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lost.”
    Well, that explained why everything had been so blurry, Katie thought. Wait! Did that also explain why Tony had acted as though he didn’t even see George the other day? Maybe it did! Tony Raven hadn’t been wearing glasses then, either. He wasn’t mean after all!
    “Why aren’t you wearing your glasses?” Katie asked him.
    “I don’t like how they look in pictures,” Tony admitted. “So I don’t wear them when there are photographers around.”
    “That’s silly,” Katie told him. “Glasses are totally cool. My friend Jeremy wears them and he’s the best athlete in the school. If he didn’t wear his glasses, he’d never be able to see a soccer ball or hit a baseball. If you wore your glasses, you’d be able to see all your fans smiling at you.”
    Tony nodded. “I know,” he admitted. “Kerry tells me that all the time. And she keeps trying to bug me to get contact lenses. But I’m afraid to put them in my eyes.”
    Katie tried not to laugh. Tony Raven wasn’t afraid to fly over a mogul on a high mountain, but he was too chicken to wear contact lenses. How silly was that?
    “I’ll help you get to the inn,” Katie told him.
    “Thanks,” Tony said. “I really need to get some rest. I’m going to have a lot of explaining to do tomorrow.” He paused for a minute and shook his head. “And I don’t have the faintest idea what I’m going to say.”

Chapter 10
    RAVEN TURNS CHICKEN!
    That was the headline in the newspaper the next morning. Katie turned beet red as she looked at the picture of Tony Raven sliding down the hill on his rear end. She was really embarrassed. After all, she knew it wasn’t Tony, but Katie Carew who had turned chicken.
    Rrringg. Katie jumped up from the breakfast table to answer the telephone. “Hello?” she said.

    “Hey, Katie Kazoo,” George said. “Did you see today’s paper?”
    “Yes,” Katie said sadly. “Isn’t it awful?”
    “Awful?” George asked. “Are you nuts? I think it’s great.”
    “But everybody is making fun of Tony Raven,” Katie insisted.
    “It serves him right for being such a snob,” George told her. “I can’t believe I ever liked him.”
    “He wasn’t being a snob that day, George,” Katie insisted. “He couldn’t see you. He can’t see anything without his glasses on. Everything’s all blurry.”
    “How do you know that?” George asked.
    Oops. “I . . . uh . . . I read it somewhere,” Katie said.
    “Well, whatever,” George said. “Anyway, after this, I bet his career is over. It says in the newspaper that Winter Wildness Clothing wants to cancel his contract because of what happened.”
    Now Katie felt really awful. She couldn’t let that happen. She had to do something. But what?
    “I just don’t understand what made Tony Raven act like that,” George continued. “I mean, why would he go down that hill like a kid on a sled?”
    Katie’s eyes popped open wide. That was it!
    “George, I gotta go,” she said. “There’s something I really have to do!”
     
    A few minutes later, Katie was dressed and heading down the block to the Cherrydale Inn. It was only a few blocks from her house, but Katie would have to move really fast. She had to arrive before Tony Raven left town.
    “Tony, wait!” Katie shouted as she raced up to the inn. The snowboarder was getting into a limousine with Kerry Gaffigan and another man.
    “Oh, it’s you,” Tony said as soon as Katie came into view.
    “Hi,” Katie greeted him. “I like your glasses.”
    “Thanks,” Tony said. “I’m going to wear them from now on.”
    “That’s great,” Katie told him.
    Tony turned to Kerry and the other man. “This is Katie, the girl who helped me find my way back here last night,” he introduced her. “Katie, this is Kerry and RJ. RJ is the owner of the Winter Wildness Clothing Company.”
    “We’ve met,” Kerry said. “Katie was at my ice-skating show.”
    Katie couldn’t believe that someone as famous as Kerry