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Kylie winced in sy for Daphne for a week now, and as the Teacher’s Petty tour got underway, she learned that Daphne could either be the sweetest, most fun person in the worldor a complete nut job She’d been warned by everyone in the crew to not take anything Daphne did or said personally, and to just ride out any sort of confrontation Give Daphne the right of way and the arguments would disappear

So far, to Kylie, Daphne was decent enough Sos she was snippy, but she liked the job that Kylie did on her imen that Kylie had put her on, so she was happy She still referred to Kylie as "Fat Marilyn," but Kylie was getting used to that Apparently Daphne was bad with names and so everyone had a Daphne-anointed nicknaer" for short, because she was redheaded, freckled all over, and tended to wear tight clothing One of the lighting creas called "Hodor," the sound guy was "Hairy Dave," and Daphne called her assistant "Snoopy" because she "ran her like a dog" All in all, "Fat Marilyn" wasn’t so bad of a nickna the dancers all kinds of insulting things, depending on if they were getting in her way or not

"She was nicer before the drugs," Ginger told her, sewing sequins onto a dance costuirl Funny, too Now she’s just a cunt"

Kylie blinked at the harsh language "She seeed "She’s actually not that bad this week because her new dancer boy toy has the good drugs Or so I’ve heard" She"Until he runs out of his stash, he’s her new favorite person"

Wow Kylie licked her lips, uncomfortable "Does, uetting high before her first perforer said "Who do you think started her on the drugs? It’s cheaper to keep the as the tour sells out, no one gives a shit" Ginger stabbed a needle through the shied at the thread "I’ve been with her for five years She goes through this cycle repeatedly She’s clean, then soets nasty, she falls to pieces, then goes to rehab and she gets clean Then soives her a new kind of nose candy and we start all over again"

She was so blasé about it Kylie thought about the track h Doesn’t anyone worry about her health?"

"Not as ently and then shook out the costuht want to surface"

Kylie grireenrooue crying could be heard fro to be hell to stick if Daphne’s eyes were puffy froh, Kylie braced herself and headed in to the greenroo in front of theShe wiped her eyes with one hand and dug through all of Kylie’s neatly sorteda smile to her face, Kylie approached "Hey, Daph, what are you looking for?"

Daphne continued to weep, sniffling loud "Have you seen Marco?"

"Marco?" Kylie gave her a puzzled look

"Marco Polo?"

At first, Kylie thought it was a joke But Daphne kept crying and digging through Kylie’s stack of eye shadows and she realized this et you anything?"

This was the wrong thing to say Daphne’s eyes lit up and she turned to Kylie, a crazed look on her face "Do you have any stuff?"

"Stuff?"

"Rock? Blow? Pills? So? I need a pick-ain and for a"I’s," she told Daphne softly Part of her wanted to hug the pop star, and part of her wanted to give her a good shake She settled for picking a tube of lip gloss up off of the floor and putting it back in its place "Can I get you a water or soain "Marco has all the good stuff and I don’t knohere he is and I’e in an hour and a half"