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“Did you get Dad to Doctor Newley?” Bobbi asked Travis Barker’s appointh Gramps always took him when Bobbi couldn’t, his knee was so bad from arthritis that it was hard for him to drive Betty had volunteered to take them

She nodded “Yep I was told to coed “I don’t knohat I thought I just stopped by is all, for a visit”

“We could do lunch? Billie is al session”

Her sister’s face hardened and this time it was easy for Bobbi to read her loud and clear “What is it with you and Billie?” Bobbi asked abruptly, pushing her chair back as she settled on the edge and gazed across the room at her sister

Betty shoved off from the door and flopped onto the ratty sofa next to it Her expression was hard As hard as her attitude

Bobbi ran her hands through her hair and took afrom all the stuff crammed inside it Shane stuff New job stuff Money stuff Dinner with Shane and his family stuff

The usual, and the not so usual

Did she really want to open up this can of worms with her sister?

Betty sighed A dra but make Bobbi raise her eyebrows and shake her head

“What?” Betty said belligerently

Bobbi got up out of her chair, walked around the desk and leaned against it, dangling one foot as she watched her sister “Your bitchiness increases five hundred percent whenever Billie’s around You’re h I’m pretty sure Billie thinks you’re awful because you’re either on drugs or trying to get off drugs, she’s wrong”

“Is she?”

‘Daht she is You’ve become quite the little actress” Bobbi nodded “Sure you drink toostronger than a bottle of Jack” She paused, noting the color that pinched Betty’s pale cheeks

“What the hell do you know?” Betty asked, slipping further into the sofa

Bobbi snorted “Seriously? I’ve been there, res or booze or any other of those vices you used to enjoy sois?”