Surprise! (Book 30) by "Emily Chase"

**This blog contains adult language.**

Warning: Spoilers Ahead!!!  This is a recap blog which means I read the book and tell you everything that happens so you don't have to read it yourself.  Do NOT continue to read unless you want to know which girl acted like a total bitch in this book.  Because you know at least one of them did.

Tag Line: Guess who's come to visit Jane!

From the Back of the Book: Jane's in the middle - again!  Beau, the boy Jane met while visiting Toby in Texas, pays Jane a surprise visit at Canby Hall.  Jane's glad to see Beau, but she's determined to keep him from meeting her boyfriend, Cary.  Andy and Toby don't like it, and they think Jane is neglecting her job as one of the organizers of the Halloween dance.  Then troublemaker Gigi decides she'd like to date Cary herself.  She makes sure he finds out about Beau.  Will the Halloween hoedown turn into a showdown?

That back blurb is full of lies, y'all.

This book was published in 1988 and I've never read it before. I thought I had read more of these than I had. The ghostie for this book is Lynn Zednick again. She also did But She's so Cute and A Roommate and a Cowboy.

The cover isn't very noteworthy other than Jane looks stiff as a board. It truly looks like Beau is lifting up a mannequin. Also, I highly doubt Jane would EVER wear cargo pants. The look on Toby's face is hilarious.

I'm fully expecting this book to piss me off, y'all. Just warning you in advance.   

Canby Hall Catch-Up: You guys know the basics. We have three protagonists (Jane – high society princess, Andy – urban ballerina and Toby – small town ranch girl). Jane is dating Cary-the-rock-god from the nearby boys' school Oakley Prep. Andy is dating a boy named Matt who is sometimes said to be from the public school in town and sometimes said to be from Oakley Prep. Well, I should say she's dating Matt when she's not dating Steve who works in her family's rib shack. It mostly depends on her geographic location at the time. Toby is dating the ultra-proper Neal from Boston (who happens to be Jane's ex), and crushing on local rancher Randy who has magical aging powers that allow him to be a different age in every book. In the last book, Shelley-the-drama-llama returned to star in a play that opened and closed on the same night. Afterwards she became so depressed that she was incapable of leaving Canby Hall for weeks. Neal boarded a dressage horse at Randy's ranch that frustrated Toby because she couldn't figure out how to ride it. Andy hurt her foot and became convinced that she'd never dance again despite having no evidence to back that up. And Shelley-the-drama-llama eventually saved the day....somehow.

Those Who Shall Not Be Unnamed: Former 407 residents Dana-the-life-ruiner, Shelley-the-drama-llama and Faith-the-sanctimonious and former housemother-extraordinaire-Alison. Hey, just because they've all moved on doesn't mean we can't worship them at least once every book.

Missing, Presumed Dead: I think we've all just accepted that Laura Lee has a permanent place on this list.  #amomentofsilenceforLauraLee  Penny is vapor again in this book.  Her name isn't mentioned at all.

Risen From the Tulip Bed: Gigi is back from the dead, wandering around campus and devouring unsuspecting rock gods.

We begin with Andy. She's enjoying the fall day at Canby but she tells us that she's still all little depressed from her foot ordeal. She wanders around campus for a bit looking for something to brighten her day. Finally she sees a notice on the bulletin board that Merrie is holding a caucus to vote on how to spell her name.  Actually she's looking for help planning the big Halloween party. Andy decides this is exactly what she needs. She decides to volunteer Toby and Jane as well because they've been so heartbroken over what happened to Andy that they need a pick-me-up too. She actually believes this, y'all. So self-absorbed.

Gigi and Yolanda rock up as Andy is leaving and they exchange words. Andy tells us that Gigi is tall and athletic looking but the only sport she plays is being a bitch. #BULLSHIT Check your facts, ghostie. Gigi is a VERY good tennis player. She kicks everyone's ass on the court and Toby's been trying to beat her for more than a year. #fuckcontinuity

After Andy walks off we bounce between Yolanda and Gigi's head for a few paragraphs. It's really annoying. Pick a character!!! Gigi decides she and her evil henchwoman are going to volunteer for the party as well.

Andy goes up to 407 and announces that they're going to be on the party committee. Toby and Jane are less than thrilled. Winter is coming and Toby wants to spend every waking moment outside while she still can. Jane is busy with the school newspaper and doesn't really have time. Andy throws herself on the bed and dramatically moans that they are just roommates now and not friends because they won't do this one little thing for her. Not knowing what else to do, Toby and Jane capitulate.

