Of All the Stupid Things (31 page)

My stomach moves my legs toward the car. Riley puts her arm around my waist, and Pinkie doesn’t look away.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A big, heart-filled thanks to Sarah for seeing what this could become, and to Elizabeth and everyone at Egmont for making it become what it is.

Thanks to Heather for tips on training and running a marathon, and to Bianca for gymnastics tidbits.

Special thanks to my friends and tutors at Bath Spa who helped greatly at its early stages. Had they not been there, the story would be very different.

And big hugs to my family and friends, particularly the Noonans, Waldens, and Lovett-Marianos, who feel like both. Without everyone’s love and support in past years, I wouldn’t have gotten this far.

ALEXANDRA DIAZ
grew up in a bilingual Spanish/English-speaking family, where she started creating stories before she could write, and didn’t stop once she could. She’s lived in Puerto Rico, Austria, the United States, and Great Britain.
Of All the Stupid Things
is her first novel.

Table of Contents

PART ONE

PART TWO

Tara

Whitney Blaire

Pinkie

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

About the Author