“Hey, baby,” I answer my phone, walking away from Lucy.
“Why are you calling me baby?” my stepsister Nikki asks.
I climb into my truck and put the keys in the ignition, trying not to look up, but I fail like always, taking one last glimpse of Lucy as she stands in the middle of the parking lot in her mud-covered clothes, staring at her feet.
“What’s up?” I ask.
“Don’t play stupid. Did you think I was Alicia or something?”
“Nope.”
My stepsister won’t ever find out that I called her baby to somehow get back at Lucy. What for? For the part of her that doesn’t remember that she broke my heart, I guess. I’m a terrible human being.
“Whatever,” she says. “Anyway, I’m calling to warn you that I’m outing this whole Lucy situation tomorrow morning on my show.”
I blow out a breath and pull ou