I've noticed that the ghostie isn't giving us our standard "the roommates are very different but still very good friends" speech.  I wonder why.  She's also avoided describing the room to us which means we have no idea what kind of bedspread Andy has in this book.  I feel slightly cheated.

They go up to Merrie's and find Gigi and Yolanda already there trying to pin Merrie down on how to spell her name. By the way, this ghostie is skipping it entirely and just calling her Meredith. The 407 girls are incensed when they realize someone else has the audacity to think they might plan something for the school. Room 407 runs the fucking place and no one better forget it. Merrie asks them all to meet with her on Monday afternoon and then shoos them all out. Can't blame her there. She probably has some deep soul-searching to do about her name.

The 407 girls deign to stop by 409 to tell Dee and Maggie their trials and tribulations of having to work with Yolanda and Gigi on something. Dee and Maggie agree to volunteer too. I'm sure Maggie has something nefarious in mind. #oneeyeonMaggieatALLtimes Toby is concerned. Gigi is the only person on campus that Toby is afraid of.

We time hop to the meeting and it's not going well. Merrie is fed up with all the fighting. They spend half an hour discussing music. Gigi doesn't want to hire Ambulance because she thinks they're awful. You guys know how much I adore Cary, but for all I know she could be right. It's not like I've ever heard them play and that song he serenaded Jane with back in the first book was pretty damn awful. Gigi wants to hire a DJ to play “the latest records” because that's how we rolled in 1988. Sheesh. Merrie tells Jane to ask Cary how much Ambulance would charge to play and tells Gigi to price a DJ and they'll make a decision later.

Then they argue about a theme. Dee suggests a fairy tale theme and Gigi counters with a horror theme. Toby offers a compromise of having everyone dress as their favorite TV or movie character. It's quickly approved. They decide Jane will do table decorations and Gigi and Yolanda will figure out the haunted house. By this time, Merrie is at the end of her rope with all their bickering and she tells them all to leave.

We get a few paragraphs from Merrie telling us how wonderful the 407 girls are and how awful everyone who doesn't live in 407 is. But then she tells us that she purposely put up the notice to give some other girls a chance to plan something because 407 has pretty much been running the show around campus for a long time. This seems directly contradictory to what she JUST told us about 407 being the best. It was really weird and I'm starting to think maybe there's a reason that Merrie can't figure out how to spell her own name. Maybe she has DID. MERRIE is team 407 all the way baby and MERRY just wishes those bitches would get out of her face.

#teamMerry

We take a rare head hop into Cary's head now. He's sitting waiting for Jane to come out of her second committee meeting. I guess we just took a huge time hop too without me knowing it. He greets her with a smile and a kiss but she pulls away from him. He sadly thinks to himself that things have changed between them since she came home from Texas. He feels like she's very far away sometimes and he doesn't understand what's going on.

I can tell you, Cary. Your girlfriend is a cheating bitch.

They go for pizza and Gigi comes up to the table. She starts flirting with Cary pretty hard-core telling him he's the most talented member of his band and he should go solo like Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

Um.

When is this book supposed to take place? Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens died in 1959. Why would she use them for an example? I was sure this book took place in the 80's. The clothes sound like the 80's with lots of neon and slouchy socks and jams. So why are all the pop culture references so damn old?

Gigi begins to eat the pepperoni's right off the piece of pizza in Cary's hand and he's more than a little startled by this. After a few more attempts to shove her boobs in his face, she takes off. Jane is SUPER pissed at Cary because Gigi was flirting with him. Never mind the fact that he wasn't flirting back or that she's made out with several boys during this series that weren't Cary. #hypocritebitch Cary reassures her that Gigi isn't his type and he loves Jane. Poor Cary.

We flash into Gigi's head where she tells us that Cary is far too hot to be with Jane and she intends to take him away. While I'm all for Cary getting the hell out of Jane's clutches, Gigi is not better.

#emancipateCary

At dinner that night, Jane is telling Andy and Toby how Cary betrayed her by being flirted with by Gigi. They both put the blame squarely on Gigi's shoulders where it belongs. Suddenly Beau appears by Jane's side like it's perfectly normal for some boy who doesn't go to school there to just wander onto campus and into the cafeteria. He tells Jane that he had to come to Massachusetts because of his heart. She panics thinking he's dying of some mysterious disease but he just laughs and says his heart missed her so he hopped a plane and came to visit. Like 17-year-old high school seniors just do these things.

