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flavors like mint and cinnamon, but you can also get chocolate, vanilla, pepperoni
     pizza, and taco. Boys love it. If you wear this while a boy is kissing you, he’ll go crazy. They can’t get enough of it. It’s
     like they want to eat your lips.”
    “Wow,” Mads said, memorizing the label on the tube. “I’ve got to get some.” Maybe this lip gloss was just what she needed
     to spice things up with Stephen.
    Her instinct about Quintana was turning out to be right: She knew a lot of things. Useful things. Boy things. Already she’d
     given Mads info she could really use. Maybe Rebecca and Autumn didn’t want to be friends with her, but Mads thought they were
     foolish. Quintana knew boys, and Mads wasn’t going to pass up a chance to learn everything she could.

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At the Tone, the time Will Be…
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    To:     hollygolitely
    From: your daily horoscope
    HERE IS TODAY’S HOROSCOPE: CAPRICORN: A mysterious stranger will enter your life today, so make sure you’re wearing
     clean underwear.
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    H olly glanced around the ivy-covered garden at Vineland Café, a favorite coffee hangout for RSAGE students, checking out the
     fifteen guys who huddled near the chips and salsa. The first Speed Dating party was being held that afternoon. Kids from schools
     all over the Carlton Bay area had clamored for a spot, but Holly thought they should limit enrollment or the whole process
     could take hours. So they signed up thefirst fifteen girls and fifteen guys. Holly was number one on the list.
    “This should be good,” Sebastiano Altman-Peck whispered to Holly. Her locker neighbor at school, he was slinky and snake-hipped,
     with abundant loose brown curls any girl would envy, an elegant Roman nose, and full lips. Basically Michelangelo’s David
     without the muscles and with a smart mouth.
    “You didn’t sign up, did you?” Holly asked. “I don’t remember seeing your name.”
    “Me? No. I’d never put myself through a meat-grinder like this. I’m just here to witness the carnage.”
    “Well, go sit down someplace.” Holly shooed him toward a white iron table, away from the Speed Dating party. “You’re making
     me nervous.”
    Sebastiano ignored her. “There’s that new girl.” He was looking at Quintana. “She’s hot.”
    “Mads says that, too,” Holly said. “What’s so hot about her? She’s pretty, but there are lots of girls at school just as pretty
     as she is.”
    “There’s just something about her,” Sebastiano said. “She looks so, I don’t know… at home in her skin. Like a cat. Or a wild
     animal.”
    “’A wild animal,” Holly scoffed. “That’s just a stupid boy fantasy. Wild animals don’t wear padded bras.”
    “In this nature preserve, they do.” He caught Holly’s irritated glance and added, “She can’t hold a candle to you, of course,
     Boobmeister.” Holly winced slightly at Sebastiano’s favorite nickname for her, which Mads had started as a good-natured joke
     about Holly’s bustiness. “I don’t see anyone here good enough for you,” he said, scanning the crowd. “You deserve someone
     out of the ordinary. These guys, I don’t know…”
    “Don’t doom me before the party even starts,” Holly said. “I’ve got to give them a chance.”
    “Be my guest. But I’m not seeing you with
that.”
He nodded at a squat guy wearing an extra-large T-shirt over extra-large shorts barely clinging to his butt.
    “It’s just like you to pick out the worst offender,” Holly said. “That’s one guy out of fifteen.”
    Sebastiano nodded toward another boy, who was stuffing his face with chips.
    “All right, two out of fifteen,” Holly said. “That still leaves thirteen chances to find love. And if it doesn’t work out
     today, we’ll just hold another Speed Dating party. There are plenty more kids who want to try it.”
    Mads clapped her hands. “Okay, ready to start? Girls, sit down where you see your name.” She’d set up a long table with