"And then she was, like, all over him!" Max continued on her rant of Berrisford at lunch the next day. "And he was totally lovin' it!"
"What a loser."
"And that Berrisford girl – "
"Trouble."
"And blegh! It was like watching the Blue Lagoon again… only they were totally in front of everybody." Max had seen the Blue Lagoon only once – with Sketchy, and that was when she was nine and Sketchy was seven and the memory mostly consisted of them holding their hands in front of each others eyes during the "icky" scenes.
Had you, two days ago, told Max that she would now be sitting with Brin and Syl at lunchtime – talking about Alec – she would have, very rightfully so, bopped you over your head and told you that your doctor needed to up your medication.
Of course, that was before Alec had kissed Rachel. And it looked like a very nice kiss indeed. Since then, the tables had turned. She found herself sitting with some of her worst enemies and without her usual lunch-mate, Cindy. Now Cindy was sitting at the same table with Alec and Rachel and laughing and talking and eating with them… what a traitor!
"Maybe we can just leave some sort of anonymous message on her dad's cell phone," Jondy suggested. "Tell him where Rachel is, then he'll come and take her back home."
"No go," Max nixed the idea. "He'd have the police raid the house and… I live there." Jondy raised an eyebrow.
"Drop the subject and leave it alone, Jon," Syl told Jondy. Jondy still did not know that Max and Sketchy were fugitives on the run and if the police raided their house and found them there, they'd get prosecuted and probably put in Juvie for a good ten years – and Max really had no intention of telling her until the time was right. Syl turned to another subject. "Brin, did you get the Diane Von Furstenberg dress on sale or what?"
"Nah," Brin corrected her. "Mom got this new celebrity client and she's been buying me new stuff since Christmas since he's paying her bundles."
"Who is it?" Max asked, happy to relieve her mind of anything Alec-related.
"I'm under a contract of secrecy or something," Brin said. "I can't say who he is, what movies he was in or what sort of exercises he's doing." She giggled, "But he invited me to this brunch he's having with the rest of his Days of Our Lives co-workers."
Syl jumped up from her seat. "YOU'RE HAVING BRLUNCH WITH A DAYS OF OUR FUCKING LIVES STAR AND YOU COULDN'T AT LEAST CALL ME ABOUT IT?" she shouted.
"Sit down!" Jondy urged her. Syl did not sit down.
"Contract of secrecy," Brin repeated. "Besides, he's been off of Days for a while now – he just likes to hang out with his old friends."
"But we're best friends!" Syl hissed. "But apparently, that doesn't mean anything to you if you're not going to tell your best friend that your mom's got a hot celebrity client!"
"Syl, stop making a scene!" Max said.
"NO!" Syl screamed. "I'm NOT going to sit down! In fact, I'm not going to sit down at this table ever again!" She picked up her tray and stepped out from in front of her bench. "You neglected to tell me about the brunch and therefore, you breached the sacred laws of best friendship!"
"I was gonna tell you eventually," Brin said, looking very calm about all of this. "Sit back down, Syl. You're attracting attention."
"You can't tell me what to do!" Syl told Brin. "We're no longer best friends! I'm going to go find someone else to be best friends with and you'll never hear of me again! Understand?"
"Fine," Brin shrugged. "There's tons of girls who'd love to be the best friend of a girl like me," she said. Syl glared at her for a moment, then huffed and walked off in the direction of Original Cindy and Alec's table.
"Um… Brin?" Max asked, looking at the Asian girl sitting opposite her. "Do you realize what just happened?"
"Syl tried to get me to invite her to the brunch and made a scene and went to go join Alec's table," Brin summed up. "So do you two wanna go to the D.O.O.L. brunch or what? I was gonna invite Syl, but obviously she has her loser-pants on today." Max and Jondy shared a glance.
"Hell yeah!"