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chapter two I feel it coming, but I can’t stop it. PANIC. They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! Meanwhile, Paris is oddly silent. Even the opera singer has packed it in for the night. I cannot lose it. The walls here are thinner than Band-Aids, so if I break down, my neighbors—my new classmates—will hear everything. I’m going to be sick. I’m going to vomit that weird eggplant tapenade I had for dinner, and everyone will hear, and no one will invite me to watch the mimes escape from their invisible boxes, or whatever it is people do here in their spare time. I race to my pedestal sink to splash water on my face, but it explodes out and sprays my shirt instead. And now I’m crying harder, because I haven’t unpacked my towels, and wet clothing reminds me of those stupid water rides Bridgette and Matt used to drag me on at Six Flags where the water is the wrong color and it smells like paint and it has a billion trillion bacterial microbes in it. Oh God. What if there are bacterial microbes in the water? Is French water even safe to drink? Anna and the French Kiss | 10
Pathetic. I’m pathetic. How many seventeen-year-olds would kill to leave home? My neighbors aren’t experiencing any meltdowns. No crying coming from behind their bedroom walls. I grab a shirt off the bed to blot myself dry, when the solution strikes. My pillow. I collapse face-first into the sound barrier and sob and sob and sob. Someone is knocking on my door. No. Surely that’s not my door. There it is again! “Hello?” a girl calls from the hallway. “Hello? Are you okay?” No, I’m not okay. GO AWAY. But she calls again, and I’m obligated to crawl off my bed and answer the door. A blonde with long, tight curls waits on the other side. She’s tall and big, but not overweight-big. Volleyball player big. A diamond like nose ring sparkles in the hall light. “Are you all right?” Her voice is gentle. “I’m Meredith; I live next door. Were those your parents who just left?” My puffy eyes signal the affirmative. “I cried the first night, too.” She tilts her head, thinks for a moment, and then nods. “Come on. Chocolat chaud.” “A chocolate show?” Why would I want to see a chocolate show? My mother has abandoned me and I’m terrified to leave my room and— “No.” She smiles. “Chaud. Hot. Hot chocolate, I can make some in my room.” Oh. Despite myself, I follow. Meredith stops me with Stephanie Perkins | 11
Page 2 and 3: Anna and the French Kiss Stephanie
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“I went out with my parents last
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chapter seven The party people have
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pink flannel pajama bottoms covered
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Besides, he’s just an attractive
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“That’s a little Irish for a fa
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hold on and we wrestle back and for
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“I didn’t know she was a drumme
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cyanide in his dinner, lethal enoug
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interrupts. “Then you’d be tall
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“Not telling. Keep walking.” I
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We. For some reason, my insides squ
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Notre-Dame. I recognize it from pho
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“Mademoiselle Oliphant. It transl
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other one I’ve heard.” “That
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eautiful panini. “How is it possi
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ut mainly those are the ones for ch
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Must be nice to have that kind of c
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But then, just as I feel those twin
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food, and before that, how to write
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picking the next movie.” Yippee!
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name, and he can’t figure out whe
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“Don’t you have plans with Elli
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Argh. How distressing. Gloom cloaks
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with invisible lines, brush my fing
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Josh shakes his head in disgust. My
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eelection campaign. I haven’t tal
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up five flights of stairs, and The
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falls to the floor. It’s the Cana
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grab the Pariscope from inside my r
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advertise clothing. A scantily clad
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And Dave is cute, but I don’t lik
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especially a language.” “I’m
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exchange scowls. “I’m sorry,”
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“It’s her. She’s so different
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a churchyard. Of course, now the wo
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“I don’t do costumes.” “Jus
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approach Victor Noir. His statue is
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Josh shakes his head. “You are so
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know. “Will you stop that?” I s
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And that was the moment St. Clair
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He pauses. “Never mind.” “Wha
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chapter sixteen I’m mopping up hi
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enough, this is the actual day that
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challenge us to look for the story,
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minimal signs of life. He mumbles s
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it!” I add, seeing the horrified
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chapter seventeen The pâtisserie h
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for school. Meredith and I take tur
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latest adventures in soccer drills
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nights at the theater when he’d m
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and several sketches fall from betw
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were.” “And who is that?” com
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chapter nineteen There it is! That
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St. Clair shrugs and looks around f
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We move on through the hallways. I
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Clair says when the main course arr
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wide and steady, so he’s only a f
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chapter twenty St. Clair is sitting
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something?” “It’s the wind. M
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A ray of light glares into my eyes,
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“Thanks. Lunch?” “Lemme showe
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Oh. My. God. “This woman has canc
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and I was put in this horrid public
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fool of myself.” I hold up my scr
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St. Clair’s entire face is now br
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chapter twenty-two Saturday is anot
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dormitory is almost as quiet as it
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“So can we go now?” St. Clair h
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with all the pretty lights.” St.
