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The Queen of Second Place by Laura Peyton Roberts
The Queen of Second Place by Laura Peyton Roberts




The Queen of Second Place by Laura Peyton Roberts

His theory is that other people don’t believe there will be a good space left, so they don’t look. If the hottest band in the country were playing a free concert somewhere with only a hundred spaces, Quentin would get there ten minutes before the group went on and still get a place right in front.

The Queen of Second Place by Laura Peyton Roberts

Quentin parks in front at school, at the beach, at the movies. There’s no place too popular, no lot too crowded. This other guy I know-actually, we used to kind of go out, but that’s another story-his talent is finding parking. Fitz’s is definitely not the kind of talent you’d love to have, but maybe it will come in handy if he ever has to choose a line for something bad. Then the next guy will try to write a check with no ID and the cashier will call the manager but no one will be able to find him because he’s on a break and. When they finally get it running again, the person first in line will want to use about five hundred coupons. Say he’s at the store-the cash register will break. There can be twenty people in one line and two in the other, and if Fitz gets in the two-person line, that’s all it’s going to take. This guy I know, Fitz, his talent is always choosing the longest line-not the one that looks the longest, the one that takes the longest. But those are the glory talents, the ones that everyone wants, and for every diva out there, about a million other people are walking around with one of the lesser talents, the kind that don’t get their own videos. People think that talent means you sing, or dance, or act. The problem is, not all talents are created equal. I honestly believe that every human being on earth is born with one special gift. I have this theory that everybody has a talent.






The Queen of Second Place by Laura Peyton Roberts