Confessions of a Teen Nanny 03 - Juicy Secrets by Victoria. Ashton Page B

now?"

    Adrienne looked out the window. There was water everywhere.

    "Uh, Graydon," Adrienne said. "Where are we?"

    "That's Baltimore," Graydon replied. "I know a great little place for crab cakes there."

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    Baltimore. As in Maryland. A grin snaked across Adrienne's face. I can't believe that this is even my life!

    "Take a look at this!" Cameron Warner said Sunday morning. She tossed a copy of The New York Times on the kitchen table between Emma and Adrienne. "Blake Weinstein is a total genius!"

    Adrienne turned, bleary-eyed. The COW had called waaaay too early that morning begging, pleading, and basically ordering Adrienne to come in on a Sunday. Reluctantly, Adrienne agreed--it was easier than arguing, and Mrs. Warner promised to double the rate for the day. But Adrienne had eaten too many crab cakes and hadn't gotten home until 1 A.M., and her parents had been furious!

    They'd have killed me if they knew I was out of the state! Adrienne thought. No, first they would have killed Graydon. Then they would have killed me.

    "What, Cam?" she replied.

    "Don't encourage her," Emma grumbled. She took a spoonful of cereal. That was all Adrienne had managed to come up with as breakfast. Tania had some family emer- gency, though Adrienne wondered if maybe the emergency was that Tania just had to get away from this crazy family.

    Cameron whacked Emma on the head with her purse.

    "Hey!" Emma yelped.

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    "Okay, Cameron, I'll play," Adrienne said. She hoped once Cam got the attention she needed, she'd go away. "Who is Blake Weinstein, and why is he a genius?"

    "He is my new PR guy," Cameron said."When I was using Gabby Litsman, all I got was bad press.Well, duh, she was, like, thirty, and totally jealous of me. But Blake is fabulous!"

    Adrienne looked down at the newspaper. "WARNER SIBLINGS LEARN PHILANTHROPY EARLY," the headline said. Below it was a photograph of Cameron and Graydon sit- ting on tiny chairs, reading a book aloud to a group of rapt and adorable children.

    Cameron dropped onto a chair."Read it out loud, won't you? I just love hearing the words of a true literary talent."

    "`Cameron Warner,'" Adrienne read aloud, "`has fol- lowed the example of her stepmother Christine Olivia Warner, a known New York socialite and philanthropist. Since her stunning debut at the recent Manhattan Cotillion, Miss Warner has spent more time at the library, and less time dancing on tabletops.'"

    "Fabulous, no?" Cameron said, rummaging in her purse. "Go on."

    "` "I just think that I've grown out of my bad-girl days,"Warner says, her famously silver-blue eyes downcast. "The future of New York is in its kids, and I'm lucky to be able to help the library increase literacy."'"

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    Adrienne lowered the paper and stared at Cameron. "Are you really working with kids in a literacy program?"

    "Well, that day I was, sure," Cameron said, checking her lip gloss in a gilded pocket mirror."Blake set the whole thing up."

    Emma looked up from her copy of Surreptitious Sonic Engineering magazine. "Cameron," she asked, "can you even read?"

    "Shut up, ratbag." Cameron snapped her compact shut. "I read Vogue cover to cover every month, and in September, that's, like, a thousand pages."

    Emma snorted.

    "Go on, it gets better," Cameron instructed Adrienne.

    "`With Graydon and Cameron Warner as the new co- chairs of the Young Lions' Committee for Development, the city will certainly be a better place because of their efforts.'"

    "So Mimi's out, and you and Graydon are in." Adrienne put down the newspaper. "You got what you wanted."

    "Don't I always?" Cameron stood."Well, I'll leave you to . . . well, whatever it is that you do." She picked up the newspaper and headed for the door. She stopped and turned.

    "You know, Adrienne, at first I wasn't all that happy that I'd have to share the committee with Graydon," she