"So."
"So, what?"
"Does she know about us?"
"Of course."
"Is she jealous?"
"Maybe."
"What do you mean maybe?"
"Probably."
"I thought you guys only kissed that one time."
"Yeah, but I think she wanted more."
"Doesn't she have a serious boyfriend in college or something?
"Girlfriend. But she still tells everyone that she has a boyfriend."
"So she knows about us."
"Yeah. We've talked about stuff. And she flirts with me."
"Uh huh"
"I'm sorry, I should have told you all of this earlier, but it really doesn't even matter. I'm going to be friends with her. She's fucked up."
"How?"
"She stole stuff."
"Stole what?"
"From the store."
"No way."
"That's what's really pissing me off."
"Why?"
"She gave me such a hard time about what I did. Compared to her I didn't do anything."
"What did you do?"
"You know how she got me the job right? I didn't want to work at the camp again. I couldn't do that, so I begged her to get me a job at Geoffrey's."
"I didn't know that."
"She didn't tell you."
"I haven't talked to her yet."
"So what happened?"
"It was a couple of weeks after I got back. Holly's been working at Geoffrey's forever, so I went over there and filled out an application. She saw me in the store and pretended not to know me."
"Why?"
"She said that the store doesn't want friends working together, thinks they'll goof around and not do any work. But I already told the manager that I knew her."
"Did you say you were friends?"
"No. I said that we had some classes together in school but that we weren't friends. And she told me that she said the same thing to Marnie?"
"Marnie?"
"The manager."
"Oh."
"Then I had to meet with Shirley, this older lady that Holly says comes in only about once a week. She's the main boss. She manages all of the stores on the Island. So I had to meet with her. She was nice, but a little weird. Very businesslike."
"And..."
"I was hired. Holly worked the register most of the time and I was put upstairs mostly, in Juniors."
"That sucks."
"It was ok. Hardly any customers after June, but a lot last week."
"Why's that?"
"Back to school."
"Oh, right."
"And we pretended that we weren't good friends."
"Was it hard?"