Tuesday Taste

Lipstick Apology by Jennifer Jabaley

Four Little Words Written in Lipstick...
mean Emily must say goodbye to everything she knows. Emily Carson has always been a good girl. So when she throws a party the night her parents leave for vacation, she's sure she'll get busted. What Emily doesn't know is that her parents will never return.

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"'You have seven have seven unused canvases. Ten unused paintbrushes.' His lips moved silently as he counted. 'Twelve Bic gel pens. Twelve? Stacks of books and two of the same iPods. Do you like buy in bulk or something?'

I picked up the iPods. 'One is for music, one is for audiobooks.' I looked around. 'If I like something, I want to have a duplicate. You know, in case something happens to the first one.'"

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