Excerpt from ZOEY 101: GIRLS VS. BOYS
by Jane Mason and Sara Hines Stephens
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Sitting on a lounge chair in her green patterned bikini, Nicole pulled off her shades. There was no point in wearing them here. There was no sun, and even if there was, it would be blocked by the tall electrified fence that protected the horrible-looking and enormous satellite dish in one corner. “I hate our roof,” Nicole fumed. “I hate it so much!”
In the striped lounge chair next to Nicole, Lola had to agree. “It gets, like, no sun,” she complained before biting into her apple. At least that was good. But what was the point of lying out in her embroidered black two-piece in the shade?
“Yeah, I think I’m actually getting whiter.” Zoey held out her arm and stared at it. It definitely looked paler. Lola sat up and wrinkled her nose. “And it smells like squirrel pee,” she noted.
“See? I’m not crazy.” Nicole was glad she was not the only one sensitive to the scent of rodent urine.
“Hey, you know what?” Zoey swung her feet over the edge of the lounge chair onto the nasty stick-in-your-toes rocks that covered the roof. She didn’t even noticed the uncomfortable stones. She was having an idea. An idea that might get them back on the guys’ superior-sunning roof.
“What?” Nicole asked.
Lola looked up.
“Maybe we ought to prove to Chase and Logan that guys can be just guys even when girls are around,” Zoey suggested.
It was a great idea, but…”How are we going to do that?” Lola wondered.
“By being around them when they don’t know we’re around.” Zoey had a twinkle in her eye. They were going to be back in the sun on the guys’ roof before they knew it!
Nicole was confused. Her eyebrows were furrowed. “But if we’re around trying to prove it, we’ll be around them and we’re girls so they’ll be around girls when we’re tying to – “
“Maybe you should let Zoey talk,” Lola suggested before smoke started pouring out of Nicole’s ears.
Zoey smiled. Nicole was making it hard, but really it was simple. “I’m saying, what if one of us pretends to be a guy”?
“Okay,” Nicole said, sounding totally unconvinced. Zoey was missing some pretty obvious stuff. “Several problems with that: hair, face, body.”
Zoey was still smiling. “We can get around those problems,” she said, nodding slowly.
“It would be the ultimate acting challenge,” Lola said, catching Zoey’s twinkle. “And I am the ultimate actress.” She could see right where this was headed and she was up for it!
Only Nicole was still skeptical. “You really think you can convince Chase and Logan that you’re a guy?” she asked, looking at her thespian roomie.
“Easy,” Lola assured her. “Chase is gullible and Logan’s a moron.”
Nicole had to admit Lola had some good points.
“But if we’re gonna do this right,” Zoey said, still plotting, “then we’re gonna need a little inside help.”
From Zoey 101: Girls Vs. Boys. © 2007 Duo Entertainment Vertriebs GmbH. All Rights Reserved.
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