Reading blog-11/12/08

I am recently reading the book Last Christmas by Kate Brian. It is a prequel to the private series books. This book is about Ariana Osgood's love life with Thomas Pearson a year before Reed Breenan showed up, and before Ariana attempted to kill Reed. So far, I am at chapter 8. The book starts out with october of senior year, when she killed Thomas Pearson. It says how after Noelle, Kiran, and Taylor had tied him up and beaten him, she had went back to untie him. Since they had a previous relationship, she thought that he still loved her. But, when she says these things Thomas starts telling her she's psycho, crazy, and just like her mother. This hits her hard and she picks up a baseball bat and kills him. Then it goes to december of Junior year where all of the easton students are at the Winter Ball having a good time. She is going out with Daniel Ryan, Paige Ryan, the president of Billings, brother, both of whom are seniors. At the ball, the Billings girls and their boyfriends are sitting, eating, talking about winter break plans when a new Exchange student, Segei who is a photographer, starts taking pictures of the girls at the table. Daniel gets upset when he see's pictures of Ariana on his camera so he takes his camera away. After everyone left, Thomas met with Ariana alone and they talked. She realized that even though Daniel was perfect on paper he wasn't in life and that she wanted Thomas. When she got back to her room, Noelle told her that a fool would pass up Daniel for Thomas. Later, Ariana was trying to write her paper on Madame Bovary, when her mother called. They talked about her plans to go to Vermont with Daniel and how proud she was of Ariana. After the assembly, Thomas catches Ariana and tells her that she likes being called his nicknames and the like, but Paige was there to witness it. When walking back from english, Paige said that Ariana better not be late to Vermont, but Ariana still needed to write her paper in a matter of hours. At chapter 8, Noelle and Ariana go to the North Face Store to get Daniel a christmas present. Noelle leaves to a different store. Thomas surprises her by going into the store also. Ariana didn't want to be seen with him because Paige would get really mad. Then Thomas leans in to kiss her but a girl knocks a rack into them. All of a sudden Ariana fells like someone is watching them and tells Thomas to leave. After meeting up with Noelle, they see Sergei with his camera coming out of the North Face with a shopping bag and Noelle thinks that its cute that he has a crush on Ariana but she knows better.