I FaceTimedJordan first because Jordan was the one I could call without all of them ending up on the phone. She picked up on the second ring.
“Hey.”
“Hey.” I dragged.
“You sound like you did something.”
“I did something.”
“Oh Lord. Hang on, let me get the others on.”
“Jordan, no?—”
“We are doing this with all of us.”
She patched Jada through first. “What is happening? Why am I being added to a call, Jordan, I waseating.”
“Alyssa did something.”
“What did she do?”
“I don’t know yet.”
“Then why am I on the call?”
“Because you were going to want to be.”
Tamika came on last, and all three of them looked at me.
“Speak,” Jada said. “What’s the latest in my new favorite show:As Alyssa’s World Turns?”
“He bought me a car.”
“Who?” Tamika said.
“Julian.”
“What kind of car?”
“A Genesis.”
“The big one or the little one?”
“Big.”
“Black?”
“Yes.”
Jordan whistled and sang myname. “Alyssaaa.”
“I know.”
“That’s a hundred-thousand-dollar car.”
“I know, Jordan.”
“I lost it on him.”
