Girl, Going On 16: Pants On Fire - Plot & Excerpts
‘My mum’s gone to the Peak District with her Japanese toy boy,’ said Jess. ‘It’s not your mum I’m worried about,’ said Fred. ‘Last time I was here Ben Jones was in charge, offering me stuff and acting as if he owned the place.’ He went into the kitchen with a disgusted look, as if some kind of faint whiff of Ben Jones was still hanging about in the air. ‘Oh, you’re not jealous of him!’ said Jess, in exasperation. ‘Why not?’ said Fred. ‘My mum said you and he were holding hands in the Dolphin Cafe on the first day of term.’ ‘We weren’t holding hands! We were arm-wrestling! And if you hadn’t been absent I’d have been able to arm-wrestle with you – although, let’s face it, with a nerd like you there’d have been no contest.’ There was a moment of silence. Jess summoned every tiny scrap of courage. She had to keep the show on the road. ‘Why have you waited till now to come?’ she demanded angrily.
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