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hearing?
    BRITTANY:
    Yes, is it really true? Everyone has been talking, even Mrs. Temlock-Fields, and she only usually just whispers.
    ASHLEY:
    Zoey, are you really really going to have your own column—and blog—
    BRITTANY:
    —in
U GrL
magazine? Like having your picture in it, and everything and so on and so on and so on?
    ZOEY:
    Maybe. I guess. They asked me. Not sure. But, probably… uh, yes.
    BRITTANY:
    Very VERY cool! Very very.
    VENUS:
    It’s
magnifico
, is what it is.
    ASHLEY:
    Absolutely!
Magni
… what Venus just said.
Magni
… you know.
    BRITTANY:
    We want to know everything about the whole day from both of you.
    ASHLEY:
    EVERYTHING as in ALL. You have to tell us what you did. What you said.
    BRITTANY:
    So come sit with us!
    ASHLEY:
    Yes, sit at our table!
    An incredible happening has just incredibly happened. Zoey and Venus have just been asked by The Bashleys to sit at The Table Bashley.
    Venus looks at Zoey.
    Zoey looks at Venus.
    And only the you-know-who get to sit there.
    Zoey sees Alex Shemtob inhaling and Walter Colson polka-dotting. It’s an easy multiple-choice. ‖ Zoey smiles and turns to The Bashleys.
    ZOEY:
    Thanks for asking, Ashley. You too, Brittany. But, actually, Venus and I sit at …
    Table Ten.
    ZOEY:
    If you want … you can join us.
    Venus and Zoey and their trays filled with plates of slumgullion and a jellied Medley of the Unknown Green Vegetables walk past The Table Bashley to Table Ten.
    They sit between Simon Malachek and Walter Colson’s spiky hair, and right across from Alex Shemtob.
    The girls are not wearing their art smocks.
    They do not care.
    The End

Just so you know, this is not like the last chapter of my whole entire life. After all, I am only almost eleven.
    (But I’m thinking — it’s pretty magnifico.) z.z
    Oh — remember that Toe Story I was supposed to tell you?

It really isn’t that important.

Chie ZoCabuLary
    arrivederci : Italian for “till we meet again,” “good-bye” pronunciation: ar-E-vA-der-chE syn:
adios, au revoir, sayonara
    avalanche : n. a mass of stuff waiting to happen in my locker
    backstory : n. fill in the blank spill; info that you don’t know, but should know
    b-friend : n. best friend
    Bashleys, The : n. combination name for Brittany & Ashley (as in, Zoey + Venus = Zenus)
    bene : n. or adj. Italian for
magnifico, (bella, buono)
good
    boing : adj. wow on the coolability meter < duct tape is boing >
    bucatini : n. fat spaghetti
    cannoli : n. an Italian crispy pastry filled with creamy stuff < Mrs. Temlock-Fields’s favorite dessert > pronunciation: Ka-nO-Lee
    carbon footprint : n. a measure of the effect human activity has on the environment, calculated in units of carbon dioxide; your ‘personal planet polluting profile’ (aka E-4P)
    celebritini : n. Venus-Zoey speak for famous person
    coolability : n. extreme cool < the coolability meter went boing >
    curiouser : adj. odd; strange Google: Alice in W-land
    dewey decimal : n. duh. (Have you never used the library!)
    digital : v. to take a brain picture (see Chapter Three)
    disasco : n. see
fiasco
    dollar word choice : adj. see
primo
    EC : adj. environmentally correct < do the right thing and be EC >
    factoid : n. bite of info
    fairy dust intervention : n. Big Time Help from a Fairygodmother
    fedora : n. spiffy hat
    fiasco : n. a disaster < using hair gel can result in a fiasco-disasco >
    global warming : n. earth fever < as the Captain of the
Titanic
should have said, “Pay attention to those icebergs!” >
    hybrid hummer : n. according to Venus, an “eco-cool set of wheels”
    intermezzo : n. Italian for a “short break”
    lactose intolerant : n. or adj. inability to digest milk products (You really don’t want me to use this in a sentence.)
    larvae : n. plural of larva wormlike stage of insect life process (icky, yet interesting)
    Lightbulb Momento : n. aha!
    M-W : n.
Merriam-Webster
    magnifico : adj. Italian for “even better bene,” “most excellent ever”
    massive :