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LizaAnne said. “Who else would it be? You’ve got me on caller ID.”
    “I know I do,” Heather said, “but you know what they’re like. I mean, maybe it was really your mother trying to see if I could get you in trouble if I didn’t know it was her. Or, you know. That kind of thing.”
    “Don’t be ridiculous,” LizaAnne said. “My mother doesn’t have time for that kind of thing. Have you been watching this morning?”
    “I’ve been watching a little,” Heather said. “You know. I had to get dressed. I had to get my makeup on.”
    “Did you see anything?”
    “No,” Heather said. “It’s been really weird. There’s been nothing going on all morning. Oh, except Mr. Heydreich left to go to work. In his car. You know.”
    “Are you sure she didn’t go with him?”
    “Of course I’m not sure,” Heather said. “I couldn’t see into the car. He’s got those tinted windows. Do you like tinted windows? I’d think they’d make the car dark. And nobody would know it was you.”
    “Maybe you wouldn’t want anybody to know it was you. If you were famous, you know,” Liza Anne said. “I think that’s retarded, though. I mean, why would you be famous in the first place if you didn’t want people to recognize who you were?”
    “Maybe it’s when you get death threats and that kind of thing,” Heather said. “People who are famous are always getting death threats. Doesn’t that sound sucky? You go to all that trouble to get famous and then you have to skulk around because people are trying to kill you. Do you think people are trying to kill Taylor Swift? I bet they are.”
    “Taylor Swift is retarded.”
    “I know. I know Taylor Swift is retarded.”
    “I want to go see Michael before the day gets started,” LizaAnne said. “But I can’t do it as long as I don’t know if he’s there. I mean, if I go over there and go wandering around in the pool house and there’s nobody there, I’m going to look retarded.”
    “I don’t think he’s there,” Heather said. “I’m practically right on top of the pool house and I haven’t seen a thing all morning. And you know what she’s like. As soon as she knows he’s there, she comes right in, and in that car of hers, too. It’s not like you can miss it.”
    LizaAnne looked at her jewelry. She had tiny sapphire studs for her ears. She had a ring of white gold with sapphires and diamonds in it. Heather had had a super sweet sixteen party, too, but the people from the show said they never did two in the same neighborhood, so they’d had to choose. Heather had gotten a car for her party, but it had only been a Ford. LizaAnne’s father said that nobody with any sense bought Fords, because the names stood for “Fix or Repair Daily.”
    “Do you think I’m like her?” LizaAnne said. “The way everybody says?”
    “Everybody doesn’t say that,” Heather said. “It’s just a couple of people.”
    “It’s a couple of people here.”
    “Well, it would have to be here, wouldn’t it?” Heather said. “I mean, they wouldn’t know who she was if they didn’t live here. It’s not like she’s famous, or any of that kind of thing. Nobody knows her but the people around here.”
    “She hates me,” LizaAnne said.
    “Of course she doesn’t hate you,” Heather said. “Well. You know.”
    “She hates me,” LizaAnne said again. “She hates me because she knows Michael likes me better than he likes her. He really likes me. He’s just putting up with her because she gets him laid. She thinks she’s going to make some big thing out of it, but she isn’t. I mean, what would he want with her anyway, except, you know, her junk?”
    “She’s really ugly,” Heather said. “And she’s old.”
    “She’s really thin.” LizaAnne looked down at her very rounded arms.
    “She’s probably got an eating disorder,” Heather said. “She probably throws up in the bathroom all the time. It’s really disgusting.”
    “It’s