Cathy Hopkins - [Mates, Dates 04] Read online

  No time like the present, I thought, as I leaned in and kissed him softly on the lips.

  email: Inbox (1)

  From: [email protected]

  To: [email protected]

  Date: 5 July

  Subject: hol

  Dear TJ

  New passport received this morning.

  Coming home.

  Paul

  email: Inbox (1)

  To: [email protected]

  From: [email protected]

  Date: 5 July

  Subject: mates, dates

  Hey Hannahnutter

  Whassup! Sorry I haven’t been in touch, it’s been ma4 here. So much has been happening. Paul’s coming home. Scott is history. Got a date with Steve. Realised boys can be mates as well as elates. Per. Took me a while!

  Velly happy. Hope you are.

  And I won the competition with Emma Ford from Year 10. I am now the new joint-editor of the school magazine. Hurrah.

  TJ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  email: Inbox (1)

  From: [email protected]

  To: [email protected]

  Date: 5 July

  Subject: Goody flobbalots

  Velly solly me no been in touch either.

  Goody flobbalots and hurrah about mag thing. I knew you’d get it.

  And coolerooney about Steve. I could tell even from a zillion trillion miles away that something was going to ‘appen zere. Hasta la banana and many jolly jollities to him. He soundeth superbio. A mate and a date. Best kind.

  Mad here too. Replaced ze Luke with ze Ryan. So many boys, so little time etc etc. Most excellent fun here. Loadsa big bashes and barbies, though I truly miss you and your strange angle on life and SOH.

  Send me photos of your new look. And new boy. And new mag.

  At last le TJ has recognised she is ze babe avec ze brain.

  Keep buzy and yabberyabber spoon.

  Lurve and keesses

  Your friend for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and … (oh, shutup H)

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  About the author

  Cathy Hopkins lives in North London with her handsome husband and three deranged cats.

  Or is it the other way around - her handsome cats and deranged husband? She has had twenty books published including the four titles in the Mates, Dates

  series and is currently working on the first book in a new series for Piccadilly Press: Truth, Dare, Kiss or

  Promise. Apart from that, she is looking for the answers to why we’re here, where we’ve come from and what it’s all about. She is also looking for the perfect hairdresser.

  Also available from Piccadilly Press by Cathy Hopkins:

  MATES, DATES AND INFLATABLE BRAS

  MATES, DATES AND COSMIC KISSES

  MATES, DATES AND PORTOBELLO PRINCESSES