Chapter 14Martha had a slight problem: Delta wanted to come to the gala. Both had taken the afternoon off on the Friday, and gone dress shopping at a local boutique. All the dresses there had been stunning, but Martha couldn’t afford even a clutch the size of a deck of cards at the first shop. That realization took them to their next store, a substandard discount outlet that gave them the creeps, before they ended up at a generic department store. Martha wasn’t going to be the belle of the ball, but she was going to find something that made her feel good.
She was in the middle of trying on a blue satin cocktail dress when she realized Delta was trying on something too. Not because they were almost the same size, but because she wanted to attend.
And of course, Martha should have realized
