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pulled an actual hottie.’
    The girls clambered over onto my bed and scrutinised the photo. ‘Wow! Calypso, he’s
really
fit,’ Arabella agreed.
    ‘So what’s his name?’ Honey asked nastily.
    ‘Erm, Jay.’
    ‘
Jay?
’ she squealed. A look of undiluted disgust flashed across her flawless It-Girl face. ‘How tragically American is that?’ Then she started saying ‘Jay’ with an exaggerated American accent, which set the other girls off.
    I went bright red.
    Star looked over at me pityingly, then made psychostabbing motions behind the other girls’ backs, which almost made me giggle.
    ‘Did you seduce him on your teen duvet, then, Calypso?’ Arabella asked bitchily, referring to the Club’N cover I was trying to shove my duvet into.
    It was the cover my mom had bought me when I first came to Saint Augustine’s – back when Club’N were cool. I know, tragic. OK, so maybe I had begged her for it at the time, but I was only eleven! The picture of Club’N was fading, but it was still a Club’N cover and way embarrassing. It was also made of synthetic fibres, and a single bed duvet, not a goose-down double like all the other girls had.
    I should have made my mom get me a new cover, but I’d hardly seen her the entire break. I should have made up a cooler name for Jay too, but I was so thrilled about the photo gallery success that I hadn’t given the matter any thought. Stupid, stupid, stupid, Calypso.
    ‘Actually, Jay is just short for James,’ I lied, suddenly inspired (James being a much posher name than Jay).
    The cool girls nodded, clearly satisfied with this explanation.
    Star flopped onto my bed with the others. ‘I snogged that Rupert guy,’ she groaned. ‘My tongue got caught in his braces. It was so embarrassing.’
    ‘
You’re
embarrassing, Star,’ Georgina said with another sneer. ‘I can’t believe I’m going to be sharing a dorm with someone called Star. What’s up with that anyway? Were your parents stoned out of their heads?’
    I was shocked. Not about how nasty she was – I was used to that – it was just that usually it was me she said stuff like that to.
    Star didn’t seem bothered. That’s what I love about her. Even with her name and her weird parents she’s really chilled about herself. Also, like I said, she thinks Georgina and Honey are the freaks.
    Honey did her screechy little fake laugh. She looks like a hyena when she laughs, although it was obvious that she’d had Botox (to give her eyebrows ‘a lift’) in the break. She’d already had collagen injected into her lips at Christmas.
    Honey is a total psycho toff; in fact, she makes Georgina and the other posh girls seem positively friendly. I always got the impression that even they sometimes find Honey too much. But Georgina’s father and Honey’s biological father go to the same hunting meets and the two of them had to stay overnight together at a hotel for posh tots in Chelsea called Pippa Pop-Ins. Then when they were four they were packed off to the madly grand Hill House in Knightsbridge, which was where Prince Freddie, his father, Prince George, and, well, all the grandest children went. Georgina and Honey even learned to ski together at the school’s Swiss annex. So when anyone dared to question Honey’s behaviour, Georgina always stuck up for her.
    Honey’s mother is a way-famous It Girl who presents a programme on celebrity homes for a cable station called‘E.’ She had Honey when she was about seventeen, so she still looked incredibly stunning.
    Georgina might have had a somewhat grander-than-thou way about her, but Honey was a genuine Class-A bitch. She was always giving Georgina a really hard time about her weight and her looks, even though Georgina was really stunning and slim. Also, everyone knew that Georgina’s had huge food issues, mostly on account of her parents’ divorce.
    Just about everyone at Saint Augustine’s has issues with food – and not just because they feed us slops