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came to their dates. He called all the shots and Natalie was starting to resent it. Didn’t her opinion matter?
    â€œJennifer is so going to regret coming to my party,” Claudia said.
    It was on the tip of Natalie’s tongue to ask Claudia if she liked being so mean. But she didn’t. She didn’t want Claudia to turn that anger on her. Over the last couple of months, it seemed that Claudia was becoming meaner and meaner. Most of the girls at North Ridge High were afraid of Claudia. They didn’t want to cross her or get on her bad side. On more than one occasion, Claudia had been known to rip a girl to shreds with a catty comment or two. She was also notorious for getting people uninvited to parties and spreading untrue gossip. You never knew what Claudia was going to do.
    A part of Natalie wanted to warn Jennifer not to come to Claudia’s party, but she couldn’t. If she did, Claudia would try to find out why Jennifer didn’t show up. And if she did find out, Claudia would forget all about her feud with Jennifer and Natalie would be next on her hit list.
    She couldn’t take that chance.
    She could only hope that Jennifer had been telling the truth and that she hadn’t lied to Claudia.
    â€œWhat have I done?” Jennifer moaned, ignoring her lunch and wanting to smack her head on the cafeteria table. Maybe that would knock some sense into her. “What have I done?”
    â€œYou lied,” Violet said, beginning to count off on her fingers. “You told Claudia you had a boyfriend. You told her you and your boyfriend were going to be voted Most Romantic. And you told her you’d be going to her party on Saturday night. With your boyfriend!”
    â€œIt was a rhetorical question!” Jennifer exclaimed. “You don’t have to remind me of my mistakes.”
    â€œIf I don’t, who will?” Violet pushed away her own untouched lunch tray. “What are you going to do?”
    Jennifer shrugged as she reached into her backpack for a pad of paper and a pen. “What else can I do? I really don’t have any other options.”
    â€œPhew! I’m so glad you’re going to confess. I’m sure Claudia will make your life a living hell at first but eventually it will be over and she’ll move on to torturing someone else.”
    â€œConfess?” Jennifer stared at Violet like she was crazy. “Who said anything about confessing?”
    â€œHuh?”
    â€œI need to start working on my essay,” Jennifer said as she began writing on the pad. “That’ll be the easy part. Once my essay is done, then we can concentrate on finding a boyfriend.”
    Violet gulped. “You mean you’re still going to go through with it?”
    Jennifer glanced up from the pad. “Of course I am! You didn’t really think I was going to confess to Claudia, did you?”
    Violet squirmed in her seat. “Well . . .”
    Jennifer’s brown eyes widened with shock. “And give her the satisfaction of being right? Never!” She started writing again.
    â€œWe could ask one of my cousins to pretend to be your boyfriend,” Violet suggested. “I’m sure Shermy would do it. He likes you.”
    Jennifer gave Violet a grateful smile as she looked up from her pad again and tossed her long red hair over one shoulder. “Thanks for the offer, but that isn’t going to work.”
    â€œWhy not?”
    â€œNot only do I need a boyfriend, but I need a hot boyfriend.”
    â€œA hot boyfriend,” Violet repeated.
    Jennifer nodded. “He’s got to be a guy who’s going to make Claudia super jealous. I want her to wish that he was going out with her.”
    â€œ Why do you always have to make things super complicated?” Violet moaned. “Why? Why? Why? First we needed to find you a boyfriend. Now we need to find you a hot boyfriend. What next? He owns a Mercedes and his father is a