The Kingdom of Kevin Malone (23 page)

She circled an ad in red ink. “ ‘Prepare to meet the woman of your dreams.' Do they really talk like that out there?”

“Guess I'll find out,” I said. I knew the plans were all made. We were moving the first week of summer, when school was over.

“Hey, we could send code messages through the personals,” Rachel said. She nudged me. “Look, I'm sorry if I've been, you know, bitchy to you. Your parents are the ones who decided to leave, not you. It just felt like—well, it's hard losing your best friend. It makes you act pissy. But you can't blame me for hanging out with other people because you're going to be gone.”

“But you knew Claudia from before, a little,” I said, feeling sorry for myself. “I've got to make all new friends somehow, in a place almost as weird as the Fayre Farre. At least in Kevin's country people do sometimes
WALK
from point A to point B.”

Later I thought, hadn't Scarneck and Singer become my friends? Didn't the moorim give up its life for us three girls, me included? If I could make friends in Kevin Malone's kingdom, I could make friends anywhere.

I had even made a friend, sort of, out of Kevin. I think about him sometimes.

What I think about most is that as long as the rose that Claudia picked just sits in its jar without changing, it means that the White One is still safely buried under Shelly's roses, on top of a mountain in Kevin's Fayre Farre.

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