don’t know. Jocelyn was all over him when we left.”
    My head pounded at the thought. Time to go be miserable at home. “I have to get going. Thanks for taking care of me last night. And guess what? I forgot to tell you my big news. Nigel is definnitely going to audition for High School Musical . Isn’t that great?” I turned up a corner of my mouth in an attempt to smile.
    “Lucey finally convinced him?”
    I was slightly offended that she was ready to give Lucey the credit.
    “No, I convinced him, last night. He’s totally into music, and he sings, so I think he’s going to do