


Anyway, she and Robert sneaked off to one of the bedrooms to make out (guess which bedroom the dummy picks?) and, of course, you-know-who walks into his own room and turns on the light right in the middle of some heavy stuff. She's probably going to have a thousand husbands before she's finished.

That's her fourth steady this year, and it was only May. So was Jenny Groppo and her latest love, Robert Boyer. My father is a lawyer, and one of his clients is a music arranger for the Rolling Stones, and we had their brand-new record, autographed by the arranger himself. Everybody in school was talking about it for weeks. Do you know what it's like not to have your thirteen-year-old sister at your Sweet Sixteen? It's the best present in the world. Nobody seemed to know exactly how she helped, but it didn't matter, because the very best thing she did was to go away for the whole weekend. Even El Creepo (that's Nina, my thirteen-year-old sister) helped. And the incredible thing was that I never saw them doing a thing. My mother and father made all the food themselves, and it was fabulous. My best friend Steffi helped them with the guest list, and what with friends and friends of friends and crashers, we had almost sixty people. They gave me the most fantastic surprise sweet sixteen party. Still, in the end they really came through. Mathematically that should take only sixteen years, but with overprotective parents like mine, it seems more like thirty. For starters I finally made it to sixteen. This has to be the most exciting year of my life.
