Chapter 200

Crystal wrestled the narrative away from her.

"So, like, Nikki took Julie’s coke bullet from her!" she exclaimed.

"And, I thought, oh shit," Julie said, chiming back in. "I’m so totally busted. But Nikki was like, hey, is that cocaine? And started asking questions about what the bullet was and how it works."

Julie talked very fast. The long and short of it, however, was that Nikki had been a wild child in college, breaking free from the constraints of her family, which was headed up by her minister father. After college, drifting without direction, she had settled down with the minister son of one of her father’s minister friends. She and Julie had grown close over the past few years, but Julie had no idea that Nikki had kept that wild side of her alive, if only barely. Nikki liked pills because they were the thing most readily available to her. She loved, Julie learned, to spend all day masturbating and watching porn while her husband