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want to. It’s all so weird with t
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all right? What happened?” I pull
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Meredith to A Hard Day’s Night, a
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motorway thing?” “M1 motorway.
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shrug helplessly and hold up the bo
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argain!” We get stumped on the pa
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“Ha! So you are English!” I pok
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your sister thank you. She must hav
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We merge back onto the interstate.
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making the choice for you.” I cho
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them underneath some plastic orange
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with sweat. His pants are tight and
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chapter twenty-six Wait. What? I’
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How could you do this to me?” “
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chapter twenty-seven Anna. Anna, sl
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“Oh.” I fiddle with the stuffed
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what was going on between you two,
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To: Anna Oliphant From: Étienne S
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To: Étienne St. Clair From: Anna
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And then Dad came in and the fighti
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chapter twenty-nine In the history
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Phantom Menace. This is how much I
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I lunge into the kitchen and grab t
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To be here, in my technical house,
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into my closest friend. And he feel
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chapter thirty-one I study him. He
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We sit on the steps together. I hav
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“Your hair looks nice,” he says
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Her fingers in his hair. Anytime I
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Clickclickclickclick. “So you thi
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and I wait outside Josh’s room on
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tease me all the ti—” I cut mys
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says, inspecting another box. “TA
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other. “Aw, St. Clair. That’s s
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At the sound of my voice, he turns
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“Hey.” I shout in his face, and
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“Who cares? Ellie’s freaked out
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chapter thirty-five Wow, Anna. You
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He’s lonely, or at least he’s s
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“So . . . what’s going on?” I
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eastie.” I sort of laugh. He kind
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Another glance at Étienne. He step
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chapter thirty-six I can’t believ
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together, then? Tonight?” He’s
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But I don’t want to go. We’re i
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We shlump upstairs, and I imagine P
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in Hindi, while St. Clair and Mered
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chill in my room for a while.” I
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up in middle of the night. Which me
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myself out.” “Mmm?” “She fo
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I shake my head. “We still hate h
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chapter thirty-eight Now I know why
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tips over, and my hair dips into th
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as melting because every square inc
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Did Étienne just leave me? For Mer
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Straight to voice mail. I look at m
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towel to dry, and then I hide my fa
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He’s angry. “I can’t hear you
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chapter forty The head gave me dete
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the footsteps. “Anna? Anna are yo
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spend the class sneaking peeks at h
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singular moment of niceness helps.
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“That was a harsh punishment. Why
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Personal history. Like because St.
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chapter forty-two Arghhh!” St. Cl
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help but notice how relieved he loo
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closes his eyes. I close mine. The
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them. And Mer. Oh my God, Meredith.
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has other things on his mind, more
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chapter forty-four The rest of the
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SuperTarget—to buy hair bleach, a
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to his son. She looks surprised at
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I reach over and squeeze his hand.
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chapter forty-five I return to Rés
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Luckily for us, Victor Hugo heard a
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Like the chimera gallery, there’s
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chapter forty-six What the hell are
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The question startles me. Not what
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“You had Toph! And Dave!” I’m
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say is that I love you, Anna. Very
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and shaving cream and that somethin
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Étienne sees my alarm. “Anna. Yo
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acknowledgments I would still be tr
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Finally, thank you to Jarrod Perkin
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