“Wainwright,” Chris corrected her. “Would you like to see my ID?”
“Sure,” Annie said, and Chris took out his wallet and spread it all out in front of her. His name was Christopher Fowler Wainwright and he was just eighteen years old, a freshman at Harvard, and licensed to drive a car. Annie felt reassured looking at all the cards that spelled out just who Chris Wainwright was.
“A girl can’t be too careful,” she said, getting up from the booth. “Being picked up at a bookstore by some stranger with beautiful teeth.”
“These are honest teeth with honorable intentions,” Chris declared, getting up along with her. “Notice how, trusting fool that I am, I’m not asking to see your ID. You’re probably a spy, or a diamond smuggler, or something equally nefarious and interesting, and I am your helpless prey.”
“I only wish,” Annie replied, although actually her own life wasn’t sounding too awful to her anymore. “All the best spies are recruited in high school, you know. I just happened to be out sick the day they came here.”
“That’s the way of life,” Chris said, and he and Annie began their walk toward her home. “So you were an intern at Image, right? What did that entail? What kind of work?”
“It was wonderful,” Annie replied, and had begun telling him all about it when she noticed Chris walking toward a newsstand.
“The new Real Boston is out,” Chris said. “Want to get a copy?”
“Sure,” Annie said. She almost never read Real Boston, but she didn’t want Chris to think she was too unsophisticated to. So she plunked down her seventy-five cents and bought one.
“You were telling me about Image,” Chris said.
“What do you want to know?” Annie asked him.
“Oh, I don’t know,” Chris replied. “How about starting with everything, and then I’ll pick and choose from there.”
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Susan Beth Pfeffer wrote her first novel, Just Morgan, during her last semester at New York University. Since then, she has written over seventy novels for children and young adults, including Kid Power, Fantasy Summer, Starring Peter and Leigh, and The Friendship Pact, as well as the series Sebastian Sisters and Make Me a Star. Pfeffer’s books have won ten statewide young reader awards and the Buxtehude Bulle Award.
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