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“I was the one who got to ride in the race car Every single time ent on a job where they could only take one of us, I was the one as chosen There wasn’t one boy in high school who asked you out first And when you brought your college boyfriend home to spend Christmas with the family, he met me and dumped you It all happened, Lacey, just as you’d said There were things that you left out, too We walk into a roouilty as hell I hate it But I don’t kno to change it”

“You aren’t going to change it,” Lacey told her “You aren’t meant to Your personality is just different fro I’d rather stand in a corner You always know the right thing to say I tell the truth even when it’s best to keep my mouth shut You shine, Kace I don’t”

Silence fell for a time They both sipped their wine And then Lacey chuckled “Relitter all over my skin so that I’d stand out more than you would?”

“That was a disaster,” Kacey said Lacey’s skin had had a reaction to the spray; she’d itched like crazy and had welts all over by the end of the evening

“But it h about it now She hadn’t liked the guy she’d been with any more than Kacey had liked her date But they’d loved the chocolate ice creaet for the for the the topical antibiotic all over Lacey’s welts after the twenty-minute shower she’d insisted Lacey take

“Moround me for that one,” Kacey said now

“Which wasn’t fair You were only trying to help”

“And you ended up co to my rescue Like usual”

Funny that Kacey would say that Lacey had always felt like Kacey was the sister who solved their probleht, her always co in first to Lacey’s second, had blinded Lacey to a truth or two

And maybe this new sunroo for Lacey, was as important for Kacey as it could be for her

“Anyway, it seeuy to the park, since Je out on a Sunday to look at the project It’s not like there’s a day care open or anything”

It was all highly unusual A contractorher sister a room for her birthday

Lacey being so obsessed with Jerees

“Just ,” she said And hoped she hadn’t just given her sister any more bad ideas