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He also warns me that every single kid who comes into the park will feel the need to pull my tail. Despite my natural instinct, it is not all right for me to slug them when they do this.

We chat some more until Krys finds us and orders us back inside for more practice. Two hours later I stumble back into the locker room and collapse on the bench. I am totally exhausted. My face and hair are so covered in sweat that I don’t even know where to begin.

As if on cue, Crystal and the other mermaids come in from their photo shoot. They don’t mock or pick or even notice my existence. They don’t have to.

They just smile their perfect smiles, toss their perfect hair, and heave their perfect (and fake) breasts. I was supposed to be one of them. I was supposed to be in a bikini, working on my tan and flirting with boys. Instead, I’m a giant beaver in a fur suit getting my tail yanked by bratty kids.

I watch them sashay by and realize a horrifying truth. The conspiracy to ruin my life is now complete.

They just can’t wait till graduation.

Mandy, Kai, Debbie, and Eva have one thing they must do before the end of high school … win the prestigious Treemont scholarship. It’s a free pass to the college of their choice. But the award has one very bizarre little requirement: “Purity of soul and body.”

In an effort to proclaim their “purity” to the whole school, Mandy starts the Virginity Club. The friends agree that a social service club is a great idea, but agreeing to keep the big V until graduation is another story. Because Mandy, Kai, Debbie, and Eva are each hiding something from the others. Something important.

And their secrets may cost them a whole lot more than just a scholarship….

The Virginity Club

By Kate Brian, author of
The Princess & the Pauper

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