Chapter Three
For a wearying month after they went to the bar with Denise and Jane, Sarah dated nearly a dozen different boys. Sarah was not the kind of girl who always had to have a date and go out every weekend, so Nikki noticed the change right away. At first the older girl kidded Sarah about it, but the blonde chose not to see anything unusual.
One night Nikki asked her—rather snippily, really—what she was doing to attract so many men now. Sarah protested. She was working extra hours at the big bookstore in Okemos, and it seemed that all of a sudden she was meeting more interesting and eligible young men than ever before. Her roommate just frowned.
Nikki grew less good-natured about her jesting. If a guy was named Richard, for example, Nikki referred to him as d**k. "Have you seen t
