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Chapter 1

Lexie Willis hated bikinis.

At fifteen, she already had likewise many curves in too many places, and she

didn't similar people staring at her. Putting on a bikini made her feel similar Janet

Jackson at the Super Basin fifty-fifty when she was simply standing alone in a Macy'southward

dressing room.

So
why
was there a bikini in the box on her bed? The box
looked
liked a nowadays. It had shiny gilt foil wrapping paper and a cheerful bright green bow, as

if to trick her into thinking,
Hey, there's something
fun!
And
heady!
In here!

There was fifty-fifty a little card on the top that read:
FOR LEXIE! IT'S GOING TO BE A

Bang-up SUMMER!
In her mother's perky, exclamation-bespeak-happy handwriting.

But inside the box was this vino-crimson monstrosity. Lexie didn't even pull information technology

out all the way before she realized what information technology was and stuffed the pieces back in,

hiding them under the folds of white tissue paper.

Seriously, Mom?
Seriously?

The other box was fifty-fifty more mysterious. She could tell from its big,

long, flat shape that information technology wasn't a book or an Amazon gift certificate, which was

disappointing right up front. Just she was hoping for a new sundress, mayhap –

maybe one she could wear
over
the bikini. And never take off.

Instead, it was a tennis dissonance.

Lexie didn't play tennis. She had never played lawn tennis in her life.

This was very ominous.

Lexie was standing next to herbed, examining the tennis racket, when her

mother appeared in the doorway.

"Isn't information technology
swell
?" Mrs. Willis said happily. "I made sure your father got the

best one. Is it light plenty for yous?"

"Um," Lexie said. Her twin blood brother, Colin, followed Mrs. Willis into the

room and slouched against the door frame. He didn't expect whatsoever happier than she

was. Maybe he'd gotten some sinister, inappropriate presents, too.

Lexie'south mom sat downward on the bed and pulled the bikini out of the box,

laying it out apartment on the comforter. It wasn't equally bad equally Lexie had though – not as

skimpy equally the piffling white bikinis Bree McKennis always wore, for instance. And information technology

was her favourite colour. But still. In that location was no way she was wearing that.

"Colin, are you equally confused as I am?" Lexie asked. "Does Mom think the

Holy Spirit of Athletic Daughters Everywhere has finally arrived to possess me?"

Colin shrugged, and Lexie's mom batted at her with the top of the bikini

box. "I'm right here, Lexie," her mom said. "You lot can inquire
me
these questions you know." Of course, she didn't wait for Lexie to ask. "Information technology's for Summerlodge."

"The day camp?" Lexie said. "I thought Colin and I were doing the art

program at the school. Mom, did you get paintbrushes and lawn tennis rackets mixed

up?"

"Turns out the art plan was full," Lexie's mom said. "So you're doing

Lawn tennis for Teens instead. Won't that be fun? And Summerlodge is close enough

for you to bike to, so that'll make it easier on me and your dad, too."

"Oh,
no
," Lexie said. "Mom, I
hate
tennis."

"Y'all don't know that yous hate lawn tennis, dear," Mrs. Willis said. "Yous've never

tried it. And this is what comes of waiting until too late to make your summer

plans."

"Then what'southward
that
for?" Lexie asked, pointing at the bikini. "I promise I don't

have to play tennis in
that
."

"There's a pool at Summerlodge," Mrs. Willis said"One of the afternoon

activities, later tennis practice, is swimming, which I thought you would like.

Don't y'all like pond?"

I practice like pond,
Lexie idea.
I'd just prefer to do it fully clothed,
thanks very much.

"Lucky you already know how to play tennis," she said to Colin. Tennis had

been one of Colin's cursory obsessions, and so he'd taken lessons long enough to be a

decent player. "At least you'll definitely look coolr than me with one of these."

She tried to flip the racket in i hand and dropped it on the floor.

Mrs. Willis sighed. "Well, that'south the bad news. Colin'due south not going with you lot."

"What?" Lexie was horrified. The whole point of having a twin was that yous

never had to get anywhere by yourself. And then yous never had to stand around

awkwardly, feeling like the pigeon in a flock of flamingos, while nobody talked you

y'all. Yous e'er had someone to stand up awkwardly
with
you. That was the
whole
point.
Cline still wouldn't run into her eyes. "But why? We were going to do it

together!"

"We've decided Summerlodge is not what Colin needs right now," Lexie's

mom said.

"Mom, that's non fair! Why does he go to stay home and play video games

while I have to exit and look like an idiot by myself?"

"Information technology'll be skilful for you," Lexie's mom said firmly. "And look on the bright

side: Yous might actually make some friends besides your blood brother." She stood up

in a "Chat over" kind of way.

Lexie used to have a friend besides Colin: Karina Martinez, her best friend

through all of elementary school. But Karina had moved to People's republic of china a yr before,

and Lexie hadn't found anyone else. It was difficult to make new friends at her

school, where she would always be known as "Karina'southward quiet friend" or "quirky

Colin's twin sister." And she was sure it wouldn't be any easier at summertime camp

all on her own.

"No, I won't!" Lexie cried. "Oh, Mom, I'll be the only person I know at that place!

No i will talk to me and it'll be
then
awful;
please
don't make me go without Colin."

"Yous'll know someone else," Colin said finally chiming in. "Jake'southward going to

Summerlodge, too."

