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was just a pair of breasts with legs. Too heavy breasted to be a ballerina and too short to be a bombshell.
    Chloe wondered why it was that Hannah was loved through and through by Blake and still it wasn’t enough. What she would give to just once be loved like that.
    She fell asleep on the floor, her head pressed into the railing. She was woken up at one in the morning by her mother, prodding her, caressing her, helping her into bed.
    Please, Mom, she whispered half-asleep, reaching out to touch her mother’s face, or maybe she only thought she whispered. You wanted to be a dancer once. Let me do this one thing for me, but also for you. Let me live what you never lived, far away in whirling dancing noise and nights of magic flowers until the world blows up.

7
Olivia the Dancing Pig
    C HLOE DIDN’T KNOW HOW B LAKE HAD MANAGED IT, BUT BY the time her mother dropped her off in front of the Academy bus circle the next morning, every single person she met on the way to homeroom knew about their impending Catalonian Bacchanalian sexcapade. That must have been how Blake painted it, judging from the arched eyebrows and the innuendo smiles.
    Her friends Taylor, Courtney, Regan, Matthew, his sister Miranda, and four girls on the cheer squad—who for some reason were hypnotized into believing Chloe did not despise them—cornered her between her locker and the door of the physics lab.
    â€œWhen are you going?”
    â€œDid you already buy your plane tickets?”
    â€œCan I see your passport?”
    â€œCan you bring it to school tomorrow?”
    â€œWhat’s the weather like in Barcelona?”
    â€œDo you think your Spanish is good enough?”
    â€œDoes anyone speak English over there? Because frankly, Chloe, your Spanish isn’t that good.”
    â€œAnd Mason doesn’t speak Spanish at all,” bubbled up Mackenzie O’Shea. There wasn’t a girl in six counties Chloe hated more than Mackenzie, with her twisty body and twisty pigtails and mouth full of Bubblicious gum. One time in Science she popped the huge bubble wad in her mouth, and the gumburst from her cheeks to her chin and she got gum in her hair. In front of everyone. That was an excellent day.
    â€œWhere are you staying?”
    â€œI can’t believe your dad is letting you go. My dad would never, and he’s not even the chief of police.” That was Mackenzie.
    â€œAre you allowed to drink over there?”
    â€œReally, you shouldn’t drink. You’re not used to it. You’ll vomit. Like that other time.” Still Mackenzie.
    â€œDon’t they drive on the wrong side of the road?”
    â€œI thought the capital of Spain was Madrid. Are you sure it’s not Madrid you’re going to? Because I don’t think Madrid is on the beach. Blake tells us you’re going to an Olympic beach. He’s wrong, isn’t he?”
    â€œMy aunt’s second cousin went to Madrid. She said it was dusty.”
    â€œIt wasn’t Madrid, genius. It was Mexico City.”
    â€œSame difference. Very dusty. And crowded.”
    â€œIs there skiing there?”
    â€œDo they take American dollars?”
    â€œHow would you even change dollars into pesos? Or are they on the euro now?”
    â€œWhat’s a euro?”
    â€œBlake and Mason are not going to like it. They get sunburned. Mason especially.” Still fucking Mackenzie.
    â€œYou must be thrilled,” Taylor said as they took their seats in Physics. “To travel through Europe with Mason. It’s a dream.”
    Chloe heard Mackenzie’s high-strung voice from behind her. “Mason is not a city guy. He’s a ballplayer. A skier. He’s not gonna like it.”
    â€œDon’t be a fool, Mackenzie,” said Taylor, sparing Chloe a crackling response. “You think varsity players don’t like traveling?”
    â€œNot Mason. He doesn’t like empanadas or that weird Spanish food they