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suddenly I woke up and looked at the clock: 12:45 a.m. Shit. I said a quick little prayer that the downstairs wasn’t trashed.
    It was. There were bottles and cans everywhere, and I could see a corner by the television where someone had spilled an entire can of beer and hadn’t even tried to clean it up. My head was totally pounding and my entire body felt fuzzy.
    I decided I’d never have another party.
    â€œWhere were you?” my friend Maggie said from the corner of the couch where she was curled up, her head in Josh Waverly’s lap. Josh was fooling around with his phone. There were a few other kids around, most of them sipping what was left of the beer or sleeping or watching MTV on low volume.
    I saw Brandon Fitzsimmons sitting on the floor, his back against a wall, his phone in his lap. He was still wasted, his eyes staring out at nothing. Alice wasn’t anywhere to be seen.
    â€œI fell asleep,” I said, picking up a few bottles to take to the kitchen. “Y’all are gonna have to leave or help me clean up.”
    As I headed for the trash, I heard a yelp from Josh Waverly.
    â€œAre you serious, dude?!”
    I carefully placed the bottles on top of the mountain of bottles already in the trash can and headed back into the living room. Josh was looking at his phone and then looked across the room at Brandon, who had half a grin pasted on his face. He shot his eyebrows up twice, real quick.
    Josh asked something again about Brandon being serious.
    Brandon shot his eyebrows up twice again and grinned all the way this time.
    â€œWhat the hell?” Maggie said, and she reached up from Josh’s lap and grabbed his phone to see what had caught Josh’s attention. Then she called Brandon a pervert.
    â€œWhat are you freaking out about?” I asked, and I glanced over Josh’s shoulder at the text that had just arrived from Brandon.
    tommy and me banged alice franklin upstairs.
    That was all it said. Seven words that would change everything.
    I read the text from Brandon again.
    tommy and me banged alice franklin upstairs.
    â€œWho went first?” Josh asked with a snort, and for a second I thought Josh was grossed out, but then he grinned at Brandon like Brandon had just thrown him a touchdown pass.
    â€œDude! Like you even have to ask?” Brandon answered, holding both his arms out wide like he was preparing to accept all the praise he had coming to him.
    Maggie rolled her eyes and she pulled out her phone to start texting. All of Healy High would know what was up by sunrise.
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    By the time school started a few weeks later, it was all everyone talked about. How Alice Franklin slept with two guys in one night in my guest bedroom. Two guys in one HOUR. The thought of it was enough to make me want to puke. Honestly, what kind of girl does that?
    I just kept picturing her at the party, sitting in Brandon’s lap and looking all perfect, and I kept picturing her standing there next to Brandon as he read from my diary, her skinny, cute body with the amazing boobs and butt. She was probably totally enjoying making fun of me when Brandon found the notebook. I could picture her making him read it out loud. And then she actually pretended to be sorry when I walked in. She even picked it up off the floor and gave it back to me.
    And then she went and did it with two dudes in one night.
    Seriously. Here’s a girl who messes around with a guy when that guy is on again with another girl, and here’s a girl who sleeps with two guys in one night, and here’s a girl who messes around with random dudes at the pool. I mean, it’s like she’s just this insult to girls.
    And even though she acted like nothing was up, how could she NOT have known everyone was talking about her behind her back? I mean, even the incoming freshmen knew what went down.
    Dude, did you hear about that junior girl Alice and the two guys at that party?
    That junior girl Alice