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Chapters (57)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. CHAPTER ONE
  5. CHAPTER TWO
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. CHAPTER FOUR
  8. CHAPTER FIVE
  9. CHAPTER SIX
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT
  12. CHAPTER NINE
  13. CHAPTER TEN
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  43. CHAPTER FORTY
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  53. CHAPTER FIFTY
  54. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  55. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  56. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  57. What’s next onyour reading list?

FLASH POST BY CLAIRE SAWYER, JANUARY 4, 11:00 A.M.

“So like . . . can we talk about Lulu Shapiro, you guys? Is she trying to make some kind of move to be an actual model or something? I didn’t think the lesbian thing in the fall was a stunt—I have friends who go to school with her and they said she didn’t, like, talk about it, so it seemed like maybe it really was a mistake. But now Ryan Riggs is posting all of these pictures of her on his Flash, and there’s rumors that there’s another picture of her kissing a girl in his show, and it’s juuuuust a little sketchy if you ask me.”

FLASH PHOTO POST BY FIONA VERACRUZ, JANUARY 4, 12:27 P.M.

[Photograph of Lulu in her bathing suit from Ryan’s show]

Fuuuuck why is @lulululu always so #goals

FLASH VIDEO POST BY JULIET HILLIER, JANUARY 4, 2:13 A.M.

“I guess I had to be drunk to talk about this, but I just wanted to say fuck the way Lulu Shapiro uses her sexuality for attention. Okay great. Bye!!!!!”

FLASH PHOTO POST BY BRENDAN POWELL, JANUARY 4, 4:44 P.M.

[Photograph of a shirtless teenage boy, flexing in the mirror]

@Lulululu listen if you still like dudes you know where to slide

THREE IDENTICAL POSTS FROM TAE YOUNG KIM, ASHLEY GUINESS, AND MOLLY KETCHUM

[A selfie of each girl, standing against a neutral background, with the text #DEFENDLULU posted over their eyes and mouths.]

DIRECT MESSAGE FROM SIERRA CARPENTER TO LULU SHAPIRO, JANUARY 4, 10:49 P.M.

Heyyyyyy sorry if this is weird because we don’t know each other but I just wanted to say I’ve always thought you were hot and if you’re not dating that girl from the pictures maybe, like, let me know?

DIRECT MESSAGE FROM JAMES BRONSON TO LULU SHAPIRO, JANUARY 4, 10:44 A.M.

Keep posting those pix  

DIRECT MESSAGE FROM FRANK WALKER TO LULU SHAPIRO, JANUARY 4, 11:03 P.M.

[Explicit photograph]

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

LULU DRAGS HER corpse out of bed on the last day of break in order to go to Sephora. She doesn’t need anything—she doesn’t even want anything. But after days of lying around, she’s actually starting to feel kind of antsy, and the mall seems like a place she can just, like, go, without needing a companion, or more of a reason than I want to try on lipstick.

Century City is nightmarishly busy, and it takes her so long to park that she thinks about just leaving, but then a spot opens up, and the inertia of already being there—of not wanting to have to go home again, or anywhere, really—tugs her into it.