Summary

Chapter 1

This chapter starts out with all of the girls hanging out in Carmen’s bedroom. They are all talking about their summer plans and how much they will miss each other. Tibby is the most upset as she isn’t going anywhere for the summer and has taken a summer job in town, which she’s already hating. The others try to make her feel better and that makes her even angrier. Spying the jeans that Carmen has just bought, she asks if she can try them on. Carmen agrees and Tibby puts them on. She finds that despite the fact that she and Carmen are built differently, the jeans look fantastic on her. Lena tries them on next, then Bridget, whose athletic build practically guarantees that they won’t fit. But they do. In each case, despite the fact that the...