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“What?” Pandy demanded

SondraBeth shrugged “It’s just that I got a call fro to hiood way”

“Me?” Pandy laughed, outraged “What about you?”

“I’e Anyway,” she continued, honking her horn at a pedestrian trying to cross against the light, “don’t get huffy He’s mad at me, too”

“About what?” Pandy said, outraged

“About ers”

“I see,” Pandy replied knowingly as she leaned back and crossed her arms She was all too fas that didn’t belong to her, with the sort of careless impunity that implied she simply didn’t know better

“Coe,” SondraBeth whined “You kno it is I borrowed from the wardrobe department a couple of times I have to Everyone expects me to look a certain way, but no one seems to understand that I can’t actually afford to look that way And, okay, maybe the clothes didn’t come back perfect But it’s not ain I’ve never had to walk in high heels on a godda a taxi that had suddenly stopped to disgorge a passenger

“Fuck PP He’s toast!” Pandy declared, sla her hand on the dashboard for emphasis “How dare a man who calls himself Pee-Pee tell us what to do?”

They laughed the whole way through the long, long drive up the coast, stopping for fried cla profanities out the s at other drivers—“Asshat!” “Asswipe!”—and even talking their way out of a speeding ticket

They were drunk by the tiot off In the middle of the ferry ride, SondraBeth had pulled Pandy into the stinking stall in the ladies’ room SondraBeth shoved her hand down her bra and pulled out a small envelope of cocaine “Stole it fro Pandy the package and a set of keys “It’s … ,” she opined, like the Wicked Witch of the West

“It’s your godda the key into the powder and taking a hit “You’re just tooooooooo hot!”

“And don’t I know it”

Full of themselves, the

y strolled through the packs of tourists in the lounge It was their first tiether away from the axis of LA and New York, and Pandy discovered yet another thing about SondraBeth: She had a disconcerting way of getting friendly with strangers Which she i the moment they entered the bar at the front of the ferry