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She’s also beautiful. Not just “hot”. Not just contour and bodycon dresses. Like, supermodel-movie-star-actual-angel beautiful.
If she wasn’t so gosh-darn nice, it would be all too easy to hate Emily Chambers.
But Emily has the heart of a Disney princess. Also, she genuinely doesn’t seem to notice how exquisite she is—a hangover, so her mum told me, of having been skinny and gawky and awkward until she hit puberty and turned into a swan.
I didn’t know Em back then. We only became friends when her family moved next door when we were both in grade seven. Mum made me go over to the Chambers’ house the day after the moving truck left, with a dish of Thermomix stew. I was reluctant. I’d been covertly spying on Emily for the past two days and I knew someone with looks like tha