In what universe does this even happen? Where did he even get the fucking money for a plane ticket? This does NOT MAKE SENSE.

Naturally Gigi sees Jane with Beau and is determined to use it to her advantage.

Beau hasn't thought any of this through and has no place to stay. He asks if it's possible to stay in the dorms and Toby says she'll just take him to Randy's. I guess Randy is okay with just having random house guests shoved at him with no notice.

I 💖 Randy, by the way. Almost as much as I 💖 Cary. He's just such a nice guy.

They get to Randy's house and his parents invite everyone in and feed them apple cobbler. If Randy is surprised by their sudden appearance, he hides it well. He and Beau strike up a conversation and find they have a lot in common, both being ranch boys. Beau mentions he'll be in town for a week (WHY ISN'T HE IN SCHOOL???) and Randy automatically offers him a room without even having to be asked. Because Randy is 💫awesome💫. With that settled, Toby and Andy thank them for dessert and head home.

Beau walks Jane back. In her head, she's frantically trying to figure out how to hide Beau from Cary for a week. She goes on and on about how safe she feels with Beau and how if she were a pioneer, she'd want him by her side.

What?

A pioneer?

Where the hell did that come from?

She briefly considers reminding Beau that she has a boyfriend but then he kisses her and she can't remember Cary's name.

Grab your Purell, y'all. We have some serious disease going around up in here.

When Jane gets back to the room her roommates harsh her mellow. Andy tells her that she needs to talk to Cary ASAP before Gigi does it for her. Jane blames the whole thing on Beau saying that he should have been satisfied with all the phone calls and letters they've apparently been sending each other. Toby gets irritated with her and says she isn't being fair to either of them but particularly to Cary who has no idea Beau even exists. She also urges Jane to fess up but Jane just grumbles at them both for being bitchy and goes to bed.

A few days later, the inevitable happens. After a tour of campus, Jane and Beau are sitting on the steps of the dorm in front of the entire school cuddling when Cary drives up. We spend the next few pages bouncing from one head to another and it makes it hard to read. Cary is super confused. When he first sees the cuddling couple, he thinks Beau is Randy and assumes Jane is upset about something and Randy is comforting her. Cary isn't threatened by Randy who is such a magical being that no one could ever be upset with him.

Beau thinks Cary is ridiculous and calls him a “new age hippie” which is exactly what we called people in the late 80's. {{{face palm}}} Ghostie really has her finger on the pulse of youth culture here. Jane is frantic and wonders how she's going to get through this with BOTH boyfriends intact. The boys aren't dumb and figure things out almost immediately. Beau takes off first, clearly pissed and feeling dumb for flying halfway across the country when he should be in Geometry. Cary asks her what the hell is going on and she continues to hedge and tell half-truths. Finally he gets pissed too and takes off.

If only it would last. We all know this is too good to be true.

Jane goes back to the room all distraught and runs into Andy who is furious with the lot of them. No one is giving a fuck about the party committee and she angrily screams that she doesn't know why they volunteered in the first place if they didn't want to do the work. Toby calmly reminds her that they didn't want to volunteer at all but Andy insisted. That does not go over well and Andy goes boom.

After Andy stomps away, Jane whinges on about how her life is so impossible and it's everyone's fault but hers. Toby gets fed up with her. She goes to find Andy and apologizes for ditching the work. It's true that she doesn't care about the party and never wanted to be on the committee but Andy is her friend and she promises to be more helpful from now on. I 💖 Toby.

Later, Toby and Andy are in 409 carving pumpkins with Maggie and Dee to use as centerpieces for the party when Neal calls. He and Toby chat for a bit and she invites him to come to the party. He happily accepts. She fills him in on the Beau/Cary situation and Neal reminds her that not too long ago it was a Cary/Neal situation. This is a habit with Jane.

Back in 407 that night, Jane is still boo-hooing. She can't figure out which guy to call and make up with because she wants to have them both. She says she isn't ready to be tied down to one guy and that's perfectly fine IF the other guys know about it and are okay with it. Neither Cary nor Beau are okay with it currently. And Cary didn't know about Beau at all.

Jane eventually decides to make up with Beau because he'll only be there for a few more days. She figures she can make up with Cary later. She's fully confident that she'll come out of this with both boys back on her arms. Unfortunately, I am too and that makes me feel a little sick inside.

