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MY DAD’S THRILLED WHEN I ask him to sign the permission slip. “Oh, Lara Jean, this is great. Did Peter convince you? You’ve been scared of skiing ever since you were ten and you did the splits and you couldn’t get back up!” #2 в контекст | | |
“Yeah, I remember.” My boots froze onto the skis, and I lay there in the splits for what felt like days. #3 в контекст | | |
Signing the paper, my dad says, “Hey, maybe we can all of us go to Wintergreen over Christmas. Peter too.” #4 в контекст | | |
So that’s where I get it from. My dad. He lives in a fantasy world. Handing me the slip, he says cheerfully, “You can wear Margot’s ski pants. Her gloves, too.” #5 в контекст | | |
I don’t tell him that I won’t need them, because I’ll be cozy in the lodge reading and sipping hot cocoa by the fire. I should bring my knitting stuff with me too. #6 в контекст | | |
When I talk to Margot on the phone that night, I tell her I’m going on the ski trip, and she’s surprised. “But you hate skiing.” #7 в контекст | | |
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I’m thinking she means on the slopes, but when Chris comes over the next night to borrow a dress, I learn otherwise. “You know everybody hooks up on the ski trip, right? It’s like a school-sanctioned booty call.” #11 в контекст | | |
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“I thought you lost it in the woods near your house.” #14 в контекст | | |
“Oh yeah. Whatever, the point is, I had sex on the ski trip.” #15 в контекст | | |
“There are chaperones,” I say worriedly. “How can people just have sex with chaperones around?” #16 в контекст | | |
“Chaperones go to sleep early because they’re old,” Chris says. “People just sneak out. Plus there’s a hot tub. Did you know that there’s a hot tub?” #17 в контекст | | |
“No . . . Peter never mentioned that.” Well, that’s that, I just won’t pack a bathing suit. It’s not like they can make you go in a hot tub if you don’t want to. #18 в контекст | | |
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My eyes bug out. Skinny-dipping! “People were nude?” #20 в контекст | | |
“Well, the girls took their tops off. Just be prepared.” Chris chews on her fingernail. “Last year I heard Mr. Dunham got in the hot tub with students and it was weird.” #21 в контекст | | |
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It’s not that I’m worried Peter will try something with me. I know he won’t, because he doesn’t see me that way. But are people going to expect it? Am I going to have to sneak into his room in the middle of the night so people think we’re doing something? I don’t want to get in trouble on a school trip, but Peter has a way of convincing me to do stuff I don’t want to do. #24 в контекст | | |
I grab Chris’s hands. “Will you please come? Please, please!” #25 в контекст | | |
She shakes her head. “You know better than that. I don’t do school trips.” #26 в контекст | | |
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“But I need you!” Desperately I squeeze her hands and say, “Remember how I covered for you last year when you went to Coachella? I spent the whole weekend sneaking in and out of your house so your mom would think you were at home! Don’t forget the things I’ve done for you, Chris! I need you now!” #29 в контекст | | |
Unmoved, Chris plucks her hands away from mine and goes to the mirror and starts examining her skin. “Kavinsky’s not going to pressure you to have sex if you don’t want to. If you minus the fact that he dated the devil, he’s not a total dummy. He’s kind of decent, actually.” #30 в контекст | | |
“What do you mean by decent? Decent like he doesn’t care that much about sex?” #31 в контекст | | |
“Oh, God, no. He and Gen were in constant heat for each other. She’s been on the pill longer than I have. Too bad everyone in my family thinks she’s this angel.” Chris pokes at a zit on her chin. “What a fake. I should send an anonymous letter to our grandma . . . Not that I really would. I’m no rat, unlike her. Remember that time she told our grandma I was going to school drunk?” She doesn’t wait for me to answer. When Chris gets going on a Genevieve rant, she is single-minded. “My grandma wanted to use the money she saved for my college for rehab! They had a family meeting about me! I’m so glad you stole Kavinsky from her.” #32 в контекст | | |
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Chris snorts. “Sure, keep telling that to yourself. Gen’s going on the ski trip, you know. She’s class president, so she’s basically organizing it. So just beware. Don’t ever ski alone.” #34 в контекст | | |
I let out a gasp. “Chris, I’m begging you. Please come.” In a burst of inspiration I say, “If you come, it’ll make Genevieve really mad! She’s organizing this whole thing; it’s her trip. She won’t want you there!” #35 в контекст | | |
Chris purses her lips into a smile. “You know how to play me.” She juts her chin at me. “Do you think this zit is ready to pop?” #36 в контекст | | |
