people hooking up and getting drunk at parties around town. No one knows who runs the account; they
just send in the content. There was a picture of a girl from another high school that went viral last
year—she was flashing a cop car. I heard she got expelled from school for it.
My phone buzzes again.
NOW!“Hold on, Kitty, let me check something first,” I say, pausing the video. As I type in the address, I
say, “If you want to stay in here, close your eyes until I tell you to open them.”
Kitty obeys.
At the top of Anonybitch’s feed, there is a video of a boy and a girl making out in a hot tub.
Anonybitch is particularly famous for her hot tub videos. She tags them #rubadub. This one’s a little
grainy, like it was zoomed in from far away. I click play. The girl is sitting in the boy’s lap, her body
draped over his, legs hooked around his waist, arms around his neck. She’s wearing a red nightgown,
and it billows in the water like a full sail. The back of her head obscures the boy. Her hair is long,
and the ends dip into the hot tub like calligraphy brushes in ink. The boy runs his hands down her
spine like she is a cello and he is playing her.
I’m so entranced I don’t notice at first that Kitty is watching with me. Both of our heads are tilted,
trying to suss out what it is we’re looking at. “You shouldn’t be looking at this,” I say.
“Are they doing it?” she asks.
“It’s hard to say because of her nightgown.” But maybe?
Then the girl touches the boy’s cheek, and there is something about the movement, the way she
touches him like she is reading braille. Something familiar. The back of my neck goes icy cold, and I
am hit with a gust of awareness, of humiliating recognition.
That girl is me. Me and Peter, in the hot tub on the ski trip.
Oh my God.
I scream.
Margot comes racing in, wearing one of those Korean beauty masks on her face with slits for eyes,
nose, and mouth. “What? What?”
I try to cover the computer screen with my hand, but she pushes it out of the way, and then she lets
out a scream too. Her mask falls off. “Oh my God! Is that you?”
Oh my God oh my God oh my God.
“Don’t let Kitty see!” I shout.
Kitty’s wide-eyed. “Lara Jean, I thought you were a goody-goody.”
“I am!” I scream.
Margot gulps. “That... that looks like.. .”
“I know. Don’t say it.”
“Don’t worry, Lara Jean,” Kitty soothes. “I’ve seen worse on regular TV, not even HBO.”
“Kitty, go to your room!” Margot yells. Kitty whimpers and clings closer to me.
I can’t believe what I am seeing. The caption reads Goody two shoes Lara Jean having full-on
sex with Kavinsky in the hot tub. Do condoms work underwater? Guess we’ll find out soon enough.
;) The comments are a lot of wide-eyed emojis and lols. Someone named Veronica Chen wrote, What
a slut! Is she Asian?? I don’t even know who Veronica Chen is!
“Who could have done this to me?” I wail, pressing my hands to my cheeks. “I can’t feel my face.