I'm so sorry it's late! I was almost done... and BAM! I pressed a button accedentely and DELETED EVERYTHING I HAD WRITTEN FOR THE CHAPTER. And it was a lot! I almost started crying. :(

Side Note- Gustavo's in this chapter! I didn't forget!

***********Megan**********

I'm lying on the bottom bunk. Above me, Becca is snoring softly. I notice a light flicker on in the RV parked next to us, the other half of the mother-daughter-book-club. The top bunk. It's got to be Jess. I flip my cell open and dial her number. After a couple rings, Jess picks up.

"Hey," I say casually.

"Hey yourself. Why are you still up?"

"Oh... couldn't sleep. What about you?"

"Same."

"There's a long silence, then Jess bursts out," Oh, all right. I miss him. Darcy." she hesitates. "But it must be a million times harder on you because Simon is all the way in England."

I choke back tears. "It's all right," I manage. The truth is, I miss Simon a lot. We videochat everyday, and not being able to do that this week is killing me. "Hold on," I whisper to Jess. Someone in the Mother's room had gotten up. If it was Becca's mom, she'd let me stay up. But if it was my mother, I'd be in big trouble. I cross my fingers.

Of course, it's my mother. I try to turn off my phone, but it's too late and the glow illuminates my face anyway. She crosses her arms against her chest and growls, "Megan Rose, you should know better than this! Staying up to midnight on your cell phone? Turn it off IMMEDIATLY!"

"Bye, Jess," I mutter. I press END CALL and glower at Mom before she returns to her bed. I cross the room and set it on the eating booth, and I cuddle under the cream colored covers.

It feels like I've been asleep five minutes before Becca's shaking me to get up. "Come on," she urges. "We're headed to Panera for breakfast with the rest of the Mother-daughter book club."

I pull the pillow over my head. "No way," I mumble. "What time is it, four?"

Becca yanks the pillow back and shakes her head. "It's seven, Megs, and it takes an hour and a half to get to Loon fom here." I drag myself out of bed and carry my suitcase into the bathroom. I go in, red-eyed and half asleep, and emerge a healthy, glowing sixteen year old girl. Makeup should be the eighth wonder of the world.

I braid my shiny black hair on the sofa in the main room, and Becca, next to me, pulls her sleek blonde hair into a bun. Mrs. Chadwick spots us and frowns.

"What's wrong?" I ask hesitently. "Did we forget mascara?"

She chuckles. "No, Megs. Girls, skiing is cold. You need something other than what you're wearing now."

I look down at my flowing blue tank top and my designer skirt. Becca glances at her pink halter top and skinny jeans. "Well, what if we run into guys?" she ask

"Then they'll be impressed on your ability to bundle up. C'mon ladies, get into your long underpants and turtle necks!" I stare at her, horrified.

My mother lets me borrow a pair of her spare long underwear and Becca borrows her mom's spare pair. (They're a little big, but I make them work with a couple safety pins.) I redress in a thick purple turtleneck my mother must have snuck in for me. Becca borrows a pair of Cassidy's many tutlenecks, and we are off to Panera.

We arrive about twenty minutes later, and we take our food into the big RV. It's my first time in there, and it's basicly a larger version of ours. The pull out bed is pushed back into place, and we plop ourselves down where-ever. The moms end up at the booth, and Mrs. Chadwick sitting on a cooler at the end. Emma, Jess, and Becca are sitting on the couch. Cassidy and I sit on the edge of Emma's bed. It's messed up, but comfy.

"I hope some hot guy notices me," Becca remarks, picking at her breakfast sandwich.

"Wait," Emma points her finger at Becca, her mouth full of bacon and eggs. "What about Theo?"

Becca shrugs neutrally. "We were just so far apart, and it was hard to stay in touch. Frankly, I didn't even try. I'm awful, aren't I?"

Jess shakes her head and takes a bite of her scone. "Nah. You just didn't have the spark. Y'now, it's like the heavens are open, the angles are singing, and life just feels like a blessing."

Everyone, even Cassidy, nods. Except for Becca. She just looks sad.

I decide to change the subject. "I wish Gigi was here." I nibble my coffee cake. 'She really wanted to, but she couldn't."

"Oh yeah!" exclaims Emma. "How is she, anyway?"

"Where is she?" asks Cassidy. She's already finished her bagel and is starting another . "I mean, why isn't she here?"

"She's in Paris," I inform her. "On her honeymoon with Sophie's grandfather. I guess they're having a blast." I sigh, remebering those magical days I spent there. "Sophie went too, and she's staying at her father's house."

Suddenly, the clock strikes eight, and we hustle out of the RV.

LATER

I'm lying in our RV. Becca's mom is driving. My mother is reading some Going Green magazine and Becca's watching a movie with me. Suddenly I am aware of the beautiful mountains outside, snowcapped and the sun beaming down at them. I snap a picture with my phone. Becca looks awed. "Will we be skiing down this?"

"Noooooo way," answers her mother. "Most of us have never skiied before and we'll probably stick to the beginner slope."