She goes to see Beau after class on Monday. He immediately takes her back and she doesn't protest when he decides to make out with her against Randy's fence. Nice girl, our Jane.

Meanwhile, Gigi is on the phone with Cary. He was hoping Jane would call but he hasn't heard from her at all and he's hurt. In his head he's imagining having to be on stage playing the party while Jane is dancing with Beau. Gigi wants some Oakley Prep boys to work the haunted house and she asks Cary if he'll round some up. He tells her he will but he's pretty heartbroken and he doesn't want to think about the party at all.

Jane eventually calls Cary and essentially says she wants a free pass for the week. She wants to date Beau while he's here and then go back to Cary when he leaves. It's stunningly selfish and Cary isn't going for it. He basically says if she can date someone else then he can too and she explodes. She can do it - he can't. He hangs up on her.

We get a couple pages of the girls discussing Halloween costumes. It's super boring and amounts to nothing because no one can decide what they want to be.

We get a couple pages of Jane whinging on about how everyone is out to ruin her life and Cary is being so awful to her.

We get a couple of pages of Gigi plotting with Yolanda to seduce Cary. We don't actually hear the plans but we're told they're planning, yo. There's lots of rubbing of hands together and eyebrow waggling so it must be pretty devious.

Yeah, right.

After class the next day, Jane and Toby head to the ranch to ask Randy and Beau to help with setup for the party. Nice they're getting roped in and neither of them actually go to school there. They need hay bales and fence posts and a scarecrow and Randy agrees to give them everything they need AND to help set up. Toby says the scarecrow will need clothes and Randy tells her to come to his room and pick out what she wants.

That would make me raise my eyebrows if it were anyone else but it's Randy.

Beau and Jane decide to take a walk. He thinks to himself that a week with Jane is just not enough. He's falling madly in love with her and he wants to take her back to Texas with him. Um, Beau? That's kidnapping and if you cross state lines the Fibbies are going to be after your ass so fast.

Now we're with Gigi. She's at Oakley Prep on the pretense of finding volunteers for her haunted house. And, of course, she needs Cary to show her around. She can't stop staring at him. She tells us how gorgeous he is and dumb Jane is for not knowing what she has. I never thought I'd say this, but I agree with Gigi. #preachingtothechoir He feels her eyes on him and gives her a self-conscious little smile and that dazzles her so much that she steps off the sidewalk and twists her ankle.

Cary is immediately concerned and asks if she's okay and she tells him that she doesn't think she can walk. There's a bench a few feet away and he just swoops her right up in his arms and carries her over. She's still swooning from this when he drops down and begins probing her ankle with gentle fingers. Gigi's completely done for at this point and ready to have his children. He asks her if she needs to go to the infirmary and she says she just needs to sit and rest for a minute so he nods and sits with her. She invites him to have a pizza with her to repay him for his time and he can't think of an excuse fast enough so he agrees to go.

Naturally Jane and Beau are at the pizza place too. They're holding hands when Gigi and Cary walk in and Cary is pretty much gutted. He has a minute where he's glad she's seeing him with Gigi because maybe now she'll know how bad it feels to see the person you love with someone else. I think that's wishful thinking on his part. Jane has no soul. In fact, while Cary is hurt and sad about the entire thing, Jane is merely pissed that he has the audacity to date someone else.

Man, she's getting to me. I want to throat punch her.

Jane calls Cary later to tell him that Gigi will only hurt him. He replies that Jane already gutted him so she shouldn't worry about Gigi doing any damage. Jane won't listen to anything that relates to what she's done. She tells him that Gigi is cruel and he tells her that she is too. She can't believe he's talking to her this way as I'm doing cartwheels in my living room and shouting FINALLY as loud as I can. But we all know it's not going to last.

We briefly land in Gigi's head but nothing interesting is going on. She's fantasizing about kissing Cary and being his beloved for all time.

We land in Beau's head. He's staying in Randy's room and we learn that Randy has two twin beds.

Guys, what the fuck is going on with Randy? He's either 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 depending on who the ghostie is at the time. Why is he still living at home in a room with two twin beds? Why hasn't he gone off to school or gotten his own place or at least upgraded his bed to an adult bed??????

Anyway, Beau is morose because Jane seems embarrassed by him when they're out and about. He knows he doesn't fit into her world and he's starting to think that she'll never fit into his either. He decides he's going to fly home early. I'm sure he has some homework to finish after missing an entire week of school.

