Cap: OCD Dear Diary: Okay,

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Dear Diary:

Okay, I admit I abandoned you for awhile. After the rest of the Clique girls and I returned from Hollywood, I wanted to be super careful that nothing I wrote would end up in the tabloids. I mean, you hear about the Star and the paparazzi going through Paris' garbage, so who knows? And given how fast secrets get spilled around here nowadays, I thought that writing an entry in a journal, even a locked journal, was not a good idea.

But I gotta give you the 411 since I don't think I'm quite ready for my close-up Mr. Spielberg -- yet. Anyway, like I said, we had just come back from Hollywood and were back at school, forced to grind away (horror) at soccer practice so we could return to Octavian Country Day (I'm sure that Lindsay Lohan has her own personal trainer in a grass-stain free gym). Let me tell you, having wanna-be Mia Hamm Kristen act as if were the most important thing in the world to put a ball in a net when my precious Nike might get scuffed is not my idea of a good time.

Then, if things couldn't get worse, we found out that the key to the oh-so secret room had been stashed by Pie-in-the-Skye in the bedroom of a Briarwood boy. So Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, Claire, and yours truly were looking all over -- hunting around in the rooms of teenage males makes slopping the hogs in "The Simple Life" look like a piece of carb-free cake. (Which Alicia was munching, I'm sure, when she wasn't kissing half the boys in the Briarwood class.) I must say, that Claire was pretty industrious, that is when Claire wasn't pursuing ugliness for the sake of her acting ahhrrt. (Please).

Anyway, I can't be too down on Claire because it was Claire found the key, so she's part of the Pretty Committee -- again! Now maybe if she gets a few more acting lessons in fashion sense, I'll almost not regret my decision. I don't understand it, it happens all the time -- a half-way decent looking girl gets a vision of a bald shiny statuette, and it's off with the lip gloss and suddenly she's making like Angelina Jolie in some sweaty country on a bad hair day.

More info on the secret room tomorrow, but I'm getting a way important IM right now, so I'll wrap it up.

Massie Block

Letter 1: Main Character to Secondary Character

Fourth Period

Dear Claire:

What's up with the new look (should I call it that)? I understand that you're trying to seriously pursue your acting art, but acting like someone who doesn't know the difference between Juicy Couture and Juicy tracksuits is no way to go! Can't you concentrate your energies on something that's really important, like finding the key to the secret room before Skye has taken up residence there for good? She'll be ordering furniture from the Pottery Barn to decorate the place before you've found the key. You've had so much success finding the most hideous clothes possible for all of your various auditions, why don't you put your new found excavating talents to work and start pawing through a few more possible rooms where the key might be hidden? Since you haven't gotten a manicure in, oh, forever, you certainly won't break a nail.