Free What If... All Your Friends Turned On You by Liz Ruckdeschel

think the waif look is in, turn to IV .
    All the dieting and cleansing is for a purpose, don’t forget: to make those flirty beach boys eat their hearts out. Looking lean and mean is just one part of the plan. If you want to see what goes down when the ladies unleash their arsenal of weapons on the unsuspecting boys, go to, MAN DOWN .
    Of course, changing your looks and getting revenge on unfaithful boys is risky business, best done carefully. If you think Haley should go home and regroup before she makes any major decisions about love and life, turn to, ON THE SCALE .
    Do boys really want girls who are literally starving for attention? Haley’s about to find out .

THE COCO CLEANSE
    If you are what you eat, what is a person who eats nothing?
    â€œE verything with calories is bad for you,” Coco declared.
    â€œEven spinach?” Whitney said. “Even fish?”
    â€œEverything,” Coco said.
    â€œThat doesn’t really make sense, Coco,” Sasha protested. “Food is the fuel your body needs to get up in the morning and get through the day. Calories are just a measure of how much energy you’ll get from your food.”
    â€œThat’s the sort of thing fat people say,” Coco said. “So I’d expect it coming from you.”
    While Coco and the other girls were following a strict ten-day fasting plan—they were currently on day two—Sasha was still consuming some light proteins and steamed vegetables. And Coco wasn’t letting her forget it, needling her constantly about her “chubby” cheeks and “thick” thighs, even though there was nothing chubby or thick about Sasha at all.
    Haley had decided there was no arguing with the Gospel According to Coco, though. She’d been given a guest pass to Coco’s health club, where all the other girls belonged, so that she could join her friends for a group “detox” sauna in the mornings before school. She loved how refreshed it made her feel. Her skin looked clearer and her mind felt sharper. But it also made her thirsty, like, really thirsty, and she drank gallons of water to make up for all the fluid she sweated out every morning.
    â€œFood is the enemy,” Coco went on. “All food.”
    â€œWhat about mangoes? Or grapefruit?” Whitney said. “I heard they speed your metabolism.”
    â€œYou don’t need to speed your metabolism if you haven’t taken in any calories to burn,” Coco said, leaning back against the cedar sauna wall and adjusting her towel.
    â€œCan’t argue with that,” Cecily said.
    â€œSo what can we eat?” Whitney moaned. Giving up sweets had been the hardest for her.
    â€œNothing,” Coco declared. “Except for lemon juice.”
    She really is serious
, Haley thought. After all, even paramecia needed to eat something … bacteria, if Haley recalled last year’s biology class correctly. No woman could live on lemon juice alone. And in fact, Haley had secretly been picking at healthy dinners with her family at night, and having two bites from a small bowl of oatmeal before school in the mornings. She’d expected the diet to last a couple of days and then for everyone to come to their senses, but Coco was showing no signs of letting up.
    â€œHeat’s the best thing for you,” Coco said. “I basically live in heat now. Sauna in the morning, steam showers at night, Bikram yoga in the afternoons … it makes me feel great. All the gunk in my system is being flushed out. I think it’s working, don’t you?”
    Cecily checked her watch. “That’s twenty minutes. We ought to get to school.”
    The girls trooped into the locker room for cooling showers. Haley opened her locker, unscrewed the cap on a big bottle of water and drank it down as Coco took off her towel and started getting dressed. Haley noticed that her friend’s normally svelte body was even tighter and