She's Got Game Page 17

  “I will,” Alicia said.

  Jamie grinned. “It’s kind of cool, isn’t it?”

  “What?”

  “It’s like we’re famous,” Jamie said.

  A group of girls who had attended Carmen’s multiculti “Lati-Jew-na” quince honoring her mixed Jewish and Latino heritage walked by and held up the spray-painted bags that Jamie had made for their best friend’s celebration. “Hola y shalom,” the girls called out, using the Spanish and Hebrew words for hello that Jamie had tagged in block-print graffiti on the front and back of each guest’s stylish party favor. Jamie laughed. “You see what I mean?”

  Alicia had to agree. In their corner of the world, there was no doubt they really were almost famous. Life, it would seem, couldn’t get much sweeter.

  To be continued…