Bad to the Bone (25 page)
Authors: Melody Mayer
Kiley was sure she had misunderstood. “You mean we can pick something out? That's very nice of you.”
Steven laughed. “Girls, it's all yours. Anything and everything.”
Lydia turned to Tom and Jorge. “Gentlemen, if you would kindly talk among yourselves and excuse us ladies for just a tick, we need to take a little peek and then we'll come right back.”
“I'll have my driver load the Mercedes and deliver the gear to your houses,” Steven promised. “No worries.”
Kiley wasn't sure her feet even touched the ground as she, Esme, and Lydia flew to the swag room. Esme unlocked the door; the girls walked in. And there it all was. Thousands and thousands of dollars' worth of stuff, stuff Kiley would never in a million years be able to afford. The shoes and the designer jeans and the high-end cosmetics and the jewelry. The free spa treatments and the iPhones and the CD players.
“Y'all, I think I just died and went to heaven,” Lydia breathed. “This is the best day of my entire life.”
“Me too,” Esme agreed.
It was incredible. Kiley realized she was happy. And the wonderful, amazing thing was, she'd earned that happiness. She'd been brave enough to leave behind her small town, brave enough to come to Los Angeles and live here on her own. She was working hard to overcome her fears and her doubts and her insecurities. She'd risked loving a boy who most girls could only dream about.
Kiley knew there would be all kinds of problems, bumps, and bruises along the way. She still had her insecurities and she still hated her thighs and it would be an uphill battle to get into Scripps. But this she knew above all: she'd made friends with two of the most amazing girls to help her get through it.
“It's the best day of my life too,” Kiley told her friends.
Before they went for the swag, they hugged each other. Because some things, Kiley realized, like the friendship they shared, glittered more than gold.
Raised in Bel Air, Melody Mayer is the oldest daughter of a fourth-generation Hollywood family and has outlasted countless nannies.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mayer, Melody.
Bad to the bone: a nannies novel / Melody Mayer.
p. cm.
Summary: Seventeen-year-olds Esme, Lydia, and Kiley, nannies to the stars,
juggle their complicated personal lives with the demands of taking care of the
children of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills, California.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89132-8
[1. Nannies—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Friendship—
Fiction. 4. Beverly Hills (Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M4619Bad 2009 [Fic]—dc22 2009001655
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