Her mouth dropped open, and she burst out wrathfully, “You faked it! Thomasyna! He’s going to murder you if he finds out! I might myself! I was really worried!”
Thomi neither confirmed nor denied it. “Charley left behind a suitcase stuffed with all my ruined clothes! He was going to make me spend the night if I didn’t tell him what happened!”
“Oh! Whoa! Forgot about you leaving those behind! Of course, they’d come to light at some point! He should know he can’t force you to stay or do anything you don’t want to!” Her eyes narrowed shrewdly then. “Yeah, but, mainly you didn’t want to miss rehearsal. You are road kill!”
Thomi pulled the plug on the hair dryer. “Who’s going to tell him? You?”
“Oh, not me!” She moved so Thomi could get by her, reflected, “He’s got your clothes. You know, I
