She squinted her eyes suspiciously at me.
“Okay, once. I said that once, and you were bleeding all over my favorite rug. I was right then too.”
She snorted, and then guided me out of the bathroom by my shoulders and deposited me on the end of the bed. “I drop one barbell on my bare foot, and you’ll never let me live it down. But that’s old news. Right now, we need to know how you plan to execute operation TABAL.”
“Operation what?” Shay asked, slipping her laptop into its sleeve and tucking away the headphones for the night.
“Duh, Operation: Teach Alpha Barbie A Lesson.”
“Oh Lord, I’m never going to remember that.” Now it was Shay’s turn to roll her eyes. We loved Leigh to death, but when she got on a roll? There was no stopping her. We’d be memorizing her code name or we’d never hear
