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Next to Mr. Rosenfeld, a tall, dark-haired boy wearing wire-rimmed Armani glasses stood
peering down his formidable nose at Vanessa, as if trying to place her.
?Jordy, you remember Gabriela and Arlo and Ruby and Vanessa?? his mother asked.
The boy's haughty stance didn't change. ?I think the last time I saw you, you were only a baby,
but I'm pretty sure you had more hair.?
Vanessa had just noticed Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf basking in their glory at the
next table, making her even more aware of the fact that she was wearing her school uniform. ?Last
time I saw you, you were wearing tie-dyed diapers.?
Jordy pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his tremendous nose. ?Well, now I'm prelaw, at
Columbia.?
Ruby sat down at the table and poured herself a huge glass of champagne. ?Mom? Dad? Are you
guys okay??
Their parents were standing stiffly together, propping each other up like one of their found-art
statues. Vanessa wondered if they'd expected to be dancing barefoot around a fire to welcome the
coming of spring instead of sitting down at a black-tie affair.
?Please.? Mr. Rosenfeld pulled out the empty chair next to him and gestured for Vanessa's
mother to sit down.
?I just love your skirt,? Mrs. Rosenfeld noted, pointing to Arlo's accidental fashion statement. ?Is
that Galliano by any chance??
Arlo stared at her blankly. A white-jacketed waiter arrived to serve the first course, a duck pate
terrine. Arlo began to poke at it with his dessert spoon, checking it for signs of life. Vanessa's
mother picked up her cloth napkin and blew her nose into it. Ruby snorted and giggled into her
champagne.
?Are you still making art for peace, or have you given all that up?? Gabriela asked Pilar.
Pilar smiled. ?Roy and I are in real estate law. Jordy wants to get into law, too, when he's done
with school. Forget about it?we don't even have time to recycle anymore!?
Vanessa's parents both blanched. Recycling was what found art was all about. Without recycling,
they and their art would cease to exist. ?Well, that's a pity,? Gabriela said, frowning down at her
pat?. ?You don't suppose I could ask them to make us a salad, do you??
Vanessa dug into her pate, delighted with this entertaining turn of events.
?What kind of law do you want to practice?? she asked Jordy.
He waved cigarette smoke away from his weirdly long nostrils. Behind him, Blair Waldorf and
Serena van der Woodsen were smoking like chimneys while Blair's pregnant mother polished off
the food on their plates. ?Probably real estate, just like my parents.?
Vanessa nodded. It was sort of hard to relate someone's desire to emulate his parents when her
own parents were such freaks. But Jordy's lack of imagination was also strangely appealing. And
he wasn't bad-looking either, with nice wavy black hair that looked like he probably spent a lot of
time grooming it, and that nose. Vanessa wouldn't have minded getting Jordy's nose on film. ?I
like your glasses,? she told him.
Just because she had a shaved head didn't mean she didn't know how to flirt.
?Thanks.? He pulled them off and then put them back on again. ?You're a senior, right? Know
where you're going to college next year??
Vanessa glared at Ruby, daring her to blurt out the information about Vanessa's early acceptance
at NYU. But Ruby remained loyally silent, which was a major challenge for a motormouth like
her.
?What does it matter?? Arlo demanded grumpily. ?Any school that can help her discover
something she's passionate about would be fine.?
Gabriela tugged on her long gray braid, her brown eyes passing over Vanessa
absentmindedly. ?That's right, youare going to college next year.? She turned to Pilar. ?Arlo
always hoped Vanessa would go to Oberlin. I don't know where he got that idea. After all, it's
anarts school.?
?I'm sure some school will be dumb enough to take me,? Vanessa said quietly.
?That's the spirit, dear!? Pilar chirped. ?And all this time, you two girls have been living on your
own in Williamsburg,? she added, changing the subject. ?My, you're independent!?
?Ruby's got to keep up with her music,? Gabriela gushed. ?Her band might get signed to a label
soon.?
Vanessa smiled tightly. ?While I just sit around the house all day, eating meat-flavored Pringles
and watching violent TV.?
Next to her Jordy grunted, the only one at the table who'd gotten the joke.
The band began to play, a little louder this time. Duke Ellington, or something of that ilk. chuck
Bass shimmied over to Serena and Blair's table, his hands on his hips for added gayness. ?This
party would be so much less boring if you girls would dance with me.? He leaned over the backs
of their chairs and breathed down their bare necks.
Serena and Blair glanced at each other sideways. Their only surefire escape was to sprint to the
ladies' room for more cigarettes. Grabbing their drinks, they scooted their chairs back and leapt to
their feet.
Rrrriippp!
Whoosh!
Oops!
Blair's borrowed too-tight pink dress ripped obscenely down both sides, revealing the fact that
she was wearing only a pair of sheer black stockings underneath and absolutely no underwear.
Worse still, Serena's strapless dress got caught on the back of her chair and was yanked down to
her waist, revealing her completely bare 34Bs.
?It's all right, we're all girls here,? Chuck tittered.
?Close your eyes, dear,? Titi Coates snapped at her husband, Arthur.
?Oh, my!? Mrs. van der Woodsen exclaimed, reflexively reaching for her drink.
?Whoa,? Nate breathed, suddenly glad he wasn't high.
The girls giggled hysterically, frantically clutching themselves and each other as they tore past
Chuck, dashed to the coatroom to fetch their coats, and beat it out of the Frick as fast as their
three-and-a-half-inch heels would allow.
No one at Vanessa's table had even noticed. The elder Rosenfelds and Abramses were too busy
being offended by each other as the band struck up the Irving Berlin song ?Puttin' on the Ritz.?
Vanessa hated to dance, but she grabbed the sleeve of Jordy's expensive suit jacket, anyway. ?I
love this song. Come and dance with me??
Jordy stood up and pulled back her chair for her, all manners and conformity. Then he led her
onto the dance floor and twirled her around with the confident ease of someone who'd been to
dancing school.
Vanessa surprised herself by feeling a little giddy as she was spun and dipped. He was such a
good dancer, she completely forgot about her stupid school uniform.
Even though most of the other girls in the room would never forget.
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hey people!
That so-called boring, pointless party we all had to go to
Wasn't it so much better than you expected? Just think, there are only a few more hours left until
spring break?and now we all have something to talk about on the airplane!
Not that I won't be talking about the thing I never get tired of talking about ?
Sex
Sure, some of us have had it and some of us haven't, but the truth is, we're all thinking about it
and we're definitely all talking about it. There's the
who-do-you-think-has-already-done-it-in-our-grade-and-with-whom breakdown, which always
involves one girl getting accused of doing it with a teacher in sixth grade. A total lie by the way,
because I happen to have been that girl. Then there's the
who-would-you-do-it-with-if-you-could-do-it-with-anyone quiz, which usually involves a
celebrity like Jake Gyllenhaal. Then there's the penis debate, which usually morphs into a
shrieking, giggling