Chapter 13

• Stunned, Alexis shut her mouth and sat rigidly until Ray stopped the car on 5th Avenue. She got out and followed Marjorie into the store not bothering to know which one it was. Her head was spinning in circles trying to understand why he would say that when he didn't mean it. He couldn't.
• Before the kiss, he'd ignored her. Once when she was ten she had decided to bother him until he noticed her. Determined she'd gone to Vince's house to spend the weekend and she'd started with parking herself in his room. He had acted like she was invisible until she had started singing at the top of her voice. Then, he'd carried her out of his room and deposited her just outside the door and locked himself in. She had tried everything to make him like her but she'd failed. At least that's what she thought. It was what she was going to keep thinking. What he'd said didn't matter because she knew he was trying to get under her skin just as always.
• "What's with the face?" Marjorie asked her face already lit up from all the gowns in front of her. The look in her eyes would have worried Alexis if she wasn't so distracted. "Silver or gold?" she held up two metallic dresses waiting for an answer that never came. "Alexis?"