Melody Lottie insisted that we spend all day at a beauty spa all Saturday morning and afternoon before the Homecoming dance that evening, so we went to a hot springs day spa in Corona with Violet, Nancy, Janice, and Noriko. I told Nancy she had to treat Noriko to all the spa treatments too, so she could blend in and not look like a narc. When we got there, there was no one but mommies, daughters, sisters, and grandmothers, so it was obvious we could relax because no one was going to kidnap me. Nancy convinced Noriko to take the day off and hang out with her and Janice, while Lottie, Violet, and I went off on our own. After sitting for thirty minutes in the hot spring and deciding that we’d tolerated enough of the rotten egg smell (it’s the sulfur in the hot spring), we went to the warm

