Old Spice
- Corinna and Clare go to CVS, where some seventh-grade boys are buying giant sticks of Old Spice deodorant. The girls wonder if the boys realize how stinky that stuff is.
- When she gets home from CVS and takes Maki for a walk, Corinna sees a boy and girl riding bikes in her neighborhood. One of them looks like Alex, but he lives across town.
- She wonders if he already has a girlfriend, and she wonders even more when she sees him talking to Juliette at school.
- She asks Clare to do some snooping and find out if Juliette likes Alex, too.
- In the meantime, the boys aren't the only people at school with body odor—Mr. Spinolli, her despised social studies teacher, has awful blue cheese breath.
- They have a test in his class. He sees a textbook under her desk with a paper sticking out of it, thinks she's reading the answers off the paper, and sends her to the office.
- When he comes in, he's holding the textbook. He tells her cheating won't look good on her record.
- She tells him it's not hers—and when he opens the book, he sees that it actually belongs to someone else. He does not, however, apologize.
- The worst part is that it was another humiliation in front of Alex. Determined to avoid any more, Corinna goes home and practices her flute for the first time in months.