Thump-thump.
Lexie felt her center jump up and bang into her rib cage.

Okay, that did make a difference.

Jake Atkinson was Colin's best friend, although they weren't very much

alike. Colin was a placidity guy who got obsessed with funny things like stamp-

collecting and bird-watching and, lately, filmmaking. Jake, on the other hand, was

outgoing, adorable, smart and funny, and as far equally Lexie could tell, every

freshman and sophomore girl at Carlisle High wanted to date him.

But Lexie'south crush on Jake was different from everyone else's. Information technology
was
. Those

other girls liked him the way yous similar a motion picture star, but Lexie liked the real him.

She knew why Jake was friends with Colin. She was there the mean solar day they met.

Dorsum and so, Jake was the new guy in town. He showed up for the first day of

eighth grade and practically fabricated girls swoon all the way down the hall. In Pre-

Algebra, second period, Mr. Stone split Colin and Lexie up and sabbatum Jake correct in

between them.

Lexie kept looking over at Colin, thinking of things she wanted to tell him,

simply figuring it was too risky to pass a annotation through a stranger. The third fourth dimension she

looked over, hoping he'd notice that Mr. Rock'due south bald spot was shaped exactly similar

a pineapple, she saw him watching Jake's easily. Jake was folding a piece of

paper, over and over, and twisting it around. The twins both stared at him until

suddenly, sitting on Jake's desk, at that place was a small-scale origami whale that could fit in

the palm of your hand.

With a studious expression, Jake drew optics and a smiley face on the whale.

So he looked up and caught Lexie smiling at it. She looked away quickly,

embarrassed.

When she glanced down again, the whale was sitting on the corner of her

desk, beaming at her.

After class, as she was gathering her books, Colin leaned over to Jake.

"Hey," he said, "that was cool. It's origami, right? Can y'all make other stuff

likewise?" Lexie knew that Colin must be actually interested, because he hardly ever

talked to strangers. Merely once he started talking, it was pretty hard to brand him

stop.

"A few other things," Jake said. "My dad taught me. I can show you lot, if you

want."

"Certain!" Colin said. "How well-nigh Saturday? Yous could come up over for lunch."

"Don't y'all want o know my name before inviting me over?" Jake said with

a beautiful smile.

"That dork is Colin," Lexie said. "My brother, I'm Lexie."

"Short for Alexandra," Colin said. "Like Alexander the Dandy. Or Alexander

Helios, son of Cleopatra. Did you know Cleopatra had twins? A boy and girl, like

the states. Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene." Colin's only lasting obsession was

with random twin facts. He could listing a ton of famous twins.

"I did not know that. I'm Jake," the new kid said, shaking Colin's hand

solemnly. "Volition y'all be in that location on Saturday?" he said to Lexie.

"Probably," she said.
Pregnant
definitely, if at that place's a hazard you'll be there.

She knew Karina would be more than than happy to come over and meet the new guy.

"Okay. Saturday would exist great. Thanks, Colin."

The next day, Lexie saw Jake carrying around a library volume most

Cleopatra. He was the simply guy she knew who read books for fun. Simply what he

read was random nonfiction about things that defenseless his interest, similar the Salem

witchcraft trials or Aztec mythology or the life of Harry Houdini.

That was why he got along so well with Colin. Jake could probably have

ditched them for a more than pop oversupply if he'd joined a sports team or auditioned

for theater, only he liked Colin's strange interests. Whenever Colin establish a new

hobby, Jake read upwards on it. And and then Lexie and Karina hung out with them while

Colin built a replica of the HMS
Bounty
from a model shipbuilding kit and Jake told them strange facts nearly the famous mutiny.

So she knew the real Jake, just like she knew the real Colin, when nobody

else did. Lexie idea of her front door as an enchanted mirror, like the looking

drinking glass Alice climbed through in the book. When she and Jake and Colin walked

through information technology, they became their existent selves. Here Colin talked as much as he wanted

to. Here Jake thought she was funny.

Here she could imagine that maybe i day Jake would look at her and run into

Lexie, girl of his dreams, instead of Lexie, his all-time friend's sister.

She yet had the whale. It was hidden in a bear witness box in her room, next to

other clandestine Jake things.

And nobody knew how she felt, not even Colin, who knew every unmarried

other particular of her life and every thought that ever crossed her mind.

"Jake?" Lexie said, picking up the tennis racket and trying to flip information technology once more.

She hoped the nervous milk shake in her phonation would be hidden by the clatter of the

falling racket. "He'southward going to tennis army camp?"

Colin nodded. "He'll be in the advanced form, of course."

"Of course," Lexie said, losing her hope over again. Jake was one of the best

tennis players in the school. And she was certain to be terrible, which probably

wasn't the all-time mode to print him.

"Why tin can't
you
come with me?" Lexie said plaintively.

"Because I said then," Mrs. Willis interjected. "Recall me? Still in the

room?"

"Moooooooooom," Lexie said, flopping onto her mattress and trying to

wait as woebegone as possible.

"It'south all decided," Mrs. Willis said. "Camp starts tomorrow." She smoothed

the bikini on the comforter once more with a pleased expression. Lexie wished
she

would simply take the darn bikini and article of clothing information technology herself if she was and so excited about it. If Lexie had to go swimming – in front of Jake, no less – she would exist wearing the

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