Second Helpings_ A Jessica Darling Novel - Megan McCafferty [0]
Title Page
Dedication
july
the first
the second
the third
the fifth
the sixth
the tenth
the seventeenth
the twenty-first
the thirtieth
august
the fourth
the ninth
the eleventh
the fourteenth
the sixteenth
the twentieth
the twenty-eighth
september
the fourth
the fifth
the Seventh
the thirteenth
the twenty-first
the twenty-ninth
october
the second
the Seventh
the twelfth
the fourteenth
the seventeenth
the twentieth
the thirtieth
november
the third
the sixth
the tenth
the fifteenth
the seventeenth
the twentieth
the twenty-first
the twenty-second
the twenty-third
december
the fifth
the eleventh
the fifteenth
the eighteenth
the twenty-third
the thirtieth
january
the first
the second
the fifteenth
the nineteenth
the twenty-fifth
the twenty-Seventh
february
the fourth
the fourteenth
the fifteenth
the eighteenth
the twentieth
the twenty-Second
the twenty-fourth
march
the fourth
the ninth
the fifteenth
the seventeenth
the twenty-first
the twenty-eighth
april
the twelfth
the fifteenth
the seventeenth
the nineteenth
the twenty-third
the twenty-Seventh
the twenty-eighth
may
the second
the third
the fourth
the fifth
the sixth
the fifteenth
the thirtieth
june
the second
the fifth
the eighth
the tenth
the fourteenth
the fifteenth
the twenty-first
the twenty-fourth
the twenty-eighth
the thirtieth
Coming in April 2006 from Crown Publishers, Jessica Darling is finally back! - charmed thirds
freshman Summer, june 2003 - the first
Acknowledgments
ALSO BY MEGAN MCCAFFERTY
Copyright Page
For my parents
June 30th
Hope,
By the time you get this, I will already be attending the Summer Pre-College Enrichment Curriculum in Artistic Learning. I think it’s hilarious for a gifted and talented program to have an acronym (SPECIAL) with the exact opposite educational connotation.
While I’m psyched to escape another summer of junk-food servitude on the boardwalk, I can’t help but feel like a fraud. I’m not all that interested in “experiencing the artistic, intellectual, and social activities integral for a successful career in the arts,” like it says in the brochure. My motivation is simple: I know that the only way to brace myself for the indignity of my senior year at Pineville High is to avoid everyone and everything associated with it for as long as I possibly can. Hence, why my summer vacation is a deportation.
You know I would’ve stuck around this strip-mall wasteland all summer if you had opted to visit me in Jersey instead of jetting around Europe. Tough choice. If you weren’t my best friend, and I didn’t love you so much, I would hate you. Not for your decision, but for the privilege to make it in the first place.
I know our e-mail/IM daily, call weekly schedule will be out of whack until you get back to Tennessee. But don’t forget to write. More than once a month, if the mood strikes. And if it doesn’t, well, less. Even though you’re going all international on me, these are still the Totally Guilt-Free Guidelines for Keeping in Touch. With a special emphasis on the Guilt-Free part.
Enviously yours,
J.
july
the first
I can’t believe I used to do this nearly every day. Or night, rather. In the wee hours, when the sky was purple and the house sighed with sleep, I’d hover, wide awake, over my beat-up black-and-white-speckled composition notebook. I’d scribble, scratch, and scrawl until my hand, and sometimes my heart, ached.
I wrote and wrote and wrote. Then, one day, I stopped.
With the exception of letters to Hope and editorials for the school newspaper, I haven’t written anything real in months. (Which is why it’s such a crock that I’m attending SPECIAL.) I have no choice but to start up again because I’m required to keep a journal for SPECIAL’s writing program. But this journal will be different. It has to be different. Or