Pride & Princesses

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     ‘Planning time, don’t interrupt.’ I waved my paper in her face.
      Mouche ignored my request.
     ‘Jet Campbell left me this cute little post-it note on my locker and... he spoke to me again and...I think he might be the one .’
     ‘Are you joking? You can’t just settle for one. You’re starting to sound really unimaginative...like a Princess.’
     ‘I guess...I’m getting some lunch.’      
      Tapping my pen on the table, lost in thought, I’m inadvertently drawing attention to myself. As I look away, I notice the very emo/gothic looking Jack Adams who actually smiles back at me. I happen to know he is working on another teenage horror film script because he sent me a group email over summer, asking me to write comments about the stupid plot he’d written. I didn’t want to lie to him so I still haven’t replied. I look away even though he definitely has potential. I don’t want to encourage him just yet.    
   A few minutes later Mouche is on her way back to our table with today’s least offensive lunch fare – macaroni cheese and a peanut butter sandwich, fries and two sodas.
  ‘Okay, I also got us two apples...for our health.’
  ‘Thanks.’
   So we sat there, munching the apples, reading each other’s diagrammatic plans.
   ‘It says here,’ Mouche read, ‘... the surest way to mess up a date is to be too focused on getting a boy to like you, so take the focus off the boy and create other objectives...’
   This is what Mouche wrote:

Items to be gathered for our New York Adventure:
A pen
A lucky feather
A beret
Jeans - vintage ( Mouche and I both wear the same size)
A black sweater (every girl should have one)
Coco perfume
The perfect shoes
A winter scarf
A golden bracelet (prefer eighteen carat)
A pair of Chanel sunglasses
A cashmere coat

     ‘I’m inspired...this will allow us to focus on our future journey. The list will give us ‘other objectives’ for the dates so we won’t be so focused on impressing the boys and thus end up embarrassing ourselves.’
   ‘Of course, and all these items will be useful in New York; they start with the most easily sourced and become a little more difficult to obtain...’
     ‘Quick, twelve o’clock,’ Mouche whispered before I could say anything more on the subject.
      I looked up instantly.
     ‘It’s Mark Knightly glancing at us from across the room. Don’t stare. You’re being very obvious,’ she whispered.
      We could overhear Freya talking at the opposite table...
     ‘So, how did you find out he was rich?’
     ‘Well, by the water fountain, on my way here... ’Brooke added.
     ‘ By the water fountain ,’ Teegan repeated. ‘That’s starting to sound very romantic.’
     ‘Exactly. Anyway, I heard him talking about a rich uncle in Scotland who’s planning to leave him a castle after he croaks...’
     ‘ I wish my uncle would leave me a castle. Then we’d never have to worry about our college funds.’ Mouche said grimly.
   ‘Never mind. We’re going to be self-made women, Mouche. By the way, are they serious? I’m not sure if castles in Scotland are worth that much but maybe we should move him to the number one spot on our list...just in case,’ I joked and considered removing Jet’s name (even though his family owned multiple companies – according to Teegan - and she googles everyone) with the stroke of a pen.
    Mouche instantly picked up her pink pen and drew another line straight through Jet Campbell and wrote Mark Knightly over it and added a bunch of love hearts. Then she scrawled: wildly rich - major possibilities .
   ‘That’s so twelve years old Mouche. I never knew you were such a gold digger.’
   Underneath Mark’s name she made a space for his advantages / disadvantages / physical attributes columns. We haven’t filled that out yet.
  

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