Chapter Forty The girls gathered ‘round the bar like gunslingers in a spaghetti western when they saw Alex making her way back along the center aisle with Pamela peeping out from behind. They had all heard there was a new girl and Erin, like always, was the first to react. She bodily took hold of a stunned Pamela and spun the girl dizzily. “Ack Alex. Throw her back. She’s not fully grown yet,” Erin gave Pamela a gentle push across the gathering circle of taller girls. Jordan caught her. “She hasn’t been eating her Wheaties!” Jordan twirled Pamela into the arms of Tracy who grabbed her by the shoulders and twisting the girl, handed her off to Sissy. “ Pamela, spinning like a top, had her arms up about her face and was laughing giddily as the girls passed her around like she was a kiddie’

