Justine
That afternoon Maurie volunteered to pick Angela up from school, and when they came back they had a bunch of Lloyd’s Pharmacy bags filled with Christmas decorations. The girls unpacked plastic Santa Clauses, tinsel, ribbons, candles, and lights while Maurie fished out a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and a carton of eggnog and made herself a drink. Then she handed Justine an invitation. ‘This was in the P.O. box.’
Justine wondered why Maurie had checked Lucy’s mail, then decided it was exactly the sort of thing Maurie would do. The invitation was to a holiday party at Arthur Williams’s house on Christmas Eve. ‘We don’t have to go,’ she said.
‘Sure we do. This is their big annual thing.’
Justine glanced at her mother. There would probably be a lot of people there she knew. People who’d
