"Aint no boys gonna scare me never," Mollie-Sue muttered mostly to herself. She lingered back, wrapping her arms around her middle. She only needed to be a girl to sense the slight tension in the air. She hadn't been invited to this get together.

... Well, she was here. So that was that. She wasn't about to offer to sit in the car and leave them be. No sir.

"Y'all ran over here, Ainsley? Lookin' red there."