The next day, Randy is waiting for Jane after she gets out of class. He tells her that Beau is planning to leave the next morning and at first she is relieved because then he won't be at the party. Randy convinces her to at least talk to Beau because he seems really upset and she agrees. When she gets there, Beau is pretty down. He says he came to Massachusetts hoping to find the girl he met in Texas but she doesn't exist. She begs him to stay and come to the party which makes no damn sense because she was just relieved that he wouldn't be there. Keep track of your damn story, ghostie.

We hop into room 407 where Dee and Maggie are modeling their costumes. Dee is going as Madonna and Maggie is the Pink Panther. Andy is going as a bag of jelly beans...... which......isn't exactly a TV or Movie character. Toby is undecided and they do a huge pressure campaign to get her to dress as Raggedy Ann. She calls Neal to see what he's doing and he hasn't decided yet either. When she mentions the Raggedy Ann suggestion, he thinks it's a great idea and offers to dress up as Raggedy Andy.

Jane comes in the room bawling because Beau is leaving and won't talk to her. Toby agrees to go talk to him. Beau gives her the same “we're just too different” speech and Toby thinks he's being an idiot. She tells him that Jane is super upset and he decides to stay because a real gentleman never breaks a lady's heart.

#gag

Beau calls Jane to tell her he's staying and will be at the party. She's ecstatic about that which doesn't make any sense at all since she's been dreading it all week. She tells him he's supposed to dress up but he balks at that. Apparently Beau is too cool for costumes. Like it will matter anyway. He just has to show up in his regular clothes and say he's from Dallas or something and he's good. Beau tells her nothing has changed – they still aren't compatible for a relationship. Jane doesn't care. Neither are her and Cary but she's not intending to marry either Cary or Beau. She's just having fun. To bad Cary and Beau aren't.

Friday arrives and Neal is in town. I guess he's staying for the weekend so he can go to the party. All of these teens have very liberal parents. He arrives to take Toby to dinner and the two of them are just adorable together. They go to the Greenleaf Inn to eat and Toby can't help thinking that the elegant setting suits Neal perfectly. The firelight is making him even more gorgeous and she's grateful that he never makes her feel like she isn't good enough for him. Neal has always just accepted her for who she is and never made her feel like she should change.

Okay, okay.  I 💖 Neal too.

Neal is doing some thinking of his own. He's clearly smitten with Toby and grateful that she doesn't act like the last spoiled princess he dated (Jane). After dinner they go for a walk around town. Beau's manifesto about him and Jane not being right for each other because they come from different worlds seeps into Toby's brain. She knows she and Neal are in the same boat really. She can't imagine ever being happy in Boston and she knows he would hate living out on the prairie. She decides not to let it get to her though. She still has a couple years of high school left and there's plenty of time to worry about things like that later.

She and Neal head back to Canby where they park and make out for awhile. It's Toby's first “real” kiss and she's glad it's with Neal. It's all very sweet and precious.

We skip to Saturday morning and everyone is furiously setting up for the Halloween party. Neal, Randy and Beau all arrive to help and it's such a weird thing, really. Jane still acts like she and Neal are a thing whenever she sees him which would piss me off royally if I were Toby but Toby doesn't seem to care. Toby can't help her entire being lighting up when she sees Randy – and who can blame her really. Beau is super into Jane but has this huge history with Toby and the ghostie even manages to make it sound like the two of them are making eyes at each other. It's one major mass of awkward and I'm not the only one who thinks so. Gigi is watching the entire thing with interest.

Cary shows up with the band to get equipment set up and he's clearly still pretty heartbroken. He sees Jane with Beau and it's just a slap in the face so he acts like a 16-year-old boy and purposely flirts with Gigi a little. I don't get upset with Cary often, but this isn't right. I know Gigi is an awful person but she seems to genuinely like him and he's just playing with her feelings right now to mask his own hurt. It's not fair to her.

Later the girls get into costume. Jane is wearing camo and going as someone from MASH. She's complaining.....as hard as it probably is for you to believe that {{{eye roll}}}.....about how different Beau seems in Massachusetts as opposed to Texas. Toby points out that Jane barely knows him at all and he's bound to be different in an environment he's not comfortable in versus at home. Jane mostly ignores that logic and complains that the time she's spending with Beau is making it harder for her with Cary.

YOU THINK??????

