She's ten years older than me. She has been my sister, my mother, my best friend, and secret love.When my mother was carrying me, she drank booze, did...drugs, and any other thing she could. She didn't want me, she wanted the man that shot his load in her belly. When he turned her down, she hated me from the minute I was born.That's when, Alana, and I met. Nothing my mother did for me as a baby would comfort me. Alana, could walk into the room and people say I would start to smile, and wait for. So Brad’s father paid the ransom, or rather our London agent did on the Studio’s behalf.”“And you flew out when Brad didn’t show?”“No, I didn’t know anything about him even being missing. I was on location shooting a film for the Gold Studios, remember?”I nodded, remembering. She had told me that part of the story at the outset.“Whenever I’m in Hollywood, I always go see Brad’s father, Alfred, and his wife Caroline, as soon as I arrive. Bernie Cave would be there naturally, always with his. The girl from Carroll Livy had chased all year placed fifth. But that school has serious runners and three were in the top ten. Carroll took home the team championship. Three of the top ten finishers weren’t on teams. And the girl who ran in second place at a great 18:18 was on the last place finishing team. Only one other person on her team finished in under twenty-one minutes. The Mad Anthony girls’ team came in fifteenth with only two girls running under twenty minutes.The boys’ race made me. Rozkoo looked down atthe woman, who suddenly seemed very small. Rozkoo put her hands on the wall alongside Magda, leanedclose to her face and said, “You’re the kind of womanthat needs to be taken down a peg or two, and I thinkI’m the person that’s gonna do it. Whaddya say, Mrs.Carter? You want I should teach you a few things aboutbeing nice to me?”“Please just go and we’ll act as if this neverhappened.” Rozkoo ran her fingers through Magda’s.