Beastly: Lindy's Diary by Alex Flinn

dark, so it seems like Kyle would be right. Yet it’s Adrian I
    came to love.
    “How about Stud Muffin?” he suggested when I told him this.
    “Adrian it is,” I said, and it has been. People at school call him Kyle, but that’s because they don’t know him like I do.
    School? We’re both back at Tuttle for senior year. I got my scholarship back, and Adrian’s dad (surprise, surprise) managed to pull some strings for him, too. It’s kind of weird, seeing Sloane Hagen in the halls.
    She glares at me as if I stole her boyfriend—and maybe I did.
    But the guy I’m dating isn’t the same guy who dated Sloane. He’s changed completely. Yesterday, for
    example, I saw him talking to this new guy, a ninth grader.
    The guy has a stutter and really bad acne. Kyle was talking to him about tennis team tryouts.
    The old Kyle would never have bothered with someone like that. He wouldn’t even have bothered with
    me.
    “The old Kyle would have made his life miserable,” Adrian said when I mentioned it to him. “Don’t
    remind me about that guy.”
    “There was always some good, deep inside him.”
    “Yeah, real deep. So deep you’d need an archeologist to find it.”
    “I saw the good in you,” I said.
    “You see the good in everyone. That’s what I love about you.”
    I said, “I love you, too.” And I did.
    The person I don’t see at Tuttle anymore is Kendra. No surprise, really. What I found out about her was,
    she was the witch who turned Kyle into a beast. Because he was apparently such a jerk to her at the dance (and in general), she placed a curse on him, and someone had to kiss him to end it. I did. Oh, and after it was all over, she transformed into a crow and flew away.
    Yes, you read that right.
    But the weird thing is, once I knew Kendra was a witch, I started thinking about all those dreams I’d had about her.
    Like, were they really dreams?
    Or was she there, in person, trying to help Adrian and me get together?
    Another thing she did with her magic was, she gave Will his sight back.
    Will is a teacher at Tuttle. Adrian and I still live with him in the brownstone in Brooklyn (which was,
    btw, the one I saw that day). Adrian told his father it was because it wasn’t worth the effort of moving
    back in with him, just for one year of school, but we all knew that wasn’t the whole story.
    And my dad? I haven’t seen him, not since he left that last time. Adrian doesn’t have the mirror anymore, so I can’t even spy on him that way. It’s probably better. I’ve realized that, sometimes, you have to let people go.
    But I’m really glad I have someone to hold on to.
    About the Author
    Alex Flinn loves fairy tales and made her two daughters sit through several dozen versions of Beauty and the Beast while she wrote BEASTLY . . . then quizzed them on how they thought a beast would meet girls in New York City. BEASTLY is now a major motion picture starring Vanessa Hudgens as Lindy. Alex is
    also the author of BEWITCHING, a novel about the immortal life of Kendra Hilferty (the witch from
    BEASTLY!); CLOAKED, a fairy tale mash-up set in steamy South Beach; and A KISS IN TIME, an edgy
    twist on Sleeping Beauty . Her other books include BREATHING UNDERWATER, an ALA Top 10 Best
    Book for Young Adults; BREAKING
    POINT, an ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults; NOTHING
    TO LOSE, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; FADE
    TO BLACK, and DIVA. She lives in Miami with her husband and two children.
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