"God, Alexis, why do you have to be this way?" Austin said. It wasn't a jab, he seemed legitimately hurt. Still, Lexi couldn't let it slip past.
"Lexi," she growled, "I keep telling you my name is Lexi. Why doesn't anyone listen?"
"Because it's not your name," Austin said, he jogged up so he could walk side-by-side with his sister. "I don't know why you insist on everyone calling you that, anyway."
"Why not?" Lexi asked. Her ankle was throbbing. She told it to stop.
"I don't know," Austin said, "Lexi sounds like -- I mean it's kind of a b***h name. I don't mean you're a b***h, just that the name is... I guess that's kind of my point?"
Lexi almost stopped in her tracks. She wanted to yell at her brother for being so rude. Insensitive. Yet what he said had sounded so authentic and from