Holy hell this girl is dense. Toby tells her that she needs to evaluate her life choices. She basically flirted with Beau in Texas because it was fun but Beau didn't know she wasn't serious and he got his heart involved. It wasn't fair to Beau and, Toby points out, it wasn't fair to Cary. Jane carelessly hurt both of them in different ways. Toby leaves and Jane dismisses everything she said. None of this was her fault. Boys shouldn't take her so seriously, that's all. Great, Jane. Strive to have men not take you seriously. That doesn't set the entire female species back or anything.

At the party everyone assumes that Beau is dressed as some TV cowboy. I bet he wins an award for best costume and he's just dressed like he usually is. He sits back and thinks extremely judgmental things about Cary based solely on his hair and earring. It's pretty awful. Jane and Beau get up to dance and then poor Cary has to stand there and sing a romantic song while the girl he loves slow dances with another guy. It kills him and he wants to stop right in the middle but he carries on. As soon as it's over, he puts his guitar down and tells his band he needs a break.

#sob

Gigi appears and offers Cary a private tour of the haunted house. He'd do just about anything to get out of sight of Jane and Beau. While they head that way, Merrie jumps up on stage to hand out awards for the costumes. Andy wins for most unique. Beau wins for most authentic. #calleditsuckas We don't get to hear the rest because we hop back into Cary's head. The haunted house is empty except for him and Gigi. She corners him by the coffin and plants a huge kiss on him. He manages to politely extricate himself and tells her that he has to get back to work. Jane sees him coming out and tells him that he has Gigi's lipstick all over his mouth.

Later, the 407 girls decide to go through the haunted house. They get separated fairly quick and we find ourselves hosted by Andy. One of the areas is Frankenstein's Lab. People are blindfolded and made to touch things like olives (eyeballs) and spaghetti (guts) etc. It's pretty standard and I remember doing it in the 80's. We used peeled grapes for the eyeballs though. Have you ever tried to peel a grape? Not fun, my friends.

One of the boxes actually contains live rats Gigi has stolen from the Science department. When Andy feels them moving around under her hand, she rips off her blindfold. Seeing the rats, she screams and accidentally knocks over the box with her ridiculous costume. The rats make a run for it. Everyone in the haunted house begins to scream and bash into things in their haste to get away. The entire structure comes down. The rats escape into the party room but are quickly caught safely by some of the braver students. PA (head bitch in charge) is super pissed.

The next day they all go to clean up the mess. Beau stops by to help Randy load up his hay and fence posts. He and Jane take a walk. He tells her that he's glad he got to see her but he shouldn't have come. When he gets back to Texas he intends to move on and date other people. He wants to stay friends and hopes she'll come back to Texas next summer to visit but he can't pine away for her anymore. Jane is fine with this and tells him to stay in touch.

Neal comes to say goodbye to Toby and they do a whole lot of kissing. He tells her he'll try to come back in a month because he doesn't want to go so long without seeing her. It's all very sweet.

Sometime that afternoon Cary shows up at Baker House. He's waiting in the lobby for Jane to come down and she's struck by how lonely and sad he looks. He asks her if they can take a walk and she agrees. He tells her that he didn't kiss Gigi and she tells him he had every right to do that if he wanted. She kissed Beau after all. He tells her he doesn't want to be with anyone but her but he doesn't want her to be with anyone else either. If they're going to be together he wants them to be exclusive. She agrees to this without even thinking about it and they kiss. She thinks to herself that Cary and Beau are very different kissers. Beau is stronger but Cary is more gentle. That's because Cary actually loves you, girl. He kisses you with love and not just hormones.

Jane goes back up to her room and happily announces to her roommates that she has both boys again.

But.......

Didn't Beau friendzone her?

She's completely ignoring that in her own little Jane way, isn't she?

This girl needs help, y'all.

The book ends with the three girls reminding us that they'll be friends forever. We don't even get a cheesy line. {{{sigh}}} I hate it when that happens.

Guys.....Penny wasn't mentioned ONCE in this book. She wasn't even at the party. She's worm food, isn't she?

The Least Annoying Person in Greenleaf Award: This could go to so many. Toby and Randy and Neal can all share it this time. I'm sure they'll devise a system to accomplish it without squabbling. Cary almost could have shared it but he dicked around with Gigi a little bit and I can't reward that.

The Bitch of Baker House Award: Shall we say it together? {{{WALK IT OFF!!!}}} No, not that. What's wrong with you? Focus! It's JANE. {{{jazz hands}}} She's awful and I hate her more than Gigi which should be impossible.

Coming Up Next: Allegra is getting married and the girls are all invited!!