After 10 years, Jessica and Elizabeth are back in “ Sweet Valley Confidential.” The new novel, released Tuesday, propels them into adulthood. The object was to get ready for your date, and you hoped it wasn’t with Winston. The Wakefield twins were the original Gossip Girls, the twinemies who ruled Sweet Valley High over the course of more than 143 books plus a mess of spinoff series and innumerable switcheroo high jinks that were mostly plotted by bad twin Jessica and nixed by good twin Elizabeth. There was a time - and if you did not live through this time, I cannot explain it to you, because it probably means you never longed to be a Unicorn or write for the Oracle - when the personality of every high school girl could be explained by the following shorthand: Jessica. “SWEET VALLEY CONFIDENTIAL,” by Francine Pascal (St.
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