Half an hour later, we are in the lodge, renting skiies and ski boots. They are hideous, navy blue and grey. I heft my skiies. They're heavy! I huff and puff outside. Plus, my boots wiegh like... a million pounds.

"Where do we go?" I pant.

Mrs. Hawthorne pointed to the left. "The gondola."

Mrs. Chadwick groans. "I thought we'd be starting off simpler."

"Nonsense, Calliope, where's your sense of adventure?" teases Mrs. Delaney.

I was baffled until I realized the gondola wasn't a huge Italian boat. It was a tiny cable car! We all bent down to snap on our skiies. We pushed onto each other to make each other go forward to the gondola. I got pushed on so many times I fell down.

"Guys!" I scream. "A little help?"

But they don't hear me. I watch as the mothers board one gondola and the daughters in the other. I pull myself up and re snap my skies on. I push myself on against the ground to go forward. After about five minutes, I reach the lift and felt stupid when you actually had to take off your skies. I put them on the outside and boarded. Three kids behind me also boarded. A boy and two girls. The boy sat on my side and the girls sat on the side across from us.

"Hey," I stutter. "I'm Megan. Megan Wong."

"Hey," replies one girl. She looks excited and reminds me of Cassidy, the eagerness. "I'm Isabella Lee. This is Sarah Maire." The girl next to her reminds me of Jess. More reserved.

"Hey,"says the boy next to me. "I'm Gustavo. Have you ever been skiing before?"

"No," I admit. "You?"

"Yeah. I ski here all the time. And Isabella and Sarah ski here a lot too."

My phone buzzes. It's a text from Mom. "Where are you?"

"On a diff gondola," I respond. "Got left behind."

"Omygosh, so sorry dear!"

"It's fine."

"We'll wait for you!"

"Thx."

I turn to my new friends. "How old are you?"

"We're sixteen," replies Isabella.

I do a double take. She's even smaller than Jess! She giggles. "Yeah. I get that a lot. And how old are you?"

"Same. I'm here with my friends. And they're sixteen too."

Sarah nods. "Nice. Our families do this big ski trip every year. As if it's far. We live in Bedford."

I gasp. "No way! I was there yesterday!"

We chat for a while about Bedford.

Gustavo turns to me. "You say you've never skiied before," he observes.

I nod.

"How would you like us to give you lessons?"

I grin. "Great! All my friends will be thrilled."

We get off, and I introduce them to the mother-daughter book club. Then we zoom down the slopes like nobody's business.

"Put your ski tips togther to stop!" Gustavo yells. Then Sarah screams," Or make them parallel!"

The last one sounds tricky, so I take Gustavo's advice. But Cassidy and Emma take Sarah's. Cassidy manages to stop, sending up a shower of snow. But Emma topples over. She promptly stands up. "I'm all right," she says proudly.

"Can you teach us to jump?" Cassidy asks eagerly.

A grin spreads across their faces. "Watch and learn," they all say at the same time.

Sarah spins around in midair and manages to stop before going off a small jump. Gustavo swiftly avoids moguls and ends with going off the side of a seven foot jump. Isabella goes off the same jump and gives us peace signs in midair. Then she goes off a smaller jump in the woods. She reappeares smiling. "As you can see, we're not pros," Gustavo admits.

"Are you kidding?" I blurt. "You're amazing!"

Jess cockes her head. "Totally. Hey, I'm gonna try a jump!" She skies to the seven foot one.

"No!"I shriek.

"Jess!" Emma cries.

"Don't do it!" urges Cassidy.

"Please!" yelps Becca.

Jess flashes us a thumbs up. Then she's gone, and I'm can't think because surely Jess is injured. I'm amazed when I see her powder- blue figure soar up into the sky, and then she makes her way back to us.

I stare at her. "How... but... why... WHEN?" I sputter.

"How did you learn to ski?" asks Emma, who's as shocked as I am.

Jess smiles smugly. "I ski sometimes when I visit my Aunt and Uncle up here. That's how I've gotten so good."

I laugh. This book club is full of surprises.

LATER

It's gotten dark. I'm dismayed when Gustavo's parents come to get our new friends and bring them back to the hotel room.

"Bye, Gustavo," I say tearfully as we hug him good-bye. "And bye, Sarah. Bye, Isabella. I'll miss you guys."

"I'll miss you guys too," Sarah admits. Isabella and Gustavo nod. We exchange email adresses. "Maybe you can come to Concord soon," Becca suggests.

Gustavo, Sarah, and Isabella nod thoughtfully.

"Gustavo! C'mon!" yells his dad.

"Well, I guess this is bye," I remark as we part, them going to the hotel room and us going to the RV camp.

'Sup!

Hey, It's Cassie again. Dess4ever got the trivia question right last time! (Gustavo) Congrats! Okay, review replying time!

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Guest-Chapter1- Thank you! I adore Heather Vogel Frederick's style! And Jess and Darcy are so cute I couln't resist a little Jarcy fluff!

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Trivia Question- In Book#1- What does Becca sarcasticly compliment on Emma in Chapter One?

(If Gustavo answers again, please put another name! It would be weird to have 2 people with the same name/ same character stalking the MDBC! LOL!)

Thanks again- Cassie :}