At First Sight

At First Sight

H
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NOT
to Spend Your Senior Year

BY CAMERON DOKEY

R
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BY NIKI BURNHAM

R
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S
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BY NANCY KRULIK

S
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C
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BY NIKI BURNHAM

C
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BY CAROLINE GOODE

S
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B
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S
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BY SUZANNE WEYN AND
DIANA GONZALEZ

S
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G
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B
eat

BY NANCY KRULIK

30
G
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D
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BY MICOL OSTOW

A
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A
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BY JAMIE PONTI

A
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BY AIMEE FRIEDMAN

S
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B
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BY NIKI BURNHAM

G
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T
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D
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BY KELLY MCCLYMER

D
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Q
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BY ERIN DOWNING

M
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C
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BY JENNIFER ECHOLS

D
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BY NIKI BURNHAM

L
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U
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BY JO EDWARDS

P
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C
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BY ERIN DOWNING

G
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BY MICOL OSTOW

T
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B
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D
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BY JENNIFER ECHOLS

I
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S
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BY STACIA DEUTSCH AND

RHODY COHON

C
rush du
J
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BY MICOL OSTOW

T
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S
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L
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of a
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BY WENDY TOLIVER

L
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H
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S
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BY P.J. RUDITIS

S
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B
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BY CATHERINE HAPKA

P
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G
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BY WHITNEY LYLES

P
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L
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BY NANCY KRULIK

T
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D
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of
C
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BY CATHERINE HAPKA

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BY JAMIE PONTI

M
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M
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BY WENDY TOLIVER

L
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BY CATHERINE HAPKA

D
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BY ERIN DOWNING

L
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L
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BY WHITNEY LYLES

T
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BY JENNIFER ECHOLS

P
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BY DEBBIE RIGAUD

H
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BY EMMA CARLSON BERNE

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CATHERINE HAPKA

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At First Sight

My best friend, Britt, was madly in love. Again.

“OMG!” she said with an adorable giggle, fluttering her long eyelashes at the cute guy in the kung fu T-shirt and Abercrombie cargoes. “I can't believe you go to Greenleaf High. I've always said Greenleaf has the cutest guys in the entire state of Maryland. Right, Lauren?” She waved one hand in my direction without breaking eye contact with Greenleaf Guy. “By the way, this is my best friend, Lauren Foley.”

My introduction barely warranted a cursory glance, nod, and mumbled “hi” from the object of Britt's affection. Or maybe that should be “affliction.” See, Britt has a
lifelong case of severe boycrazyitis. One I seriously doubted would be cured anytime soon.

“Lauren's the one who convinced me to come over and say hi to you,” Britt continued, tilting her head up at Greenleaf Guy. “Usually I'm totally shy about talking to cute guys.”

It was all I could do not to burst out laughing at that one. Britt, shy with guys? Hardly. She's pretty much fearless, not to mention completely lacking in the capacity for shame or embarrassment. Everyone says that's why guys are drawn to her like dogs to a fire hydrant. Not that she isn't cute—she is. But even if a guy doesn't notice her pixielike face, her perfect skin, or her great legs, she makes damn sure he notices
her
.

To keep from blowing her cover, I wandered off a ways and pretended to be fascinated by a display case showing an astronaut in full bubble-headed regalia. Britt and I, along with the rest of the junior class of Potomac Point High and those of like half the other schools in our county, were at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
Why, you ask? Good question. The answer is, we were being subjected to a ridiculously lame multischool field trip sponsored by some science foundation.

Not that I have anything against the Smithsonian. In fact, I kinda like it, especially the First Ladies' gowns at the American History museum. But spaceships and black holes and airplanes? So not my thing.

I watched Britt and the guy in the reflection of the display case. I saw her toss her short blond hair around—a patented Britt flirting move. It worked. The guy stepped a little closer, his hands twitching as if he was dying to touch her.

Then I saw Britt glance around with an adorably furtive expression. She reached into her purse and pulled out BBB. That's a nickname I came up with; it stands for Beloved BlackBerry. It could just as easily stand for Britt's Bodacious Bestie, BlackBerry Baby, or Beautiful Best Buddy. Get the picture? She loves the thing.