Iso want him to be the one who’d written that letter. I really, really do.
But I’m not about to mention this to his sister.
Instead, I told her I think it unfair of her to demand explanations for stuff I said under the influence of codeine cough syrup.
Lilly just got that expression she gets sometimes when teachers ask a question and she knows the answer, only she wants to give someone else in the class a chance to answer for a change.
It really can be exhausting sometimes, having a best friend with an IQ of 170.
HOMEWORK
Algebra: problems 1–20, pg. 115
English: Chapter 4 of Strunk and White
World Civ: two-hundred–word essay on the conflict betweenIndia andPakistan
G&T: Yeah, right
French: Chaptre huit
Biology: pituitary gland (ask Kenny!)
LILLY MOSCOVITZ AND MIA THERMOPOLIS’S LIST OF CELEBRITIES AND THEIR BREASTS
CELEBRITY Britney Spears
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
CELEBRITY Jennifer Love Hewitt
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
CELEBRITY Winona Ryder
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
CELEBRITY Courtney Love
LILLY Fake
MIA Fake
CELEBRITY Jennie Garth
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
CELEBRITY Tori Spelling
LILLY Fake
MIA Fake
CELEBRITY Brandy
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
CELEBRITY NeveCampbell
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
CELEBRITY Sarah Michelle Gellar
LILLY Real
MIA Real
CELEBRITY Christina Aguilera
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
CELEBRITY Lucy Lawless
LILLY Real
MIA Real
CELEBRITY MelissaJoan Hart
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
CELEBRITY Mariah Carey
LILLY Fake
MIA Fake
CELEBRITY Rachael Leigh Cook
LILLY Fake
MIA Real
Even later on Thursday
After dinner I felt well enough to get out of bed, and so I did.
I checked my e-mail. I was hoping there might be something from my mysterious “friend.” If he knew my “snail mail” address, I figured he’d know my e-mail address, too. Both are listed in the school directory.
Tina Hakim Baba was one of the people who e-mailed me. She sent get-well wishes. So did Shameeka. Shameeka mentioned that she was trying to talk her father into letting her have a Halloween party, and that if she succeeded, would I come? I wrote back to say of course, if I wasn’t too weak from coughing.
There was also a message from Michael. It was a get-well message, too, but it was animated, like a little film. It showed a cat that looked a lot like Fat Louie doing a little get-well dance. It was very cute. Michael signed it “Love, Michael.”
Not Sincerely.
Not Yours Truly.
Love.
I played it four times, but I still couldn’t tell whether he was the one who’d sent me that letter. The letter, I noticed, never once mentioned the wordlove. It said the senderliked me. And he signed it “sincerely.”
But there was no love. Not a hint of love.
Then I saw a message from someone whose e-mail address I didn’t recognize. Oh, my God! Could it be my anonymous liker? My fingers were trembling on my mouse. . . .
And then I opened it and saw the following message from JoCrox:
JOCROX:Just a note to say hope you are feeling better. Missed you in school today! Did you get my letter? Hope it made you feel at least a little better, knowing there’s someone out there who thinks you rock. Get well soon.
Your Friend
Oh, my God! It’shim! My anonymous admirer!
But who is Jo Crox? I don’t know anyone named Jo Crox. He says he missed me in school today, which means we might be in a class together. But there are no Jo’s in any of my classes.
Maybe Jo Crox isn’t really his name. In fact, Jo Crox doesn’t sound like a name at all. Maybe that actually stands for Joc Rox.
But I don’t know any jocks, either. I mean, not personally.
Oh, no, wait, I get it:
Jo-C-rox.
Josie Rocks! Oh, my God! Josie fromJosie and the Pussycats!
That is just socute.
But who?Who is it?
I figured there was only one way to find out, so I wrote back right away:
FTLOUIE:Dear Friend, I got your letter. Thank you very much. Thanks also for the get-well wishes.
WHO ARE YOU? (I swear I won’t tell anyone.)
Mia
I sat around for half an hour, hoping he would write back, but he never did.
WHO IS IT??? WHO IS IT??
I have GOT to get well by tomorrow so I can go to school and figure out who Jo-C-rox is. Otherwise, I will go mental, just like Mel Gibson’s girlfriend inHamlet, and I’ll end up floating in my Lanz of Salzburg nightie in theHudson with the rest of the medical waste.
Friday, October 24, Algebra
I AM BETTER!!!!!