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Truthfully, I was looking forward to Ja overabout it, le Yes, it was a little petty to have that reaction, but after the way he treated ht turnabout would be fair play

In this dress, I'd no longer be Allie I'd be Allison, sophisticated New York socialite

I giggled and hung the dress up I started putting some of my other clothes in the dresser, when I remembered the secret compartment I had built into it James was always a snoop, so I had to find soh, as I pulled the drawer out of my dresser and reached up into the fra what forgotten treasures I had left in there

It was raphs, movie ticket stubs, and notes froh school I looked over the little snippets of love and encourageuilt as I realized how close we had been, and how far ae had drifted

Tessa wasn't born into a life of luxury Her father was an ieneration A family I knew, but they had nowhere near the field after graduation, while I went off to a fancy college in New York

As I looked over all the “Best Friends Forever” notes, I realized that, in this case, “Forever” had only lasted about foureach other every day

It was a real shame, and I meant to fix it Howeve

r, before I could get my phone to call her, I saw another piece of paper that I recognized It was a hastily scribbled IOU I had alotten I had actually held on to it at all I lifted out the wrinkled scrap of paper and read the whole thing

TO ALLIE

FROM JAMES

Merry Christmas!

IOU one present

It was typical Jaesture if you wanted to see it that way, but beneath it, the stink of his rotten selfishness and casual cruelty His senior year of high school, he had gifts for dad and Nancy and even our otten, he said So he scribbled this IOU on a scrap of paper and handed it to me e opened presents

I was happy withit away Its value had to have increased a thousand fold, now that James was for all purposes an actual billionaire Maybe I’d actually redeem it this year